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• Résumé : During the middle years of the sixteenth century, the Privy Council requested that the Archbishop of Canterbury supply them with detailed information regarding the holders of English clerical benefices; details such as their level of education, whether or not they were resident or held multiple livings, and their marital status. CCCC MS 122 and MS 97 contain numerous documents relating to this inquiry, including the Privy Council's initial request to Archbishop Matthew Parker, a draft version of Parker's request for information from the bishops and the detailed returns he received back from the bishops (often referred to as the 'Parker Certificates'). Some missing leaves from these two manuscripts, now CCCC MS 580, were discovered in the College Archives and transferred to the Parker Library in 1959.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin

  
  

  2r-28v - Rental etc. of Merton College Oxford || Rentale et status collegii [de Merton Oxon.]

  Note : (2) Roll cut up and bound; the beginning is fragmentary. Rental etc. of Merton College, Oxford

  Note : (Marked as missing in Parker's Register)

  
  

  29r-33v - Returns for Archdeaconry of Coventry || Certificatoria singulorum episcoporum provinciae Cantuar. de statu ecclesiastico diceces. suarum, ubi notantur nomina omnium rectorum vicariorum et curatorum, utrum sint conjugati, docti vel indocti, residentes vel non residentes, utrum praedicent, vel sint hospitales, et quot beneficia habent: facta A. D. 1560, et seq.

  Note : (29r) Returns for Archdeaconry of Coventry, giving the Deaneries of Stonley, Marton, Coventry, Arden

  
  

  34r-48v - Charter of Elizabeth I confirming the University of Cambridge's priviliges || Carta reginae Elisabethae de privilegiis academiae Cantab.

  Note : (34r) Carta Elizabethae de privilegiis Cantabr.

  Note : (Marked as missing in Parker's Register)

  
  

  49r-249r - Certificates and returns of livings of the Province of Canterbury || Certificatoria singulorum episcoporum provinciae Cantuar. de statu ecclesiastico diceces. suarum, ubi notantur nomina omnium rectorum vicariorum et curatorum, utrum sint conjugati, docti vel indocti, residentes vel non residentes, utrum praedicent, vel sint hospitales, et quot beneficia habent: facta A. D. 1560, et seq.

  Note : (49r) Returns for Lincoln diocese

  Note : (96r) Deaneries of Pagham and South Malling

  Note : (97r) Deaneries of the arches London

  Note : (98v) Diocese of Llandaff

  Note : (104v) Diocese ofGloucester

  Note : (116r) Diocese ofWells

  Note : (124r) Diocese of Bangor

  Note : (128r) Diocese ofWorcester

  Note : (133r) Diocese ofBristol

  Note : (149r) Diocese of Hereford

  Note : (156r) Diocese ofExeter

  Note : (184r) Diocese of Sarum

  Note : (198r) Diocese ofNorwich198r-249r

  Note : See Frere, Hist. Engl. Church, Eliz. and James 103