Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The historical background
- The manuscripts
- The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of Her Majesty's Privy Council, authorised by him for the government of Emmanuel College, founded by him
- The College orders of 1588
- Statuta D. Gualtheri Mildmaii Militis Cancellarii Scaccarii et Regineae Maiestati a consiliis: quae pro administratione Collegii Emmanuelis ab eo fundati sancivit
- Statutum de Camera Consanguineis fundatoris reservand
- De mora sociorum in Collegio, et de gradu Doctoratus in sacra Theologia Susripiendo
- Index
- Plate section
The manuscripts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The historical background
- The manuscripts
- The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of Her Majesty's Privy Council, authorised by him for the government of Emmanuel College, founded by him
- The College orders of 1588
- Statuta D. Gualtheri Mildmaii Militis Cancellarii Scaccarii et Regineae Maiestati a consiliis: quae pro administratione Collegii Emmanuelis ab eo fundati sancivit
- Statutum de Camera Consanguineis fundatoris reservand
- De mora sociorum in Collegio, et de gradu Doctoratus in sacra Theologia Susripiendo
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The statutes made by Sir Walter were written out fair in a special book, described below, signed and sealed by him in the presence of seven witnesses on i October 1585, and handed over to Laurence Chaderton, the first Master of the College. This, which we may call the Master's Book, consists of eighty leaves of vellum, 7¼ × 10¼ ins., bound in oak boards covered with once crimson leather (now badly faded), with green silk ties with silver clasps. The corners of the clasps are engraved with a tiny acorn motif. The seal is attached on a plaited green and silver cord sewn into the binding and hanging from the foot of the spine. It shows the Mildmay arms: Quarterly (1 and 3) argent three lions rampant azure (Mildmay of Gloucestershire) and (2 and 4) party fesswise wavy argent and sable, three greyhounds' heads erased countercoloured (Mildmay of Essex). The wax seal is contained in a circular silver box, one and a half inches in diameter, with the arms of Mildmay (Glos.) engraved on the base. There is no lid. The whole volume is contained in a washleather jacket, lined with brown linen, bound with green silk at the edges, and with green silk tassels at the four corners. This jacket fits closely over the boards (and is indeed actually attached to the front board by the silver studs on to which the clasps at the ends of the ties fit), but it is seven inches longer at the foot, so as to hang to the same length as the seal. The whole fits into a washleather bag with a green silk drawstring.
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- The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay , pp. 21 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983