ECR 39 32
Reference code
ECR 39 32
Title
Royal Patents: Public instrument of admission of scholars and fellows to King's College, Cambridge
Level
Item
Date
17 September 1443
Content description
Public instrument declaring that on 17 September 1443 in a certain low room called the common hall in the College of the Blessed Mary and St Nicholas Cambridge, in the presence of masters Thomas Bekynton, keeper of the privy seal, John Langton, chancellor of the university, Richard Andrew, the King’s secretary, and William Say, the King's chaplain, and of John Blakeney, John Say and Richard Fowey, public notaries, before master William Millyngton, Provost of the said College, a letter patent from the Provost of the College of Eton was read, sealed with the seal of the latter College, dated 14 July 1443, sending, according to the King’s wish and the terms of their foundations, masters William Hatteclyf and William Town, masters of arts, and John Langport, Richard Cove and Robert Dummer, poor and indigent scholars, of Eton, to be admitted to the Cambridge College. The letter patent is recited.
After diligent interrogation of the two masters, the Provost admitted them to fellowships. They then took their oaths. The oath is recited.
Langport and Dummer, after diligent interrogation, were then admitted scholars.
Witnesses: master William Sutton, doctor in decrees, master John Foche, bachelor in decrees, and John Shiringham, notary public.
Notarial certificate and mark of John Blakeney, clerk of the diocese of Norwich, notary public
After diligent interrogation of the two masters, the Provost admitted them to fellowships. They then took their oaths. The oath is recited.
Langport and Dummer, after diligent interrogation, were then admitted scholars.
Witnesses: master William Sutton, doctor in decrees, master John Foche, bachelor in decrees, and John Shiringham, notary public.
Notarial certificate and mark of John Blakeney, clerk of the diocese of Norwich, notary public
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