ECR 60 01 01
Reference code
ECR 60 01 01
Title
Statutes: Liber Originalis
Level
Item
Other Number
ECR 60/1a
Date
[1447 - 1455]
Extent & medium
1 volume; Vellum; ii + 32 +2 +2. Cords for seal attached.
Content description
The Statutes of Eton College [1452-1453]
f.i (v) Note of division of statutes into three parts, 15th century. This division was based on number of folios rather than the contents.
f.5 (v) Statutes
f.34(v) List of seventeen parochial festivals, 15th century
Guard: Letter with sign manual of Elizabeth I,'The dispensing statute' annulling Statute 25 and allowing each Fellow to hold one benefice worth not more than 40 marks p.a., 11 June [1566]
Guard: Memorandum of the decision of the Visitor in the matter of the complaint of members of King's College Cambridge concerning the holding of benefices by Eton Fellows, 5 August 1815
It bears the signature, R.(ex) H. (enricus), at the top of the first membrane, and again at the end of Statute 63. It contains a part of the blue and white threads by which the King's Great Seal was once attached to the volume. It includes the additional Statute 64 on a separate membrane sewn into the book which is signed by the King as above, both at the top and at the bottom.
It bears the signature, R.(ex) H. (enricus), at the top of the first membrane, and again at the end of Statute 63. It contains a part of the blue and white threads by which the King's Great Seal was once attached to the volume. It includes the additional Statute 64 on a separate membrane sewn into the book which is signed by the King as above, both at the top and at the bottom.
Existence and location of copies
A translation by Noel Blakiston is available at ECR 58
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- Statutes: Letter from King's College Cambridge regarding the appeal to the Visitor, ECR 60 01 01 a, (3 February 1814)
- Statutes: Record of second appeal by King's College Cambridge, ECR 60 01 01 b, (8 April 1816)
- Statutes: Certificate concerning election of Stephen Upman as Provost, ECR 60 01 01 c, ([13 August 1681])