Janus: Book of Barons

Manuscripts contains:
<-- See earlier
MS Add.14	Commonplace book
MS Add.151	Thomas Searle: 'A Catalogue of all the Bishops of Norwich, together with the foundation, finishing and dedication of the cathedrall church there by Bishop Herber, the first Bishop there'
MS Add.152	Passport in the name of Tsar Alexei Michailovitch, granted to John Lent, John Hebdon, and to their secretary Andrew Bush
MS Add.153	Genealogical table of the House of Hanover
MS Add.17	Copies of official letters relating to the diocese of Chester
MS Add.18	Book of Barons
MS Add.19	Simon Patrick: letters to Elizabeth, Lady Gauden
MS Add.1932-1933	George Grote: Notes on Greek society
MS Add.20	Samuel Knight: Collections for a life of Simon Patrick, bishop of Ely
MS Add.21	Samuel Knight: Notes on Cambridgeshire churches
MS Add.22	Henry Smyth: papers
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Book of Barons

Title	Book of Barons
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.18
Covering Dates	1600–1700 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

A list of persons created peers, William I - Elizabeth I, with short notes on each, and a description of arms. On fos. 1-22 and occasionally thereafter there are sketches of arms in the margin.

fo. 83v: rough accounts.

fos. 84-85: mostly torn away

fos. 59, 73-83r: blank.

fo.: i: 'Susan Smyth' in an eighteenth-century hand; scribbling;

traces of three seals.

fo. 83v: 'Tho. Lindsey BP of Petriburg', in an eighteenth-century hand.

Belonged to Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts. After Knight's death in 1746, the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1859.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Book of Barons, MS Add.18

Index Terms

Heraldry

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