Janus: Henry Smyth: papers

Manuscripts contains:
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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
MS Add.23	Henry Smyth: letters and memoranda
MS Add.24	John Watson: Commonplace book
MS Add.25	John Patrick: Tabulae Horariae Britannicae
MS Add.2583	A catalogue of the earlier papers in the 1st vol. of Dr. W. Webb's Cambridge Collection
MS Add.2584	Catalogue of severall prints [of H. Goltzius] contained in this booke, with their lowest pryses
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Henry Smyth: papers

Title	Henry Smyth: papers
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.22
Creator	Smyth, Henry
Covering Dates	1597–1642 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Henry Smyth, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1626-42 and Vice-Chancellor 1626-7, 1635-6

Includes copies of correspondence with Charles I, Archbishop Laud, George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, the earls of Holland and Suffolk, and the privy council relating to various matters of privilege and jurisdiction. Also including material relating to the 17th-cent. histories of several Cambridge colleges, among them Emmanuel, St John's, Corpus Christi, Gonville and Caius, and Pembroke. With verse commemorations of Gunpowder plot, and lists of chancellors and vice-chancellors, 16th cent.

Belonged to Henry Smyth DD. Were in the possession of Thomas Baker of St John's College (d. 1740) who transcribed part of the contents. The letters from Laud were printed from Baker's transcripts. 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 1861.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Henry Smyth: papers, MS Add.22

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Gunpowder Plot (1605)

St John's College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Pembroke College, Cambridge

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