Janus: Henry Smyth: letters and memoranda

Manuscripts contains:
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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
MS Add.2585.1	Charles of Orleans: verses
MS Add.2585.10	Richard Gough: notes on Peter Collinson
MS Add.2585.2	Three sorrowful tidings
MS Add.2585.3	Fragment of the South English Legendary
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Henry Smyth: letters and memoranda

Title	Henry Smyth: letters and memoranda
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.23
Creator	Smyth, Henry
Covering Dates	1605–1642 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

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 includes items of relevance to various Cambridge colleges.

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 of 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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