Janus: List of Books in the Hacket Bequest

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.3843	Transcription of Barnwell Priory: 'Observancie Regulares'
MS Add.3844	Sir Edward Maunde Thompson: Sanders Lectures on Greek and Latin Paleography
MS Add.3845	Translation of J.J. Fux 'Gradus ad Parnassum'
MS Add.3847	Zachary Grey: The Glory of the British Flag exemplified. In a chronological Series of the most memorable victories obtained at Sea. By the Bravest of Our English Admirals, Sea captains etc...Extracted from our best Naval-Writers, and English Historians
MS Add.3848	Sarah Clayton: A Breif Sum of the Principles of the Christian Religion
MS Add.3850	Manor of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: Court Orders
MS Add.3851	Nicolas Eastwick: Oratio Academica
MS Add.3852	Notes on Cambridgeshire and Lancashire families, and related subjects
MS Add.3853	Notes on Cambridgeshire villages, churches and related subjects
MS Add.3854	A Morall Apologeticall Discourse of Obedience and Government by T.W. gent.
MS Add.3855	'A letter to the members of the Senate on the Management of Cambridge Press during the Three Periods 1822 to 1829, 1830 to 1842, 1843 to 1850'
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List of Books in the Hacket Bequest

Title	List of Books in the Hacket Bequest
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4241
Covering Dates	1700 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

John Hacket (1592-1670) was born in London on 1 September 1592, and educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became Chaplain to James I in 1623, and that year was made a Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral. He became the incumbent of St Andrew's, Holburn, and of Cheam, Surrey, in 1624, and was made Archdeacon of Bedford in 1631. He was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1661-1670. Hacket died on 28 October 1670, bequeathing his books to Cambridge University Library.

A list of books in the bequest of Bishop Hacket not in Cambridge University Library, 8 folios. The list is arranged according to size and binding, and is written in four or five hands. It is headed in the second (main) hand 'The Bookes not in the Library', to which the first hand has added, 'Of Cambr'.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, List of Books in the Hacket Bequest, MS Add.4241

Index Terms

Hacket, John (1592-1670) bishop of Coventry and Lichfield

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