Janus: Foundation, regulation and governance

Corpus contains:
CCCC01	Foundation, regulation and governance
CCCC02	Officers
CCCC03	Fellowship
CCCC04	Scholars and other students
CCCC06	Chapel
CCCC08	College premises and buildings
CCCC09	Estates and advowsons
CCCC09L	Papers relating to college livings.

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Foundation, regulation and governance

Title	Foundation, regulation and governance
Reference	GBR/2938/CCCC01
Creator	Crown and Master and Fellows
Covering Dates	1279–1969
Repository	Corpus Christi College Cambridge Archives

Content and context

Statutes and ordinances; records of Governing Body and its committees. Also included here are the records of the founding gilds of Corpus Christi and the BVM.

For transcriptions of early statutes see 14/1/4-6.

Access and Use

Please cite as Corpus Christi College Cambridge Archives, Foundation, regulation and governance, CCCC01

Corpus/CCCC01 contains:

Grant of arms to Corpus Christi College, at the instance of Matthew Parker. Blazoning of arms described by CPH as 'poor quality work', but with good decorative border with flowers and birds.
Creator: Robert Cook, 'Clarencieulx' King of Arms.

23 Dec. 1570

Book of the Elizabethan statutes of the college, with the signatures of Matthew Parker and others.
Creator: The Crown.

1573

Sealing book. Notes of leases, etc., removed from and returned to the muniments, Feb. 1827 to Nov. 1828.
Creator: Master and Fellows.
1 volume; paper; Card covers, half bound; Manuscript.

May 1828-Dec. 1851

Sealing book.
Creator: Master and Fellows.
1 volume; paper; Lacks spine; Manuscript.

Feb. 1852-Mar. 1911

Sealing book.
Creator: Master and Fellows.
1 volume; paper.

Nov. 1911-Dec. 1951

Statutes. Flyleaf: Note of purchase of the volume by Thomas Warton, of Trinity College Oxford, at a Horsham bookshop on 6 June 1775, and note by Warton on signatures to be found in the volume, and reference to Masters' History, pp. 78-79. Parkerian pagination/foliation used below. 1: printed arms of the college, on vellum, with explanation of them, title, and note that copy is to be held by the Master or Bursar for the time being. 2: copy of appointment of commissioners (Thomas Smith, William Mey, Thomas Wendy and John Cheke) to inspect college statutes, Westminster, 8 April. 1549. 2v-5: Copy of appointment of visitors for Eton and Cambridge (William Cecil, Anthony Cooke, Matthew Parker, William Bill, Walter Haddon, William Mey, Thomas Wendy, Robert Horne, James Pilkington), 20 June 1559. 6: List of contents. 7-25: statutes, signed, 30-31 Jan. 1574 by Matthew Parker, Lord Burghley, James Pilkington, Robert Horne and Anthony Cooke (pp. 21-22 with end of statutes 28 to middle of 32 lacking). 27: Statute on the oath and office of the Master, 6 Feb. 1417. 28-29: statute for the bursar or steward, 5 May 1569. 30-32: Copy of appointment of Edwardian visitors, 8 Apr. 1549, signed by Thomas Goodrich, Nicholas Ridley, John Cheke, William Mey and Thomas Wendy. Spine lable reads: STATUTA / C.C.C.CANT.MS.
Creator: The Crown.
1 volume; paper; Bound in reversed calf over pasteboards, blind-tooled.; Manuscript.

30 Jan. 1574–31 Jan. 1574

Statutes. Title: printed arms of the college on vellum. Title verso: list of contents, not corresponding with current pagination. (The volume has been cropped at the head, doubtless with loss of original pagination, but the list of contents can never have corresponded with any pagination.). 7-27: Elizabethan statutes signed by John Cheke, William Mey, Nicholas Ridley, Matthew Parker, Robert Horne, William Cecil, Anthony Cooke and Walter Haddon. 27-28: Statute on the oath and office of Master, 6 Feb. 1417, with addition of the oath on the queen's supremacy. 28: 'Memorandum this Booke was delivered to be kepte sumtime in the presidentes hande, and incerted in the Black Booke of the Master, which was taken owte and an other in parchment putt in, newlie written and subscribed with five of the visitors handes, Matthue Cant:, Gulielum Burghley, Ja. Duresme, Rob. Winton, Antonius Cooke, xxxo et xxxjo Jan. Anno 1573, And an other Booke of statutes deivered to be kepte in the handes of the President or Bursary of the Colledge. Beside one faire Booke gilded and sealed with the seale of causes eccle[es]iasticall and subscribed anewe by the names aforesaid to be kepte in the common hutche & reserved in a boxe of wood'. 29-32: Copy of appointment of Elizabethan visitors, 20 June 1559.
Creator: The Crown.
1 volume; paper; Bound in reversed calf over pasteboards, blind-tooled.; Manuscript.

30 Jan. 1574–31 Jan. 1574

6b,c

Revised statutes as proposed to the University Commissioners. Two copies, both interleaved.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
2 booklets; paper; Printed.

24 Dec. 1857

Statuta Collegii Corporis Christi et Beatae Virginis Cantabrigiae. Original statutes with revisions of Edward VI and Elizabeth I, with interpretations to 1829. Loose: MS note in the hand of James Pulling towards seeking counsel's opinion as to the force of 1 & 2 Victoria C. 106,, sect. 124, with regard to the holding of cathedral preferments in the light of revised Statute XIV of 1861.
Creator: The Crown.
1 volume; paper; Printed.

c. 1830-c. 1870

Petition to the Queen in Council for the remission of the 1878 Statute B (concerning college contributions) and the related collge statutes.
Creator: Nine colleges.
19 sheets; paper; Manuscript.

1881

Statutes.
Creator: The Crown.

1882

Depositions as to the state of the college at Cardinal Pole's visitation.
Creator: Lawrence Moptyd, Master, and Edmund Edwards, Fellow.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

Jan. 1558

Injunctions to the Master of Fellows requiring them to send him the college statutes and the names of all members of the society in relation to Manchester's charge to reform the universities.
Creator: Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

1644

Indictment to the college to pay £6 13s 4d due for pontage.
Creator: Mayor and aldermen of Cambridge.
1 bifolium; paper; Manuscript.

28 June 1649

Draft of a general appeal to alumni for raising £1000 for the repair of the college fabric.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
2 sheets; paper; Manuscript.

16 Oct. 1686

State of the college at the visitation of the university of 1546.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
5 leaves; paper.

1546

State of the college at the visitation of the university of 1556. a. Endowments; b. exequies, servants' stipends; scholars' stipends; fees; rents; expenses.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
2 sheets; paper.

1556

Copies of foundation deed, ordinances, etc. i-ijv: copy of CCCC01/P/16 (XXVII 24); iii--vjv: ordinances of 14 Mar. 1522 concerning livery, exequies, etc; vjv-vijv: copy of CCCC01/2 (XXXI 121) concerning the Duchess of Norfolk's foundation; viij-viijv: indenture for Mere's scholar (CCCC04/S/1; XXXI 144).
Creator: Various.
8 leaves; paper; Manuscript.

1357–1559

List of early documents relating to the college in the Patent Rolls.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

c. 1700-c. 1800

Chapter Books.
Creator: Master and Fellows.

1569–1969

Minutes of college meetings.
Creator: Various.
20 cms; paper.

1858–1904

Gild records pre-dating the foundation of the college.
Creator: Gilds of Corpus Christi and of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

c. 1279-c. 1358

Records of the foundation of the college.
Creator: Various.

1352–1353

Records of the early acquisitions and transfers of property.
Creator: Various.

1353–1397