Foundation, regulation and governance

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.