Charters and statutes, etc., of London (‘liber memorandorum’), s. xiv 2/4

Title

Charters and statutes, etc., of London (‘liber memorandorum’), s. xiv 2/4

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 356

Associated place

Rading’

Wynton’

nele

Gippewyci

Oxon’

Leuesham

honoris Walyngford

Exon’

Duaco

Burdegal’

London

Corbye

Amias

Andoure

Portesmeue

Date

14th century, second quarter

Language

Anglo-Norman

Middle English (1100-1500)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (modern paper, conjoint with pastedown) + ii (16th-century paper) + 104 + i (16th-century paper) + i (modern paper, conjoint with pastedown) folios Cropped, with occasional loss of text in the upper and outer margins.

Hands

Fols. 1–93r: one hand writing a neat anglicana; headings in anglicana formata. Additions and marginalia in several hands.

Decoration

Fol. 1: 6-line historiated initial D with gold background depicting a king with orb and sceptre (?), badly damaged, extending into a partial border. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 599)

Fols. 1–93r: two-line coloured initials in alternating red and blue, with contrasting penwork decoration in red and violet, extending into the border.

Binding

Seventeenth or eighteenth-century binding, rebacked.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Provenance

Fols. 1–93r written after 1327 (fol. 6r) and probably before the date of the earliest additions, 1340.

In contrast to the Liber Memorandorum, this volume seems never to have belonged to the Corporation of London, and is not listed among the books in the custody of the Corporation c. 1470 (Hospitals, Towns, and the Professions, CMBLC 14, SH47). All the identifiable later owners seem to be associated by membership of the Inner Temple.

T. Warley 1530, fol. 52r (cf Warley, fol. 27r; probably also his name, erased, fol. 46v; memorandum by him, fol. 16v; addition in his hand, fol. 95v, referring to a plea in Hustings, 24 Henry VIII, in which he acted as executor of John Whaberley, goldsmith of London). Probably identifiable as Thomas Warley (II), fl. c. 1520–1557, on whom see J. Baker, The Men of Court 1440–1550, Selden Soc. (2012), II.1627.

liber Johannis Croke ex Dono Lucae Norton, 17th century, fol. iii verso (dates 20 May 1601, 24 Jan. 1619); perhaps Luke Norton of Sharpenhoe (d. 1630, Inner Temple 1583 onwards) and John Croke of Holborn, etc., judge and speaker of the Commons (d. 1620).

Liber V. Croke, 17th century, fol. iii verso, perhaps Unton Croke (1593–1671), son of Sir John.

MS. Rob Baylis Eq. aur. senatoris Londinensis, early 18th century, fol. ii: Sir Robert Baylis (1673–1748), alderman of London from 1719, knighted 1727 (see History of Parliament).

His sale, 20 Nov. 1749 and eleven following evenings: libri miscellanei, Gr. Lat. Quarto, no. 229 (Bibliotheca elegans. A catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Sir Robert Baylis, Knt. and Alderman, p. 27).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755.

Title

Charters and statutes, etc., of London ('liber memorandorum')

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 356

Date

second quarter of the 14th century, with later additions

Language

English

Latin

French

Physical extent

1 item