XII - MISCELLANEA

Summary

THE MS. COLLECTIONS OF ROBERT HARE, 1590.

This excellent antiquary gave to the University three sets of volumes into which he had caused to be transcribed, from the public archives and other sources, a long series of documents relating to the history, rights, and privileges of the University and Town of Cambridge, as follows:

1. Registrum novum monimentorum Universitatis Cantabrigiensis [etc.] in two volumes, large folio, on vellum, with illuminations.

2. A similar collection, in three volumes, small folio, on paper.

3. Do. in four volumes, quarto, on paper. The first and second volumes contain documents relating to the University; the third contains “diversa negotia;” the fourth documents relating to the Town. It is specified that all these are collected out of his ‘new Register,’ presumably the work in two volumes noted above, and arranged in a new order.

These nine volumes are in the Registry of the University. In 1590 (2 October) the Public Orator wrote a letter of thanks to Hare for what may perhaps be the ‘new Register.’ He says:

Libri duo a te ad nos nuperrime perlati sunt in quibus omnia Aoademise privilegia summo studio unum quasi in locum collegisti. Hos ut in frequenti senatu aspeximus egregiam simul et libertatis nostrae retinendse spem, et amoris tui in Academiam testimonium assecuti videbamus.