![]() These are in the form of a book to which the Great Seal is attached by a cord. Although Henry died before statutes for his new college could be formulated, his successors provided it with successive series of statutes until the great Elizabethan statutes by which the college was governed for nearly 300 years were formulated. The records of Trinity College itself begin with the foundation charter of Henry VIII and its companion charter of dotation which endowed the college with substantial lands and remains the ultimate title of older college property. Additionally a cartulary begun by John Otryngham, Master of the college in the fifteenth century, is extant and bears his name. However, there is a similar record of its foundation by Hervey de Stanton and the extension of its property beyond the college grounds. No such series of accounts survives for Michaelhouse. Additionally accounts survive in an almost unbroken series from 1337 to 1545 which provide us with a unique insight into college life, from the food that the household ate, to the types of servants it employed, to the work and contents of the library. Gifts and purchases of property are also recorded, although the college did not have to rely solely on the income from its estates for funds. The King’s Hall material includes the charter of Edward III founding and incorporating the college and related deeds conveying property in Cambridge to be used to site the college. According to the parchment tag attached, it purports to have been used by Aubrey de Vere to convey a moiety of the tithes of the parish of Ugley to the monastery of Hatfield Broadoak in 1135. It is a knife used as a token in a legal transaction. However, the earliest item in the archive has no connection with Trinity’s predecessors. Much of the early material relates to Michaelhouse and The King’s Hall, two of the foundations dissolved by Henry VIII when he established Trinity. The college archive is comprised of the administrative papers created and received by the college and its predecessors in the transaction of their business and as such it forms the “memory” of the college. Murray Collection of Arabic papyri and texts on paper and parchment. ![]()
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