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Transcripts of wills and portions of wills, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

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MS. Rawl. D. 817, fols. 210–224

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Chiefly with reference to introductory professions of faith, made (except the second) by the hand of an amanuensis frequently employed by archbp. Sancroft; with occasional notes in Sancroft’s own hand.

  1. (fol. 210) i. Extracts from the will of Herbert Thorndike; 3 July, 1672.
  2. (fol. 212) ii. Will of John Bois, preb. of Ely and rector of Boxworth, Cambr., 26 June, 1643; proved 26 Feb. 1643/4.
  3. (fol. 213) iii. "Protestatio seu testamentum quoddam Christiano cuilibet jamjam morituro vel dictu vel cogitatu non inutile"; Extracted from "opusc. vii" of Dionysius Ryckel, the Carthusian and followed by an English form of confession of belief noted by Sancroft as being taken from [Cosin’s] Collection of Private Devotions, 1638, p. 346.
  4. (fol. 214) iv. "Part of Dr. John White's will, being a protestation made by him the day before his death" (heading by Sancroft); printed at the beginning of his Works, 1624.
  5. (fols. 215, 215b) v. Extracts with professions of faith from the wills of Sir John Denham and John Spottiswoode, archbishop of St. Andrews.
  6. (fol. 216) vi. Abridgment of the will of Godfrey Goodman, bishop of Gloucester; 17 Jan. 1655/6.
  7. (fol. 217) vii. End of the will of [Sir Robert Hitcham, leaving benefactions for Framlingham in Suffolk].
  8. (fol. 217) viii. "Testamentum Guilhelmi de Lyndwood episcopi Menevensis" (Sancroft); 22 Nov. 1443, proved 26 Nov. 1446.
  9. (fol. 219b) ix. Confessio fidei praemissa testamento Joh. Cosin episc. Dunelm.
  10. (fol. 221b) x. Will of John Warner, bishop of Rochester, 4 Sept. 1666, proved 7 Feb 1666/7.

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  • English
  • Latin

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MS. Rawl. D. 817, fols. 210–224

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