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History of the College of St John the evangelist, Cambridge

Thomas Baker ; edited by John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

（Cambridge library collection, . Cambridge）

Cambridge University Press, 2009

v. 1 : pbk
v. 2 : pbk

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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Facsim. of ed. published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1869

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume: v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108003674

Description

Thomas Baker (1656-1740) spent most of his long life at St John's College, Cambridge pursuing historical research. He was also an avid book collector, and bequeathed his valuable library to the college. His writings included a history of the college, which was edited by John Mayor and published in 1869. Volume 1 begins with an account of the founding of the college in 1511, and goes on to list donors and details of their endowments, and the first scholars of the college. It also contains information about ordinances, petitions, and important individuals. Baker's sources include written documentation (for example the 'thick black book' and the 'white vellum book') as well as oral traditions. His work is not merely a register of dates and numbers, but a fascinating account of two centuries of committed work and political manoeuvres underlying the later success of this rich and influential college.

Table of Contents

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1. Introductory material
2. St John's College
3. Benefactors to the library
4. Calendar of documents relating to St John's College
5. Documents in the 'thick black book'
6. From the 'thin black book'
7. From the 'white vellum book'
8. Register of ledgers
9. First register of officers, fellows, etc.
10. Book of oaths of qualification.

Volume: v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108003681

Description

Thomas Baker (1656-1740) spent most of his long life at St John's College, Cambridge pursuing historical research. He was also an avid book collector, and bequeathed his valuable library to the college. His writings included a history of the college, which was edited by John Mayor and published in 1869. Volume 2, to which Mayor made a substantial contribution in his own right, is devoted to the Masters of the college between 1511 and 1840, and includes short biographies and anecdotes about their lives at Cambridge. It describes visits by royalty, disputes with the authorities, appeals against elections, details of salaries, and more domestic matters such as policies on tobacco-smoking and the production of plays in the library. It makes fascinating reading for those interested in Cambridge, the history of education and the lives of these distinguished scholars and the society in which they moved.

Table of Contents

1. Introductory material
2. Robert Shorton
3. Alan Percy
4. Nicholas Metcalfe
5 George Day
6. John Tayler
7. William Bill
8. Thomas Leaver
9. Thomas Watson
10. George Bullock
11. James Pilkington
12. Leonard Pilkington
13. Richard Longeworth
14. Nicholas Shepherd
15. John Still
16. Richard Howland
17. William Whitaker
18. Richard Clayton
19. Owen Gwyn
20. William Beale
21. John Arrowsmith
22. Anthony Tuckney
23. Peter Gunning
24. Francis Turner
25. Humphrey Gower
26. Robert Jenkin
27. Robert Lambert
28. John Newcome
29. William Samuel Powell
30. John Chevalier
31. William Craven
32. James Wood
33. Ralph Tatham
Index.

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