DA/3/1/5/1/NB4

DA/3/1/5/1/NB4

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Notebook 4

1 volume

There is an incomplete contents list pasted on the front cover and an incomplete contents inside the front cover. Includes: lists of rents by street and name 1637-38 (first page, 1v, 2v); Accounts of the clerks of the works 1601-15 (p 1-36); Computus Rolls (p 37; Obit of Richard Metford (p 38); Anglo-American Historical Conference - questionnaire with answers about the facilities and use of the Cathedral Library (1931) (p 43); notes by Wordsworth f 23 parchments belonging to Mr Hammond (Feb 1931) (p 45-46); Collector Choristarum Computus Rolls circa, 1441-1525 (p 48); Gift of book chain in 1931 to The Museum of Christian Brotherhood, St John's Cathedral, Newfoundland (p 50) including not on location of chained books in the Chapel of St Thomas, North Transept; 'Notes of the Cultus of St Thomas Beckett ABp., M (p 52) including a list of ornaments of the altar of St Thomas in the Dunham Chapter Act Book (see Wordsworth Salisbury Ceremonies and Processions 1901, p 298-99), references to the St Thomas Cross in the churchyard; notes on the early history of the Cathedral library (p 35) which mentions William Caxton and dating of the demolition of the far end of the library after 1751; further notes on the physically chaining on the Library books (p 57); note that the book chains when remove were piled in a heap in he Muniment room and on occasion used to secure doors etc; Note on use propose use of chains by librarian A R Malden ' The late librarian 1909-1913 Mr A R Malden FSA who had also been joint chapter clerk in 188 and sole chapter clerk since 1901 sometimes had a mind to mad use of one of the disused chains by appending it to a printer folio in order to give clear demonstration to visitors of the former condition of the library in respect of chaining. The volume which he chose was the 3rd vol (the last) vol of an Oxford edition (1707) of Clarendon's History of the rebellion (W.1.9), but because of some practical difficulties his design was not carried out. After Malden's death it came to my notice that when the chains were taken off in the latter part of the 18th century one of the hasps or brasses appears to have been overlooked and still remains attached to the original binding (A.2.24)' (p 61); notes on Dutch prisoners of war imprisoned at the cathedral; taken from State Papers Domestic and Navy Letters and Papers 1653 by C R Everett ( p 63); transcript from State Papers Domestic p 195 1653/54 Council of State 10 Oct 1653 'To write to Mayor of Salisbury that Council are informed that the Dutch prisoners lately sent there have done much spoil upon the pillars of the cloisters and the windows of the library, they being committed to custody there: also that due care not having been exercised over them, many have escaped' (p 64); 'Photographic Reproductions of Turner's Paintings 1797-1801' in Cathedral library album F,2.60 (p 65); notes on the transcript of fabric accounts 1527-1542, the original being in the possession of Mr R V Berkeley of Spetchley park, copy reference FA/1/3/1) (p 66); notes on papers found by Wordsworth in the library chest re payments for [?] and commons, transcript of Roger de Mortival code, and alphabetical index to a book of chapter acts (p 71); medical recipes from Bishop Seth Ward's Notitia (p 73); 'Pentecostal Chapter' copied by Wordsworth from a document in Press IV (p 100); transcript of a document loose in Dr Drake's collection (p 113); short note on St Andrew's Church Bemeton ( p 114v); list of Salisbury Cathedral organists 1454-1916 (p 119); personal letter to Wordsworth from his daughter Philippa; letter to Wordsworth from H F Stewart dated 10 October 1933 concerning a large donation of early printed books to Trinity College Cambridge and a possible connection of William Caxton to Salisbury. Several loose items.

English

Material: paper

Wordsworth, Christopher