PR/YP/17
Reference code
PR/YP/17
Level of description
Item
Title
Mandate for the Installation of John Colbatch, 1702
Date
7 Aug 1702
Quantity & Format
1 sheet
Description
Mandate signed by Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury (1689-1715), for the installation of John Colbatch as Prebendary of Yetminster Prima. He held the Prebend from 1702, but resigned it in 1720 when he was appointed to the living of Orwell in Cambridgeshire.
John Colbatch (1664-1748) was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge - the patron of the Orwell living - and, from 1707, Professor of Moral Philosophy. He had been asked by Gilbert Burnet to prepare his second son, also Gilbert, for entry to Trinity College, but in 1701 was chosen by the Chancellor of Cambridge University as tutor to his own son, whom Colbatch accompanied on the Grand Tour for two years, before returning to Cambrdige. After 1714 he was involved in contentions between the Fellows of Trinity and its Master, the autocratic scholar Richard Bentley, during which, in 1723, he was fined £50 and imprisoned for a week.
Language
Latin
Physical Characteristics
Material: paper, wax