Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The historical background
- The manuscripts
- The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of Her Majesty's Privy Council, authorised by him for the government of Emmanuel College, founded by him
- The College orders of 1588
- Statuta D. Gualtheri Mildmaii Militis Cancellarii Scaccarii et Regineae Maiestati a consiliis: quae pro administratione Collegii Emmanuelis ab eo fundati sancivit
- Statutum de Camera Consanguineis fundatoris reservand
- De mora sociorum in Collegio, et de gradu Doctoratus in sacra Theologia Susripiendo
- Index
- Plate section
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The historical background
- The manuscripts
- The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of Her Majesty's Privy Council, authorised by him for the government of Emmanuel College, founded by him
- The College orders of 1588
- Statuta D. Gualtheri Mildmaii Militis Cancellarii Scaccarii et Regineae Maiestati a consiliis: quae pro administratione Collegii Emmanuelis ab eo fundati sancivit
- Statutum de Camera Consanguineis fundatoris reservand
- De mora sociorum in Collegio, et de gradu Doctoratus in sacra Theologia Susripiendo
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
This translation of the original statutes of Emmanuel College was first made twenty years ago, with no clear intention of publication, though with the conscious thought that the contents would be interesting to others beside the translator, including those who had not the time, the patience, nor the knowledge, to read the original Latin. This I still believe, even though few readers have ferreted out the typescript laid up in the College Library unless directed to it by the translator (who happens for most of the time to have been the Librarian). Those few have included several serious historians of the sixteenth century, who doubtless would themselves have been content with the Tudor Latin version, but were glad to quote the crib for their readers.
The approach of the quatercentenary of the College's foundation has stimulated interest in the early history of Emmanuel; and I am very grateful to the College History Committee for encouraging me to get the translation into print before 1984 is upon us. The text has of course been revised, though there was fortunately little to alter. Twenty years have, however, increased my knowledge of the College and its history; and so I have ventured to add a commentary to supplement the information provided by the Statutes themselves and to explain things which I did not myself understand when I first translated them. I have also been persuaded to prefix to the Statutes some account of events and developments in the University during the lifetime of the Founder which may help towards a better appreciation of his motivation and his intentions in the creation of Emmanuel College.
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- The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay , pp. xiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983