Cambridge University Archives

  • Ely Diocesan Records, H3, Cambridge St Bene't

    The Bishop's Transcripts, signed (Thomas Fuller Minister) as rector of St Bene't's, in 1630, 1631, and 1632.

    1630-2.
    • *FuT 13
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Fuller, Document(s)
  • Matr. 6, item 984

    Randolph's autograph signature on a list of Trinity College matriculands, sent by the college praelector to the Registrary, July 1624.

    1624.

    Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile VIIIb, after p. xxi.

    • RnT 596
      No description or publication history available.
      Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
  • Subscriptiones I

    The University Subscriptions Book, 1613-38.

    • *HeR 436 p. 18
      Autograph

      Herrick's autograph signature (as Robertus Heareck or Hearick, the dot on the i perhaps being accidentally extended) under the heading Aula Trinitatis for 1616.

      Robert Herrick, Document(s)
    • *FlG 4 p. 66
      Autograph

      Fletcher's autograph signed subscription for the degree of B.D. on 3 July 1619.

      Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XIV (p. 76).

    • *HeR 437 p. 79
      Autograph

      Herrick's autograph signature (as Robert Hearick) under the heading Aula Trinitatis, also in his hand, for 1620.

      Robert Herrick, Document(s)
    • *FuT 10 p. 198
      Autograph

      Fuller's subscription, with signature only, to the Thirty-Nine Articles, upon his graduation at Queens' College, at the end of the Lent Term in 1624/5.

      The signature is reproduced in facsimile in Bailey, p. 88.

      Thomas Fuller, Document(s)
    • *RnT 597 p. 262
      Autograph

      Randolph's autograph signature as subscription for his Bachelor of Arts, probably March 1627/8.

      Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIc, after p. xxi.

      Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
    • *FuT 11 p. 271
      Autograph

      Fuller's subscription, with signature only, upon graduating as Master of Arts.

      The signature is reproduced in Bailey, p. 98.

      Thomas Fuller, Document(s)
    • *MnJ 89 p. 286
      Autograph

      Autograph signature (Joannes Milton), when graduating as B.A., in the University Subscription Book, [January 1628/9].

      Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. i, item 1), and in Masson, I, after p. 780. Reproduced in J. Milton French, Milton's Supplicats, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (p. 353). Recorded in Columbia XVIII, 624, and in LR, I, 190.

      John Milton, Document(s)
    • *RnT 598 p. 346
      Autograph

      Randolph's autograph signature as his subscrition for his Master of Arts, probably July 1631.

      Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIf, after p. xxi.

      Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
    • *MnJ 92 p. 377
      Autograph

      Autograph signature (Joannes Milton), when graduating as M.A., in the University Subscription Book, [July 1632].

      Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. i, item 3), and in Masson, I, after p. 780. Recorded in Columbia XVIII, 624, and in LR, I, 271-2.

      John Milton, Document(s)
    • *FuT 12 p. 472
      Autograph

      Fuller's two-line autograph subscription in English, signed by him, upon graduating as Bachelor of Divinity.

      Facsimile of the full subscription in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIXa, after p. xxiv. The signature alone reproduced in Bailey, p. 161.

      Thomas Fuller, Document(s)
  • Subscriptions II

    The second University Subscription Book.

    • *MaA 569 f. 9r
      Autograph

      Marvell's autograph subscription for his Bachelor of Arts, in February 1638/9.

      Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 24 (Marvell's signature the ninth from the bottom in the right-hand column).

      Andrew Marvell, Document(s)
  • Supplicats 1627-29

    Supplicats volume for 1627-29.

    • *RnT 599 f. 192r
      Autograph

      Miss E.S. Leedham-Green has suggested this is in the poet's own hand, but I am of the firm opinion that this was written on his behalf by someone else (perhaps Thomas Goldfinch or some other college butler or official), as was quite customary in this period.

      Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
    • *MnJ 90 f. 331r
      Autograph

      Milton's autograph supplicat for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, c.10 January 1629.

      Edited, with a facsimile, in J. Milton French, Milton's Supplicats, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (pp. 349-51

      John Milton, Document(s)
  • Supplicats, 1630s

    Supplicats volume of the 1630s.

    • MnJ 91 [unspecified page number]

      Milton's supplicat for the degree of Master of Arts, written on his behalf in an unidentified hand (?Richard Osborne), c.10 January 1632.

      Edited, with a facsimile, in J. Milton French, Milton's Supplicats, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (pp. 350-2).

      John Milton, Document(s)
    • MoH 24 [unspecified page numbers]

      Autograph supplicats signed by More, 1 April 1636, and again in 1637 and 1638.

      Henry More, Inscription(s)
  • Vice-Chancellor's Court, III. 37 (Exhibita Files), item 125

    Autograph deposition by Crashaw, signed twice, concerning the case of John Ellis, December 1641.

    1641.

    Cited, together with other related records in these archives, in Hilton Kelliher, Crashaw at Cambridge, in New Perspectives on the Life and Art of Richard Crashaw, ed. John R. Roberts (Columbia & London, 1990), pp. 180-214 (pp. 213-14).

    • *CrR 450
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Richard Crashaw, Document(s)