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: 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.
RnT 596: Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile VIIIb, after p. xxi.
Subscriptiones I
The University Subscriptions Book, 1613-38.
p. 18
• *HeR 436: Robert Herrick, Document(s)
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. 1616.
p. 66
• *FlG 4: Giles Fletcher the Younger, Document(s)
Fletcher's autograph signed subscription for the degree of B.D. on 3 July 1619. 1619.
Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XIV (p. 76).
p. 79
• *HeR 437: Robert Herrick, Document(s)
Herrick's autograph signature (as ‘Robert Hearick’) under the heading ‘Aula Trinitatis’, also in his hand, for 1620. 1620.
p. 198
• *FuT 10: Thomas Fuller, Document(s)
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. 1625.
The signature is reproduced in facsimile in Bailey, p. 88.
p. 262
• *RnT 597: Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
Randolph's autograph signature as subscription for his Bachelor of Arts, probably March 1627/8. 1627/8.
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIc, after p. xxi.
p. 271
• *FuT 11: Thomas Fuller, Document(s)
Fuller's subscription, with signature only, upon graduating as Master of Arts. 1628.
The signature is reproduced in Bailey, p. 98.
p. 286
• *MnJ 89: John Milton, Document(s)
Autograph signature (‘Joannes Milton’), when graduating as B.A., in the University Subscription Book, [January 1628/9]. 1629.
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.
p. 346
• *RnT 598: Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
Randolph's autograph signature as his subscrition for his Master of Arts, probably July 1631. 1631.
Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIf, after p. xxi.
p. 377
• *MnJ 92: John Milton, Document(s)
Autograph signature (‘Joannes Milton’), when graduating as M.A., in the University Subscription Book, [July 1632]. 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.
p. 472
• *FuT 12: Thomas Fuller, Document(s)
Fuller's two-line autograph subscription in English, signed by him, upon graduating as Bachelor of Divinity. 1635.
Facsimile of the full subscription in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIXa, after p. xxiv. The signature alone reproduced in Bailey, p. 161.
Subscriptions II
The second University Subscription Book.
f. 9r
• *MaA 569: Andrew Marvell, Document(s)
Marvell's autograph subscription for his Bachelor of Arts, in February 1638/9. 1639.
Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 24 (Marvell's signature the ninth from the bottom in the right-hand column).
Supplicats 1627-29
Supplicats volume for 1627-29.
f. 192r
• *RnT 599: Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
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. Before January 1627/8.
f. 331r
• *MnJ 90: John Milton, Document(s)
Milton's autograph supplicat for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, c.10 January 1629. 1629.
Edited, with a facsimile, in J. Milton French, ‘Milton's Supplicats’, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (pp. 349-51
Supplicats, 1630s
Supplicats volume of the 1630s.
[unspecified page number]
• MnJ 91: John Milton, Document(s)
Milton's supplicat for the degree of Master of Arts, written on his behalf in an unidentified hand (?Richard Osborne), c.10 January 1632. 1632.
Edited, with a facsimile, in J. Milton French, ‘Milton's Supplicats’, HLQ, 5 (1942), 349-53 (pp. 350-2).
[unspecified page numbers]
• MoH 24: Henry More, Inscription(s)
Autograph supplicats signed by More, 1 April 1636, and again in 1637 and 1638. 1636-38.
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.
*CrR 450: Richard Crashaw, Document(s)
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).