Item 3 - Charter: Lady Margaret (Cambridge)

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SJLM/8/2/1/3

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GB 1859 SJLM/8/2/1/3

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Charter: Lady Margaret (Cambridge)

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  • 1502 (Creation)

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1 item, parchment

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Indented charter of the Lady Magaret for the foundation of a readership [professorship] in theology in the University of Cambridge with the appointment of John Fisher as the first occupant of the post, and the statutes governing the foundation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin
18 Hen: VII [8 September 1502]

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  • Latin

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the seal is in a box

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During 1498, Lady Margaret's household paid Dr John Smyth of Cambridge and Dr Edmund Wilsford at Oxford for lectures, possibly an anticipatory arrangement.

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D5.14

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  • Map cabinet: 88/FOLDER D