Identity area
Reference code
SJLM/2/1/1
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJLM/2/1/1
Title
Henry Hornby's goods
Date(s)
- 1504 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper
Context area
Name of creator
(c1457-1518)
Biographical history
Henry Hornby was secretary, dean of chapel and chancellor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and a key figure in the foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge. After graduating D.D. in 1495, Hornby was appointed Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He became Master of Peterhouse in 1509. Other notable appointments include Rector of Burton Bradstock, Dorset (1495-1517); Prebendary of Southwell (1496-1518); Prebendary of Lincoln (1501-1518), Dean of Wimborne, Dorset; and Rector of Orwell (1508-1518).
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Inventory of goods & clothes belonging to Henry Hornby, Dean of the Lady Margaret's chapel. The volumes lists the following items:
- pp.1-2: gownes lyned
- p.3: riding gownes and cloke, doublette, jaquets lyned.
- p.4: jaquets furred, petticotts, hose
- p.5 beces of wollen
- pp.7-8: beding and other necessary things
- p.9: superpellice [surplice]
- p.11: in tharmory chamber [in the armory chamber?]
- p.12: basons, candlesticks and other thyngs
- p.13: sadells and harnesses
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Former Ref.
D102.14