Catalogue of Manuscripts. BAUMGARTNER PAPERS. THESE Papers were presented to the University in 1859 and 1861, by John Percy Baumgartner, Esq., of Milton Hall, near Cambridge, the representative of the family of the Knights, who had possessed the property for upwards of 90 years. Cole, the antiquarian, in a letter to Horace Walpole, dated Milton, July 9, 1772, speaks of the Squire of the parish as a rich clergyman, “who about five years ago purchased the chief part of the parish," and was then "actually building a good house to reside in." (E. Warburton's Memoirs of Horace Walpole, &c. Vol. I. p. 388.) This was the Rev. Samuel Knight, the only son of Dr Samuel Knight, Prebendary of Ely and Rector of Bluntisham, the author of the Lives of Erasmus and Dean Colet. At the time of his death Dr Knight was preparing Memoirs of Bishop Patrick and of John Strype (the latter of which is among these Papers), and these collections were doubtless made with a view to those biographies. There is no tradition in the family as to how the Papers came into the possession of Dr Knight; but it may be conjectured that, as he was a correspondent of Strype during the later years of the latter, this large collection of letters may have been put into his hands by Strype himself or some of his family, to aid him in compiling his Memoirs; while his connection with Ely may have facilitated his acquirement of the papers belonging to Bishop Patrick and his brother John. The Collection may be conveniently divided into two parts: I. THE STRYPE CORRESPONDENCE. II. THE PATRICK PAPERS. VOL. V. B I. THE STRYPE CORRESPONDENCE. A folio volume, containing a large collection of Original Letters addressed to Strype, chiefly from relations, or intimate friends. They are, for the most part, in excellent preservation, except that some of those on the largest paper are rubbed at the edges. The volume, which was ill-bound in rough boards, and exceedingly bulky, was numbered Vol. 1. on the cover. It has been divided into two parts for convenience. The fly-leaf is inscribed with these words: 1. 1666. Dec. 25. Imperfect; the bottom containing the signature being torn off, but endorsed by Strype: 'Uncle MR TOBY BONNEL to MR JOHN JOHNSON concerning me. From Ireland.' The Fire of London. Paying off the fleet. National loan of £1,800,000. 180 colliers taken or stranded. State of the Church in Ireland. Dutch war. East Indies. Conquests of the French in the West Indies. Notice of a letter from Strype. There are Notes of Strype's in cipher on the back of the Letter. 2. 1660. May 16, Dublin. 'MR TOBY BONNEL to JOHN JOHNSON, Minister of Wappin, London.' Invites him to visit him. Great Joy in Dublin on the proclamation of the King. Asks news of Calamy and other ministers. 3. 1673. June 27, Lyn. Endorsed 'Salter Correspondence.' [Richard Salter, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1667; B.A. in 1665; M.A. in 1668; buried in the College Chapel, Oct. 11, 1705.] RICHARD SALTER to JOHN STRYPE. To open a Correspondence and to ask for 'notes relating to the Christian religion.' 4. 1672. Sept. 19, Camb. The same to the same. Desires to succeed him in the living of Low Layton. Asks for heads and divisions of Dr Tillotson's Sermons [a request repeated in nearly all these Letters]. 5. 1673. Sept. 10, Lyn. The same to the same. The Priest's absolution. Lawfulness of wars. Fees for burying. Thanks him for Tillotson's discourse about Revenge. 6. 1673. Dec. 29, Lyn. The same to the same. |
