Catalogue Entry: THEM00116

Copies of documents relating to political disputes at Magdalen in 1687.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , 6 pp.

Source: Ms. 432, Magdalen College Library, Oxford, UK

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale for £10 by R.W. Chapman, Fellow of Magdalen 1931-60 and Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, 1920-42.

Sotheby Lot

SL182

Contents

Includes two variant copies of 'The Answer of y^e Fellows of S^t Mary Magdalen Colledg [...] to y^e Question why they did not elect & admit Mr. Anthony Farmer to be President of y^e same Colledg', c. 2,000 words; an account of Henry Fairfax's appearance before Judge Jeffries on 13 June 1687, and a 'Piece of a Letter to y^e E. of Sunderland'.