Catalogue Entry: THEM00023

Extract from Thomas Fuller's 'History of the University of Cambridge'

Author: Thomas Fuller

Metadata: 1689, in English , c. 110 words, 1 p.

Source: Keynes Ms. 120, King's College, Cambridge, UK

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Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Keynes for £3.10s.

Sotheby Lot

SL186

Contents

Part of the material assembled by Newton in connection with his 1689 bid for the provostship of King's College, Cambridge (see Westfall, Never At Rest, 480-81). Concerns Edward IV effectively blackmailing King's College into acknowledging him as its founder.

Notes

Taken from Fuller's Church History of Great Britain (London, 1655).