Article by Elizabeth Wells, Archivist, first published in The Camden, 2013 An incunabulum is a book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — in Europe before 1501 (the earliest examples of printing are from the East. The Diamond Sutra which was discovered in a cave in China is the earliest complete survival of a dated printed…
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A Document with Teeth
Article by Elizabeth Wells, Archivist, first published in The Camden 2013 This indenture, dating from 1594, is one of the earliest documents in the school’s archive which refers to the school directly (see the post on William Camden for another). An indenture is a legal contract between two or more parties. Written in duplicate on the same sheet, the copies would be separated…
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The King’s Scholars’ Pardon by Charles Low
In 1949 Viscount Davidson (OW) purchased at Sotheby’s and presented to the School the so-called King’s Scholars’ Pardon. For many years this hung on the wall of College Library, and it has now been transcribed and translated. In the document, dated 8th October, 1679, Charles II pardons all forty scholars for the murder of one Robert Rowley. In its…
