John Buck, Ceremonial Accounts. English and Latin, seventeenth century.

[John Buck 1597-1680]: autograph copy of a written account of “some material things, which do concern the corporation, viz. the university and town of Cambridge, but especially the university, as for the conferring of degrees in the senate, disputations, determinations, creations, etc. in the commencement house, with the ceremonies therein used, and likewise diverse graces granted by the senate.” 1665. Also contains accounts of the manner of selecting a regius professor and of selecting a Lady Margaret reader and preacher; a visit by King James I to Cambridge, 1622; the proclamation of Charles, Prince of Wales, as royal king, following the death of King James in 1625; a visit by King Charles I and his queen to Cambridge in 1631 and again in 1641; and a visit by King Charles II to Cambridge in 1660. There is a collection of references copied into the back of the book, connected to the University records, which range from the sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. Buck matriculated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1615 as a sizar, but obtained his B.A. from St Catherine’s College, 1617-18, and M.A. 1622. University printer and later Esquire Bedell, 1626-1680.