Catalogue Entry: THEM00015
An Account of the Cambridge case & all the proceedings therein
Custodial History
Bought at the Sotheby sale by Keynes for £15.
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Full title 'An Account of ye Cambridge case & all ye proceedings therein'. Probably not Newton's own composition though he may well have had a hand in it. A history of the attempt by James II to force Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge to grant an MA to the Roman Catholic friar Alban Francis, waiving the customary oath abjuring 'popery', and the vigorous and ultimately successful opposition raised to this (in which Newton played a discreet but very significant role: see Westfall, Never at Rest, 474-9, and Iliffe, 'Newton's anti-Catholicism').
Notes
In Humphrey Newton's hand.
Related Material
Published after the Revolution as an anonymous pamphlet, The Cambridge Case (London, 1689). Cf. Keynes Ms. 115, which is a copy of one section of this work.
