Samuel Norris
Samuel Norris (1673?–1753) was the Cathedral Auditor. He died on 16 January 1753 aged 80. The Gentleman's Magazine records that he was 'one of the proctors of the ecclesiastical courts at Canterbury, auditor to the dean and chapter, and deputy register of the archdeacon's court'.[1] He was also an advocate at Doctors' Commons in London.[2] In about 1735 he prepared a catalogue of the medieval charters.[3]
He made additions to David Wilkins's catalogue of the printed books (CCA-DCc-LA/2/5 ) and later produced a new catalogue of the Cathedral Library in collaboration with the Revd Dr Robert Eyre which was printed in 1743. The Chapter had 100 copies printed in Canterbury by James Abree.[4]
In 1708 and 1714 he subscribed to the two volumes of Jeremy Collier's Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain as ‘Mr. Samuel Norris, of Doctors' Commons’. The Sion College collection at Lambeth Palace Library has a book with Norris's signature.[5]
- Shelfmark W/H-4-51
- John Cowell, LL.D. Nomothetes. The interpreter : containing the genuine signification of such obscure words and terms used either in the common or statute lawes of this realm, first compiled by the learned Dr. Cowel, and now enlarged from the collections of all others who have written in this kind.. 1684.
- Inscription (17c) on title page: Sam: Norris.
- Shelfmark W/P-9-2
- Peter Heylyn. Cyprianus Anglicus: or, the history of the life and death, of ... William ... Archbishop of Canterbury, ... containing also the ecclesiastical history of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from his first rising till his death. London: 1668.
- Inscription on title page: Sam Norris.
References
- ↑ Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 22, p. 44.
- ↑ CCA-DCb/WN/Norris
- ↑ Ramsay 388
- ↑ Catalogus librorum bibliothecae ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis. Cantuariae: typis Jacobi Abree, 1743. [Ramsay 388; Shaw & Gray 30; the Cathedral Library has a copy from the Elham Parish Library (Elham 1315*)]
- ↑ Sage, John. Principles of the cyprianic age, with regard to episcopal power and jurisdiction, 1717: https://sionprovenance.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/inscription-of-samuel-norris/
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