| AdminHistory | Sir John Borough (incorrectly Burroughs): received a classical education and afterwards studied law at Gray's Inn, but showed more aptitude for the study of records and antiquities than for the legal profession; at Venice, addressed several letters to Sir Robert Cotton, chiefly about the purchase of manuscripts, 1622; appointed keeper of the records in the Tower of London, 1623; by the favour of the earl marshal, to whom he was secretary, sworn herald-extraordinary by the title of Mowbray, 1623; created Norroy King of Arms, at Arundel House in the Strand, 1623; knighted, 1624; MP for Horsham, 1624, 1625, 1626; as keeper of the records, advised the council when Charles I was discussing the propriety of summoning the great council of peers; attended the king when he went to Scotland to be crowned, 1633; made Garter principal king of arms, 1634; obtained a grant to entitle him to the fees and perquisites of his office while employed overseas for the king's special service, 1636; as principal king of arms, followed Charles I in the field during the civil war, and had several narrow escapes while in the royal camp; an admirable note-taker, drawing up accounts of various conferences between the royalists and parliamentarians; when the great council met at York, appointed its clerk, and took the full notes of its proceedings which constitute its only records; when the sixteen commissioners went to Ripon, Borough accompanied them as their clerk, and took notes of the treaty there; when the treaty was adjourned to London, Borough resumed his attendance and carried on his notes until the treaty was concluded; while in the service of the court at Oxford, the university conferred upon him the degree of DCL, 1643; died at Oxford, 1643; buried at Christ Church cathedral. Publications: 'The Soveraignty of the British Seas ... Written in the yeare 1633' (London, 1651); 'Journal of Events at the English Camp ... June 1639' (State Papers Domestic, Charles I, volume ccccxxiv, art 63, 64); 'Notes of the Interview between Charles I and the Covenanters in the Earl Marshal's Tent near Berwick ... June 1639' (in Lord Hardwicke's State Papers, volume ii, p 130); 'Minutes of what passed in the Great Councell of the Peers at Yorke ... 1640' (in Lord Hardwicke's State Papers, volume ii, pp 208-298); 'Notes of the Treaty carried on at Ripon, between King Charles I and the Covenanters of Scotland ... 1640', ed John Bruce (Camden Society, London, 1869); 'Burrhi Impetus Juveniles. Et qudam sedatioris aliquantulm animi Epistolae' (Oxford, 1643). |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |