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Scope and Contents 1. ff. 3–14. Cases (temp. Eliz.) with the Arguments of Rhodes, Fenner, Puckering, Flowerdew, Fleetwood, Walmisley, Owen, Egerton, Cooke, etc. 2. ff. 15–17. The case for William Mason at the suit of John Rawles, 6 James I. (Custom: Copyhold). 3. ff. 19–23. 'Notes pour le argument del case inter Henry Makwilliams, pl., et Wm Rompton et George Barne, def., par dett pour £1000. 2s. 1d. sus escape de George Poory fait hors de Ludgate le darren jour de Febr. Anno Regine Elizabeth.'...

Scope and Contents 1. ff. 1-78. Reading on the Statute 2 and 3 Edward VI., for payment of tithes. Imperfect, ff. 1-39, 48-63, and 71 according to the old foliation being lost. 2. ff. 79-88, 94. Reports of a few cases in the reign of James I., with the arguments of counsel. ff. 89-93 are blank. 3. ff. 98, 99. 'Responsiones personales Rev. Georgii Gardiner factæ Articulis ministratis in Visitacione Metropolitica Rev. Di. Matthæi [Parker] Cant. Archiepiscopi.' (English.) Gardiner was made Dean of...

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With an index of a later date. On the outer edges of the top is written Statham, with whose Abridgment it has much in common.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...

Scope and Contents The Inns and Readers were the following: Lyons Inn: Messrs. Denn, Shilton, Roe, and Davys of the Inner Temple. New Inn: Messrs. Moody, Bartlet, Jermyn, Mansell, Blacknell, Rives of the Middle Temple, Landen, Whitlock, Hoskins, Savage, and Lane. Staple Inn: Messrs. Crawley, Whisler, and Fesant. Davyes [Thavies] Inn: Messrs. Wright and Glanvill. Clements Inn: Messrs. Martin of the Inner Temple, Chapman, and Wild. Cliffords Inn: Messrs. Drury, Lane, Foster, Ould, and Merefield. Furnivals Inn:...

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(1) Assizes, in forty chapters; (2) law reports of the reigns of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.

Scope and Contents ‘Un breife collection de touts tiels decrees fait in le court de gards, queux decidunt ascune doubte in ley, ou autrement expresse ou explaine ascun matter necessary pur ester conus daver lexperience de mesme le court. Les queux decrees remaine encorde et enter in les livers appell les livers de decrees del dit court, hors de queux livers est fait cet collection. Et cest coppie est escriete hors del mesme collection, que fuit escriet par l’author, John Hare, que fuit escriet par sa maine...

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'Un breif collection de touts tiels decrees fayt in le Court de Gards queux decydent ascuns doubt in ley'; it commences with Trinity Term, 7 Edw. VI, and ends with Michaelmas Term, 10 James I.

Scope and Contents 'Un briefe collection de touts tiels decrees fait in le court de gards queux decident ascun doubt in loy ou auterment a expresse ou explayne ascun matter necessary pur estre conus d'aver experience de mesme le court les queux decrees remayne en roll et enter en le livres de decrees del dit courte hors de queux livers jes aye fait cesty collextion pur mon experience de mesme. Incipiunt termino Trin. anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti 7mo et ensuit.' The entries are brought down to 'Mich. 7 Jac.'....

Scope and Contents The items collected are written in different hands of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contains: (1) ‘Instructions for the mr of or wards and lyveries for the better authorisinge and directinge of him in the execucon of his office and performance of our service’, from the reign of King James I, in a contemporary hand; (2) a treatise on tenures, and ‘breifly of wardships, premier seisin, livery’, etc., in the same hand as no. 1; (3) ‘Curia wardorum’, being notes of cases in the court...

Scope and Contents (1)-(5) ‘Prælectiones Mosis Amyraldi professoris, in diversos locos SS. habitæ’, all apparently copied in the same hand, which is similar to that in MS Dd.10.40, (1) ‘In c. 24 Evang. S. Matth’, (2) ‘Expositio cap. 12 Evang. S. Matth’, also ‘In Marc. c. 9, v. 48. prælectio’, (3) ‘Prælectio in Apocal. cap. 22. v. 1.’ and other passages, bearing the date Jan. 1661 (4) ‘Prælectiones in capp. i. ii. Ep. ad Romanos’, bearing the date 25 May 1660, (5) ‘Explicatio divv. locorum in primâ ad Corinth....

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Cases and legal dicta, mostly written in a law-clerk's hand but some possibly written by Mr Golsborough. With indexes.

Scope and Contents (1) Brief notes of petitions to parliament, 8 Edw. II; (2) brief titles of the acts passed 8 Edw. III; (3) brief records of parliament, 4-8, 13-15, 17, 20, 25 and 50-51 Edw. III and 10 and 21 Ric. II; (4) ‘De reformatione pacis inter regem H. 3um et Lewlinum filium Griffini principem Walliæ’; (5) brief records of parliament, 21 Ric. II; (6) ‘Privilegia pro villa Colteshall’, beginning ‘H dei gra. rex Angliæ’ and dated ‘ap. Wudstock XVI die Junii’; (7) a proclamation of King Stephen; (8)...

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English and French is given in parallel columns; the English entries run from 'Abate' to 'Yard land'.

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'Divers and uncertayne discourses del ley', together with notes of several readings, from 2 March 1611 to 6 August 1614. On the first page is written 'By mee Thomas Wateridge'. About the middle of the book are 12 pages headed 'Joco seria. Of divers subts.'; these consist of anecdotes related by members of the Inn, in the year 1611.

Scope and Contents (1) ‘A treatise concerning the nobilitie according to the lawe of England’, written in the time of King James I but with no note of its author; see also MS Ee.04.22; (2) extracts from the charters of the city of London concerning its privileges, from the time of King William I to that of King Edward IV; it terminates abruptly at the end of the 12th page; (3) reports of cases adjudged in the king’s bench, 9 and 10 Jac. I, among which appear also cases decided in chancery, and on error in the...

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With an index of cases. They are cases adjudged in the K. B. and C. B. in the reign of Eliz. and the early part of James I.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...

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Arranged alphabetically, commencing with 'Chivaler' and ending with 'Staple', which is not complete. The manuscript is incomplete at the beginning, the leaves being numbered from 9 to 47.

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From the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

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A notebook of various law cases between 24 Hen. VI and 39 Eliz. I. The points noticed are principally those bearing on pleading; the work itself is abruptly terminated. In one place is written 'Hors des repts de Sr Jo. Walter, kt'.

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Law cases and readings from Finch, Stone, Weare, Trotman, Jorden, Prideaux and others from 1612 to 1615, and of Mownson, Egerton, Coke and Lea from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The five commencing folios appear to be a continuation of another volume. Between the two classes of readings is inserted an alphabetical index to the first set of readings, after which appears a Latin couplet headed 'My saviour'.

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Arranged alphabetically from 'Abeyance' to 'Waiver des choses', and consisting of two parts, the second, from f. 220 to f. 374, being an appendix of omitted matter. There is a table of contents at the beginning.

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Contains entries from 'Abator' to 'Estoppele'. See also MS Dd.05.23.

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Begins 'Patents grants le roy' and ends with 'Servants, apprentices'. Incomplete. The last ten pages are in darker ink, and appear to belong to another commonplace book, containing matter relating to 'Bridges, brewers, boaten, watermen and barges', in a more modern hand than the preceding matter.