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Collection of documents, 1620-1642 and undated

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.68

Scope and Contents

(1) ‘A brief collection taken out of the customers’ accompts remayning in the custody of the Clerke of the Pipe’: extracts relating to tonnage and poundage, beginning in the reign of King Edward III; (2) notes of a grant to be made about the year 1629, endorsed ‘Breddon Forrest for Mr Chauncellor’; (3) appointment by Sir John Michell, a master in chancery, of Robert Henley, one of the six clerks, to appear for him in the matter of Dame Thomasin Carew, 24 January 1620; (4) Warrant with the signature and seal of King Charles I for a grant of lands in Skenfryth, Monmouthshire, and of pasture on the wastes of Cowberne, Lancashire, addressed to ‘Edward lord Newburgh Chancellour of our dutchye of Lancaster’, Westminster, 10 Jan. 6 Car. I., endorsed ‘Jan. 1630 A warrant for the supply of a value of 4li 15s for my Lo. of Munmouth’; (5) oath (in English) titled ‘Juramentum examinatorum cancellar’; (6) depositions in a case between Lord Newburgh on the one part, and Mr James and Mr Robert Fenn on the other, by John Lawrence and Richard Broughton; (7) petition of Viscount Chaworth to Lord Keeper Coventry in a chancery suit, 5 August 1630; (8) copies of warrants for payment of pensions and wages; (9) a summary, or an index to some book, of ‘disbursements’; (10) 11 letters from George Henley to his brother Robert Henley, 1635-1642 and undated, with a letter from Robert Street to Gabriell Elliot, at Robert Henley’s, 20 July 1642; (11) report of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London to the Lord Keeper Littleton, concerning the customs of the city of London as to a child’s share of an estate, in the case of Lord Newburgh v. Fenn, 28 July 1641; (12) ‘Inquisitio capta apud Brecon, 2 Nov. 4 et 5 Phil. et Mar. coram commissionariis dictorum regis et reginæ ad dividendum et separandum omnia terras et tenementa ac possessiones spirituales dictorum dominorum regis et reginæ a terris ac possessionibus temporalibus existent. infra comitat. de Brecknock’, apparently a copy.

Dates

  • Creation: 1620-1642 and undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 volume(s)

Language of Materials

Latin

English

Custodial History

In the Library by the mid 1750s.

Physical Description

Paper.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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