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Vice-Chancellor's accounts, 1575 - 1879

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/VCV

Scope and Contents

Comprise chiefly vouchers, also accounts, bank pass books and receipts.

Dates

  • Creation: 1575 - 1879

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Management Group:

The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Biographical / Historical

The Elizabethan statutes of 1570 transferred responsilibity for the University's finances from the Proctors to the Vice-Chancellor.

Extent

15 linear metre(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Bibliography

For a list of Vice-Chancellors and their dates of service, see http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1/lists/Vicec.html

General

The online catalogue was completed in August 2004.

Originator(s)

Vice-Chancellor

Finding aid date

1998-05-13 16:10:16+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

Contact:
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR United Kingdom