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Newmarket, Suffolk

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Draft book of Cambridgeshire manorial courts kept by Michael Dalton of West Wratting

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6920
Scope and Contents

Possibly intended for business of the Vice Chancellor's Court of the University when Dalton was deputy steward. Includes notes on duties of the clerk of the market, weights and measures and fines payable, draft minutes of the court, 1598 and copies of Elizabeth I's charter to the University, 1575. Also includes draft minutes of the courts of various manors in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, mostly the manors of Newmarket and Halesworth and Wratting Magna.

Dates: 1598-1614 (Circa)
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