Courts
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Management Group — UA
Cambridge University Archives
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA
Scope and Contents
The University Archives is responsible for the selection and preservation of the internal administrative records of the University of Cambridge, dating from 1266 to the present, and for making them available for administrative and research purposes. The archives are as diverse in their contents as the activities - self governance, teaching and research, property management, administration of justice, external relations - the University has pursued down the centuries. They include charters,...
Dates:
1266 - 2021
Conditions Governing Access:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, 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).
Fonds
Forncett, Norfolk: Manor Records
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5908-5928
Scope and Contents
Court books, a survey, a rental and indexes of personal names for Forncett, Norfolk.
Dates:
1523-1856
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Fonds
Frederic William Maitland: Lectures on Real Property
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6173
Scope and Contents
Written in a fair hand from the notes of a student attending the lectures. The lectures probably related to Maitland's course on 'Advanced Real Property', held at Cambridge University between 1887 and 1892. There are references to chapters, indicating that the writing may have been intended for publication. Correspondence found in MS.Add.4403/247-250 suggests that the note-taker was probably Charles Samuel Jackson. The papers include typescript notes on suit of court, hundred courts,...
Dates:
1887-1892 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Fonds
Frederic William Maitland: Papers
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6987-7009
Scope and Contents
Printers sheets, lecture notes and notes on constitutional history and law.
Dates:
1884-1908
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Fonds
J.H. Crosby: Papers on Cambridgeshire and Ely
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6380-6395
Scope and Contents
Comprises copies of various court rolls and other primary material on the history of Ely and Cambridgeshire, together with notes made by J.H. Crosby.
Dates:
1885-1923 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Fonds
Law reports in cipher, all central London courts, Easter 9 George II - Easter 11 George II
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.110
Scope and Contents
Ffos 1v-5v: index to cases in a second hand. fos 6, 7, 212v-16: blank. fo. 1: enciphered notes in main hand. inside front cover: 'M.3.29', in indexer's hand.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
File
Legal Notebook
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6235
Scope and Contents
Legal notebook of two attorneys, possibly Stephen Driffield and George Fothergill, containing formulary, and reports of cases in Yorkshire and Westminster, 198 pages.
Dates:
1665-1707 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Legal Notebook
Fonds
Star Chamber: Collection of treatises and related material
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3105
Scope and Contents
Including: (fo. 1) Isaac Cotton, 'The groundes, rules and proceedings of the honble courte of starr-chamber ...', with dedication to Sir Humfrey May and to Thomas May; (fo. 60) [Cotton?], 'Matters touching the causes and proceedings in the high court of starchamber with the fees used there at this day'; (fo. 84) Orders re star chamber, 12 May 38 Eliz. I, ; (fo. 85v) 'Orders for reformation of dilatory proceedings in causes preferred and presented in ... starr chamber', [Dec. 1597]; (fo. 89)...
Dates:
1635 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Fonds
The Papers of Lord Stewart of Fulham and Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STWT
Scope and Contents
The sections of Lord Stewart's papers which are of greatest interest are those dealing with his public life particularly his periods as First Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1965-66). The public side of Lord Stewart's life is complemented by the personal reflections contained in the diaries and in his personal correspondence. The papers also contain a large collection of photographs and many photograph albums in addition to press cuttings, biographical information,...
Dates:
1882 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of a number of individual files, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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