Courts
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Management Group
Cambridge University Archives
Management Group
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, student administration, administration of justice, external relations - the University has pursued down the centuries. ...
Dates:
1266 - 2022
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Commissary's Court archives, 1562 - 1855
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Comm.Ct.
Scope and Contents
The archives comprise act and deposition books, exhibita files and bonds. They include records of courts at Sturbridge and Barnwell Fairs.
Dates:
1562 - 1855
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).
Fonds
Court of Discipline archives, 1932 - 2004
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Dis.Ct.
Scope and Contents
The archives comprise specifica case papers and acta.
Dates:
1932 - 2004
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).
File
'Index titulorum de curiis ecclesiasticis', possibly 17th century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.12.I
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series - University Registry miscellanea - chiefly consists of compilations of practical use within the administration.
Dates:
possibly 17th century
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).
Fonds
Papers of the Court of the Septem or Sex Viri, 1927 - 1987
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/S.V.Ct.
Scope and Contents
The records relate to procedure and a few cases.
Dates:
1927 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access:
These records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation.
Sub-sub-mangmt group
Records of and relating to the Commissary, 1638 - 2002
Sub-sub-mangmt group
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.XI
Scope and Contents
First recorded in 1293, the Commissary was a judicial officer appointed by the Chancellor to act as his deputy. In the early modern period he presided over a court, sitting at least weekly, with jurisdiction over members of the University below the degree of M.A. and also conducting much of the business which might otherwise have swamped the Vice-Chancellor's court. By Statute B.VI as amended by Grace 6 of 20 June 1936 the Commissary was required to certify that charges laid before the...
Dates:
1638 - 2002
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).