Law
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 463 Collections and/or Records:
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Arguments for the liberty of free men and other political writings, including a parliamentary journal, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.35
Scope and Contents
(1) Edward Littleton and John Selden’s arguments for the liberty of the person of every free man delivered at a conference with the Lords, with an introduction by Sir Dudley Digges, the objections of Mr Attorney and the replies; a blank space is left for ‘Mr Littleton’s presidents’; see MS Dd.13.34 no. 1; (2) ‘That the kings of England have bine pleased usuallie to consulte with their peares in the great counsells and commons in parliament of marriage peace and warre’, attributed to Sir...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Arguments in the case of ship money, Mid or late seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.27
Scope and Contents
Arguments and related documents concerning the case of ship money. (1) ‘Mr attorney Banckes his argument’; (2) ‘The case of shipp-money, Mich. 13 Caroli, in the exchequer chamber. Argued by Mr St John, of Lincoln’s Inne, utter-barrester, on behalf of Mr Hambden’; (3) ‘The argument of Sr Edward Litleton, knight, of the Inner Temple, made in the exchequer chamber pro rege’; (4) ‘The reply of Mr Holborne, of Lincolne’s Inn, to the argument of Mr Solicitor, 2 Octobris, 13 Caroli, in camera...
Dates:
Mid or late seventeenth century
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Arguments of the counsel and judges in the case of ship money, Mid or late seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.30
Scope and Contents
Contains the arguments of Mr St John; Sir Edward Littleton, solicitor-general; Mr Holborne; Sir John Banks, attorney-general; Mr Justice Weston; Mr Baron Crawley; Mr Justice Berkley; Mr Baron Trevors; Mr Baron Vernon; Mr Justice Croke; Mr Justice Jones; Mr Justice Hutton; Mr Baron Denham; Chief Baron Davenport; Chief Justice Finch; and Chief Justice Brampston. See MSS Ii.05.19 and Ii.05.27. Prefixed is the case upon the record, against John Hampden, to which are attached the names of Robert...
Dates:
Mid or late seventeenth century
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Arraignment of the earl of Somerset, c. 1620
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.12
Scope and Contents
'The arraignement of Robert earle of Somerset'.
Dates:
c. 1620
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Articles of canon law, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.29
Scope and Contents
Concerning the election and consecration of bishops, the vacating of benefices, dispensations, etc.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Assizes and legal reports, Sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.37
Scope and Contents
(1) Assizes, in forty chapters; (2) law reports of the reigns of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Bacon's Breife declaration concerning the use of the lawe, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.01.35
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Book of practicks, 1660
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.05.04
Scope and Contents
'My lord Hadingtoune his booke of practicks alphabeticallie digested into titles'. It contains decisions of the lords of Council and Session in Scotland, from about 1606 to 1624. With an index.
Dates:
1660
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Calendar of the patent rolls, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.42
Scope and Contents
Entries run from the first year of King Edward III to the last year of King Richard II.
Dates:
Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Cartulary of lands in Essex, Sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.08
Scope and Contents
A cartulary of lands in Alwithly (Aveley) and Wennington in Essex, which were the property of John Barett, gentleman, in the reign of King Henry VIII. The documents are 158 in number, and are not arranged in any certain order. Three of them, which are not dated, appear to belong to the reign of King Edward I; the others form a nearly, if not quite, complete series of the deeds relating to the property, the latest of them being dated in the second year of the reign of King Henry VIII. A full...
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Catalogue of books / law precedents, Late seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.15
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of books, arranged according to authors' names, from Mei to Zui, with the place and date of publication and the size of each work. At the other end of the book reversed are a series of law precedents, written in various hands: (1) 'An indenture tripartite of covenauntes to lease uses of a fine and recoverie with divers provisoes and limitations therein conteyned'; (2) Bargain and sale of lands, preliminary to suffering a recovery; (3) Mortgage in fee; (4) 'A lease to try a title...
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Certified copy of the last Will and Testament, with seven Codicils, of Peter Gunning, Bishop of Ely, and of the Probate thereof, 1685 - 1701
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.31
Scope and Contents
The Will is dated 25 Aug., 1679; the first of the seven Codicils, 26 Aug. 1679, and the last, 26 June, 1684. Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 26 July, 1684, William Saywell, D.D., [Prebendary of Ely,] sole executor. This copy appears to have been made for the purpose of taking Counsel's opinion upon the legacies bequeathed to William Gunning, the testator's cousin, which is endorsed upon the last sheet and signed George Gifford, 24 Nov., 1686. Bishop Gunning died 6 July, 1684....
Dates:
1685 - 1701
Conditions Governing Access:
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Charles Bromley: Dictionary of Musicians
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6336
Scope and Contents
'An Alphabetical Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Singers and Composers of both Sexes and of all Nations Vol 2nd', 98 folios. The first name is Paisiello, the last Walther. Fos 1-82 are paginated by the writer 193-255. Fos 83-90 are blank. Commencing at the other end of the book are a few notes on legal subjects.
Dates:
1826 (Circa)
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Cherhill court rolls, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.01
Scope and Contents
Court rolls of the royal manor of Cherhill, in Wiltshire, from 17 Jac. I to 2 Car. I.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Christopher Pemberton: letters to him
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8397
Dates:
1808-1844
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Collection of decrees, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.01
Scope and Contents
‘Un breife collection de touts tiels decrees fait in le court de gards, queux decidunt ascune doubte in ley, ou autrement expresse ou explaine ascun matter necessary pur ester conus daver lexperience de mesme le court. Les queux decrees remaine encorde et enter in les livers appell les livers de decrees del dit court, hors de queux livers est fait cet collection. Et cest coppie est escriete hors del mesme collection, que fuit escriet par l’author, John Hare, que fuit escriet par sa maine...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of decrees in the Court of Wards, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.17
Scope and Contents
'Un breif collection de touts tiels decrees fayt in le Court de Gards queux decydent ascuns doubt in ley'; it commences with Trinity Term, 7 Edw. VI, and ends with Michaelmas Term, 10 James I.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of legal decrees, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.09
Scope and Contents
'Un briefe collection de touts tiels decrees fait in le court de gards queux decident ascun doubt in loy ou auterment a expresse ou explayne ascun matter necessary pur estre conus d'aver experience de mesme le court les queux decrees remayne en roll et enter en le livres de decrees del dit courte hors de queux livers jes aye fait cesty collextion pur mon experience de mesme. Incipiunt termino Trin. anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti 7mo et ensuit.' The entries are brought down to 'Mich. 7 Jac.'....
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of legal documents, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.36
Scope and Contents
Includes charges, instructions, presentations, warrants, etc., relating to the court of Waltham Forest, in the time of King James I and King Charles I. It contains also copies of the 'Charta de foresta, edita anno 9 Hen. III.', and of the 'Ordinatio forestæ', 34 Edw. II. (1306).
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of legal reports and related documents, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.39
Scope and Contents
(1) Extracts from the year books of King Henry III, years 1-47; (2) law cases abridged and arranged under several titles; no dates or references; (3) ‘Modus cirographandi’; (4) ‘Vetera placita que placitantur in itinere’; (5) table of reports from Hen. III. to Rich. II., wherein the cases which Fitzherbert has abridged under several titles, are placed according to the years in which they were treated on.
Dates:
Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Collection of legal tracts, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.22
Scope and Contents
(1) Arguments upon the case of Ship Money in 1638; (2) a continuation of, and partly written in the same hand as, ‘The arguments and opinions concernynge the case of shippe money, of Sir John Brampston, knight, lord chief justice of the King’s Bench, in the Exchequer Chamber ...’ (see MS Dd.03.86, no. 5); (3) 'Causes in Chancerie gathered by Sir George Carye, one of the Masters of the Chancerie, anno 1601'.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of legal treatises and miscellaneous writings, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.26
Scope and Contents
The items collected are written in different hands of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contains: (1) ‘Instructions for the mr of or wards and lyveries for the better authorisinge and directinge of him in the execucon of his office and performance of our service’, from the reign of King James I, in a contemporary hand; (2) a treatise on tenures, and ‘breifly of wardships, premier seisin, livery’, etc., in the same hand as no. 1; (3) ‘Curia wardorum’, being notes of cases in the court...
Dates:
Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of miscellaneous documents, mostly concerning the sale of land, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.30
Scope and Contents
(1) Copy of a letter of Peter Bertius to William Barlow, bishop of Lincoln, dated Lugd. Bat. Sept. anno 1612; certain theological theses are appended; (2) the case between baronets and the younger sons of viscounts and barons for precedency, containing the arguments on both sides and the king’s decision, related and set down by Mr Hackwill of Lincoln’s Inn, who was of the counsel of the barons; (3) an account of common land sold at Ovenden, Skircoate, Shelfe, Stainband, Thurleston, Eland,...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Collection of miscellaneous writings chiefly relating to the administration of law and justice, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.49
Scope and Contents
(1) Precedents relating to the office of a Justice of the Peace, containing forms of warrants, indentures, recognizances, licences, commitments, etc., with an index; (2) pages from a copybook; (3) a copy of ‘Orders agreed upon for the house of correction at Acle, the 10th of May, 1611; on the last page occurs the name of ‘Anthony Parmenter’, in whose handwriting the book appears to be.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Collection of pleadings, Mid-sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.19
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of pleadings from the time of King Henry VI, including a record of a 'placitum detentionis syngraphi obligatorii'. The whole work is apparently a transcript from the Rotuli placitorum, preserved in the Public Records.
Dates:
Mid-sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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