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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 379 Collections and/or Records:

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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.26
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases decided chiefly in the King's Bench, between 26 Eliz. I and 15 James I. To these are prefixed (ff. 1-3) resolutions of the judges concerning the stannaries in Devon and Cornwall, 3 Charles I.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.32
Scope and Contents Reports of cases decided in the King’s Bench from Hilary Term, 13 James I, to Hilary Term, 7 Charles I, with an index of cases. Folios 206-243 contain arguments ‘touching the liberty of the subjects’: (1) ‘Sr Dudley Digges’ introduction to the argument of the libertye of the subject at a conference before the lords in parliament, 4 Caroli, Aprill 1, 1628’; (2) ‘The argument of Mr Creswell, 1628’; (3) ‘Selden’s argument, 1 Apr. 4 Car., in parliament, in the painted chamber’; (4) ‘Mr...
Dates: Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.36
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases decided in the King's Bench from Michaelmas Term, 20 James I, to Hilary Term, 22 James I.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.38
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, chiefly from the 24th to the 30th year, with an index of the cases.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.05
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged chiefly in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, with index. The running title of the first 23 leaves is 'Les reports de serjeant Bendloes'; but the manuscript does not correspond with the series published in 1689 with the title 'Les reports de Gulielme Benloe, serjeant del ley'.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Late 1630s?

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.19-MS Gg.02.20
Scope and Contents

Reportes hors de le banck le roy'; MS Gg.02.19 extends from Paschæ 5to to Trin. 10, MS Gg.02.20 from Mich. 10 to Pasch. 13 Car. I. The first case in the series is 'Jones v. Harris', in which the plaintiff as serjeant-at-arms for the marches of Wales prefers his bill against Sir Thomas Harris for his fees. The last is an anonymous case against an executor to recover a debt. With an index.

Dates: Late 1630s?
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.23
Scope and Contents

The volume consists of reports of cases in all the three courts from Mich. 2 to Mich. 11th James 1st; many of them have the pleadings set out very carefully. The first case is that of Weldinge v. Coppinge in the king's bench, the last is Chambelaine's case in the exchequer.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, 1620s?

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.30
Scope and Contents

Reports comenceant Pasch. 19 Jac. et finiant Pas. 3 Car'; the greater part of the volume consists of a transcript of Benloe's reports in the edition of 1661. At the beginning is a note 'Memm to examine this book by the little book anned to it'.

Dates: 1620s?
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.03
Scope and Contents

Cases adjudged in the common pleas in the 15th, 16th and 17th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Dates: Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, 1590s?

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.25
Scope and Contents

From Easter term, 37 Eliz. I to Hilary term, 39 Eliz. I. Reversing the book, at the other end is 'Aileworth's case', extending over 22 leaves, and that 'Betweene Harvey pl. and Farye def.', extending over 18 leaves.

Dates: 1590s?
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.09
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, chiefly the latter; they are for the most part between 26 and 29 Eliz. I, and 1 and 6 James I. At the end of the book is an index of cases, in a later hand.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.14
Scope and Contents (1) Dyer’s reports, abridged and arranged alphabetically according to matters, a table of which occupies the first two written leaves. Each case has a reference to the folio on which it is found in the printed reports. Written in a hand of the early part of the seventeenth century. Between the table and the body of the reports is an unconnected leaf, containing some cases of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, headed ‘Perpetuities’, in a contemporary hand; (2) Escheat cases in the reigns of King...
Dates: Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.03
Scope and Contents

Law reports from Michaelmas term 37 Eliz. I to Easter term 38 Eliz. I

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.04
Scope and Contents

Notes of law cases, decided chiefly in the later years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, with a very few in the reigns of King James I and King Charles I. There are tables of contents at the beginning and end.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.05
Scope and Contents

Law reports from the first eight years of the reign of King James I, chiefly of cases decided in the king's bench, with a few in the common bench, exchequer and court of wards. The earlier part of the book is a transcript of Crokes reports, and commences with the memorandum from Croke that the Michaelmas term 1 James I was adjourned in consequence of the plague.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.06
Scope and Contents

Common bench reports from Easter term 1 James I to Michaelmas term 22 James I.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.06.29
Scope and Contents

Reports from 36 to 40 Elizabeth I. At the end is an incompete index of subjects, according to which they are partly arranged.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.02.02
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged in the common pleas and exchequer from 7 to 13 James I. Damaged by damp.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.02.09
Scope and Contents Reports of cases in the king's bench, common bench, and court of wards, between Michaelmas term 13 and 14, and Trinity term, 30 Eliz. I. The volume also contains, at the beginning, one case of the 7th and one in the 10 and 11 Eliz. I. On f. 285 is 'A coppie of an exemplification of an act of parliament, 50 Edw. III, exemplified anno 13 Eliz. and 29o die Novemb. touchinge the charters of the tinners in Devon'. At the end a slip is pasted in, numbered 444, containing the case 'Gresham et...
Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.02
Scope and Contents

Law reports from 34 to 39 Eliz. I. The leaves are numbered throughout, and the first 11 are lost. There is an index, and a few more reports in banco regis, at the end.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.45
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases in the common pleas, with an index. Damaged by damp at the commencement. The handwriting is of a somewhat later date than the cases reported (tempore Jac. I).

Dates: Seventeenth century
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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.57
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench and other courts, from 'Hilary T. 18 Jas. I to Mich. T. 20 Jas. I'. Similar to MS Dd.06.58, and in the same handwriting. The name of Robert Nicholas is given as that of the reporter, on the authority of former catalogues. Many of the cases are not reported in Croke.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.58
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench and other courts, from 'Hilary, 17 Jas. I to Mich. 18 James I'. Similar to MS Dd.06.57, and in the same handwriting.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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).
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.61
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench, 8-13 Chas. I. There are many blank leaves. A note on the flyleaf reads 'Most of these cases are reported in Cro. Car.'

Dates: Seventeenth century
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).
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.48
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged in the Queen's Bench and other courts, 39-42 Eliz. I; also, 'Quædam observationes de mensurationibus terrarum in Anglia', from the time of King James I.

Dates: Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries
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).