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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 463 Collections and/or Records:

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Legal readings, Late sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.46
Scope and Contents

Some of the readings are referred to the commencement of the reign of King Henry VIII.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
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Legal readings, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.07
Scope and Contents

Law readings, in various hands, on statutes from the reigns of King Henry VII, King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. The readers are John Brampston (Bramston), at whose readings Mallet and Tanfield argued; Mr Davers (or Danvers); Robert Tanfield; Thomas Mallet; and Mr Bartlett.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Legal readings, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.50
Scope and Contents

Notes of readings delivered during the years 1602-1610, by Ley, Crue, Hubbert, Bawtry, Hitchcocke, Trefuze, Prowd, Denham, Delabere, Moore, Methwold, Diggs, Tucker and Waltham. Also 12 leaves of notes from law cases in the reigns of King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I.

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 readings, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.51
Scope and Contents Notes of readings by Tanfield, Warde and Mallet (1626), Bartlett, Franckline, Clarke and Jermyn (1629) and Lane, Cowpers, Townsende, Pepis, Bears and Palmer (1639). At p. 150, 'My relacon to the Benche of Mr Mallets readings' and at p. 154, 'My relacon to the Benche of Mr Bartletts readings'. Also an address to the Reader (Turner?) at the close of his lectures. The manuscript is comprised of two books, in the same handwriting, one paged 109-196 and the other 198-228; in binding, the latter...
Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Legal readings and Magna Carta, Late sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.06.18
Scope and Contents

(1) Readings on Magna Carta; (2) Magna Carta Edwardi I anno regni XXVIIIo; (3) legal readings, some from the reign of King Edward VI.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
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Legal readings and reports, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.02.01
Scope and Contents (1) Law readings on statutes from the reigns of King Edward II, King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. The readers are Sir Thomas Froweke (or Frowycke), one reading; John Denishill (or Densell), nine readings; 'Mr Anslowe' [Richard Onslow?], six readings; Ambrose Gilbert, seven readings; Mr Blanchard (or Blencher), 11 readings; Robert Bell, eight readings, with the names and arguments of some of the moot-men (Fleetwood, Farmer and Nicholls) also given; James Dyer, five readings; between the...
Dates: Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Legal readings of Sir Francis Moore, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.02
Scope and Contents Readings in the Middle Temple, 5 James I, upon the statute 43 Eliz. I c. 7, an act to redress the misemployment of lands, etc., given to charitable uses, in eight divisions. Prefixed to them is ‘My speache at the beginninge’. These readings appear to be throughout in the handwriting of the author. At the beginning of the volume are two leaves of notes by Moore, in which he says he ‘began his readings on Mondaye, 3o August 1607, anno 5o Jac., and ended them the 14 August, in respect the...
Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.12
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench and Common Bench, between 31 and 38 Eliz. I, with a very few in the reign of King James I.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.13
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench, Common Bench and Exchequer between 36 and 40 Eliz. I, with an index.

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.05.14
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases adjudged chiefly in the King's Bench, from Easter Term, 7 James I to Trinity Term, 10 James I. On f. 143 is written a list of 'the judges of the 4 courts of Westminster in the 10 James I', the fourth court being that of Wards and Liveries.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.16
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases from Michaelmas Term, 32 Eliz. I, to Hilary Term, 36 Eliz. I.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.20
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases in the reigns of King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I and King 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, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.21
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases between Michaelmas Term, 6 James I and Easter Term. 8 James I.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Mid or late seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.22
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases decided in the Court of Exchequer, from Trinity Term, 3 Charles I, to Hilary Term, 4 Charles I. The cases in 4 Charles I appear to have been copied verbatim from Littleton's printed reports.

Dates: Mid or late seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Mid or late seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.23
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases from Michaelmas Term, 4 Charles I, to Hilary Term, 17 Charles I, with an index of matters, and also of cases.

Dates: Mid or late seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.24
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases decided in the King's Bench and Common Bench in 36, 37 and 38 Elizabeth I, with the case of Dillon and Freine in the Exchequer Chamber.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.25
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases decided in all the courts between 36 Eliz. I and 17 James I, with an index of cases in a later handwriting.

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 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
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 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?
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