Law
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
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Law commonplace book, 1611-1612
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.07
Scope and Contents
The manuscript appears to be the commonplace book of a law student; on only one page is there more than 3 or 4 lines of writing. According to some marginal notes at the corner of each page, the work was written between February 1611 and June 1612. The names of Harris, Endamore, Clarke, Peters and Starkey are affixed to the dates in some of the pages, and in one place appears 'Harris au libraire', 31 March 1612.
Dates:
1611-1612
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.15
Scope and Contents
The contents cover various points of common law. With an index.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.27
Scope and Contents
Nearly the whole of the pages are blank.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.05
Scope and Contents
With an alphabetical table of contents; many of the leaves are blank. On the first leaf is a record of a money transaction between Edward Bullocke of Muche Wyborowe, Essex, and William Atwood, dated 1 May anno regni Elizabeth xxix. To f. 70 is affixed a letter of one Jos. Wood, dated 26 June 1599, begging a friend to discharge some debts. At the beginning is written a Latin distich.
Dates:
Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.02
Scope and Contents
On the first 40 folios the articles are numbered, and followed by an index. Folios 90-153 are occupied with cases in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Throughout the book many of the titles have no entries under them. At the end is an index to the folios after 40.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.15
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically. A great many of the titles have no entries under them.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.04.04-MS Hh.04.05
Scope and Contents
The first volume commences with 'Damages' and ends with 'Mortmayn'. The second commences with 'Nativo habendo' and ends with 'Waste'. The pages are ruled in red ink and each volume has its own index. In the printed catalogue of the manuscripts of John Moore it is said that the manuscript 'is believed to be made by the Lord Chief Justice Cooke, and to be written with his own hand'.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.41
Scope and Contents
Contains an index.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.23
Scope and Contents
Alphabetically arranged from 'Abatement del bre.' to 'Gard, and gardein en chilry.' See also MS Dd.05.22.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.09
Scope and Contents
Contains extracts from statutes, under headings ranging from 'Accompt' to 'Villinage'. With an index. Five leaves are missing at the commencement.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Law commonplace book, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.27
Scope and Contents
Mostly blank.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Law commonplace book and book of precedents, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.29
Scope and Contents
Written by various hands some from the commencement of and some from the end of the seventeenth century; one document, 'a retayner for a nobleman's chaplain', contains a date, 31 July 1660.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Law commonplace books, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.53
Scope and Contents
Two commonplace books on legal subjects; one consists of short notes, the other is more formal.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Law commonplace books, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.28-MS GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.29
Scope and Contents
Based on the reports, etc., of Sir Edward Coke.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Law index, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06. 68
Scope and Contents
Contains entries from 'Abbe' to 'Remander'.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Law notebook, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.48
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:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Law notebook, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.07
Scope and Contents
The law notebook of a student. With an index. In poor condition. Found in the volume is a letter from Henry Hobarte of Lincoln's Inn to a nephew, dated 'Serjeants Inn in Fleet Streete', 10 October 1614.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Law notes and legal readings, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.09
Scope and Contents
Those readers whose names are given are Anthony Wood, 3 Edw. VI; Robert Brooke, 5 Edw. VI; Thomas Barker, 27 February 1614; Nicholas Hyde (afterwards chief justice of he king's bench), 10 March 1616; and Richard Hodzer, 15 James I; all of the Middle Temple. The manuscript is written in various hands of the early part of the seventeenth century.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Law, or a Discourse thereof, by Sir Henry Finch, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.03.06-MS Ll.03.07
Scope and Contents
Law, or a Discourse thereof, in 4 Books, by Sir Henry Finch, Kt., of Grays Inn, Sergeant-at-Law. This MS. is anonymous, and without title, which is here supplied from the first printed English edition, A.D. 1627. The original Treatise was written in French, with the title ‘NOMOTEXNIA; cestascavoir, un description del Common Leys d'Angleterre,' etc. (printed in 1613), and was translated into English by the Author himself. The 4th Book of this MS. varies from that of the printed copy referred...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Law precedents, Late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.72
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous law precedents, probably collected by the book's owner, William Prigg. The most modern date is 1680.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
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Law precedents, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.06
Scope and Contents
In addition to the precedents, the volume contains a petition to the king from Bulstrode Whitelocke seeking redress for expenses occasioned in burying a student of the Middle Temple. The handwriting of the volume is ascribed to Whitelocke, but the character of it does not resemble his signature in MS Dd.05.07.
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
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Law precedents, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.01
Scope and Contents
A collection of law precedents in conveyancing; at f. 132 appears 'The argument of Sir Christopher Wray lord chiefe justice of the king's bench upon chaunteries'. With an index.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Law precedents, Late sixteeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.10
Scope and Contents
A collection of law precedents, written in various hands. Near the end was commenced an index, but it contains references under the word 'Conditions' only.
Dates:
Late sixteeenth century
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Law precedents, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.39
Scope and Contents
The manuscript has a table of contents at the beginning.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Law precedents, Late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.34
Scope and Contents
Precedents of warrants, releases, indentures, etc. in the time of King Charles II. On the flyleaf is written 'Presidents, anno 1678'.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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