Law
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 429 Collections and/or Records:
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Collection of tracts, speeches and other writings, Fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.87
Scope and Contents
(1) Debates in the house of commons, 1680, on the exclusion bill; (2) ‘M. T. Ciceronis synonyma’, ‘Ex Cod. Lat. MS. n.138. Arundel’ (lexicon), copied in a hand perhaps as late as the eighteenth century; (3) account of proceedings at the Council at Whitehall, 6 July 1616, concerning Commendams, with a list of those present; (4) ‘Expositio sequentiarum secundum usum Sarum’, fifteenth century; (5) law tract, ‘Comendum [sic] case, xxiiio Oct. 1616’, or ‘Notes of Baron Bromley’s arguments in the...
Dates:
Fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Collections on the Court of Chancery, c 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.31
Scope and Contents
A collection of rules, orders and forms of proceeding in the court of chancery, beginning 'There is nothing more usuall than the name of equitie and scarce anything more obscure and difficult than the matter itself. Notwithstanding amongst divers and sundry descriptions which the civilians and canonists offer, these may serve for a generall taste of the nature and force therof'. With an index. At the end of the treatise appears 'A probleme whence it comes to passe that the court of chancerie...
Dates:
c 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Collections per Mr Golsborough un des prothonotaries del Comm Banke, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.02
Scope and Contents
Cases and legal dicta, mostly written in a law-clerk's hand but some possibly written by Mr Golsborough. With indexes.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Commentary on the Digest, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.18
Scope and Contents
A running commentary on the various books and titlesof the Digest of Roman laws, illustrated from the early commentators. It commences 'De ratihabitione sic statuendum', and ends with Tit. 9, 'Pro legato'.
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Commonplace book and book of precedents, Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.21
Scope and Contents
The first 80 pages of the volume form a commonplace book written in the seventeenth century. At the end of the book reversed are 11 leaves of writing of which six written in 1556 were intended to form part of a book of precedents; on f. 8 is 'An elegie upon the deathe of the righte worthye Sr Thomas Griffine, knighte', beginning 'I labor not to know why Griffine died...'; on ff. 9 and 10 are 'An indenture of mortgage of a manor', and on f. 11 are forms of conveyance dated 1611.
Dates:
Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Compendium of Greek grammar / legal treatise, Late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.66
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Compendium Græcæ grammaticæ Thomæ Wheeler’; the first five leaves contain ‘Regulæ generales scholæ, and mention the portions of grammar, etc., which the scholars are to learn daily; and are subscribed Thomas Wheeler, 1686 (see also MS Dd.11.68); (2) ‘Sir Edward Cooke’s treatise of baile and mainprise’, arranged into 12 chapters; see also MS Ii.05.09, no. 7.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Computa Ballivorum, Collectorum, &c., Caroli, Principis Walliæ, honorum, maneriorum, terrarum, &c., dicto Principi debita pro dimidio Anni finito ad Festum S. Michaelis, 17 Jacobi I., in Comitatibus Kant., Surr., Sussex., Oxon., Bark., Bedd., et Buck., 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.06
Scope and Contents
At the foot of the last mem. is the autograph Examinatur of 'Hen.Woodford, deput. Thomæ Neale, Mil., Auditor. 29 Martii, 1620.'
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Computa Ballivorum, Firmariorum, &c., honorum, castrorum, &c., quorumcunque tam temporalium quam spiritualium, in comitatu Cumbr. in possessione Regis Jacobi; viz. a Festo S. Michaelis, 44 Elizabethæ, usque idem Festum, 1 Jacobi I.; per unum annum integrum, 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.09
Scope and Contents
The last mem. has the autograph signature of 'Geo. Snygg, Baron' [of the Exchequer].
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Computa Ballivorum, Firmariorum, &c., honorum, castrorum, &c., quorumcunque temporalium; necnon rectoriarum, terrarum glebalium, emolument. ecclesiast. quorumcunque, in Comitatu Stafford., in possessione Reginæ Elizabethæ; viz. a Festo S. Michaelis, 40 Eliz. usque idem Festum, 41 Eliz., 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.02
Scope and Contents
At the end of the last mem. is the autograph signature of Tho. Flemyng.
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Computa ministrorum Henrici Principis, infra Dom. Ducat. Cornub., in Comitatibus Essex., Hartf., Midd., Suff., et Cant.; viz. pro uno Anno integro finito ad Festum S. Michaelis, 8 Jacobi I, 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.03
Scope and Contents
At the foot of the last mem. is this note, with an autograph signature: 'I have made this Record by vertue of the warrant of Sr Edward Phelipps, Knt., Chauncellor to the Prince his highnes, dated the 24th of June, 1611. Per Hugonem Sexey, Auditorem. 23 July, 1611.'
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Computa Ministrorum possessionum Coronæ in Comitatu Lanc., a Festo S. Michaelis, 11 Jacobi I. usque ad idem Festum, 12 Jacobi I, 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.15
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:
1603 - 1625
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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Computa omnium et singulorum Ballivorum, Firmariorum, Collectorum, &c., omnium et singulorum honorum, castrorum, &c., quorumcunque temporalium; necnon omnium rectoriarum, terrarum glebalium, et emolumentorum ecclesiasticorum quorumcunque, in Comitatu Radnor., nuper in possessione Elizabethæ Reginæ, ac modo Regis Jacobi; viz. a Festo Michaelis, 12 Jacobi, usque idem Festum, 13 Jacobi, 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.16
Scope and Contents
At the foot of the last mem. is the autograph Examinatur of Edw. Bromley, Baron [of the Exchequer].
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
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Computus Johannis Shalcrosse, Ar., Receptoris et Ballivi Alti Pecci [in Comitatu Derbiensi], a Festo S. Michaelis, 16 Caroli I. usque idem Festum, 17 Caroli I, 1625 - 1649
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.22
Scope and Contents
At the foot is the autograph Examinatur of Tho. Hanson, Auditor.
Dates:
1625 - 1649
Conditions Governing Access:
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Computus Marmaduci Darell, Militis, Cofferarii et Custodis Magni Garderobæ Hospicii Dni Regis [Jacobi I.], computantis de exitibus Officii sui; viz. ab ultimo die Decembris, 19 Jacobi I. usque primum die Aprilis, 20 Jacobi I., scilicet per spatium dimidii unius anni integri, 1603 - 1625
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.19
Scope and Contents
John Sotherton, Baron [of the Exchequer], Thomas Hutton and Justinian Povey, clerks, Auditors. The sum total is £44756. 2s. 4d. ob.
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Constantine Harmenopoulos, Epitomes Juris Civilis, liber primus Latine redditus, sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.45
Scope and Contents
Harmenopoulos died at Constantinople A.D. 1383
Dates:
sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies from year-books, Mid sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.88
Scope and Contents
A copy of the year-books from 40th to 50th Edw. III.
Dates:
Mid sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of documents relating to ecclesiastical courts, Mid sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.01
Scope and Contents
A collection of libels, sentences, depositions of witnesses, inhibitions, etc., in the Court of Arches and other ecclesiastical courts in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
Mid sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of documents relating to forests and manors in the Middle Ages, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.25
Scope and Contents
(1) Courts held for the forest of Barnwood in Buckinghamshire, in the reigns of King Richard II, King Henry IV, King Henry V, King Henry VI and King Edward IV, and a few notes relating to the reign of Philip and Queen Mary I; (2) 'Extenta manerii de Borestall facta 15 Hen. VI' and 26 Hen. VI; (3) a perambulation of the king's forests in Buckinghamshire, 26 Edw. I.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of legal, diplomatic and political documents from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.20
Scope and Contents
(1) 'Placita concilii in Farnamensi castello, 17 Augusti A. D. 1569. presentibus Duce Norfolchiæ, Comite Bedfordiæ, Comite Lecestriæ, Regii Cubiculi Præfecto, Domino Secretario'; (2) 'Responsio magno aceruo articulorum quos Burgosius quidam Hispani oratoris familiaris eius Leganti nomine, secretioria consillis Dominis obtulit. 1569; (3) (a) 'Articuli a D. Francisco Geraldi equite secritoris consilii dominis regis Lusitani nomini propositi anno dni 1571. Mensis Januarij'; (b) 'Responsio...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of medieval royal, parliamentary and legal records, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.10
Scope and Contents
(1) Brief notes of petitions to parliament, 8 Edw. II; (2) brief titles of the acts passed 8 Edw. III; (3) brief records of parliament, 4-8, 13-15, 17, 20, 25 and 50-51 Edw. III and 10 and 21 Ric. II; (4) ‘De reformatione pacis inter regem H. 3um et Lewlinum filium Griffini principem Walliæ’; (5) brief records of parliament, 21 Ric. II; (6) ‘Privilegia pro villa Colteshall’, beginning ‘H dei gra. rex Angliæ’ and dated ‘ap. Wudstock XVI die Junii’; (7) a proclamation of King Stephen; (8)...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of orders made in the court of Star Chamber, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.81
Scope and Contents
The orders are from the time of Queen Elizabeth I; begins 'Thomas Egerton dominus custos magni sigilli Angliæ intr. sexto die Maii anno tricesimo octavo reginæ Eliz.'
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of royal letters and legal documents, mid or late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.05.27
Scope and Contents
(1) A high commission for causes ecclesiastical issued in 1634; the copy of the docket appended to it, signed by William Noye (the attorney general) shows that it gave ‘Divers powers for punishing such crimes as were not comprehended in anie other commission; such as blasphemy, notorious drunkenness, refractorie scismatiques, derogation from the function of the ministry, misbehavior between married persons’; (2) rules, orders and writs made and issued by and out of the court of wards and...
Dates:
mid or late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Copies of Star Chamber decrees and censures, seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.01
Scope and Contents
(1) 'The censure or decree that passed in the star-chamber upon John Bastwick doctor in physick, Henry Burton clerk, and William Prinn gent. the 14th daie of June, 1637'; (2) (a) 'An absolute coppie of a decree in starr-chamber coram consilio ibid. against the R. R. father in God John lord bishop of Lincoln, XI. Julii, 13 Caroli regis annoque dni 1637', (b) 'An exact coppie of the censures passed by the lords and others of his mat's most honorable privie councell uppon the lord bishop of...
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Counterpart of an Indenture of Release by Charles Ashton, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, sole surviving trustee of the Manor of Barton Burwych alias Wards, and of certain lands, tenements, etc., in the parish of Barton, in the County of Cambridge, to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, in whose behalf the trust had been created, 1744
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.06.94
Scope and Contents
Dated 20 November, 1744, signed and sealed by the said Charles Ashton. Ashton's deceased co-trustees were, Sir William Dawes, Bart., D.D., Master of Catharine; James Johnson, D.D., Master of Sidney; Charles Roderick, D.D., Provost of King's; and Richard Bentley, D.D., Master of Trinity. It appears from the recital in the Indenture that this property was purchased by the University of Devereux Martin, Esq., and Dorothy, his Wife, in the year 1681. For a history of the Manor of Barton see...
Dates:
1744
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Fonds
Courtney Stanhope Kenny papers, 1708 - 1930
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
Including papers of Masters, Professors and Fellows of Downing College, and gifts from past members. Includes academic administrative records but not estates correspondence.
Dates:
1708 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.