Law
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 429 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Cranworth Law Society, 1934-[1983]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS/4/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
Records of Classical Society, Cranworth Society, Debating Society, Doughty / Literary Society, Maitland Historical Society, Medical Society, Scientific and Danby Societies.
Dates:
1934-[1983]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series (such as minutes) are subject to closure periods for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.
File
Dictionary of law terms, Early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.60
Scope and Contents
English and French is given in parallel columns; the English entries run from 'Abate' to 'Yard land'.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Digest book, or index to the law reports, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.01-MS Dd.02.04
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically from 'Abatement' to'Waste'. The volumes are paged throughout, but irregularly, many leaves being interspersed unpaged, some blank, some bearing entries. At the end a table or alphabetical index has been begun, but only one page is completed.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Discourse on the authority of parliament, c 1600
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.55
Scope and Contents
'A discourse of the high court of parliament and of the authority of the same, collected out of the common lawes of the land and other good authors'. See also MS Ee.02.32, no. 3, where the work is attributed to Raphe Starkey.
Dates:
c 1600
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Discourse, treatise and queries, c 1600-1630
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.30
Scope and Contents
(1) 'A discourse upon the comission of Bridewell', by Francis Bacon; (2) 'A treatise concernant le Ley', attributed to R. Zouch; (3) '30 queries of parsons and of parsonages'.
Dates:
c 1600-1630
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Discourses and notes on legal subjects, 1611-1614
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.14
Scope and Contents
'Divers and uncertayne discourses del ley', together with notes of several readings, from 2 March 1611 to 6 August 1614. On the first page is written 'By mee Thomas Wateridge'. About the middle of the book are 12 pages headed 'Joco seria. Of divers subts.'; these consist of anecdotes related by members of the Inn, in the year 1611.
Dates:
1611-1614
Conditions Governing Access:
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Discourses on the marriage of Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, and Lady Catherine Grey, 1562
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.03
Scope and Contents
A collection of discourses relating to the case of ‘the marriage betweene the earle of Hertford and the lady Katheryn Gray’. All are original documents except no. 6. There is a table of contents from which the following titles are taken: (1) ‘A discourse written by Johannes Oldendorpius concerning the former mariage of Henry earle of Pembroke with the said Lady Katherine’; at the end is written (evidently in the autograph of Oldendorp, with his seal affixed): ‘Ita Johannes Oldendorpius,...
Dates:
1562
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Documents and treatises, seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.26
Scope and Contents
A collection of documents, legal, historical, and copies of letters, in fourteen hands.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Documents relating to nobility, privileges and legal cases, c 1612
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.54
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A treatise concerning the nobilitie according to the lawe of England’, written in the time of King James I but with no note of its author; see also MS Ee.04.22; (2) extracts from the charters of the city of London concerning its privileges, from the time of King William I to that of King Edward IV; it terminates abruptly at the end of the 12th page; (3) reports of cases adjudged in the king’s bench, 9 and 10 Jac. I, among which appear also cases decided in chancery, and on error in the...
Dates:
c 1612
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Doggett Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas, in the reign of Charles II, Mid to late seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.30
Scope and Contents
The cases are from Salop and Staffordshire. Three of the mem. are signed by Lockhart, who was second Prothonotary of the Common Pleas from Hil. Term, 20 and 21 Charles II. to and including Hil. Term, 28 and 29 Charles II.; and the 4th by Wyrley, who was third Prothonotary from Easter Term, 20 Charles II. to and including Mich. Term, 39 Charles II. Lockhart's Doggetts after Hil. Term 21 and 22 Charles II. are not in the Record Office. See 2d Rep. Dep. R, Keep., App. 11. p. 79. These Rolls are...
Dates:
Mid to late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Dominium Monasterii de Furneis, 1603 - 1625
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.11
Scope and Contents
'Computa omnium et singulorum Firmariorum et aliorum ministrorum Jacobi Regis computabilium omnium et singulorum maneriorum, terrarum, &c., in dicto Dominio, a Festo S. Michaelis, 2 Jacobi, usque ad idem Festum, 3 Jacobi.'
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Excerpts from the rolls, seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.19
Scope and Contents
Copies from the rolls of the time of King Henry III. On f. 2 is a short list of books in Latin and Spanish printed mostly at Venice, 1534-1644, in the hand of Bishop John Moore. On f. 87v is a list of books lent, also in Bishop Moore's hand.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Expositio in Justiniani Digesta, seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.06.05
Scope and Contents
'Expositio in Pandectas Justiniani': imperfect at the end, the last nine chapters of Book L. being wanting.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Extracts from public rolls, Early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.42
Scope and Contents
Extracts from the public rolls concerning pleas of the forest in the county of Oxford, taken before W. le Breton, 40 Hen. III.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Extracts from the rolls, sixteenth or seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.07
Scope and Contents
Extracts from the rolls in the tower concerning the tenure of lands in the counties of Dorset and Berkshire, extending from the reign of King Edward II to Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
sixteenth or seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Forest laws and ordinances from Canute to Henry VIII, Late sixteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.06.53
Scope and Contents
The only article in English is the charter of King Edward the Confessor beginning 'Iche Edward kinge have given of my forest keepinge ...'. At the end of the volume is a folding leaf containing a table of the sovereigns of England from King Edward the Confessor to Queen Elizabeth I, giving the period of their respective reigns, date of their death, and location of their tomb.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Forms of instruments in ecclesiastical courts, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.31
Scope and Contents
A collection of forms of licences, citations, sequestrations and other instruments in the ecclesiastical courts; issued principally in the name of Robert King. The volume also contains a few notes of pleadings from the reign of King Charles I.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Forms of proceedings in ecclesiastical courts, Late sixteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.36
Scope and Contents
Many are in the name of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Incomplete.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Francis Bacon: Maxims of the law, 1630
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.04.16
Scope and Contents
A legal tract of Sir Francis Bacon, alternatively known as 'Rules and maxims of the common laws of England' (see also MS Hh.06.06). It has the two prefaces dedicated to 'Her sacred majestie'.
Dates:
1630
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Francis Clerke, Praxis, c 1606
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.30
Scope and Contents
'De Curiis Ecclesiasticis, quæ celebrantur auctoritate Reverendissimi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, intra Civitatem Londinensem.' On the back of the fly-leaf at the end is a memorandum of the sale, on 9 Apr., 1606, by Haydon Waterson to Will. Edwards of Little Walsingham, Norf., Apothecary, of a tenement in that parish.
Dates:
c 1606
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Fonds
F.W. Maitland manuscripts, 1884 - 1920
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/MAI
Scope and Contents
Also with a scrapbook compiled by Fredegond Shove
Dates:
1884 - 1920
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.
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Godfrye's Reports: the first part, seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.35
Scope and Contents
With an index of cases. They are cases adjudged in the K. B. and C. B. in the reign of Eliz. and the early part of James I.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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File
Haddingtoune's Practicques, and a summary of Durie's Practicques, 1660
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.05.22
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Haddingtoune's Practicques, from November, 1609, to 1613; and from Januarie, 1622, to the 30 July, 1623.' (2) 'Ane breife Summ or compend of [Sir Alexander Gibson of] Durie's two volumes of practicques, alphabeticallie digested into titles, etc.' (Contains decisions of the Lords of Council and Session from 2 July, 1621, to 16 July, 1642.)
Dates:
1660
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Series
History of Chinese Law (Mediaeval), 1948 - 1976-10
Series
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/48
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Dates:
1948 - 1976-10
File
Index of subjects and Table of cases to a collection of Law Reports, Elizabeth I–Charles I, seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.05.13
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:
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).