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Inquisitiones post mortem and other court and legal documents relating to Cambridgeshire and the locality, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.29
Scope and Contents Inquisitiones post mortem taken at different places in Cambridgeshire in the years 1633-1635 and 1637-1640. At the other end of the book are: (1) extracts from the court rolls of Leverington and Wisbech concerning the land and tenements confiscated to the lord on the conviction of John Sutton of murder, 5 Edw. VI.; (2) notes of the said courts in 1633 and 1634; (3) deed of Thomas bishop of Ely granting the lands lately belonging to the said John Sutton in Wisbech, Leverington and Emneth to...
Dates: Seventeenth century
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Inquisitions taken at Cambridge and Huntingdon, Mid seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.32
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'A booke of inquisicons taken at Cambridge and Hunt.', concerning the estates of various people, in the years 1636-39 and 1644. At the end are inserted various forms for legal documents and 'fforma elegendi episc. Eliens'.

Dates: Mid 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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Inventories of the 'Auncient Courte Rolls ingrossed in Partchment of His Highnes' Mannors of Chertsey, Beamound, Thorpe, and Egham in the Countie of Surrey', 1603 - 1625

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.07
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Mem. 2 is a duplicate of mem. 1. Attached to mem. 3 is a memorandum signed and sealed by Sir Tho. Neale, Auditor, that he had received from the Steward the Rolls mentioned in the Inventories, dated Nov. 17, 1606. The last mem. contains an Inventory of such Rolls as were remaining in the hands of John Hammond, M.D., and were delivered to the Commissioners of Revenue by Mary the Widow of the said Dr Hammond, June 8, 1618. At the foot is the autograph signature of Mary Hammond.

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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Justice Crook's argument in the case of John Hampden, Mid seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.04
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'A true coppie of Mr Justice Crook's argument XIIIo Aprilis anno dom. 1638 upon the case of the scire facias out of the exchequer against John Hampden esquire'.

Dates: Mid 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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Law cases, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.16
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From the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Law cases, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.12
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A notebook of various law cases between 24 Hen. VI and 39 Eliz. I. The points noticed are principally those bearing on pleading; the work itself is abruptly terminated. In one place is written 'Hors des repts de Sr Jo. Walter, kt'.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Law cases and readings, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.87
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Law cases and readings from Finch, Stone, Weare, Trotman, Jorden, Prideaux and others from 1612 to 1615, and of Mownson, Egerton, Coke and Lea from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The five commencing folios appear to be a continuation of another volume. Between the two classes of readings is inserted an alphabetical index to the first set of readings, after which appears a Latin couplet headed 'My saviour'.

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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Law commonplace book, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.86
Scope and Contents

Alphabetically arranged, commencing with 'Abatement' and ending with 'Dutchie'.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.62
Scope and Contents

Arranged alphabetically from 'Abeyance' to 'Waiver des choses', and consisting of two parts, the second, from f. 220 to f. 374, being an appendix of omitted matter. There is a table of contents at the beginning.

Dates: Sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.09
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Contains extracts from statutes, etc.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth century

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

Contains entries from 'Abator' to 'Estoppele'. See also MS Dd.05.23.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.69
Scope and Contents

Begins 'Patents grants le roy' and ends with 'Servants, apprentices'. Incomplete. The last ten pages are in darker ink, and appear to belong to another commonplace book, containing matter relating to 'Bridges, brewers, boaten, watermen and barges', in a more modern hand than the preceding matter.

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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Law commonplace book, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.03
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Contains an abridgement of the law, digested alphabetically from 'Abjuration' to 'Women'; also Sir J. Davis's charge to the grand jury at York in 1620, and some other charges.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.19
Scope and Contents

The entries run from 'Abridgement de plaint' to 'Wast'.

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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Law commonplace book, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.03
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Contains entries of adjournments of cases, capias issued, etc. The first 23 leaves are missing, as appears from an old paging.

Dates: Sixteenth century
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Law commonplace book, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.49
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'Exposition de faits stats sentences et parrolx'.

Dates: Early seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, 1611-1612

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.07
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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
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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
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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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
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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
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).