Law
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 428 Collections and/or Records:
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Legal reports, seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.03
Scope and Contents
Cases adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas in the 13th-17th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 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, c 1596
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.25
Scope and Contents
From Easter term, 37 Eliz. I to Hilary term, 39 Eliz. I. Reversing the book, at the other end is 'Aileworth's case', extending over 22 leaves, and that 'Betweene Harvey pl. and Farye def.', extending over 18 leaves.
Dates:
c 1596
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
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.09
Scope and Contents
Reports of cases in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, chiefly the latter; they are for the most part between 26 and 29 Eliz. I, and 1 and 6 James I. At the end of the book is an index of cases, in a later hand.
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
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.14
Scope and Contents
(1) Dyer’s reports, abridged and arranged alphabetically according to matters, a table of which occupies the first two written leaves. Each case has a reference to the folio on which it is found in the printed reports. Written in a hand of the early part of the seventeenth century. Between the table and the body of the reports is an unconnected leaf, containing some cases of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, headed ‘Perpetuities’, in a contemporary hand; (2) Escheat cases in the reigns of King...
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, c 1596
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.03
Scope and Contents
Law reports from Michaelmas term 37 Eliz. I to Easter term 38 Eliz. I
Dates:
c 1596
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
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.04
Scope and Contents
Notes of law cases, decided chiefly in the later years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, with a very few in the reigns of King James I and King Charles I. There are tables of contents at the beginning and end.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Legal reports, seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.05
Scope and Contents
Law reports from the first eight years of the reign of King James I, chiefly of cases decided in the king's bench, with a few in the common bench, exchequer and court of wards. The earlier part of the book is a transcript of Crokes reports, and commences with the memorandum from Croke that the Michaelmas term 1 James I was adjourned in consequence of the plague.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.06
Scope and Contents
Common bench reports from Easter term 1 James I to Michaelmas term 22 James I.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Legal reports, early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.06.29
Scope and Contents
Reports from 36 to 40 Elizabeth I. At the end is an incompete index of subjects, according to which they are partly arranged.
Dates:
early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Legal reports, seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.02.02
Scope and Contents
Reports of cases adjudged in the common pleas and exchequer from 7 to 13 James I. Damaged by damp.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.02.09
Scope and Contents
Reports of cases in the king's bench, common bench, and court of wards, between Michaelmas term 13 and 14, and Trinity term, 30 Eliz. I. The volume also contains, at the beginning, one case of the 7th and one in the 10 and 11 Eliz. I. On f. 285 is 'A coppie of an exemplification of an act of parliament, 50 Edw. III, exemplified anno 13 Eliz. and 29o die Novemb. touchinge the charters of the tinners in Devon'. At the end a slip is pasted in, numbered 444, containing the case 'Gresham et...
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, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.42
Scope and Contents
(1) 'Reports of Hilary Term, 15 Jas. I.' (2) 'Reports in B. R. in Mich. and Hill. 20 Jas. I.' The volume contains many cases not reported in Croke.
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
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.46
Scope and Contents
The reports are of the following terms: Mich. 4. Car. I; Hil. 4. Car. I; Pas. 5. Car. I; Trin. 5. Car. I; Mich. 5. Car. I; Hil. 5. Car. I; Trin. 6. Car. I; Mich. 6. Car. I; Hil. 6. Car. I; Pasc. 7. Car. I; Trin. 7. Car 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 and extracts from statutes, 1544, 1564
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.59
Scope and Contents
(1) Reports, 7 and 8 Hen. VI; (2) extracts from the statutes of Hen. VIII.
Dates:
1544; 1564
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 and presentations, c 1635
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.02
Scope and Contents
(1) Cases decided in the court of wards and liveries between 6 Jac. I and 7 Car. I; (2) presentations made and granted by the master of the court of wards and liveries.
Dates:
c 1635
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 and religious notes, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.23
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘The passages in parliament against Francis Viscount St Albans, Lord Chancellor of England’; the account agrees almost verbatim with that given in Bacon’s Works (1730), volume II, pp. 548-558; (2) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, Feb. 15, 1633. Prinne and Sparkes’; this report differs from that given in 3 St. Tr. 561-585; (3) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, sexto die mensis Februarii, anno octavo Caroli regis termino Sancti Hillarii, anno domini, 1632. The King’s attorney / Henry Sherfield, Esqre and other...
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 of Sir Henry Hobart, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.33
Scope and Contents
Sir Henry Hobart's reports of cases decided in the reign of King James I, with a few in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The cases in this volume end with that of Lord Sheffeild v. Ratcliffe.
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 of Sir Humphrey Winch, c 1657
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.34
Scope and Contents
Sir Humphrey Winch's reports of cases decided in the Common Bench from Easter Term, 19 James I, to Hilary Term, 22 James I.
Dates:
c 1657
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 of Sir Thomas Hetley, c 1657
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.35
Scope and Contents
Sir Thomas Hetley's reports of cases decided in the Common Bench from Easter Term, 3 Charles I, to Trinity Term, 7 Charles I. The first leaf, in a different handwriting, contains three cases in Hilary Term, 2 Charles I, and at the end is an index of cases.
Dates:
c 1657
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 treatise, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.17
Scope and Contents
'An historicall and legall discourse upon a case taken out of the 26 Ass. Fol. 20 by Recorder Fleetewoode'.
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 treatises by Sir Francis Bacon, c 1600
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.06.06
Scope and Contents
(1) Rules and maxims of the common laws of England; (2) A preparation toward the union of the laws of England and Scotland (incomplete: breaks off in the chapter on ‘The punishment, triall, and proceedings, in cases of felonye’). This is followed by eight leaves, partly blank, containing unconnected notes.
Dates:
c 1600
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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Letters patent, and writings on various offices, seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.35
Scope and Contents
Letters patent granting lands in Norfolk and a few in Suffolk from King Henry VIII to various persons; amongst them will be found the grants of the rectory of Fundenhall, and the priory of Horsham St Faithe. With notes of various grants of lands, etc., in the same counties from the time of King Edward I to that of King Edward IV. At the other end of the book are 12 leaves of writing, containing: (1) ‘A discource of the office of lord steward of England wrighten by Sir Rob. Cotton knight and...
Dates:
seventeenth centuries
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).
Series
Licences for University preachers, teachers and related others, 1514 - 1694
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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/LIC.A
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - External relations records - comprises records relating to relations with the Crown, central government, the Colleges and the city of Cambridge; also University-initiated outreach, such as adult education, teacher-training, school examining, and alumni relations.
Dates:
1514 - 1694
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 2, "The Making of the Nation" [eventually included in volume 1, "The Birth of Britain"]: various pre-war proofs [with a few later notes]., [1938] - Oct 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/403A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes typed and manuscript drafts and galley proofs (marked first revise and printer's copy) for chapters entitled "The Normans" or "The Norman Invasion", "The Rise and Fall of Norman Feudalism" or "The Progress of Norman Feudalism", "Henry Plantagenet and the Medieval Church", "Coeur de Lion" or "Richard I", "Magna Carta", "The Plantagenets", "King John", "Law: Edward I", "Bannockburn and the Second Edward", "The Long Bow", "King Henry II", and "The Mother of Parliaments".With suggested...
Dates:
[1938] - Oct 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 2, "The Making of the Nation" [of volume 1, "The Birth of Britain"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/420A-E
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some described as "R E's" [returned empties], "P A's", or first, second or third revise) and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "The Norman Invasion", "William the Conqueror", "The Progress of Norman Feudalism" or "Growth amid Turmoil", "Coeur de Lion", "The English Common Law", "Magna Carta", "The Mother of Parliaments", "King Edward I", "Bannockburn (and the Second Edward)", "The Long Bow", "The Social Catastrophe" or "The Black Death",...
Dates:
1954 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open