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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.21
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Reports of cases between Michaelmas Term, 6 James I and Easter Term. 8 James 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, Mid or late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.22
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Reports of cases decided in the Court of Exchequer, from Trinity Term, 3 Charles I, to Hilary Term, 4 Charles I. The cases in 4 Charles I appear to have been copied verbatim from Littleton's printed reports.

Dates: Mid or late 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, Mid or late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.23
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Reports of cases from Michaelmas Term, 4 Charles I, to Hilary Term, 17 Charles I, with an index of matters, and also of cases.

Dates: Mid or late 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, Late sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.24
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Reports of cases decided in the King's Bench and Common Bench in 36, 37 and 38 Elizabeth I, with the case of Dillon and Freine in the Exchequer Chamber.

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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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.25
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases decided in all the courts between 36 Eliz. I and 17 James I, with an index of cases in a later handwriting.

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, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.26
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Reports of cases decided chiefly in the King's Bench, between 26 Eliz. I and 15 James I. To these are prefixed (ff. 1-3) resolutions of the judges concerning the stannaries in Devon and Cornwall, 3 Charles 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, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.32
Scope and Contents Reports of cases decided in the King’s Bench from Hilary Term, 13 James I, to Hilary Term, 7 Charles I, with an index of cases. Folios 206-243 contain arguments ‘touching the liberty of the subjects’: (1) ‘Sr Dudley Digges’ introduction to the argument of the libertye of the subject at a conference before the lords in parliament, 4 Caroli, Aprill 1, 1628’; (2) ‘The argument of Mr Creswell, 1628’; (3) ‘Selden’s argument, 1 Apr. 4 Car., in parliament, in the painted chamber’; (4) ‘Mr...
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 Ii.05.36
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Reports of cases decided in the King's Bench from Michaelmas Term, 20 James I, to Hilary Term, 22 James 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, Late sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.38
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Reports of cases in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, chiefly from the 24th to the 30th year, with an index of the cases.

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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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.02.02
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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: 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 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 Ff.02.14
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Reports of cases determined between Easter Term of the 39th and Trinity Term of the 40th year of the reign of Queen Elzabeth I.

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, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.11
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Reports of law cases in the time of King Charles I, in a contemporary hand. The first 24 leaves are missing.

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.06.57
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Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench and other courts, from 'Hilary T. 18 Jas. I to Mich. T. 20 Jas. I'. Similar to MS Dd.06.58, and in the same handwriting. The name of Robert Nicholas is given as that of the reporter, on the authority of former catalogues. Many of the cases are not reported in Croke.

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, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.58
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Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench and other courts, from 'Hilary, 17 Jas. I to Mich. 18 James I'. Similar to MS Dd.06.57, and in the same handwriting.

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, Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.48
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Queen's Bench and other courts, 39-42 Eliz. I; also, 'Quædam observationes de mensurationibus terrarum in Anglia', from the time of King James I.

Dates: Late sixteenth and/or early 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).
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Legal reports and extracts from statutes, 1544, 1564

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.59
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(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, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.03.02
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(1) Cases decided in the court of wards and liveries between the 13th and 20th years of the reign of King James I; (2) presentations made and granted by the master of the court of wards and liveries.

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 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
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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, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.34
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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: 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 Thomas Hetley, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.35
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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: 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 treatise, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.17
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'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, Late sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.06.06
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(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: 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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Letters patent, and writings on various offices, Sixteenth and/or 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: Sixteenth and/or 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).