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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
Scope and Contents

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, 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: 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.05.05
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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: 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.05.06
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: 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
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.58
Scope and Contents

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, 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
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Legal reports, c 1607

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.45
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Reports of cases in the common pleas, with an index. Damaged by damp at the commencement. The handwriting is of a somewhat later date than the cases reported (tempore Jac. I).

Dates: c 1607
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Legal reports, seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.20
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Reports of cases adjudged in the king's bench, in the 32nd and 33rd 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, 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
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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, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.24
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(1) Moot cases, in number 313, stated; (2) Sir Edward Coke: a report of the judgement and part of the arguments of 'Shellies' case, addressed to the right honourable Sir Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, 1581; (3) reports of cases, chiefly in the reigns of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.

Dates: Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.28
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Reports of cases adjudged in the court of wards in the reign of King James 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 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
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Legal reports and presentations, c 1635

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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 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
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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
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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
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Legal reports of Sir Humphrey Winch, c 1657

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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: 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
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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: c 1657
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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
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Legal treatises by Sir Francis Bacon, c 1600

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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: c 1600
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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
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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
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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