Skip to main content

Law

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 463 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Copies of royal letters and legal documents, mid or late seventeenth century

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.05.27
Scope and Contents (1) A high commission for causes ecclesiastical issued in 1634; the copy of the docket appended to it, signed by William Noye (the attorney general) shows that it gave ‘Divers powers for punishing such crimes as were not comprehended in anie other commission; such as blasphemy, notorious drunkenness, refractorie scismatiques, derogation from the function of the ministry, misbehavior between married persons’; (2) rules, orders and writs made and issued by and out of the court of wards and...
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).
 File

Copies of Star Chamber decrees and censures, seventeenth century

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.01
Scope and Contents (1) 'The censure or decree that passed in the star-chamber upon John Bastwick doctor in physick, Henry Burton clerk, and William Prinn gent. the 14th daie of June, 1637'; (2) (a) 'An absolute coppie of a decree in starr-chamber coram consilio ibid. against the R. R. father in God John lord bishop of Lincoln, XI. Julii, 13 Caroli regis annoque dni 1637', (b) 'An exact coppie of the censures passed by the lords and others of his mat's most honorable privie councell uppon the lord bishop of...
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).
 File

Counterpart of an Indenture of Release by Charles Ashton, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, sole surviving trustee of the Manor of Barton Burwych alias Wards, and of certain lands, tenements, etc., in the parish of Barton, in the County of Cambridge, to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, in whose behalf the trust had been created, 1744

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.06.94
Scope and Contents Dated 20 November, 1744, signed and sealed by the said Charles Ashton. Ashton's deceased co-trustees were, Sir William Dawes, Bart., D.D., Master of Catharine; James Johnson, D.D., Master of Sidney; Charles Roderick, D.D., Provost of King's; and Richard Bentley, D.D., Master of Trinity. It appears from the recital in the Indenture that this property was purchased by the University of Devereux Martin, Esq., and Dorothy, his Wife, in the year 1681. For a history of the Manor of Barton see...
Dates: 1744
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).
 Fonds

Courtney Stanhope Kenny papers, 1708 - 1930

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

Including papers of Masters, Professors and Fellows of Downing College, and gifts from past members. Includes academic administrative records but not estates correspondence.

Dates: 1708 - 1930
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.
 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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

Forms of instruments in ecclesiastical courts, Seventeenth century

 File
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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 File

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: 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).
 Fonds

Frederic William Maitland: Lectures on Real Property

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6173
Scope and Contents Written in a fair hand from the notes of a student attending the lectures. The lectures probably related to Maitland's course on 'Advanced Real Property', held at Cambridge University between 1887 and 1892. There are references to chapters, indicating that the writing may have been intended for publication. Correspondence found in MS.Add.4403/247-250 suggests that the note-taker was probably Charles Samuel Jackson. The papers include typescript notes on suit of court, hundred courts,...
Dates: 1887-1892 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).