Janus: University Registry guard books

University/CUR contains:
1.2-1.2.1	Chests
1.3	Cautions for Loans; University Lands; Laws of Sewers, etc.
2, 4-13, 15, 19	Miscellanea M.S.
3	Commons; Drains; Sewers; Conduit, etc.
14	Stokys's Alm Houses
16	Degradations and Suspensions
17	Court Leets
18-18.2	Great St Mary's Church
20	Registrary
21	M.S. Inventories
22	Oxford; Dublin
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University Registry guard books

Title	Miscellanea M.S.
Reference	CUR 2, 4-13, 15, 19
Covering Dates	1506–1952
Extent and Medium	14 volumes

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A hard copy index is in UA In.10.

University/CUR 2, 4-13, 15, 19 contains:

Miscellanea Historica M.S. Include: papers in French and Dutch on the situation in the Low Countries, 1583; court papers, including interrogatories connected to Signor Hector Speigniomaldi accused of enticing University members 'to go beyond the sea', 1594; names of searchers appointed by the University and town, 1682-98; names of those at Edward Spilman's conventicle, 1669;.
1 volume.

1583–1721

Miscellanea M.S. Include: reports from parishes and Colleges as to whether they host any foreigners, seminary priests, Jesuits, or adherents of the King of Spain, 1591; legal records respecting ingrossers of corn, rents, defamation and fornication, religious observance, contumacy; extracts from title deeds, made c.1616, respecting property in St Giles, St Peter and St May parishes, 1340-1616.
1 volume.

1566–1705

Miscellanea M.S. Include: legal records respecting appeals, debt, tithe, theft, defamation, probate administration; verse, late 17th century.
1 volume.

1589–1678

6.1

Miscellanea M.S. Comprise papers relating to ecclesiastical causes and censures, including Archbishop Laud's authority to carry out visitation, 1636.
1 volume.

1570–1676

6.2

Miscellanea M.S. Comprise legal records respecting debt, defamation, assault, probate administration.
1 volume.

1571–1671

Miscellanea M.S. Include: legal records respecting debt, defamation, assault; oath of scholars servants and other privileged persons, early 18th century; poem presented to the King at York, late 17th century; pedigrees.
1 volume.

1583–1733

Miscellanea M.S., Proclamations. Include: royal and parliamentary orders respecting religious observance, 1620-46; ballad when Queen Mary was thought to be pregnant, 1550s; confirmation of Lord Bedford's contract for draining Lynn, 1631; letter from Mayor and Aldermen of Hull requesting a collection be taken to redeem a master and company taken by Turks, 1679; order respecting residence of scholars, 1681; proclamations read at accession of the monarch, 1820-1952.
1 volume.

1540–1952

Miscellanea M.S. Include: legal papers respecting debt, defamation, property tenure, injury, trading without licence, probate administration.
1 volume.

1580–1842

Miscellanea M.S. Include: forms for business of a Bishop's secretary, and for Bishop's and Chancellor's courts,17th century; legal papers respecting debt; Peterborough diocese papers, 1593-7.
1 volume.

1593–1683

Miscellanea M.S. Include: papers relating to Commissioner of Sewers, conduit bringing water into Cambridge, draining the fens, 17th century; papers relating to the apprehension and examination of W. Alleson, a suspected Brownist, 1616; King James' order against thatching of roofs or laying of hay or sedge within 40 feet of Colleges or houses; calendar of prisoners, 1620; presentments and other legal papers respecting adultery, fornication, having a bastard, 1595-1614.
1 volume.

1595–1784

Miscellanea M.S. Include: vouchers, 1522-64; legal papers respecting debt, probate administration.
1 volume.

1506–1778

Miscellanea M.S. Include: Peterborough diocese papers, 1516-1602; legal papers respecting debt, assault, defamation, property, bastardy; injunction of Charles I that no scholar marry a townswoman without consent of his parents and tutors, no woman be employed in Colleges except as nurses, that no nurse or laundress be under 50 and that they never send their daughters or maids to College chambers; answers to questions about the keeping of dogs in Colleges, 1684.
1 volume.

1516–1749

Miscellanea M.S. Include: resignations and appointments of University officers of all kinds, 1590-1743; reports of parish searches for recusants, 1678-9.
1 volume.

1536–1782

Miscellanea M.S. Include: legal papers respecting property, debt, probate administration, sedition, incontinence, breach of contract; papers relating to assistance given to the inhabitants of Grantchester after fire, 1694.
1 volume.

1580–1744