Administrative compilations made by University officers

James Tabor, MA (d.1645) was Registrary 1600-45.

Contents as follows:

Fly-leaf and p.2: Whinn's index, followed by note [by Charles Ashton] about Whinn's bad Latinity

Many pages blank;

p.A: administrator's oath;

p.B: forms required for libel in defamation, matrimony, legacy, tithe;

p.3: title page: a brief of the chief matters contained in Hare and elsewhere collected by James Tabor, 1629;

p.5: duties of Under Bedell or Apparitor of Court;

pp.6-7: John Smithson's patent as Commissary, 4 Sept. 1628;

p.11: De appellationibus;

p.13: how to appeal from the Vice-Chancellor to the Delegates by Whinn;

pp.17-23: Summa privilegiorum: index to rest of book compiled by Whinn;

p.27: De precinctu universitatis;

p.31: De taxacionibus domorum;

p.37: De pavimente;

p.47: De villa munda tenenda et de magno fossato;

p.55: De legibus statutis et consuetudinibus universitatis Cantebr' especially relating to leases of college property;

p.67: of franchises, liberties and privileges in general, including common prayer;

p.86: of those entitled to enjoy privileges;

p.94: how privilege passes to wife or widow of a privileged man;

p.104: of immunity from tallages, reliefs, subsidies and other burdens, including imposition of stallage;

p.116: that the Mayor, Sheriffs and Bailiffs must maintain and observe privileges;

p.124: that Chancellor, Masters and Scholars, and their servants, are under royal protection;

p.130: of the remedy for infringement of statutes;

p.140: of the abuse or non-use of liberties;

p.148: of the exemption of scholars from regulations forbidding papal provisions, pluralities, non-residence;

p.160: concerning licences for preaching to be granted by the Chancellor [privilege granted by Queen Elizabeth, but also Pope Alexander VI in 1502];

p.168: of the office and jurisdiction of Chancellor, including right of significavit under Richard II;

p.178: of the nomination and election of Vice-Chancellor [1570 Statutes, c.24], followed by disputes as to power of presidents in election of lecturers and other University officers in the absence of their masters;

p.182: of the cognizance of pleas, comprising summary of charters followed by extracts from Buckle Book and later judicial acta on the certification of recognizances; Utinam about opening shops on Holy Days; a series of references for useful maxims on adjournment; a tithe cause; examples of litigants living outside the liberties;

p.192: subpoena from Chancery to fetch in non-resident litigants, 1595;

p.198: De procuratoribus: note from Grace Book of admission of William Lewin, Christ's College, as Proctor on presentation of Trinity Hall, after resignation of John Welles in 1576 and of dispute of 1561 about election of Junior Proctor going on appeal to the University;

p.206: of the exemption of scholars having lay fees from jury service or sworn inquests, and arrangements for taking of evidence from outsiders as well as inhabitants in all inquests into assaults by burgesses on clerks or vice versa;

p.216: of fines, forfeitures and amercements, Chancellor to have fines for affrays, Mayor fines for leather and to take oaths from sack-cloth searchers;

p.220: copies of two schedules re lordship of the soil; the first originally in Edward Ball's hand re a pest-house on the Old Claypitts, the second originally in Matthew Stokys' hand re the expenses of hedging and stocking the same plot;

p.224: order of 8 Feb. 1668/9 for a stipend for the Library-Keeper;

p.234: De capcionibus et incarceracionibus malefactorum: re custody and goal delivery;

p.238: notes by Tabor on working of above statute;

p.240: imprisonment: referring to Magna Carta, habeas corpus; also citations from Paulus de Castro, Marsilius [of Padua], [Nicholas] Boerius and Ernest Gothman;

p.254: of oaths of Mayor and Bailiffs of town to Vice-Chancellor;

p.266: of keeping the peace;

p.268: form of banishment of disturbers of the peace, 5 July 1474;

p.273: form of banishment of Robert Lilesse, 1583;

p.276: decree of Vice-Chancellor and Assessors, 15 Sept. 1600, that for the future the Vice-Chancellor need not certify to the court of Quarter Sessions the recognizances to keep the peace which he has taken from scholars and privileged persons;

p.281: decree of Vice-Chancellor and Caput for better observance of 30 January, issued 27 Jan. 1662/3;

p.282: order of Vice-Chancellor and Caput that Colleges supply preachers and opponents in disputations;

p.288: of the banning of prostitutes;

p.302: of illicit games forbidden to scholars;

p.308: order for the celebration of the Black Assembly on the Friday before Saints Simon and Jude [28 October], despite suspension of all exercises and disputations for fear of plague, 1563;

p.312: of tournaments;

p.322: of markets and victuals;

p.324: note by Tabor that the Mayor attempted to licence 54 victuallers, but that he Tabor had procured the record; extract from Vice-Chancellor's Act Book 1563 re unlicensed tipplers; extract from Utinam f.145b re Proctors' claim to have a 'sale mackerel of every horse loade'; 'The lawes of the markett in London vide Stowes Survey fol.664'; extract from Utinam f.886 re Proctors' prosecution of engrossers of herring;

p.325: certificate by Vice-Chancellor Butts as to his action in time of dearth in response to proclamation and book of orders sent to him, 15 Oct. 1630;

p.328: order of commissioners [Oliver Cromwell, Francis Russell and four others] in Cambridge for rates of victuals and beer, 1 Mar. 1642/3;

p.332: Whinn's memorandum re allowing and licensing victuallers;

p.338: of forestallers and regrators, with notes by Tabor on gaps in legislation;

p.351: observations on the trades to be included among University servants [relates to claim of George Taylor as pewterer and brasier];

p.358: of fishermen, brewers and the assize of bread, including interpretation of the way price is governed;

p.374: of wines and vintners;

p.376: opinion of two Chief Justices [Christopher Wray and Edmund Anderson] about the University's defence of its rights over wine prices etc., in view of Sir Walter Ralegh's attack;

p.377: extracts from Grace Book 1557-86 re vintners' licences granted and an Exchequer cause in which the University privilege was successfully pleaded;

p.388: of weights and measures;

p.389: letter from Thomas Egerton, Lord Chancellor, and Sir Robert Cecil, Chancellor, re size of bushel, 1603x1612; with certificate of obedience, 1573;

p.398: of the office, power and election of Proctors; resignation of claim on office of Proctor and two interpretations of statute for election from Act Book [Buckle Book], 18 Sept. 1582; Lamb cause, 1593;

p.399: statute for oath of Deputy Proctor and Searcher, from Grace Book, 1574;

p.400: notes on two cases from Buckle Book, 1585 (ff.336, 338) of refusal to accept Proctors' jurisdiction;

p.403: interpretation of 30 Jan. 1630/1 of statute xliii re presence of all junior and senior sophisters in the MAs desks, given in favour of sophisters of fourth year only;

p.404: interpretation of 4 July 1599 of statute xlix re compounding (all with benefices of forty marks to be counted as compounders) with later opinions re case of Thomas Hill, BD, Fellow of Emmanuel College;

p.407: reasons against a desired interpretation that everie compounder should give gownes to the Vice-Chancellor and officers, with extracts from Stokys' Book;

p.408: note of substitution of Deputy Bedell by John Standish [c.1590]; copies of letters re Yeoman Bedell's place during the Marian Visitation, 1554;

p.410: ways and meanes to reforme the statutes, John Duport Vice-Chancellor 1593-4;

pp.413-416: extracts from Utinam, Buckle Book and later Act Books of proceedings in ecclesiastical causes involving penances, purgations, censures;

p.417: text of University's address to the Crown after the discovery of the 'Popish Plot', 28 Mar. 1682;

p.420: text of royal grant of fee farm rent to the town, with observation on its implications;

p.422: extract from the Pseudo-Ingulph re dispatch of Brother Gilbert and three Crowland Abbey monks to Cottenham and the beginning of University teaching in Cambridge; bull of Pope Sergius, 680;

p.423: office of Clerk of the Market covering regulations for millers, bakers, brewers, innholders, forestallers and regrators, butchers, fishers, cooks, taverners, chaundlers, spisers, weavers, tanners, sealers' fees and the cry in Sturbridge Fair;

p.428: text of composition between the University and King's College, 35 Henry VI, as to the College's immunity;

p.434: letter from Vice-Chancellor Gostlin and Heads to Sir John Cutts pleading University immunity in matter of light horse, armour and musters, 26 Mar. 1619; note by Tabor of his personal delivery of it to Cutts at Childerley Hall;

p.435: similar letter on behalf of Tabor, 1632; extracts from Ascham's epistles, Utinam, various royal and official letters and other sources re attempts at mustering privileged persons, including charter of 3 Elizabeth I, 1541-88;

p.450: orders at his Majesty coming to Cambridge, Dec. 1624;

p.458: proclamation at the entertainment of the Earl of Holland, our Chancellor and the French Ambassador, 23 Sept. 1629;

p.464: order at the entertainment of King Charles and Queen Mary, Lent 1630;

p.504: order in Council re inmates and new built houses, 2 June 1619;

p.514: of disputation in Comitiis;

p.516: order from Doctors' Commons for repair of the churchyard wall at Wortham, Kent, to be used as a general guide;

p.518: case of four Pembroke Fellows petitioning the Crown against their Master, Dr Beale, and resulting in a commission of enquiry, 28 Jan. 1629/30, with a narrative by Dr Butts of its presentation and of later proceedings;

p.523: process of suit re benefices valued at 20 -40 marks per annum in disposition of the Crown and the Lord Keeper;

p.530: of appeals;

p.532: orders for entertainment of Elector Palatine and Earl of Holland, 4 Feb. 1635/6;

p.536: orders for conduct of Commencement, temp. Richard Love, Vice-Chancellor 1633-4;

p.538: statutes for three lectureships in Theology, Hebrew and Greek founded by Henry VIII and Trinity College [ie. Regius professorships];

p.542: extract from will of Sir Edwin Sandys re a lectureship in Metaphysics in memory of Francis Metham, 1629;

p.546: mortmain licence for lands worth £1000 per annum, 7 May 1681;

p.554: orders for apparel issued on the Chancellor's order, 1588 (see Liber Rerum Memorabilium f.108v);

p.557: decree as to fines for breaches of the royal injunctions re apparel, 1560; further orders re apparel in virtue of same injunctions, 3 Sept. 1561; bonds of several tailors to obey injunctions about 'barilled hose and great breeches'; orders in Utinam, f.84v;

p.562: indenture of executors of John Mere and the University re his bequest, 1558, with notes of three leases of the property and of the will of Jeremy Davers in the 'Black Book of Wills', f.137, 1622;

p.566: exemplification of a common recovery and final concord of the manor of Barton alias Barton Burwyth alias Wards;

p.570: notes of causes of injury or defamation heard in Vice-Chancellor's Court, chiefly from Buckle Book and first Act Book;

p.576: discussion of immunity of clerks, scholars, and privileged persons from public levies and gifts;

p.578: discussion of statute re election of Vice-Chancellor and other officers and substitution by Heads of their deputies, Vice-Masters etc.;

p.580: Dr Gostlin's account of the chests, 2 Oct. 1626 and 13 Mar. 1625/6;

p.582: extracts from records of first fruits and tenths of two Burwell rectories;

p.586: memorandum by Tabor re payments made by members of the University towards upkeep of Great St Mary;

p.587: creation by Archbishop of Canterbury of Francis Bernard as MD, 6 Feb. 1677/8;

p.590: report to Lords' committee appointed to consider dispute between Stationers' Company and University of Cambridge re printing rights of the two universities, 18 Mar. 1628/9;

p.596: inspeximus and confirmation of the right of printing, 6 Feb. 1627/8;

p.606: relation of the election and installation of Duke of Monmouth as Chancellor, 1674;

p.614: grant by James I to University in support of funds of the Lady Margaret lectureship, of the advowsons of Somersham and Terrington;

p.618: Royal Commission for the collection of ship money within Cambridgeshire, 4 Aug. 1635;

p.622: Privy Council letter for the collection of ship money within Cambridgeshire, 12 Aug. 1635;

p.626: petition of the Mayor etc. to the Privy Council alleging that those in the town most able to pay ship money have had themselves made scholars' servants and so are avoiding it, with list of names

p.628: Privy Council letter disallowing this exemption, 16 Sept. 1635, followed by petition of the Vice-Chancellor etc., notes on the estates of the persons named and Privy Council order of 27 Sept. 1635

p.643: list of grievances of the town of Oxford against the University, chiefly discommuning, with notes of Cambridge practices in similar disputed matters;

p.654: substitution by John Boord, Regius Professor Civil Law, of deputies, William Fairebrother, George Oxindin and Richard Berry, 30 June 1680;

p.655: note of appointment by Vice-Chancellor of Oxford of assessor or deputy;

p.656: oaths of Mayor and Bailiffs at Michaelmas;

p.657: orders for celebration of 30 Jan., as on p.281;

p.658: Privy Council order re William Worts' appeal against the election of John Peck as Esquire Bedell, 18 Dec. 1669;

p.660: signet letter of injunction, 15 Dec. 1669, censuring disturbances in the Senate House;

p.662: signet letter admitting Magdalene, Emmanuel and Sidney Sussex Colleges to equal privileges with the rest in the election of Proctors, 3 Aug. 1661, with a copy of the cycle then made;

p.666: decree ordering the Prevaricator, Tripos and opponents to show the Vice-Chancellor what they propose to say, 19 Apr. 1667;

p.668: decree re cautions and the times of entertainment required for DD, LLD and MD, 25 Apr. 1678;

p.669: interpretation of statute re election of Bedells, 2 Nov. 1669;

p.671: interpretation of statute re graces permitting taking of degrees out of term, 19 Dec. 1672;

p.672: interpretation of Rustat deed of settlement, 19 Dec. 1672;

p.674: order in Council re tobacco licences granted to unsuitable individuals in Cambridge, 1 Oct. 1634;

p.676: grant of office of Regius Professor of Civil Law to John Clarke, 23 June 1666;

p.678: decree re cautions for DD, LLD, MD, 15 Apr. 1678;

p.680: royal mandate signifying that baronets and knights who are members of the University, but no others, may continue to take MAs without exercises; the mandate is to be registered, 30 Oct. 1679;

p.681: royal mandate dispensing the Lady Margaret Preacher from all obligations except those required by custom in the University, 30 Oct. 1679; the dispensation is to be registered;

p.682: royal mandate restricting exercises for Bachelors of Physic to one opposition, 8 Apr. 1681; to be registered;

p.684: incomplete copy of address to Chancellor re rights of printing (see pp.590 ff.);

p.685: letter of Archbishop Sancroft to the Bishop of London re care in giving and use of letters testimonial for ordination, 23 Aug. 1678; copy to be sent to all bishops of the province and to the Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge;

p.688: interpretation by Vice-Chancellor and Heads of c.36 of Christ's College statutes, 23 July 1633;

p.690: mandate of James I for proper observance of ecclesiastical laws and constitutions re divine service, and commanding Vice-Chancellor to enforce obedience;

p.697: narrative of proclamation of Charles I by the University and town, with form of proclamation, 30 Mar. 1625 and undated letter;

p.700: grace, granted 13 Feb. 1593/4, requiring appellants Vice-Chancellor and Commissary to swear that an appeal is genuine, and restricting period within which an appeal can be made; notes by Tabor, citing Nonius and Donatus;

p.701: royal mandate that all instructions of James I and Charles I to the University should be obeyed, especially those re preaching, and that a review and fresh appraisal of preachers' licences should be made, 6 Feb. 1660/1;

p.702: royal directions given at Newmarket, 3 Dec. 1616, re attendance at University sermons, form and content of studies in Divinity;

p.703: royal injunctions given at Newmarket, 4 Mar. 1629/30, restricting access by scholars to women in taverns and ordering the wearing of proper apparel by LLBs, MBs and MAs;

p.704: royal injunctions to Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, 26 June 1632, for the protection of health, to inhibit all unprofitable and idle games, plays or exercises, especially bull and bear- baiting, common plays, public shows, interludes, comedies and tragedies which attract crowds;

p.706: response of Vice-Chancellor etc. to royal commission to examine and answer a petition of Emmanuel against a proposed college statute about the interval between graduation and ordination which would imperil a proposed endowment, 16 Apr. 1627;

p.709: royal letter of reply to petition, 1 May 1627;

p.712: renunciation by Francis, Bishop of Ely, Grand Almoner, of any claim on goods of Henry Butts, late master of Corpus Christi College, felo de se, which he could claim under a royal grant, 8 Sept. 1632;

p.714: royal letters patent ordering inhibition by Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of all idle and unprofitable games and plays and those who encourage them within five miles of the University, 23 July 1604;

p.716: order in Council, 4 Dec. 1629, settling a dispute between University and town over the price of candles;

p.717: order in Council, 18 Mar. 1630/1, that in future orders addressed to town authorities should include clause saving University's authority;

p.718: royal mandate addressed to Vice-Chancellor and Caput for creation of number of Doctors and Bachelors of Divinity, Doctors of Medicine, MAs and LLBs, 20 Mar. 1631/2;

p.719: royal mandate to Mayor to confine himself to his own jurisdiction in regulation of alehouses, maltsters, victuallers., 31 Mar. 1631;

p.720: orders in Council, 11 May 1631, empowering University and town authorities to spend balance of plague fund on building and stocking a workhouse, to enclose Jesus Green and other waste places for ten years, to maintain it and to restrict inhabitants to exercise of one trade each

p.722: royal mandate forbidding creation of persons to any degree until cautions have been put in by

recipients, 30 Mar. 1632;

p.724: order of Parliament that subscription is unlawful, 20 Jan. 1640/1;

p.725: decree forbidding gloves or treats during the exercises in Sophisters' Schools, 9 May 1680;

p.726: memorandum of trial of Pembroke undergraduates for murder of college butler, by the Judge of Assize, the University having decided not to press for its privilege, 1665;

p.728: royal mandate to town to allow University to continue to enjoy its right to a public weighbridge for hops at Sturbridge Fair, 30 Aug. 1660;

p.729: decree of Vice-Chancellor and Caput forbidding scholars to enter houses of Francis Harvey, William Butler, William Larkin, Edward Davies or John Clark or any other house of bad report in Barnwell, 11 Feb. 1675/6;

p.730: acknowledgement by Edward Chapman, Mayor, of his mistake in releasing William Land, John Devole and James Delamotte after their committal to the Tolbooth by the Vice-Chancellor, 2 Mar. 1660/1;

p.732: a note of what is conteyned in ye severall boxes (ie. a catalogue of muniments).

The volume was given by Matthew Whinn, Registrary 1645-83, for the use of the Registry; restored to the Registry by Vice-Chancellor Philpott, Mar. 1858.