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Charters, letters patent, mandates and other official documents

Title	Charters, letters patent, mandates and other official documents
Reference	GBR/0265/Luard
Creator	Luard, Henry Richards
Covering Dates	1266–1771
Extent and Medium	approx. 250 items; vellum and paper
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

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Henry Richards Luard was Registrary 1862-92.

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In Latin, French, English

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Charters, letters patent, mandates and other official documents, Luard

Further information

In assembling the documents in this series, many of them issued by the Crown, Luard removed several of the seals and put them into a separate category, 'Seals' (qv).

Index Terms

State and Education

University/Luard contains:

1*-3

Charters of Henry III.
Creator: The Crown.
vellum.

1266–1270

Composicio quod procuratores possunt congregare in defectu cancellarii. Memorandum of agreement, to have perpetual validity, by the Regent and Non-Regent Masters and the greater bachelors, in the presence of Mr John Hooke, Chancellor, to a statute about the Rectors, whose duties are set forth: to fix the times and modes of reading and disputing, and of celebrating exequies and feasts. Rebels against their authority are to be punished through the Bedells. If the Chancellor is absent the Rectors may call together the University in the case of attacks on clerks, and may cause offenders to be punished.
1 membrane; vellum.

8 July 1275

Composition concerning tithes at Wirksworth. Chirograph of composition as to ownership of the tithes of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, between 1) Master Oliver de Sutton, Dean, and the Chapter of Lincoln, with Nicholas de Oxonia, vicar, and 2) the Abbot and Convent of Darley. The seal of the officiality of Coventry and Lichfield is appended to each part; also seals of Oliver de Sutton and of the Chapter. There are two other seal slits without evidence of tags.
1 membrane; vellum.

14 Sept. 1276

Composition between Bishop of Ely and Chancellor. Announcement by Bishop Hugh de Balsham of an agreement reached (at the request of the Archdeacon) between the Archdeacon and the Chancellor as to their respective spheres of jurisdiction and that of the Master of Glomery. Given at Dunham.
1 membrane; vellum.

1276

5ii

Draft composition between Bishop of Ely and Chancellor. Announcement by Bishop Hugh de Balsham of an agreement reached (at the request of the Archdeacon) between the Archdeacon and the Chancellor as to their respective spheres of jurisdiction and that of the Master of Glomery. Given at Dunham. Copy of Luard 5a, but without dating clause.
1 membrane; vellum.

1276

Exemplification of composition between the University and the Professor of Civil Law. William de Luda, Bishop of Ely, exemplifies a composition reached in a cause between (1) G[eoffrey] de Pakenham, Doctor of Canon Law and Chancellor of the University, the Rectors and the Regent Masters and (2) Master R[ichard] de Leycestria, Professor of Civil Law, on the distinctions of seats ('sedum') which, after Master Richard had appealed to Canterbury and for the tuition of the Holy See, was with the consent of both sides referred to the Bishop's decision. He, having heard the cases of both sides in Cambridge, referred it to Master Thomas of London, Canon of Wells, Master Richard of York, Chancellor of Salisbury, and Master Guy, then his own official, and now confirms their decision in favour of the statutes 'super sedum distinctione'. Sealed on a queue which has now disappeared.
1 membrane; vellum.

19 Apr. 1290

7*-8*, 11*-12*

Charters of Edward I.
Creator: The Crown.

1292–1305

Indenture of exemplification of composition. Exemplification by Master G., official of Ely, of a composition reached, after an attempt to take the cause into a royal court, of a dispute about the ownership of certain houses near [St John's] hospital claimed by Scholars and notably by Master Henry de Wysethe, who had taught there, against the Prior and Convent of Barnwell. The Bishop referred the dispute to the official for settlement and the University and Barnwell appeared before him on the eve of St Mary Magdalen. Possession of the house was to be returned to Barnwell and the keys surrendered by Henry de Wysethe to the Sacrist but after the intervention of friends he was allowed to remain in possession until the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (8 Sept.) next.
1 membrane; vellum.

21 July 1293

Exemplification under the seal of the officiality of a composition. This charter interprets and defines the statutes in a dispute (? concerning the numbers of Doctors in the Faculty of Theology) referred to the official by the Bishop of Ely, between Henry de Boyton, Chancellor and the Regent Masters in Theology.
1 membrane; vellum; This item is much decayed.

11 Apr. 1294

Composition of Bordeaux. Text, notarially attested, of proceedings resulting in a composition arrived at in Bordeaux in the presence of Pope Clement and Thomas (Jorz, Order of Preachers), Cardinal Priest of St Sabina on 17 June 1306 between Stephen de Segrave, Doctor of Canon Law, Chancellor of the University, and Master Thomas de Kernyngham, on behalf of the University, and John de Westerfeld and Peter de Rula, O.P., John de la More, Richard de Insula, John of Ipswich, Reginald de Seria, Henry de Luceby and Adam de Kyrkby, O.F.M., for the friars, after the friars of Cambridge had appealed to the Curia against a statute enforcing all about to incept in Theology to preach three sermons 'ad clerum' in Great St Mary's. The statute was modified to exclude mendicants from its requirement and to protect them from any reprisals by members of the University. Seal of ? the University attached.
1 membrane; vellum; This item is much defaced and decayed.

1306

14*-15, 18-22*

Charters of Edward II.
Creator: The Crown.

1309–1321

Indenture of agreement between 1) the Chancellor and Masters of the University and 2) Nicholas called Le Barber. Agreement about a house of scholars opposite St Mary's church, in which canonists, decretists, legists and theologians have been used to lecture and of which Nicholas wishes to regain possession as a dwelling house. Nicholas agrees to leave the scholars in possession for one year after the translation of St Thomas Martyr, they paying a suitable rent, and at the end of the term the Bedells will remove the scholars and allow Nicholas to enter on the property.
1 membrane; vellum.

23 July 1309

23-30 etc

Charters of Edward III.
Creator: The Crown.

1327–1344

Notification of grant by the Chancellor, Richard Lyng, and the Masters, to the Lady Elizabeth de Burgo. Concerns the advowson of University Hall which she has rescued from poverty by the gift of the church of Litlington. The seal of the University has been attached.
1 membrane; vellum.

5 Apr. 1340

32-3

Copies of injunction by Bishop Simon Montacute. Injunction and permission to the Chancellor and University (as from one concerned for its privileges, customs and statutes) in attempted appeals from the Chancellor's jurisdiction to the Bishop's audience or to his official, where the subject is mera civilis or where an attempt is made by a royal prohibition to stay causes, to continue to hear the cause. Given at Somersham.
2 membranes; vellum.

17 Mar. 1342

Counterpart of chirograph of ordination. Issued by Thomas de Northwode, S.T.P., Chancellor of the University and Archdeacon of Lincoln, to Walter Neel, citizen of London and Lord of Eslingham [? Elsenham] and John Wythorn of Dounton, Rector of Halstead and Lord of Bendish, Essex, who have endowed a chest [fund] of £100 for the use of the Masters and Scholars of the University, providing for election of keepers, records of loans and pledges, and an annual audit. In return for this Walter and John are to be enrolled among the benefactors of the University, and this composition is to be enrolled in the book of statutes. Document bears initial letter with blue decoration. Seals of Wythorn (a bust) and Neel (standing figure and counterseal of ? merchant's mark) are attached.
1 membrane; vellum.

25 Feb. 1345

Notification and inspeximus under the episcopal seal by Bishop Thomas Lisle of injunction catalogued as Luard 32-3. Given at Somersham.
1 membrane; vellum.

2 Aug. 1347

Statutes for Pembroke Hall. There is no sign that this is an official registration, although f.1 narrates the registration with the University for reading 'in plena congregacione'. It is bound as ff.1-8 inside covers made from an account roll said to be for St Florence in Pembrokeshire: property of the foundress until 1357.
4 bifoliums sewn into limp cover; vellum.

1350

Counterpart indenture of grant. Grant is by Richard Lyng, Chancellor, and the University to Mary, Countess of Pembroke and the keeper and scholars, of a messuage in St Peter at Trumpington gates between John de Holme and Pembroke Hall, for the maintenance of a chaplain to celebrate daily for Roger de Heidon and for an anniversary at St Mary's church.
1 membrane; vellum; This document is very fragmentary.

12 Dec. 1351

Charter and statutes of Trinity Hall. The volume has the following contents: f.2 foundation deed of Trinity Hall, 15 Jan. 1350/1 with agreement of the Bishop of Ely, 20 Jan. and of the Chancellor and 'cetus unanimus magistrorum', 21 Jan.; f.1v licence of the Bishop of Ely for the erection of a chapel in the College, 20 May 1352; f.4 statutes of the College; f.10 'ordinacio pro libris ornamentis et jocalibus' with a list of books presented by the founder in civil and canon law and theology, chapel books and ornaments and of others which he retains for his own use in his lifetime, 1 June 1352.
2 copies; vellum.

1352

Statutes of Clare Hall. The statutes are dated 26 Mar. 1359 and attested by the Master, by Thomas de Sutton, Chancellor, and 'cetus unanimus', 27 Mar. 1359.
4 bifoliums sewn together; vellum.

1359

Mandate of the official of the court of Canterbury. Mandate to John Tynmouth, William Teofle and Thomas Ely, Masters in Arts, to inhibit the Bishop of Ely and Mr John Donwych, recently elected Chancellor by an insufficient number of Regent Masters and nevertheless confirmed by the Bishop, and to cite them to answer an appeal made to him by John Ufforde and William Wrauby, Non-Regents.
1 membrane; vellum.

30 Oct. 1369

Bond in 40s of John Goch of Gonweria if without just provocation he offend the Chancellor or a Master or servant of the University either in word or deed.
1 membrane; vellum.

21 Nov. 1369

Notification under seal by John de Donwich, Chancellor. Notification that when John de Horneby, 'sacre pagine professor', of the Order of Carmelite Friars, a Regent in the University, made request to the full congregation of Regents and Non-Regents for the reversal of the decision made by some of the students of the University to exclude the order of Carmelite friars from the teaching of the University, he cited Horneby to appear and state the case before himself and other venerable men nominated by the Regents and Non-Regents to assist him. Horneby appeared and exhibited papal privileges and the rule of the order, and the Chancellor now decrees that the Carmelites shall be restored to the University and inhibits further attempts to exclude them.
1 membrane; vellum.

23 Feb. 1375

Recorda et placita tenta coram Ricardo Le Scrope cancellario et magistris universitatis Cantebr. Comprise enrolment of : (1) special commission of Richard II in response to a petition from the University to Parliament permitting the Chancellor etc. to have the assize of bread and ale etc. until the next Parliament, 6 Nov. 1378; (2) mandate of John Avenell, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, to John [Blan]kepayn, Bailiff of the liberty of the vill of Cambridge repeating and ordering the execution of a royal mandate to him concerning the assizes, weights and measures, and forestalling and regrating for which he is to empanel a jury of twenty-four; (3) certificate of the Sheriff that he has sent this mandate and has received from the Bailiffs a reply that twelve men had been summoned and had presented on oath that there were no breaches of the law by victuallers; (4) mandate of venire facias to Sheriff, Friday after Hilary 1379, to summon before the Chancellor two legal men and these present that a gallon of ale is sold at a penny halfpenny [gap in roll] but seek time for presenting the names of brewers. They come in the first week of Lent with a juror short and Simon Hendthibowe is given to them to make up the number; their presentment is attached to the roll; (5) venire facias addressed to the Sheriff to cite nineteen persons to appear and answer. He replies that they have been summoned and have not come and therefore are in mercy.
1 membrane; vellum.

4 Dec. 1378

50 etc

Charters of Richard II, with related documents.
Creator: The Crown.

1378–1399

Letters patent addressed to the Mayor and Bailiffs of Cambridge. Orders them to be present at the trial of the assize of bread and ale by the Chancellor and to allow Scholars to go unharmed.
1 membrane; vellum.

4 Aug. 1378

Mandate of the Dean of Arches to Eudo la Zouche, Chancellor. Remits the case against him and Robert Watton in the Court of Arches by John Herries who complained of discrimination and insufficient notice and who has not now prosecuted the appeal, inhibitions in favour of Hugh Candelsby and others notwithstanding.
1 membrane; vellum.

5 May 1381

Certificate of the official of the Archdeacon of Ely addressed to the Chancellor. Confirms that he has, at the Chancellor's request, on 10 June 1382, excommunicated William Beale of Chesterton who declines to answer the suit of John Grantham in the Chancellor's Court.
1 membrane; vellum.

12 June 1382

Bond in £10 of Friar Ralph, canon of Croxton, Order of Premonstratensians, to William Colvil, Chancellor and Thomas Hadley and Peter Skedley, Proctors, to read canon law for three years continually from the date of the bond. Bears an ecclesiastical seal, rubbed, on tongue.
1 membrane; vellum.

29 May 1392

77(1)

Notification of a grant by Mary Suhard, Prioress of St Leonard at Stratford atte Bowe to Thomas Kelsale, William Wymbyl, Richard Baston and John Sudbury, clerks. Grant is of a curtilage in School Lane next the hospice of the Holy Cross belonging to St John's Hospital. Bears good seal.
1 membrane; vellum.

19 May 1396

77(2)

Letter of attorney from Mary Suhard, Prioress of St Leonard at Stratford atte Bowe to William Wykmere, John Fysshewyk and John Brun [Esquire Bedells]. Empowers them to deliver seizin to Thomas Kelsale and others in the same property. Bears good seal.
1 membrane; vellum.

19 May 1396

Indenture of agreement between the Chancellor etc. and the Prior and Convent of Barnwell. Records that the latter quitclaim all right to cognizance of pleas, weights and measures etc. during Barnwell Fair in return for an annual payment by the Chancellor etc. of 26s 8d. The text is defective.
1 membrane; vellum.

1 June 1397

84*-8

Charters of Henry IV.
Creator: The Crown.

1399–1412

Copy of a royal exemplification of a decree in the Exchequer. Verdict and damages for twenty marks to the plaintiff in a cause for stallage of the chapel yard in Sturbridge Fair between John Arondell, keeper of Sturbridge Chapel, and John Essex, saddler, John Warwyk, pelter, and John Chauncer and William Bush, former Bailiffs of Cambridge, who attempted to prevent Thomas Spryggy, merchant and clothman ('pannarius') from setting up their booths at the fair in 1411.
1 membrane; vellum.

1412

90-4, 98*

Charters of Henry V.
Creator: The Crown.

1414–1418

Letter from [Thomas Beaufort] Duke of Exeter, to the University. Asks for the immediate promotion to the degree of B.D. of Guy Wiseham, who is to be sent to the general council of the church in May.
1 item; paper.

10 Jan. 1423

Letter from the Cardinals, Bishops, Priests and Deacons at the Council of Constance to the Rector and University of Cambridge. Reports the end of the papal schism by the deposition of John XXIII and the election on 8 Nov. 1417 of Cardinal Odo of Colonna, now Martin V and his coronation at Constance in the presence of Emperor Sigismund on 21 Nov. Constance. This is a copy, since the original was sealed.
1 membrane; paper.

22 Dec. 1417

Writ sued out of common pleas to Sheriff. Orders that he produce record of cause between John Aylseham, citizen and grocer of London, and John Rykynghall, clerk, for detention of chattels, and also parties to take part in an ? appeal.
1 membrane; vellum; This document is much decayed.

24 Oct. 1420

Mandate of Archbishop Henry Bowet. Requires the publication of an order made during the convocation held at York between 22 Sept. 1421 and 14 Jan. 1421/2, in response to complaints made by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, providing that for the next ten years all patrons of vacant livings shall offer them in the first instance to graduates of either University.
1 membrane; vellum.

14 Jan. 1422

100

Indenture of a grant in perpetuity from the Keeper and Fellows of Trinity Hall to the Chancellor and University. Conveys the site of the Canon Law Schools for an annual rent of two silver pennies: that is, a plot on the east side of their garden, abutting west on University land, north on the new chapel in Schools Street and south on the garden of the Holy Cross Hospital, with the stone wall of a newly erected house belonging to the University built on it. Easement for access for repair; with due regard for the crops of the garden. Bears Trinity Hall seal.
1 membrane; vellum.

28 Jan. 1422

101

Account of the exequies for Master Richard Holmes of King's Hall, d.1424.
1 membrane; vellum; The document is badly rubbed and almost completely illegible.

21 June 1424

102

Bond in £20 of Robert Ferrour, son of John Ferrour, smith, and William Lokyer, son of John Lokyer, all of Cambridge to Marmaduke Lumley, Chancellor, and his successors. Pledges to do nothing to infringe the statutes, customs and privileges of the University. Bears small seal on tongue.
1 membrane; vellum.

18 Jan. 1425

103

Ordination by Robert Fitzhugh, Keeper of the King's Hall, and the scholars of the same foundation. Records their intention to celebrate each year on 27 Apr., in the church of All Saints in Jewry, exequies for Master Richard Holmes, donor of many valuable books. Given at Cambridge. Bears common seal of King's Hall.
1 membrane; vellum.

20 May 1425

104

Letter from Robert Fitzhugh, Chancellor, to Regent and Non-Regent Masters on behalf of John Henley, Order of Preachers, for his admission with expedition. Given at Windsor.
1 membrane; vellum.

23 Mar. 1426

105-6

Two draft letters from the University to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his fellow Bishops attacking the Franciscan condemnation of personal titles.
2 membranes; vellum; The documents are almost illegible..

1426

107

Letter from Pope Martin V to the Prior of Barnwell relating to exemption of the University from all visitation.
1 membrane; vellum.

1430

108

Notarially attested copy of the evidence submitted during the 'Barnwell Process'.
2 membranes sewn together to form a roll; vellum.

10 Oct. 1430

109, 119, 123*-4*

Charters of Henry VI.
Creator: The Crown.

1431–1459

110

Public instrument, mark of Ralph de Remington, Notary Public, diocese of Bath and Wells. Masters William Lassells, Chancellor, William Gull and Hugh Damlet, Proctors, declare that they will appeal to the Pope for confirmation of their jurisdiction.
1 membrane; vellum.

26 Nov. 1431

111

Public instrument, mark of Robert Stretton, Notary Public, diocese of York, in All Saints, Huntingdon. Records an appeal to the Holy See and for the tuition of Canterbury by William Wrawby, B.Th., Proctor, William Lassells, Chancellor and William Gulle and Hugh Damlet, Regent Masters and Proctors and of the congregation of Regent and Non-Regent Masters.
1 membrane; vellum.

20 June 1432

112

Statute of the Chancellor and Regent and Non-Regent Masters defining the ordinances for the Billingford chest. Prescribes the annual election of keepers (one Regent and two Non-Regent Masters) and annual audit by the Proctors. The statute or ordinance to be entered in the register with other statutes. The endorsement suggests that this was an official Registry copy.
1 membrane; vellum.

5 Sept. 1432–12 Sept. 1432

113

Arbitration concerning the pension payable to the vicar of St Botolph's church. One part of a tripartite indenture embodying an arbitration made at the request of the contestants in a dispute over a pension payable to and an augmentation of the vicarage of St Botolph's church , Cambridge, between Master Geoffrey Couper, vicar of St Botolph's, and the Master, John Tyttesale, and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, patrons of the church. The arbitrators chosen were John Langton, Master of Pembroke, William Stonham, Richard Pygttesle and John Costyn, bachelors in laws and in decretis. They allot to the vicar all predial tithes and half an acre of glebe land (Botulph's half-acre) and a pension of four marks. Bears three small seals on two queues.
1 membrane; vellum.

5 Jan. 1433

114

Confirmation by Pope Eugenius IV of Martin V's confirmation of the exemption of the University from all visitation, the 'Barnwell Process'.
1 membrane; vellum.

18 Sept. 1433

115

Two copies of the alleged bulls of Popes Honorius I (624/5) and Sergius (699).
2 membranes; vellum.

1400–1499

117

Bond of Gerard Wake and Thomas Lolleworth, ironmonger, to Richard Cawdray, Chancellor, and John Holand and Richard Croft, Proctors, to pay £40 at next Michaelmas.
1 membrane; vellum.

15 Nov. 1435

118

Bond in £40 of John Langton, clerk, to William Millyngton, John Tylney, John Hurt and Nicholas Gay, clerks. Relates to the release of the University from an annual payment of 6s 8d to the Master of Shingay for an empty plot called Crowghedhostell [Crouched Hostel].
1 membrane; vellum.

25 Nov. 1440

120

Public instrument, mark of John Huby, Notary Public, diocese of Durham, in the new chapel of the University. Records the appeal of Robert Aiscough, Chancellor, for the tuition of Canterbury and to the Pope, because of his fear of an attack on his authority.
1 membrane; vellum.

24 Nov. 1447

121

Draft agreement by the Chancellor and Regent and Non-Regent Masters. Agrees to send Master William Aiscough, Proctor, to announce to the letter's recipient that because he is in high office in the church he has been dispensed from the conditions of incepting in both laws.
1 item; paper.

14 Dec. 1430–14 Dec. 1438

122

Testimonial of Bishop William Percy and the University to the good life and conversation of John Lawsby, M.A.
1 membrane; vellum.

20 Feb. 1453–20 Feb. 1456

125*

Letters patent of 3 Edward IV. Confirms all the privileges of the University.
Creator: The Crown.
3 membranes; vellum; This document is much decayed.

12 May 1463

126

Bond of Edmund Conyngesburgh, clerk, to Master John Bothe, Chancellor, William Millington and William Ayscough, to pay them twenty marks on the feast of St Thomas the Martyr.
1 membrane; vellum.

30 May 1465

127

Bond of Gerard Skipwyth, clerk, to Master John Bothe, Chancellor, William Millington and William Ayscough, for the payment of ten marks on the feast of the translation of St Thomas the Martyr.
1 membrane; vellum.

30 May 1466

128

Indenture of covenant for carpenter's work on the new Schools. The covenant is between William Wyflete, Chancellor, Masters Nicholas Gay, William Smyth and Edmund Counesburgh, Doctors of the University, Masters William Wyche and William Langton, Proctors, and William Haward and William Bakon, carpenters of Halstead, for the supply, carriage and workmanship of timber for the floors and roof of the new Schools before Lammas Day, 1467, for a payment of £23 6s 8d in addition to £10 paid at the making of the agreement. Detailed contract for the building. Endorsement of payment to Haward and Bakon by William Langton and Christopher Lofthus, Proctors, of £5 on account, 26 June 1467.
1 membrane; vellum.

25 June 1466

129

Bond in £10 of William Haward and William Bakon, carpenters, of Halstead, Essex and Thomas Gawge of Dunmow and Thomas Bowman of Braintree, timbermen, to William Wyflete, Chancellor and the Regent and Non-Regent Masters of the University. Bears four seals on two tongues.
1 membrane; vellum.

25 June 1466

130a-b

Copies, made contemporaneously and during the 15th century, of statute of William Wolflete, S.T.P., and the University. The statute relates to the regulation of loans from the chest of St John, for the sale of cautions one month after the expiry of the term, and for the election of keepers and audit of their accounts in accordance with the practices observed in other chests. Both endorsed with the form of oaths of keepers. This statute is not explicitly included in 'Statuta in ordinem redacta'.
2 membranes; vellum.

13 Nov. 1466

131

Bond to keep an anniversary for William Syday. Tripartite indenture executed by Andrew Doket, President of Queens' College, binding himself to the University in a penal sum of twenty shillings if he and his successors fail to implement the terms of the will of Master William Syday, medical man of Cambridge, by which he endowed the College with a tenement called 'Bylneys' in the parish of Great St Mary's, from the proceeds of which a chaplain was to be found to celebrate in the College and keep his anniversary. College seal attached.
1 membrane; vellum.

23 Oct. 1470

132

Contemporary copy of statute of the Chancellor, Thomas Rotherham, and the University. Regulates the affairs of the eight chests (Neel, Trinity, Darlyngton, Billingforthe, Eciter, Lynke, St John and Fenn) the funds of which have been restored by a gift of two hundred marks made by Dame Elizabeth Clere on 2 June 1489.
1 membrane; vellum.

1489

133

Series of articles embodying the privileges and liberties claimed by the University to have been bestowed by their royal charters and to be constantly infringed by the Mayor and Burgesses.
paper roll of 3 sheets; paper.

1491

134

Testimonial of William Towne, Vice-Chancellor, and others, for Robert Symson of the diocese of Lincoln, doctor arcium.
1 membrane; vellum.

1 July 1491

135

Licence of Robert Kettilborrow, Prior of the Augustinians in Cambridge, for John Derwyk, Edmund Blond, John West and Robert Borow to redeem and repledge whatsoever jewels they had put into any University Chest. Bears the marks of a seal plaque.
1 item; paper.

27 Sept. 1491

136

Statute of John Blythe, Chancellor, regulating the obit of Thomas Barowe.
1 membrane; vellum.

21 Jan. 1495

137

Agreement for the exequies of John Drewell. Indenture of grant by which Thomas Wylkynson, President, and the Fellows of Queens' College, covenant with William Wylde, Canon of St Paul's and executor of his fellow canon, John Drewell, in return for lands in Abbotsley, Haslingfield and Pampisford, to appoint and maintain two priest Fellows and a Bible clerk, to maintain an obit on St Vincent's Day, forfeiting £10 per annum to the Chancellor and the University if they do not carry out their promise. Bears incomplete College seal.
1 membrane; vellum.

15 Mar. 1495

138-9

Charters of Henry VII.
Creator: The Crown.

1495–1496

140

Testimonial of John Fisher, Vice-Chancellor, on behalf of John Gyllyson and Adam Lyghton with permission to absent themselves [for six weeks].
1 membrane; vellum; This item is much decayed.

10 Feb. 1502–10 Feb 1502

141

Bond in fifty marks to observe the terms of the arbitration to be made by John Fisher, Humphrey Conyngsby and Thomas Frowyk. John Belle, Mayor, Hugh Rankyn, Nicholas Grene, Richard Allwey and John Erliche, Bailiffs, of Cambridge bind themselves to George Fitzhugh, Chancellor.
1 membrane; vellum.

10 Apr. 1502

142

Proposal for the settlement of disputes between the University and the town. This is a much corrected draft of twenty-six motions made at the order of the Lady Margaret by John Fisher, Justice of the Common Pleas, Humphrey Conyngsby and Thomas Frowyk, the King's Sergeants at Law, for the settlement of various differences between the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Masters and Scholars on the one side and the Mayor, Bailiff and Burgesses on the other side. . The principal topics are:. 1) the privilege. 2) the Mayor's right to hear all actions between burgess and burgess or foreigner concerning victuals, unless a privileged person is involved. 3) punishment by the University authorities of affrays involving Scholars or Privileged Persons. 4) punishment by the officers of the common law of Scholars or Privileged Persons committing murder or felony. 5) imprisonment or committal by the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor. 6) excessive tolls taken by the town from those bringing in victuals, wood, corn, grain and coal. 7) excessive meterage at the water-side taken by the Taxors. 8) excessive charges for permission to brew or bake levied by the Proctors and Taxors. 9) punishment of nuisances permitted by the University only if the town authorities fail within six weeks to correct them. 10) sedges in the King's Ditch to be removed by both sides before Michaelmas. 11) removal of butchers' waste. 12) interpretation of doubtful points to rest with the Lady Margaret during her life, and afterwards with the Lord Chancellor, Lord High Treasurer and the Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas.
1 roll of 8 membranes; paper.

21 May 1502

143a-b

Notification of the terms of arbitration by Fisher, Conyngsby and Frowyk (see UA Luard 142), with list of those who are to enjoy University privilege. Each membrane of this document is signed and sealed by the arbitrators.
3 membranes linked by the seals; vellum.

11 July 1502

144

Deed of endowment by the Lady Margaret of a public lecture in Theology, with the statutes for its implementation.
1 membrane; vellum; The text is greatly defaced.

8 Sept. 1502

145

Incomplete text of a composition or arbitration between the University and town defining scholars and scholars' servants. This is said by Joseph Romilly, Registrary 1832-62, to be the first of seven articles of the Lady Margaret's arbitration of 12 May 1503.
1 roll of 4 sheets; paper.

1503

145a-b

Indenture of agreement. The agreement, between the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University and the Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses of the town, is in accordance with the terms of the arbitration (see UA Luard 143) which are here repeated. There is also a list of those who are to enjoy University privilege. The membranes were formerly linked by the town seal, now lost.
2 membranes; vellum.

12 May 1503

146

Letter from R[oger], Bishop of Carlisle, to the Chancellor and Masters. Recommends Richard Braunspath, clerk of the Bishop of Durham, and thanks them for past favours. Bears traces of seal.
1 item; paper.

1 June 1504

147

Foundation deed for the Lady Margaret Preachership.
1 membrane; vellum.

1504

147*

Covenant for the commemoration of Henry VII.
1 membrane; vellum.

20 Nov. 1504

148

Ordinances of the Lady Margaret for the office of University Preacher, nominating Mr Fawne as the first holder.
1 membrane; vellum.

30 Oct. 1504

149

Indented deed poll of arbitration. Arbitration by William Bokenham, William Burgoyn, Thomas Patenson, clerks, and John Puregold, gent., of Cambridge, in a dispute between the Chancellor, John Fisher, Masters and Scholars of the University, and William, Prior, and the Convent of Barnwell, as to their respective rights in Midsummer or Barnwell Fair. Both sides are bound, 6 June 1506, in 100 marks sterling. . The arbitrators have agreed that:. 1) the Prior and Convent shall enjoy for a term of sixty years, with option of renewal for a further sixty years, all the rights in the Fair claimed by the University, with the exception of cognizance of pleas or other causes in the Fair involving a Scholar, Scholar's servant or common minister of the University. 2) the Prior and Convent shall pay to the University, at two terms, a rent of twenty shillings sterling. 3) the Prior and Convent shall not make over their rights, or any part of them, without the agreement of the University. Bears the signatures and seals of the arbitrators.
1 membrane; vellum.

18 June 1506

150

Letter of confraternity from William Thornburgh, keeper of the chapel of St Mary in Mari [Newton] to William Stanley, gent., and his wife by virtue of papal indulgences of Boniface IX, Nicholas V and Innocent VIII. The formula of indulgence is on the dorse.
1 membrane; vellum.

1511

151

Announcement by John de Wynchelse, Prior of Castle Acre, to the Chancellor or his deputy, Proctors and Masters. Permits John Household, monk of Castle Acre, to participate in the lecture of the sentences and opponencies of the same. Bears rubbed seal on tongue.
1 membrane; vellum.

20 Dec. 1512

152

Appointment by John Fisher, Chancellor, and the University of John West, priest, M.A., to the office of preacher, at the instance of Thomas Cabolde, papal penitentiary. West is one of the twelve whom by papal licence they may nominate.
1 membrane; vellum.

1 Apr. 1513

153

Announcement by Robert, Prior of Holy Trinity, Norwich, to the Chancellor or his deputy, that he is willing to allow William Peppys, S.T.B., to take the oaths required of an inceptor. Beals seal on tongue.
1 membrane; vellum.

24 May 1513

154

Announcement by Friar John, S.T.P., Prior Provincial of the English Austin Friars. Addressed to John Fawne, Vice-Chancellor, and other Doctors in the Faculty of Theology, as well as to the Proctors and Masters in the University, the document records that in gratitude for the University's licence to Friar William Wetherall to oppose in Theology, Friar John now permits William to listen to the lecture of the sentences and to opponencies in the same. Bears rubbed seal on tongue.
1 membrane; vellum.

10 June 1513

155

Receipt and quitclaim by John Fisher, Chancellor, and the University to their Proctors, William Robson, S.T.P., William Robynson and James Denton, LL.D.s. Relates to £60 in gold and two bonds under John Pechy and William Petley due in 1514 and 1515 for a legacy from the estate of Cardinal Bourchier.
1 membrane; vellum.

12 Nov. 1513

155a

Letter of proxy. Issued by Robson, Robynson and Denton to John Fawne, Vice-Chancellor, Roger Colyngwode and Richard Masters, Proctors, to receive money due on bonds from Pechy and Petley (see UA Luard 155).
1 membrane; vellum.

14 Nov. 1513

156

Letter of confraternity from Edmund Knattres, S.T.P., Vice-Chancellor and the University to Philip Underwood, monk of the Charterhouse near London.
1 membrane; vellum.

Mar. 1517

157

Exemplification of an indenture of agreement. By this agreement, the President, John Yenyn, and Fellows of Queens' College bind themselves to William Melton, Chancellor of York, to accept a reduced endowment from the Fulbourn property acquired under the will of Master Hugh Trotter, once Treasurer of York.
1 membrane; vellum.

11 Dec. 1519

158

Letter of Pope Clement VII to the University announcing the visit of a nuncio.
1 membrane; vellum; The text is very faded and illegible even under ultra violet light.

26 Nov. 1523

158*

Draft notification an agreement to surrender the statutes to Cardinal Wolsey. The agreement is made in a full Congregation of the Regent and Non-Regent Houses. Wolsey is to abrogate, reform, interpret and strengthen the statutes and remove obsolete decisions. The Congregation agrees to abide by his decisions. Space is left for an ornamental initial; some verbal corrections are added, but there is no sign that the document was prepared for sealing. Drafted at Cambridge. Bears pen trials on dorse.
1 membrane; vellum.

18 Apr. 1524

159

Indenture tripartite of covenant. Records that with the concurrence of the Chancellor, John Fisher, and the Regent and Non-Regent Masters of the University, Sir Robert Brudenell, Lord Chief Justice, Thomas Willughbie, Sergeant at Law, Mr William Capon, D.D., Christopher Bland, M.A., and Sir William Gefferey, clerk, executors of the will of Sir Robert Rede, knight, have granted to the Master, Dr William Capon, and Fellows of Jesus College an annuity of twenty marks procured by them from the Abbot and Convent of Waltham Holy Cross on 1 Nov. 1524. . The terms of the foundation are:. 1) three ordinary lectures in humanity, logic and philosophy are to be established in the Common Schools and are to be free. 2) the readers are to be appointed annually on St Barnabas' Day, 10 June, by the executors, who will also draw up statutes so long as they live; afterwards the authorities of the University will make appointments. 3) Jesus College is to pay each reader £4 per annum. 4) the readers are to pray for Sir Robert Rede each term, and the University is to institute an anniversary for him. Bears seals of five executors on parchment tags and of Jesus College on plaited silk strings.
1 membrane; vellum; The text is much decayed.

10 Dec. 1524

160

Licence, after discussion in the provincial chapter held at ? Hitchin, from Friar John, Prior of the Order of Carmelite Friars, to the Chancellor and others, for Thomas Giles to proceed to the degree of doctor.
1 membrane; vellum.

1526

161-8

Charters of Henry VIII.
Creator: The Crown.
vellum.

1533–1544

170

Testimonial of Friar John, Provincial of the Franciscans in England and of other members of the order on behalf of Frair John Celer. Attests to the good faith of Friar John Celer, of the Order of Friars Minor, 'sacre pagine professor', whom the University has suspended from his academic acts because of his refusal to preach a doctoral sermon.
1 item; paper.

1428

171

Petition of the clergy against monks. Comprise:- (1) petition embodying the grievances of the secular clergy of the province of Canterbury, addressed to the Archbishop and Bishops assembled in a provincial council, in thirteen articles directed against the privileges of Franciscans and Dominicans (preaching, confessions, heretical opinions, abduction of youths) (2) replies of the mendicants to these articles (3) gravamina of the Friars at Universities (apparently relating to the Friars' complaints against the statutes of the mid fourteenth century); namely, the compulsions to rule in arts required only in Oxford and Cambridge; make expensive entertainments and sell their books and other things to pay for their act; and perform all the exercises required in Theology whereas in Oxford seculars are held to perform only once.
1 membrane; vellum.

1400–1450

172

Draft letter [? to a resident of the Curia, perhaps William Bateman]. Asks him to press on the documentation of Robert de Stretton's provision to a benefice for which twenty marks had been sent by merchants' letters to the Curia. This letter probably relates to Robert de Stretton/Sutton who was later Master of Trinity Hall and had various papal reservations and provisions, 1355-63.
1 membrane; vellum.

1350–1365

179

Wilford family deeds.
vellum.

1538–1602

179a

Commonplace book. The contents vary but are mostly scriptural and theological.
Creator: Wilford, Francis.
1 volume; paper.

1581–1587

181

Exchequer quietus. Issued to the men of Cambridge through their Bailiffs for their debts of the years 1536-7 and 1537-8 on account of the farm of the leet, which excludes the Chancellor etc., Scholars and Scholars' servants.
2 membranes sewn consecutively; vellum.

1542

182

Charter of I Edward VI. Letters patent of inspeximus and confirmation by Edward VI to the University of royal charters beginning with Edward IV's confirmation of Richard II's inspeximus. Bears an initial pen portrait of King and pen decorations on upper margin of first membrane, a repaired Great Seal on silk strings.
Creator: The Crown.
6 membranes; vellum.

17 Jan. 1548

185 etc

Charters of Elizabeth I.
Creator: The Crown.
vellum.

1561–1589

186

Bargain and sale by John Knight, common clerk and burgess of Calais, to Richard Springham, burgess and merchant of London. Conveys all the land, tenements etc. within the town, bailiwick and marches ('merchias') which Knight had obtained on 20 Nov. 1556 from Francis Wilford, gent. of Coldred, Kent and Alice his wife. Bears signature and seal of Knight and incomplete seal of mayoralty of Calais.
1 membrane; vellum.

5 Jan. 1557

188(1-4)

Conveyance to the University of land in University Street [Regent Walk], Cambridge; with related powers of attorney. Archbishop Matthew Parker conveys a plot of land in the new made street called University Street which he acquired from King's College; Robert Norgate and the fellows of Corpus Christi College convey to the same their own plot of land in the same place, which lies partly between the two brick walls in the parish of Great St Mary and partly between their new buildings (the street being twenty-four feet two inches at the east end; at the west end, on School Street, twenty-eight feet one and a half inches and in length 177 feet three inches) and covenant to maintain the brick walls and their coping, the street and the binding and chains of the books given by Archbishop Parker to the University, they being placed in lockers on the north side of the University Library. Documents bears signature and seal of Parker, and seals of the University and Corpus Christi College, all good impressions, in modern seal boxes.
4 membranes; vellum.

6 Aug. 1574–25 Jan. 1575

194-7(1), 198

Charters of James I.
Creator: The Crown.

1603–1612

197(2)

Exemplification of the Act of 10 Anne c.XLV. Confirms the grant by James I to the two Regius Professors of Divinity in Oxford and Cambridge and the Lady Margaret Professor in Cambridge of certain rectories.
1 membrane; vellum.

26 May 1712

202

Charter of 3 Charles I. This charter relates to printing.
1 membrane; vellum.

1628

208

Commission for raising subscriptions for 'voluntary' present to the King.
1 membrane; vellum.

1662

210-11

Charters of Anne.
Creator: The Crown.

1714

212

Letters patent of exemplification by King George III of Queen Elizabeth's inspeximus and exemplification of the charters of liberty and privilege of the University. Bears an initial portrait and Great Seal on strings.
Creator: The Crown.
7 membranes; vellum.

1 Nov. 1771

215(2)

Letters patent of licence of 33 Charles II to the University to acquire endowments worth £200 per annum, the statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. Bears an initial portrait and a heavily restored Great Seal.
Creator: The Crown.
1 membrane; vellum.

7 May 1681

216

Indenture to declare a trust under the will of Sir William Pykering. Concluded by the executors of the will, Lord Burghley, the Earl of Huntingdon, Sir Walter Mildmay and others, settling the estate of Oswaldkirk and Ryland, Yorks., on trustees. Bears seventeen signatures and seals.
2 membranes; vellum.

23 June 1577

216*

Memorandum of taking possession and seizin by the trustees of the manors of Oswaldkirk and Ryland and lands in Kirkbourne and Southbourne.
1 item; paper.

15 July 1577–22 July 1577