Vice-Chancellor's Court records

William Frend, Fellow of Jesus College, was deprived of his degrees and expelled in 1793 for nonconformity and a treatise denouncing the war with France. These are assorted documents assembled for the Delegates, with a printed version of the trial and of Frend's pamphlet. Contents as follows:

1: bound volume entitled 'Frend's Trial', including the 'Account of the proceedings in the University of Cambridge against William Frend' by himself, 'The trial of William Frend' by John Beverley, MA, and Frend's pamphlet 'Peace and Union';

2-4: copies of Peace and Union (1793);

5-6: issues of Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 9 and 16 Feb. 1793;

7-20: citations of witnesses;

21: catalogue of papers relating to proceedings in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, copied for the Delegates;

22-77: papers supplied to the Delegates, as catalogued in 21;

78-87: depositions 10 May, neat copies;

88-109: depositions 11 May, neat copies;

110-129: depositions 13 May, neat copies;

130: statement of Vice-Chancellor on right of appeal;

131-142: rough copies of Acta in Vice-Chancellor's Court;

143-187: rough copies of depositions, 10-13 May;

188-192: later Acta and sentence of Vice-Chancellor's Court, May 1793;

193-194: prescribed recantation;

195-216: papers relating to Appeal to Delegates;

217-219: billa expensarum;

220-233: proceedings in the King's Bench, 1794.