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Senate House Library, University of London

Maritime law and transcripts of judicial proceedings


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 64

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Maritime law and transcripts of judicial proceedings

Date(s): [1635]-1728

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 31 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Information not available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing an historical treatise on the office of Admiral and the jurisdiction of the Admiralty entitled 'Mare Clausam', [1700], and an abridgement in English of fifteen chapters of Mare Clausam (1635) by John Selden, [1635]; details of proceedings of the Court of King's Bench in the case of William Shaw versus Catherine Weigh, 1728; a transcript of the judgements of Sir George Treby, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, and Sir John Holt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the case of Joseph Hardy (the 'Bankers Case'), 1696.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript quarto. Bound in half-calf.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

This manuscript was in the collection of William Shaw Mason (1774-1853), and later became part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) as MS 10182.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature holds a copy of Mare Clausam by John Selden (William Du-Gard, London, 1652) (Ref: GL 1256).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Legal systems | Law
Maritime legislation | Legislation | Law

Personal names
Holt | Sir | John | 1642-1710 | Knight | judge
Selden | John | 1584-1654 | jurist, politician and antiquary
Treby | Sir | George | ? 1644-1700 | Knight | judge and politician

Corporate names
Court of the King's Bench

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe