Documents Relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge
Published by Direction of the Commissioners Appointed by the Queen to Inquire into the State, Discipline, Studies, and Revenues of the said University and Colleges

This important collection of documents charts the early centuries of Cambridge University and provides a valuable resource for historians.

9781108000413, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

508 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 kg

In the mid-nineteenth century, a royal commission was appointed to investigate 'the state, discipline, studies, and revenues' of Cambridge University, and eventually recommended radical reforms. As part of its brief, it gathered records that had been preserved for centuries as the university evolved. Published in three volumes in 1852 under the title Documents Relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge, the compilation, much of it in its original Latin, charts the university's emergence as one of the world's leading academic institutions and the challenges it faced along the way. This material remains a valuable resource for historians of British education and society. Volume 1 covers the period to the mid-sixteenth century and contains, among other historical gems, an abstract of records spanning nine monarchies, and an earlier compilation ordered by Henry VIII in the 37th year of his reign.

1. Abstract of records received from the tower
2. Mr Hunter's report on documents now in custody of the Master of the Rolls
3. List of records received from the Rolls Chapel
4. List of records received from Carlton Ride
5. Return of the Commissioners appointed by Henry VIII
6. Statuta antiqua
7. Statuta Reginae Elizabethae anno regni XII.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]