Grace Book B
Containing the Accounts of the Proctors of the University of Cambridge, 1511

This 1905 book contains the transcribed administrative records of Cambridge University from 1511 to 1544, together with an introduction.

Mary Bateson (Edited by)

9781108000482, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

328 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

'Grace books' were the volumes in which scribes recorded decisions of the administration of the University of Cambridge during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of the 'graces' concern the conferral of degrees on individuals, but others refer to more general University business including appointment of teachers and preachers, leaves of absence, inventories and financial records, and the resolution of disputes. Grace Book B, Part 2 covers the years from 1511 to 1544. This transcription was first published in 1905 with an introduction by Mary Bateson of Newnham College which explains the terminology and the administrative systems underlying it, and the changes they underwent during this period. The Latin documents transcribed in this publication constitute a valuable source for those researching British history and institutions in the early Tudor period, and this reissue will make them readily available to scholars today.

1. Introduction
2. Grace Book B.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]