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A transcript and translation of the royal charters issued to the borough of Cambridge between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Maitland lays stress on the considerable independence exercised by the medieval borough. The introduction explains the conventions of such charters, and explains how to interpret the information contained in them.

This three-volume set was the most ambitious of several large writing projects undertaken by Charles Henry Cooper, a keen historian, successful lawyer and town clerk of Cambridge in the mid-nineteenth century. The book, a collection of carefully researched biographies of distinguished figures with Cambridge connections, was inspired by Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1692).

The third (1874) edition of The Student's Guide to the University of Cambridge, as well as giving information on 'the Studies and Examinations of the University', provides fascinating details of student daily life in mid-Victorian Cambridge.

This record, compiled by the then University Registrary, John Neville Keynes and published in 1914, was intended as a statement of the legal instruments which controlled the organisation and day-to-day running of Cambridge University. The form of government they embodied is still reflected in the statutes of today.

This volume, the last in Mullinger's landmark three-volume history, covers the political turmoil of the Civil War and the Restoration, ending symbolically with the death of the last of the Cambridge Platonists, the major philosophical movement of the seventeenth century.