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RefNoKCB/1/C/1/4
AltRefNoCity/PB Box I/4
TitleCorporation Cross Book, commencing in the 15th century, with copies of earlier documents
DescriptionPrinted reference: extracts re plate in Cambridge Borough Documents, i, 76-7. Cf also Hist. MSS Commission 1st Report (1874), opp. pp. 99-100. Typed index among Cooper papers. The name goes back to 1575 at least (see Common Day Book 1564-77, vol 6, pp. 195-6). Negative microfilm of Corporation Cross Book folios 14-18, 47r in box of negatives. Important records were copied into the Cross Book from the fourteenth century onwards, becoming a register of the admission of freemen who controlled the corporation, a record continued separately from 1758 onward. Index to Cross Book in A0030473
Date15th century-[18th century]
CreatorNameBorough of Cambridge
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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