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Godmanchester Borough
Catalogue reference: G
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This record is about the Godmanchester Borough dating from c1154 - 1953.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- G
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Title (The name of the record)
- Godmanchester Borough
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1154 - 1953
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Record Office has an excellent collection of town records, stretching back to the thirteenth century; the records include many of the original charters themselves, court rolls and books, burgess rolls, views of frankpledge and minute books.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Huntingdonshire Archives
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Godmanchester Borough, Cambridgeshire</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 series
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Further documents received June 1966 Records of Manor of Godmanchester received 1985
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <p>For a detailed list of the pre-1835 records, please consult catalogue number 15: Godmanchester Borough Records, in the searchroom. Lists of all the court rolls, books and views of frankpledge 1272-1878 can be found in catalogue number 30: Manorial Records file. Details of municipal borough records 1835-1961 may be found in catalogue number 14: Local Authorities file, also in the searchroom.</p>
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Godmanchester was an ancient Crown demesne until 1212, when it was granted to the free men of Godmanchester and became a self-governing manor. In 1604 it was incorporated as a free borough under a charter of James I, which enabled Godmanchester to have a town clerk and a common seal. The 1604 charter remained in force as the Governing Charter until the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act, with the exception of a brief period 1685-88.
The 1835 Act replaced the old borough with an elected council. This was in turn abolished in 1961, and replaced by Huntingdon and Godmanchester Borough Council.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- <span class="wrapper"><p>Many of the documents covering the 1278-1400 period are used and discussed in J A Raftis A Small Town in Late Medieval England (Toronto 1982); , while some early modern records are used in the same author's Early Modern Godmanchester: Survivals and New Arrivals (Toronto 1990).</p> <p>There is a brief and useful history of the borough in Philip Dickinson The Borough of Huntingdon and Godmanchester (Huntingdon 1969); . Details of the oddities of the self-governing manor system can be found in the Victoria County History of Huntingdonshire, vol 2 pages 287-290 (London 1932). The best popular account of Godmanchester's pre-1835 municipal history is still Robert Fox The History of Godmanchester (London 1831). All of these works are available in the searchroom library.</p></span>
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/dc8f9ec1-c52a-4bdc-b9f1-3da7d28735f6/
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Godmanchester Borough