Cambridge University and Corporation Act 1894
WHEREAS by a charter dated or purporting to be dated the twenty-sixth day of April in the third year of Her reign Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth granted (among other things) "That the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge by themselves or their deputies officers servants and ministers from time to time as well by day as by night at their pleasure might make scrutiny search and inquisition in the town and suburbs and in Barnwell and Sturbridge for all common women bawds v...