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Foot of fine, Southam, Warwickshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1035
Scope and Contents
This is the final agreement...at Westminster...before Charles Herbert, Thomas Street, Charles Lutwich, and Christopher Milton, justices...between William Seley, gent., and Poynty Porter, esq., and Elizabeth his wife, deforc. conc. 70 ares of land, 15 acres of meadow, and 10 [centum written above] acres of pasture...in Southam, whereupon a plea of covenant was summoned between them and Poynty and Elizabeth acknowledged the land to be the right of William as that which he hath of gift. And...
Dates:
1688 (Trinity Term)
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Foot of fine, Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.993
Scope and Contents
This the final agreement made at Westminster before Henry Pollexfen, John Powell, Thomas Rokeby, and Peyton Ventris, justices, between Samuel Gattward and John Gattward, gent., deforc. conc. 2 messuages, a barn in Steeple Morden. And the said John recognises them to the right of Samual by gift, and John grants them and warrants them to Samuel and his heirs and Samuel gives John £100.
Dates:
Nov. 1689
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Foot of Fine, Trumpington etc., Cambridgeshire and Bardney, Lincolnshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1806
Scope and Contents
In nominal consideration of #2,200, John Dowsing, clerk, deforceant, has acknowledged the manors of Trumpington otherwise Huntingtons otherwise Crouchmans, and Tincotts otherwise Teckingcotts, along with extensive lands in Trumpington, Chatteris, Willingham, Great Shelford, Cherry Hinton, Grantchester, Hauxton, and Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, and Bardney, Lincolnshire, to be the right of Mary Anstey, as those which she and her husband Christopher Anstey DD, plaintiffs, have as a gift of the...
Dates:
1748 ('Morrow of the Holy Trinity', 21 George II, endorsed as entered in the Bedford Level Company register, 8 Apr 1807)
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Foot of fine, Trumpington etc., Cambridgeshire and Bardney, Lincolnshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1807
Scope and Contents
In nominal consideration of #2,200, John Dowsing, clerk, deforceant, has acknowledged the manors of Trumpington otherwise Huntingtons otherwise Crouchmans, and Tincotts otherwise Teckingcotts, along with extensive lands in Trumpington, Chatteris, Willingham, Great Shelford, Cherry Hinton, Grantchester, Hauxton, and Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, and Bardney, Lincolnshire, to be the right of Mary Anstey, as those which she and her husband Christopher Anstey DD, plaintiffs, have as a gift of the...
Dates:
1748 ('Morrow of the Holy Trinity', 21 George II)
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Foot of fine, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1009
Dates:
21 Mar. 1666
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Foot of Fine, Witcham, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1817
Scope and Contents
In nominal consideration of #60, John Thompson and his wife Maria, deforceants, have acknowledged the moiety of 10 acres land/meadow/pasture/fen with appurtenances in Witcham, to be the right of William Nix, plaintiff, as that which he had as a gift of the deforceants. Foot of fine, duty stamp, a counterpart of Doc 1818.
Dates:
1829 ('Octave of St Hilary', 9 George IV)
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Foot of Fine, Witcham, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1818
Scope and Contents
In nominal consideration of #60, John Thompson and his wife Maria, deforceants, have acknowledged the moiety of 10 acres land/meadow/pasture/fen with appurtenances in Witcham, to be the right of William Nix, plaintiff, as that which he had as a gift of the deforceants. Foot of fine, duty stamp, a counterpart of Doc 1817.
Dates:
1829 ('Octave of St Hilary', 9 George IV)
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Foot of Fine, Writtle, Essex
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.181
Scope and Contents
Agreement between Gregory Shetleworth complainant and Thomas Samford, Jane his wife, Henry Butte and Jane his wife deforciants concerning certain land in Writtle. The deforciants release the land to the complainant and his heirs for ever for a certain sum.
Dates:
6 Oct. 1591
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Fonds
Foot of Fine, Writtle, Essex
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.159
Scope and Contents
In court at Writele before John Godmanston, Steward. Agreement between John Borell, William Wakeryng, chaplain, John son of William Bedyll, William Parker, William Page and Robert son of William Parker, complainants, and John Sygore and Emma his wife, defendants, concerning certain land in Writele. John Sygore and Emma his wife recognise the right of the complainants to the land which they have from the gift of John and Emma Sygore to them and the heirs of John Borell for ever.
Dates:
8 Oct. 1447
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
For Intellectual Liberty: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369
Scope and Contents
Comprises: minutes of meetings of the F.I.L. committee, 1935-1940; scrpabook of press cuttings, chiefly letters written by F.I.L. members to the press on a range of subjects in the lead-up to the Second World War; printed publications and statements; papers of the British Section of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, 1938-40, including letters of Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and Sylvia Townsend Warner; papers relating to refugees; publications; index of...
Dates:
1936-1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ford-Brown: The Papers of the Ford-Brown families
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/FB
Scope and Contents
This collection contains books, note-books, diaries and papers mainly of three Congregational ministers, David Ford (1763-1836), his son, David Everard Ford (1797-1875) and John Brown (1830-1922) who married Ada Haydon Ford, the daughter of David Everard Ford. It also includes the papers of John Neville Brown (1904-1995) who was the grandson of John and Ada Brown. In addition, John Neville Brown was the first cousin of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) whose papers are held in the Archive...
Dates:
1787 - 1995
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Foreclosure of mortgage, Carlton-cum-Willingham, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1422
Dates:
22 Dec. 1668
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Cambridge University Library
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Forestry Surveys undertaken for Forestry Commission
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9682
Scope and Contents
'Ecological conditions in selected areas of woodlands: Reports of Cambridge Party and Summarized Report for England and Wales'.In summer 1940 while coniferous plantations were being felled, surveys were made to obtain data on factors governing the growth of conifers in England. The work was directed by Professor H.G. Champion of the Imperial Instiute of Forestry and carried out by 7 parties. East Anglia was assigned to the Cambridge party, A.S. Watt, E.F. Warburg, V.J. Chapman, G....
Dates:
1940-1944
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Forestry work in Mauritius
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483E
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs in a padded black album 285 x 370 mm, illustrating forestry work in Mauritius during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including views of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Pamplemousses. A title page is inscribed 'Colony of Mauritius, Forests and Gardens Department, December 1907.' All photographs are captioned in detail in a copperplate hand. However, pages 47-52 have been removed. There is an index on page 72, from which it appears that page 47...
Dates:
1907
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Forncett, Norfolk: Manor Records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5908-5928
Scope and Contents
Court books, a survey, a rental and indexes of personal names for Forncett, Norfolk.
Dates:
1523-1856
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Forster: The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a number of items by and about E.M. Forster. The heart of the collection consists of Forster's writings, published and unpublished, held by the archive centre in manuscript, typescript and photocopied forms. Items written for publication, or in some cases broadcast, have been placed at the start of the collection. These include manuscripts, drafts and fragments of his novels, short stories, essays, talks, plays, poems and memoirs. Contributions to periodicals, which...
Dates:
1777 - 2015
Fonds
Fort Reliance Photographs, 1987-88
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30687A
Scope and Contents
Collection of coloured photographs, 175 x 125 mm. As described in the notice shown in 4-5, 'Fort Reliance is one of the best preserved sites of early exploration in the western Subarctic. It was originally erected in 1833 by the Arctic Land expedition led by Captain George Back, R.N., as winter quarters for an overland journey to the Arctic coast. A fort in name only, Fort Reliance consisted of a main house with several rooms, as well as several separate houses, each heated with a...
Dates:
1987-08 - 1988-02
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Cambridge University Library
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Fortescue: The Papers of Hugh Fortescue
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3243/FOR
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Third Earl Hugh Fortescue to Joseph Lloyd Brereton concerning educational proposals/activities, political and rural issues and personal matters. The pair had a life-long friendship having met as neighbours in West Buckland where they opened a proprietory boarding school for farmer's sons. Fortescue was a considerable landowner, concerned with the welfare of rural England and sympathetic to the unsectarian religious views of Brereton. He became Brereton's first convert...
Dates:
1856 - 1901
Found in:
Homerton College Archive
Management Group
Foundation, regulation and governance
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC01
Dates:
1279 - 1969
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Fonds
'Foundation stones in Manoharpur'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 73
Scope and Contents
A memoir by Gerald Dickson based on his diaries, 270 pages, with an index at the back, 4 pages.
Dates:
1971
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Four papers relating to Catherine Prescot (d 1820), widow of Capt Thomas Prescot RN and formerly the widow of Lt George Lort RN, Fareham and Southampton, Hampshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1830
Dates:
1 July 1819-7 Sep. 1827
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Four photographs of India, circa 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022RR
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 115 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. The views show architectural remains in Bihar and Orissa. Photographs by Miss Mary F.A. Tench.
Dates:
1912
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Cambridge University Library
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Four Photographs of Scenery in New South Wales
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086R
Scope and Contents
A collection of loosely mounted, uncaptioned prints measuring approximately 185 x 115 mm, showing scenes in the Blue Mountains. Two of the prints are stamped in relief on one corner 'C. Bayliss, Photo. Sydney' and it is reasonable to assume, given the similar subject matter and format, that the other two photographs were also taken by him.
Dates:
1885
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Four volumes of Yarrell's British Birds in the fourth edition from the library of Thomas Parkin
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10245
Dates:
1834-1909
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Foxton, Cambrigeshire: overseers' accounts and additional material
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3297
Scope and Contents
Covering dates Easter 1770-Easter 1795. Includes further material: (fo. 84) copy returns of population at Foxton, 27 May 1811; (fo. 85) adjudication of JPs in case of Eliza Barns, pauper, 4 Oct. 1828; (fo. 86) letter from Edward Hawke Ness to Swan Hurrell, 21 May 1834; (fo. 88) letter from Phelips Hanham to Rachel Allen, 28 Aug. 1834; (fo. 90) copy letter from Allen Hurrell to unidentified, 9 Sep. 1834; (fo. 92) Swan Hurrell, accounts re illegitimate child of Sir Alexander Cockburn, 1833-5;...
Dates:
1770-1835
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library