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Additions to Ware's Irish bishops
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8426
Scope and Contents
A transcript of additions to J.H. Todd's copy of Walter Harris' edition of The works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, 1745, vols 1-2, 'The bishops'.
Dates:
1869 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Address from the women of Ballarat and Ballarat East in the colony of Victoria to the women of England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 299
Scope and Contents
A roll of paper 31 x 1067 cm in size. In 1863 it was recommended to increase the number of convicts transported to Western Australia, and the proposal was met with strident opposition from it and the other Australian colonies through a series of petitions. Reaction in Victoria was especially strong because of anxiety that its goldfields would attract many escaped or former convicts. Although it was decided in early 1864 not to expand penal transportation to Western Australia, many had...
Dates:
1864-10
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Address presented to Miss G. Croft, M.B.E., Principal of Vincent Girls' High School, Batticaloa (1922- 1948) by the public of Batticaloa, Ceylon on the eve of her departure to England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 402
Scope and Contents
Typescript on oblong palm leaves, 55 x 255 mm in size, attached to the covers by a silver chain running through a single hole in each leaf. The covers are decorated in silver with inner linings of dark blue velvet. The upper cover is engraved, 'To Miss Gladys Croft M.B.E. in affectionate remembrance from the residents of Batticaloa Ceylon'. The volume is housed in a dark blue, clasped velvet box, lined with grey silk, produced by ‘Hemachandra Bros jewellers Kollupitiya.’The address...
Dates:
1948
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Cambridge University Library
File
Address to Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6211
Scope and Contents
An address by the University of Cambridge to Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend, thanking him for his part in securing Bishop Moore's library for the University, 1715. There is a draft of Townshend's reply, an account of the expenses of foreign ministers of the British Crown, 1741, and an address from the University of Louvain to the University of Cambridge, 1919.
Dates:
1715-1919
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Adhmar de Saint-Venant: Papers on an article by G.G. Stokes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8244
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and notes, written in 1862, on G.G. Stokes' article 'On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion, and of the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids', read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 14 April 1845. The volume contains pages 241-414 of the Society's Transactions, vol. VIII, part III (Cambridge University Press, 1847), of which Stokes' article forms pages 287-319. The letters and notes are inserted into the volume next to the article, sections of...
Dates:
1847-1862
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Administration
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/Ad
Dates:
1300 - 2020
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Sub-Management Group
Administrative records
Sub-Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHAR
Scope and Contents
Records listed here include those of the President and the Bursar, the Women's Art Collection, the Development Office, and the Kaetsu Educational and Cultural Centre. Also financial records and records relating to buildings and grounds, appeals and fundraising and conferences. Administrative records from the Porters' Lodge.
Dates:
1851 - 2017
Management Group
Administrative Records
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDAR
Scope and Contents
This section includes records of Masters, Vice-Masters, College Officers, and the Bursar; also financial records and Chapel records [there are also records relating to the building and fabric of the Chapel amongst the archives of Masters in this section; see also EDPH for photographs of the Chapel].
Dates:
1819 - 2016
Found in:
St Edmunds College Archive
Management Group
ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEAR
Dates:
1878 - 2025
Found in:
Selwyn College Archives
Management Group
ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1936/THAR
Dates:
1200 - 2019
Found in:
Trinity Hall archive
Management Group
Administrative Records of Downing College
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR
Scope and Contents
Records of the Bursar and College Office, including Downing family and estate records and those created by the bursarial function.
Dates:
1548-[1970]
Conditions Governing Access:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. Records containing sensitive, confidential or personal information remain closed for 100 years.
Access to open records is by appointment only.
Found in:
Downing College
Fonds
Admiral Dicken: Memoirs and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7351
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the collection is comprised of Dicken's detailed hand-written memoirs, accompanied by related documents and photographs. The remaining items are a printed volume on the cruise of the Flying Squadron, 1869-1870, in which Dicken participated; a journal from his service on H.M.S. 'Alexandra' in the Mediterranean, 1883-1884; and assorted papers collected for the memoirs.
Dates:
1834-1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admiral Henry Duncan Grant (1834-1896): Journal when Third Lieutenant on HMS Pearl with the Central American Squadron 1855-1857
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9531
Scope and Contents
A daily journal kept on board HMS Pearl, December 1855 - August 1857, 234 pages. The daily journal begins with the ship’s fitting out and victualing at Woolwich and Spithead and later participation in the grand naval review at Portsmouth before Queen Victoria on 23 April 1856, on the occasion of the end of the Crimean War. The journal covers the voyage to Central America, where the Pearl cruised northwards from Panama to the coasts of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala and southwards to...
Dates:
1855 - 1857
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.841
Scope and Contents
View of frankpledge and Court Baron of William Laude, Bp. of London, for Manor of Ashwell, before Charles Halloway, esq., 19 Apr. 1631. To the court comes Humphrey Mickley by his attorney John Clark, gent., and by virtue of a surrender...made on 22 Apr. 1629 sought to be admitted to a messuage lying in the west end of Ashwell and was admitted for life with remainder to Alice Pettitt, wife of Andrew Pettitt and their heirs etc...And he is admitted...Signed by Charles Halloway, steward, as...
Dates:
19 Apr. 1631
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.842
Scope and Contents
At a view of frankpledge and Court Baron held by Charles Halloway, Esq., steward, 3 Apr. 1635. To this court came Andrew Pettitt and Alice his wife who held by copy given at a view and Court held 19 Apr. 1632 (after the death of Humphrey Mickley, clerk) for the said Alice and her heirs one messuage...in the west end of Ashwell...(the said Alice having been examined by herself secretly), and they now surrendered the messuage to the use of John Shipman of Ashwell who is here and seeks to be...
Dates:
3 Apr. 1638
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.845
Scope and Contents
At a Court Baron of the manor of Ashwell, before Francis Dickens, esq., steward, 3 May 1727. John Payne came and surrendered by the hands of the steward, a messuage situated in the west end of Ashwell, formerly of Susanna Payne and before that, of John Shipman, to the sole use of John Cotton...And John Cotton comes...and is admitted. Signed by Francis Dickens.
Dates:
3 May 1727
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Fonds
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.846
Scope and Contents
At a Court Baron of the manor of Ashwell, before John Crowther, deputy steward of Francis Dickens, steward, 20 Apr. 1743. The homage found that on 3 Nov. 1739 John Cotton of Caxton, Cambs., yeoman, surrendered...by the hands of John Waller and Roger Walduck...his messuage in west end of Ashwell, held by the yearly rent of 8d, late of Susanna Payne and before of John Shipman which at a Court 3 May 1727 were surrendered to John Cotton by John Payne...To the use of Francis Barnard, of Caxton,...
Dates:
20 Apr. 1743
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Fonds
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.848
Scope and Contents
At a Court Baron held by John Crowther, deputy steward for George Gibson, Esq., 19 Apr. 1749. The homage finds that on 15 Apr. 1749, Francis Barnard, D.D., of Caxton, Cambs., surrendered by the hands of John Crowther, a messuage in the west end of Ashwell...formerly of Susanna Payne and before that of John Shipman...to the use of John Dixon, grandson and heir of John Dixon, yeoman, of Ashwell, Herts. and the said John comes and prays admission and because he is under 21 years of age, the...
Dates:
19 Apr. 1749
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1678
Scope and Contents
Admission before Isaac Strong, steward of the manor, of John Smith of Chatteris to messuages in Chatteris surrendered 10 Oct. 1772 by Edward Adams and William Parker (see MS Doc.1676).
Dates:
24 May 1773
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1690
Scope and Contents
On surrender made by [Robert] Grimditch, a trustee under the will of John Smith [of Chatteris, schoolmaster], John Stocker Freaks and Margaret his wife are admitted to lands in Hive End, Burnsfield at the Yard's End, and Croload, all in the manor of Chatteris Ramsey, to be held by them and the heirs of John Stocker Freaks for ever. Unattested copy from court roll, or possibly draft for court roll (see Doc 1692), endorsed with financial calculation.
Dates:
21 May 1787
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1691
Scope and Contents
Certifying that Robert Grimditch gent, is admitted to all property formerly held in copyhold by John Smith of Chatteris, schoolmaster, deceased, in the manor of Chatteris Ramsey, to hold in trust for the uses specified in Smith's will. Copy of court roll, examined by Isaac Strong, steward of the court; lords of the manor are John Carill Worsley esq and the heirs of Samuel Tarry esq, duty stamps.
Dates:
21 May 1787
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1692
Scope and Contents
Certifying that, Robert Grimsditch having surrendered the copyhold properties granted him that day (Doc 1691), the same are now granted to John Stocker Freaks and his wife Margaret at specified fines and rents upon the terms outlined in Doc 1690. Copy of court roll, examined by Isaac Strong, steward of the court; lords of the manor are John Carill Worsley esq and the heirs of Samuel Tarry esq, duty stamps.
Dates:
21 May 1787
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Admission, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.864
Scope and Contents
Before a Court Baron held by Richard Bentley, Professor of Divinity and Master of Trinity on 29 Apr. 1708, present also Rev. George Modd, Senior Bursar and D. Thomas Smith, Fellow, Richard Penson, steward. The homage declares that Richard Green, gent., had died since the last Court seised of 6 acres and that Christopher Green, sr., was his brother and heir, and further that Christopher Green, sr., has died and Christopher Green M.D. is his son and heir and is here in Court. He pays 2/6 and...
Dates:
29 Apr. 1728
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Fonds
Admission, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.865
Scope and Contents
At a Court Baron of Richard Bentley, Lord of the Manor and Master of Trinity, on 23 Sept. 1728, before William Greaves, esq., steward. To the Court came Christopher Green, jr., M.D. and sought to be admitted as tenant to the 6 acres, 2 roods at Chesterton to which his father was admitted in 1708 (until his son should attain 21 years). And the said Christopher, jr. came to the Court and surrendered the premises into the hands of the steward to the use of himself and his wife or for the longer...
Dates:
23 Sep. 1728
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.866
Scope and Contents
At a Court Baron of Robert Smith, D.D., Master of Trinity before William Greaves and Beaupre Bell, stewards. The homage finds that Christopher Green, M.D., the younger, and Mary his wife are both dead, and that Christopher Green, esq., is the eldest son and next heir, and he, by Robert Green, esq., his uncle and attorney, on his behalf desires to be admitted tenant of the 6 acres and 2 roods. And is admitted by his uncle and his fealty respited. Examined by William Mott, deputy steward.
Dates:
24 Oct. 1748
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Cambridge University Library