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Notes on the Boer War, 1899-1900
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 198
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes and press-cuttings reporting the events of the war, organised chronologically; not an original memoir. The title page states 'commenced at Durban.' Originally in four volumes, but the second volume is missing.
Dates:
1899-10-18 - 1900-04
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Notes on the church at Chettisham, Cambs.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.14
Dates:
1900
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Notes on the comedies of Terence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2997
Dates:
1500 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Notes on the Graves Family
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.60.2.1
Scope and Contents
On a slip attached to fo. 33, in a 17th-cent. hand: 'My daughter Bridget (by my second wife) borne on Thirsday the seventh of July 1659 betweene the houres of eleven and twelve at night.'
Dates:
1707-1726
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Notes on the Psalter
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8820
Scope and Contents
Latin notes on the Psalter, with additional notes in French. There are annotations on the flyleaf, dated 22 April 1729 to 22 June 1732, possibly by the author. The bookplate of Lord Petre is pasted over the earlier bookplate on the front board. The book is inscribed 'Canon Knypers. April 1946'.
Dates:
1725 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Notes on Theological Lectures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4361-4364
Scope and Contents
Notes on lectures given by Andres Antonio and an anonymous Spanish Jesuit of the second half of the seventeenth century, written apparently in the same hand.
Dates:
1653-1654
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Notes, presumably by a reader, found in the Library copy of Lyndwood's Provinciale, London, 1506.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.20
Dates:
1650 (Circa. 17th-century hand.)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Notice of award, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3386
Dates:
1887
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Fonds
Notice of enfranchisement, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3392
Dates:
1887
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Fonds
Notice to discharge mortgage, Cambridge and St Ives, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1845
Scope and Contents
Letter from Clement Francis of Cambridge, solicitor, to Allpress Ashton of St Ives, miller, informing him that the executors of the late Adam Fitch, holder of a mortgage from Ashton for #1,000 dated 7 Mar 1834, intend to call in the same in six months. 2 pages, holograph, dated at Cambridge.
Dates:
23 Dec. 1848
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Notification of appeal/subpoena, Highworth, Wiltshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3987
Scope and Contents
Letter from Thomas Osler, secretary to the Great Western Railway, to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Highworth, Wiltshire, notifying them of the company's intention to appeal against a poor-rate assessment of 1s in the pound. Enclosing two subpoenas to the quarter sessions at Devizes in January 1843. Wafer seals to subpoenas.
Dates:
19 Dec. 1842-31 Dec. 1842 (Letter (with three further copies of the same) dated 19 Dec 1842, subpoenas dated 31 Dec 6 Victoria [1842])
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Numismatic Album and Notebook
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5980-5981
Scope and Contents
Album and notebook consisting of sketches of coins, descriptive extracts and information concerning medals, coins, Hindu religion, Egyptian antiquities and other subjects.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Nyasaland diaries of David Lawson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 228
Scope and Contents
Eleven diaries beginning in Cape Town, 1 January 1932, which Lawson was travelling through on route to take up his post, and continuing with occasional gaps up to 1943. The writing is mainly manuscript, but there are some inserted typescript entries. Although Lawson's will bequeathed 'the diaries written by me while a member of the Colonial Civil Service in Nyasaland from 1932 to 1944', there are no volumes for 1941 or 1944.
Dates:
1932 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Oakington manor, Cambridgeshire: Mortgage
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3400
Scope and Contents
Mortgage indenture between Torrell Joslyne esq, of Moynes Hall, Hallywell [Holywell], Huntingdonshire, and Sir John Jacob Kt, of London. The manor and parsonage of Oakington were leased to Joslyne by Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1640. Joslyne now mortgages same to Jacob for £1392. Signed by Joslyne. Tag, seal wanting.
Dates:
12 Dec. 1641
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Oakley Williams: Correspondence on an edition of de László
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8391
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript correspondence of Oakley Williams regarding the preparation of an edition of de László's portraits, with related material.
Dates:
1913-1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Obligation, Deddington, Oxfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3922
Scope and Contents
By virtue of a recognisance 'ordeyned and made by statute for the recovery of dettes' dated the day previous, John Billyngs of Dadyngton [Deddington], Oxfordshire, gent, stands bound to Thomas Pope esq, treasurer of the court of augmentations, in the sum of #500. By this indenture, Pope agrees to forego the sum provided that Billyngs performs all his obligations under a pair of indentures dated 9 October last. Indenture, signed and sealed by 'John Byllyng'. Traces of pendant tagged red round...
Dates:
25 Oct. 1537 (29 Henry VIII)
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Fonds
Obligation, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4050
Scope and Contents
Witnessing that, since John de Lile, 'seignour de Rouge Mount', has given to John Malwayn, citizen of London, his heirs and assigns, 20s annual rent from what is now the manor of John Avenel of Wynpol [Wimpole, Cambridgeshire], or from the advowson of the church of Wimpole, as is shown by a writing belonging to the said Malwayn, Avenel undertakes to pay the said charge in specified instalments. At Wimpole, indenture, witnessed by Henry de Colvill, Thomas de Chelers, Waryn de Bassingbourn,...
Dates:
21 July 1355 (Tuesday after the feast of St Margaret 29 Edward III [21 July 1355])
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Occasional Verses and Related Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4247
Scope and Contents
Occasional verses and related papers written in various hands, loose in a paper file, 33 folios. The papers include the following: (fo. 2) 'Verses made on Miss Harvey when a Day old in Imitation of Mr. Phillips on Miss Cartreet'. These are printed on a broadside kept at the British Library, 839 m 23, no. 108, where they are attributed to [Edward] Young, although they are not printed among Young's Works. They are also referred to by Jonathan Swift in a letter to Alexander Pope of 26 November...
Dates:
1730-1874 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Occupation of Mashonaland
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A
Scope and Contents
Album of carbon prints, originally belonging to Sir Leander Starr Jameson and has his signature. The album contains the results of William Ellerton Fry's work documenting the British South Africa Company's occupation of Mashonaland. It is not known how many copies of this album were produced; fewer than twenty are known to survive. The photographs were reproduced in smaller format but with some introductory matter, by Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo in 1982. It may be noted that this gives...
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ocean Island litigation records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 315
Scope and Contents
A comprehensive set of papers relating to Ocean Island Nos 1 and 2. The first box contains a file of correspondence, 1980-1981, regarding the gift of the collection to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1970 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ode by Henry Francis Cary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7194.III
Scope and Contents
The ode forms part of an invitation from Mr and Mrs Roberts to Dr and Mrs Peckard, addressed simply to 'Revd Dr [Peter] Peckard [Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge]'. It is entitled H F Cary ('not 16'): 'Ode'. It begins: 'Mark, where yon lucid stream / Beneath the moons pale beam ...'; ends: 'The fate of hopeless love / Nor fears like me, to terminate its woes.'
Dates:
6 Apr. 1789 (Circa, 'Monday 6 April')
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Of the Sacrament of Matrimonye
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8299
Scope and Contents
'A breyffe instruction...of the sacrament of matrimonye, with certayne other poyntes of doctrine comprysed in the same.' At the front of the volume: 'Stanley Morison ex dono Francisci Meynell.'
Dates:
1600 (Early 17th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Officers
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02
Scope and Contents
Master, bursar, dean, praelector, steward, tutor, 'visitors' and others.
Dates:
1376 - 1941
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Fonds
Officers 44th Assam Light Infantry Kohima: Naga Hills, 1883
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022WW
Scope and Contents
Modern copy of print (property and copyright of Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Aldershot). The size of the actual photograph as copied is 170 x 115 mm and the above title is written below it. There are some identifications below, but these have partly been cut off by the edge of the photograph. The original came from Captain Downie's album. The unit later became the 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles.
Dates:
1883
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Collection
Official Archive of Churchill College
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0014/[College Archive]
Scope and Contents
The college archive contains material (hard-copy and digital) from and about every aspect of life at Churchill College, including administrative, student life, photographic and some artefacts.
Dates:
1889 - 2024
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre