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Postcard views of Sierra Leone, circa 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446G
Scope and Contents
A small album (photographs now housed in a box file) containing monochrome postcards of Sierra Leone scenery and people. An inscription on the inside cover of the album reads 'For the use of the Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue, London WC from J.W. Paris for Paris and Co., Photographers, 50 Kissy Road, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 28/9/03'.
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Postcards of Busselton, Western Australia 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081C
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographic postcards, 138 x 85 mm., with 'Busseldon [sic] W.A. 1925' written on the back of each. Busselton is a holiday resort on Geographe Bay, 149 miles by rail south of Perth. Though settled by the Bussell family in 1832, it made little progress until it received an impetus, about 1921, under the group settlement policy of the State Premier, Sir James Mitchell. The photographs are not captioned and the following descriptions are derived from their content.
Dates:
1925
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Postcards of Glen Cavaliero
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10396
Scope and Contents
A group of picture-postcards accumulated by Cavaliero. The majority of the cards were addressed to Cavaliero, but some older ones were apparently acquired by him as collectables, and a few were written by him. Other writers of cards include Gillian Beer, David J. Hall, Paris Leary, Evangeline Paterson, Anne Ridler, Peter Scupham, Edmund de Waal and Victor de Waal.
Dates:
c. 1907-2003
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Powell Associated Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL AS
Scope and Contents
Material distinct from Enoch Powell's own papers as it has a different provenance (it was not maintained with Powell's own archive) and cannot be considered as having been generated by the same processes as Powell's papers.
Dates:
1948-02 - 2008-03
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Churchill Archives Centre
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Power of attorney, Arrington, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4010
Scope and Contents
John de Saint Andrew of Gotham' appoints John Berdefeld and John Wythir as his attornies to deliver, according to the tenor of his charter, seisin of his manor of Aryngton [Arrington, Cambridgeshire] to Nicholas Grene of Isham [Cambridgeshire]. At Isham, Friday before the feast of SS Simon and Jude, apostles, deed poll. Pendant red round armorial seal (damaged) upon tongue. Endorsed in a fifteenth-century hand: 'Aryngton', and in a seventeenth-century hand: '38 E 3 / A letter of Atturney...
Dates:
25 Oct. 1364 (38 Edward III)
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Power of attorney, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2077
Dates:
1853
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Power of attorney, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3084
Dates:
1905
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Fonds
Power of attorney, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3153
Dates:
1913
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Power of attorney, Great and Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3654
Scope and Contents
Gilbert West of Great Eversden appoints John Wrythe of the same place as his attorney to deliver seisin of land in Great and Little Eversden to Richard Adam of Orrewelle [Orwell]. White round seal. Endorsed in pencil in a modern hand: '2 / 6 Hen IV (1405) / Power of Attorney'.
Dates:
20 June 1405
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Power of attorney, Milton, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4012
Scope and Contents
John [Lestraunge, 6th Lord Strange] son of Roger Lestraunge de Knokyn appoints John Estmond and Bartholomew Knyght as his attornies to deliver, according to the tenor of his charter, seisin of his manor of Middelton [Milton], Cambridgeshire, with the advowson, to Richard Edenevet, rector of ?Llannemynagh, and to John Epurston, rector of Milton. Deed poll. Pendant red round armorial seal (damaged) upon tongue. Contemporary endorsement: 'Littera attornati de Middelton / ad deliberandum...
Dates:
29 Jan. 1394 (17 Richard II)
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Power of attorney to deliver property, Papworth Agnes, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.708
Scope and Contents
Holds seal of John of [Sawtrey?].
Dates:
1356 (30 Edward III)
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Power of attorney, Toft, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3660
Scope and Contents
Richard Adam, executor of the wills of Alexander and Thomas Kynge (late of Toft), appoints Thomas Adam as his attorney to receive and pay debts under the terms and provisions of these wills. Seal wanting. Endorsed in pencil: '5'.
Dates:
13 June 1430 (Circa, [?] Henry VI)
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Praelectio
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5863
Scope and Contents
'Lectoris in Theologia morali & casuistica Praelectio inaugurales.' Beg.: 'Cum vir admodum reverendus qui nuper ex hec... '. Ends: '... & virtuti unice litare et constanter adhaerere'.
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Praelector
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/PRAEL
Dates:
1792 - 1960
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Fonds
Praxis of a French Physician
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6448
Scope and Contents
250 folios: a collection of formulae, prescriptions and medical recipes arranged according to the class of remedy described, and divided into two books, the second dealing with external remedies only. Each book is subdivided into sections. On p. i the name Boussac occurs in the same hand as the writer of the book, and the same name occurs stamped on the binding. There are no initials.
Dates:
1780 (Circa)
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File
Prayers and Devotional Exercises
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4366
Scope and Contents
A series of Roman Catholic meditations and devotional exercises on the life and death of Christ and the life and assumption of the Virgin, 94 folios: (fo. 1) short exhortation; (fo. 2) meditations on the life and death of Christ, the Annunciation to the Coronation of the Virgin; (fo. 56) meditations on the life of the Virgin, the Conception to the Coronation; (fo. 79) further meditations on the life of Christ; (fo. 87) Rosary. Most of the versos are blank. Inside the front cover is a defaced...
Dates:
1680 (Circa)
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Fonds
Prayers and Meditations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8300
Dates:
1600 (17th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Prayers for a Nine Days' Devotion to Our Lady of Refuge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6631
Scope and Contents
'Novena de Nossa Senhora dos Remedios', Prayers for a nine days' devotion to Our Lady of Refuge, 66 folios. The title is contained within a roughly drawn frame of thick bands of foliage, with five putti interwoven. Similar though smaller frames occur at the heads of fos 8 and 14, the former containing two hearts pierced with a cross and a sword respectively, the latter the letters I. M. T.
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
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File
Precedents for ecclesiastical courts
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4124
Scope and Contents
The volume includes (fo. 135v) 'The True Briton's Answer to a farmer's letter, April 8th 1752', and (fo. 261) a treatise on communion. Recipes and accounts are also scattered throughout.
Dates:
1575-1752 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Premises Records
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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 7
Scope and Contents
This section contains papers relating to various premises occupied by the Cambridge Philosophical Society from its beginnings, including 1830s records of the work of Charles Humfrey, architect . The Society held its first meetings in the Museum of the (old) Botanic Garden before moving, in April 1820, to rented rooms above a shop managed by Mr C Bulstrode in Sidney Street, facing up Jesus Lane. In 1832 the Society leased land from St John’s College in All Saints Passage and built its own...
Dates:
1832 - 1978
Found in:
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fonds
Prescription book of an apothecary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3071
Scope and Contents
Probably in Westminster. Prescriptions in Latin: many give the name of the doctor, usually 'Dr More' [perhaps John Moore MD LRCP, c. 1618], or patient / other customer. Three are dated to 1625. Among names recurring are Sir Ambrose Turvill, Sir William Smithsby, Lord Teynham, the wife of Sir Henry Roper, Lady Rutland, 'the Lady Dutchessa', Lady Willoughby, 'Mr Browne at the Lady Dormers', Lady Mary Villiers, Lady Frances Cranfield, Lady Denbigh, and Lady Dormer senior. These entries end of...
Dates:
1625-1658 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Presentation to Randall Ellison 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043JJ
Scope and Contents
Photograph, measuring 200 x 150 mm, inserted in volume of papers (RCMS 149) presented to Randall Ellison by the Kaduna-Zaria branch of the Historical Society of Nigeria.The photograph shows Alhaji Umaru Gwandu presenting the volume to Randall Ellison at the AGM of the Branch on 19 February 1961. Randall Erskine Ellison, C.M.G. (1904-1984) served in various educational posts in British Somaliland, Tanganyika and Nigeria. He was Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Northern...
Dates:
1961-02-19
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
[President] Kruger photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055I
Scope and Contents
Collection of modern copies (circa 1932) of original prints circa 1896, which are uncaptioned. The whereabouts of the originals of these copies has not been traced.
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Press Cuttings about Sir Robert Mowbray
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MOWB
Scope and Contents
Albums of press cuttings about Sir Robert's political career. A few menus are included in the albums.
Dates:
1873 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Press cuttings and papers of Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 256
Scope and Contents
Cuttings and a few other papers regarding Sir Arthur and his family, the Royal Family, Bermuda and the Falkland Islands.
Dates:
1951 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library