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Probate of will of J. Macpherson, Marylebone, Middlesex
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.765
Scope and Contents
Probate of will of James Macpherson, of Oxford Street, London, Scotsman. He bequeathers to his wife Anne Macpherson all his estate, after paying £100 to his nephew, Peter Mackay, and after investing £100 for the benefit of Anne, daughter of his wife by a previous husband (surname not mentioned). After his wife's death the estate to be equally divided between his wife's three children, Anne, Elizabeth, wife of John Taplin (who is not to be able to touch it), and William. Witnesses: Alex....
Dates:
24 July 1820 (Date of will: 6 June 1819)
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Probate of will of J.F. Jaquet, Walangin, Switzerland
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.764
Scope and Contents
Probate of will of Jean Frederick Jaquet of Walangin, Switzerland. Two-thirds of the first ten lines are missing. He bequeathes to his wife Mary Elizabeth Jaquet 'also' £700 absolutely, and £1500 for her life, and afterwards to be divided equally among his sisters Judith Jaquet, Jeanne Barbille Jaquet, Marie Esther Jaquet and Julie Jaquet, and his two other sisters Jeanne Marie Jaquet and Marianne Jaquet ('in easy circumstances') £5 each for a mourning ring, the residue to go to his wife and...
Dates:
12 July 1804 (Date of the will: 17__ (in missing part at beginning of document))
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Cambridge University Library
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Probate of will of John Brathwait, Sevenoaks, Kent
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1189
Scope and Contents
Will of John Braithwait, formerly coachman to Lyonell, Duke of Dorset. He leaves all to his wife Lucy. Signed by John Braithwait. No witnesses. Below is a deposition by John [Ullock/Hullock?], 'Inholder' of parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London, Msex, and John Taylor, servant to Duke of Dorset who both know J. Braithwait who died on 1 July 1723, and declare the above statement 'found on the backside of the second leaf of a Book ... Entitled the whole Duty of Man', to be his handwriting....
Dates:
17 Feb. 1723 (Either 1723 or 1724? Date of will: 1721)
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Probate of will of John Sheffield, 6th Duke of Buckingham and Normandy, London
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1210
Dates:
6 Oct. 1738
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Professor J.A. Emerton: Printed papers on Dutch theological teaching
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8962
Scope and Contents
Papers, mostly printed, on provision of theological teaching in Dutch universities
Dates:
1984-1990 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Uncatalogued collection. Please apply in advance to arrange access.
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Cambridge University Library
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Professor Sir Joseph Hutchinson: correspondence on early agriculture,1967-80
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9847
Scope and Contents
The material catalogued below mostly dates from the period of Hutchinson's retirement, and relates to his interest in the early history of agriculture in Britain, Greece and the Indian sub-continent.
Dates:
1967-1980
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Cambridge University Library
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Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 165 x 115 mm and have typewritten captions pasted onto the reverse. A sheet of paper with the prints gives the title: 'Progress in the Colonies. Rejected photographs'. This selection appears to be part of a larger series of prints -the captions are often numbered and frequently make references to 'Feature Sets'. The photographs illustrate post-war developments in agriculture,...
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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Project for the Government of the University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4149
Scope and Contents
'A projecte conteyninge the State, Order, and Manner of Government of the University of CAMBRIDGE as it is to be seen in the Three & Fortieth Yeare Of our most gracious Soveraigne Queene ELIZABETH' transcribed by Michael Lort from an original said to have been in the possession of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and dedicated to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University, +1768. Edited by Michael Lort 1769. The verso is blank. Inside the front cover bookplate...
Dates:
1768 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Prokosch (Frederic): Copies of poems by himself and others
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8071
Scope and Contents
Hand-illustrated pamphlet copies, made by Frederic Prokosch, of poems by various authors. On the inside cover of each pamphlet is the bookplate of Prokosch's library. Each pamphlet includes a handwritten note by the author recording that it was made by him at Fountain Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 1932-1933. However, owing to the scandal surrounding the 1972 sale of his pamphlets, the provenance of the pamphlets in this collection must be uncertain. The poems are accompanied by photocopies...
Dates:
1932-1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Proof copy of the Selborne memorandum
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 205
Scope and Contents
'A review of the present mutual relations of the British South African colonies', with corrections and notes, 183 pages. This copy is a proof dated 19-21 December 1906, and was amended by Lord Selborne, according to a manuscript note by Lionel Curtis of 14 January 1925. This proof is not the final revision, since there are some portions, such as p. 5, where the proof version and the amendment differ from the eventual publication. In addition to Lord Selborne's amendments, some portions...
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Property documents relating to the Manors of Dullingham and Great Bradley in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3975
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous collection of documents, including fines, recoveries, admissions, surrenders, leases and releases relating to Willingham, Dullingham, Carlton and Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, and Great Bradley, Suffolk. Many papers concern the Darby, Cooke, Turner, Smoothy, and Billingsley families.
Dates:
14th century - 19th century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Property records of the Pell family, Manor of Wilburton, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4003
Scope and Contents
Property documents relating to Pell family of Wilburton Manor. This collection has been organised in chronological order and includes wills, enfranchisements, extinguishments, accounts and a variety of land transfer documents.Historic England's official list entry for Wilburton Manor includes the following information:Wilburton Manor had come into the possession of Sir Albert Pell in 1817. Sir Albert died in 1832, and his widow the Hon Lady Margaret Letitia Matilda...
Dates:
1817 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Proposals for rights on kelp, Scilly Islands, Cornwall
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1302
Scope and Contents
George Ayton, of London, sets out proposals for the making of kelp on the Scilly Islands and rocks, and offers £100 for the exclusive right of doing so for a term of 21 years. Sent to the Duke of Leeds, then owner of the islands.
Dates:
10 Feb. 1803
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Prospectus of Passages from D. Herbelot's Bibliotheque Orientale, translated from French
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7513
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Prothero: The Papers of Sir George Walter Prothero
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/GWP
Scope and Contents
The papers contain diaries of Prothero's private and public life within the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh and in London from the start of his Fellowship at King's College until his death, 1872-1922; travel diaries for the United States, 1909-10, Germany, Russia and Austria, 1914 and France, 1916; address and visitors' books, 1890-1915; author index to the Quarterly Review, 1895-1921.
Dates:
1872 - 1970
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Psalter fragment
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10398
Scope and Contents
Leaf from a Latin Psalter, possibly French, showing part of Psalm 124 and all of Psalm 125.
Dates:
Fifteenth century
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Public Schools Empire Tour to New Zealand. 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs by an unknown tour member consisting of black and white lantern slides most measuring approximately 75 x 55 mm. Most of the slides have been captioned: the titles of those without captions are enclosed in square brackets.The Public Schools Empire Tours came into being through the Church of England Council of Empire Settlement's decision in 1925 to send a party of schoolboys to Australia after the visit to England of a party from the Young Australia...
Dates:
1929-01-04 - 1929-05-18
Conditions Governing Access:
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Publications
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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 10
Scope and Contents
This section contains records relating to the main publications of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, namely Transactions, Proceedings (from 1975 Mathematical Proceedings), and Biological Reviews, together with some records relating to occasional publications. The records include the following: some copies of early volumes of the Transactions (1821-27); records of publications sold and donated; stock lists; prices; records relating to illustrations (including copper plate engravings, glass...
Dates:
1820 - 2021
Found in:
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fonds
Publications, typically biographies of fellows and alumni
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/Bio
Dates:
2000 - 2023
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
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Pudu English School
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031E
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs mounted on a sheet of paper with handwritten captions.
Josephine Foss, M.B.E., arrived in Malaya in 1923 and was sent to take charge of Pudu School. Conditions were poor, but new buildings were obtained and the school was greatly developed.
Dates:
1923
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queen Elizabeth II in Fiji
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091D
Scope and Contents
115 x 89 mm. Taken during the Queen's tour of the Pacific. There is a handwritten caption on the reverse explaining the occasion:‘H.M. the Queen standing, reading her speech in reply to the Colony’s Loyal Address. Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, having presented this to her is now seated on a bench along L.H. side wall with throne to be decorated at the investiture to follow. A table carrying the decorations will be seen slightly to L. of H.M., and in front of Sir Ronald...
Dates:
1953-12-18
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queen Mary Indian collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89
Scope and Contents
Material collected during the Royal couple's two visits to India in 1905-1906 and 1911-1912 with a few items from other periods. There are printed books, many of them presentation copies, relating to India; programmes, orders of ceremonial and other items from the visits, many specially bound; and albums of photographs and other material presented to King George and Queen Mary or compiled by them as souvenirs of their visits. The material is in English with the exception of one item in...
Dates:
1881 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Queens' College, Cambridge: Statutes and related historical material
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3858
Scope and Contents
With (fos 58-73) notes of founders of college, scholarships etc., collected by John Davenant; (fos 73v-74) lists of fellows, 1616, 1644, 1660. Also list of presidents, 1448-1760. Apparently in hand of Charles Plumptre DD.
Dates:
1750-1760 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queensland and Tasmania
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308G
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints each 200 x 260 mm. It reproduces fourty-five photographs contained in an album whose origin is unknown apart from an inscription in a childish hand on one page: 'For dearest Mother from Wilfred 5 May 1883.' This is very different from the handwriting on the caption of a photograph on the same page, and on most of the rest of the collection. One item is dated 1875, and a number are dated 1885. Despite the uncertainty of their origin, most of these photographs...
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Queensland Government gold field reports
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 292
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises twenty-two boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. Each of the boxes is individually labelled with subject summaries (ten in total) as follows:1 - Constitutional and Independence Conferences x 5 boxes2 - Britain and ... x 6 boxes3 - Commonwealth Parliamentary Association visitors (incl. Commonwealth Relations 1-61) x 2 boxes4 - Commonwealth Exhibitions x 3 boxes5 - Miscellaneous Conferences x 1...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library