Showing Collections: 626 - 650 of 8969
Fonds
Appointment of gamekeeper, Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1952
Dates:
1751
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
Fonds
Appointment of John Madox, Exchequer Office, Westminster
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.760
Dates:
1580
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
Fonds
Appointment of overseers, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1962
Dates:
1789
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
Fonds
Appointment of Plenipotentiary, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3709
Scope and Contents
Appointment of Robert Burnett David Morier CB extraordinary envoy and minister plenipotentiary to the King of Portugal. Sign manual, with cased white great seal (broken).
Dates:
27 Nov. 1878 (42 Victoria)
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
Fonds
Appointment of trust monies, Strood, Sussex
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1840
Scope and Contents
John William Commerell esq of Strood, Sussex, appoints that one third of a trust producing #1,000 per annum, established at the time of his marriage to Mary Bosanquet in 1786, shall stand to the use of their eldest daughter Maria Susanna Commerell, who is engaged to be married to Capt Robert Melville Grindlay of Berners St, St Marylebone, an officer in the East India Company's army. See also Doc 1833. Deed poll, signed and sealed by Commerell, witnessed by William Seymour of Margaret St,...
Dates:
19 July 1820
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
Fonds
Appointment of use of surrender, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3553
Dates:
1848
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
Fonds
Appointment of use of surrender, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3571
Dates:
1859
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
Fonds
Appointment of use of surrender, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3572
Dates:
1859
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
Fonds
Appointment of use of surrender, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3573
Dates:
1860
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
Fonds
Appointment of valuer, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3390
Dates:
1887
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
Fonds
Appointment to Mastership, Jesus College, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.471
Scope and Contents
The Bishop of Ely appoints William French D.D. Master of Jesus College.
Dates:
16 Dec. 1820
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
Fonds
Appointment, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3970
Scope and Contents
Appointment by the duke of Somerset, then chancellor, of William Wish as an 'Inferior Bedell' of the University of Cambridge during good pleasure. Signed and sealed by Somerset, duty stamps.
Dates:
27 Aug. 1728 (2 George II)
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
Fonds
Apprenticeship indenture of Roger Warfield, Sandwich, Kent
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.8
Scope and Contents
Abraham Hovenaghle by the appointment of churchwardens and overseers of the poor of St Mary's Parish, Sandwich, and of his own will and with the consent of his mother, puts himself apprentice to Roger Warfield of Sandwich, cordwainer, for a term of nine years. Roger Warfield agrees to teach and instruct him. Witnesses: Robert Quaynte, John Harbertt
Dates:
20 Nov. 1629
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
Fonds
Apuleuis: ''The Golden Ass'' translated into English
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8245
Scope and Contents
'The golden ass or xi books of metamorphoses newly translated and castigated, the objectionable passages being expunged from the Latin of Lucius Apuleius. Dedicated to Mr M-rt-n.' The document is dated London, 1825. The text has many corrections and crossings-out.
Dates:
1825
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
Fonds
Arberry: the papers of Arthur John Arberry
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ARB
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1927 - 1963
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Arbitration, Burwell etc., Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3953
Scope and Contents
Report of S Keck, arbitrating a legal dispute involving conflicting annuities and rent charges on Saxton Hall, Honymans and Goddards, and Burwell, Cambridgeshire, granted by the late Charles, Lord North and Grey, and due Sir Thomas Trevor Kt, Sir William Cowper Bt, and Richard Daston esq. Draft with four appended schedules in paper book of 46 fols.
Dates:
19 July 1697
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
Fonds
Arbitrators' Award, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.477
Scope and Contents
Whereas certain disputes have arisen between the Priory of Barnwell and the Town of Cambridge with regard to fishing and pasture rights etc., and certain actions for trespass are in train between the Priory and John Bell of Cambridge and also between John Foster of Ditton and Thomas Mathew of Cambridge, and whereas the parties have named Hewe Chapman, John Porgold, Wylliam Barbar and William Nolson to determine the dispute and have bound themselves to obey their award, the arbitrators having...
Dates:
22 Jan. 1506
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
Fonds
Archdeacon R.H. Walker in Uganda
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045T
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs measuring approximately 105 x 75 mm or 75 x 105 mm and arranged two to a page. Annotations written on paper (presumably by Archdeacon Walker) are stuck into the album. The photographs show groups of people and domestic life in Uganda, including: crossing a swamp, a funeral procession, a village schoolroom, Daudi the infant King of Uganda, interior of the Parliament House, Apolo Kagwa the Katikiro or Prime Minister, Mr. And Mrs. Cyril Gordon, making a bridge, boat...
Dates:
1900 - 1901
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
Fonds
'Archie Nye, a memoir'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 46
Scope and Contents
A biography of Archibald Nye, 68 pages.
Dates:
1980
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
File
Archimandrite Palladius: Ancient Traces of Christianity in China
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6403
Scope and Contents
A section transcribed from a book entitled Eastern miscellany (Vol. I), published in St Petersburg, 1877. The section is entitled 'Ancient Traces of Christianity in China', and is by the Archimandrite Palladius, a scholar of the time (157 folios).
Dates:
1877
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
Fonds
Archive of the Wood Lea Press
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10057
Scope and Contents
The formats of correspondence include letters, cards, and e-mail printouts.
Dates:
1985-2010 (approximate)
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
Fonds
Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103
Scope and Contents
From 1952 to 1967 the Secretary of the Association was Hugh Bryson. He organised the accumulation of two important collections of historical material through the BAM. In 1960, in cooperation with the Royal Commonwealth Society, Bryson initiated the gathering of original documents - memoranda, diaries, correspondence - and the writing of special reminiscences by those with first hand experience of the geographic area covered by the Association. Subjects of particular significance include...
Dates:
1801 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Archives of the Commonwealth Institute
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 409
Content Description
Comprises annual reports, corporate plans, reports to ministers and heads of government, centenary brochures, programmes, and papers relating to the future of the Institute, the Commonwealth Education Trust and the Centre for Commonwealth Education in Cambridge. The papers were collected by Stephen Cox, a former director of the Institute, and largely relate to his tenure as director, 1991-7, and his ongoing interest in the winding-up of the Institute in the 2000s.
Dates:
1964 - 2017
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Archives of the Royal Commonwealth Society
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of the institutional records of the society. Major sections relate to its organisation and administration, charters and rules, membership, the construction and renovation of its headquarters in London, and the extension of branches within the United Kingdom and throughout the British Empire and Commonwealth. The archives also document the society’s many cultural, educational and philanthropic initiatives, often undertaken as collaborative projects with other...
Dates:
1868 - 1990
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
Fonds
A.R.H. Mann Collection, 1935
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N
Scope and Contents
Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates:
1935
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