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Will of William Lovell, Woolpit, Suffolk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.803
Dates:
23 Oct. 1684
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Will of William Mailing, Barrington, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.316
Scope and Contents
William Mailing of Barrington bequeaths certain goods to Rebecca Mailing his wife and wills that she shall have the use of his house for life; to his cousin Matthew Brock of Ipswich a certain sum; to his cousin William Willson of Crishall [Chrishall, Essex] a certain sum; to his cousin Roger Harding of Barrington, a certain sum and certain tools; to his cousin John Brock of Shepreth certain property in Barrington and to his heirs for ever, in default to Matthew Brock and his heirs for ever;...
Dates:
10 May 1738
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Will of William Quinsee [copy], Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.385
Scope and Contents
William Quinsee of Cambridge devises certain land in Cambridge to Charles Finch of Cambridge, Samuel Widnall of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, and his son William Quinsee and their heirs to the use of his wife Mary Quinsee during widowhood, on her death or re-marriage to the use of his trustees on trust till his children attain their majority, then to the use of his sons William Quinsee and John Quinsee and their heirs for ever; certain further land to the same to the use of his trustees...
Dates:
17 Feb. 1840 (Date of Probate: 9 October 1840)
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Fonds
Will of William Richards, Cambridge, Burwell etc., Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3735
Scope and Contents
The will of William Richards of Cambridge, leather cutter. He leaves to his wife Jane a life interest in his Cambridge and Barton property. After Jane's death, one messuage in Silver St currently occupied by Samuel Pont, tailor, is to go to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Orm of London, brushmaker, and thereafter to Elizabeth's daughter Mary. A further two messuages in the same street currently occupied by Mr Bottomley, stonecutter, and Mrs Blake, widow, are to go to another daughter...
Dates:
30 May 1754
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Will of William Squire of Shefford, Bedfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.229
Scope and Contents
He bequeaths to his wife Sarah Squire a certain sum and certain household goods; to his son John Squire certain tools and his horse and cart; to his granddaughter Charlotte Squire a certain sum; the residue of his personal property to be divided between Sarah Willows wife of Charles Willows of Shefford, the children of his daughter Elizabeth Squire, deceased, wife of William Squire of Campton, his daughter Catherine Squire and his son John Squire. He appoints the Reverend Edmond Williamson...
Dates:
13 May 1818 (Date of Certificate of Probate: 26 November 1819)
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Will of William Strand, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1377
Scope and Contents
William Strand bequeathes to his wife Mary a sum of money and certain pieces of furniture; also for life a cottage in Bottisham, to go on her decease to his son Francis; to his son William certain property in Bottisham; to his son John certain land in the same; to his son Francis, his daughter Sarah Walker, his daughter Anne Pamplin, his grandsons Thomas, William and Cornelius Pamplin and Thomas and John Walker, and his granddaughter Anne Strand, sums of money; the residue to his son...
Dates:
8 Sep. 1735
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Will, Orwell, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3742
Dates:
1695
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Willem Surenhuis: Praxeis ton hagion apostolon (Praelectiones in Acta Apostolorum)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10291
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript of lectures on the Greek text of the Acts of the Apostles, delivered as professor of Greek at the Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustre. There appear to be two cycles of topics (112 and 103 entries respectively), and notes about revision are variously dated 27 September 1716 and 1722. The style is similar to that of Surenhuis’ 1713 Biblos katallages, but the content is not identical.
Dates:
c.1713-1722
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Willey: the papers of Basil Willey
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/WIB
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of printed and manuscript versions of some of Willey's publications and a tribute in the Proceedings of the British Academy.
Dates:
1922 - 1980
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
William Almack: Journal
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9529
Scope and Contents
A bound journal of 164 pages, plus a further 17 pages of miscellaneous items at the end. The journal describes Almack's voyage to China on the barque Anna Robinson, and thereafter provides a clear and detailed record of the events leading up to the first Anglo-Chinese or Opium War (1840-1842). The account also covers the principal events and military engagements at the outset of the war, leading up to the convention which ceded Hong Kong to the British Crown in 1841. There are numerous...
Dates:
July 1837-July 1841
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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William Alwyn and Doreen Carwithen Archives
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/Ms/Alwyn
Scope and Contents
Around 150 boxes of manuscript music, correspondence, concert programmes, photographs, paintings, press cuttings, writings, and ephemera.
Dates:
1915 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Most of the archive is available to researchers at Cambridge University Library. Some items are closed.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
William Arnold Lloyd: Papers on Education
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8882
Scope and Contents
Letters to Lloyd in South Africa, 1956-59, including a letter from John F. Coales, with the lecture 'Education for automation', read at the International Conference on Automation, Paris, 12 April 1957. Photograph of the 'First non-European class. Bachelor of Education. University of Natal 1953-1954', and papers of Witwatersrand University, Graduate School of Education: programmes for seminars in education, 1958; examination papers for the Bachelor of Education degree, 1959; and background...
Dates:
1949-1970
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
William Atkinson Warwick: Robert the Bruce
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4513
Scope and Contents
An historical play, written in Warwick's own hand, 184 folios: (p. i) 'W.W. care of Mr. Smith, Publisher, Cambridge.'; (p. x) list of the cast at the performance, with autographs of the following: 'Miss Maturin', 'Miss Saker', 'Mary Barratt', 'Mrs. Walters', 'P. C. Nantz', 'George Krefong', 'R. H. W. Chicheley', 'H. C. Crowe', 'Charles Bland', 'Charles Gill', 'Benjamin Harrison', 'Brien', 'James Martin' and 'G. Moss'; (p. xiii) title; (p. xv) dramatis personae; (p. 1) text, signed 'Wm. A....
Dates:
1837
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Ayres: Journal of Maori Wars [also called the New Zealand Wars or Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9538
Scope and Contents
A handwritten journal with several sketches and pasted-in newspaper cuttings, providing a detailed account of the principal events during the cruise of HMS Harrier, 28 November 1860 - 17 March 1865, 189 pages. The account includes a detailed description of the main events of the Waikato river campaign of 1863, including the Battle of Rangiriri of 20 November 1863, in which Ayre himself took part. The journal is unsigned, and was evidently written up after the events it describes. The author...
Dates:
1860-1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
William Bate Hardy: manuscript notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9913
Scope and Contents
Comprises: manuscript notes on oxidation processes in living animals and specific granulation; manuscript notes on oxidation or reducing actions in the body, muscle granules, colloids and absorption. 16 sheets in total.
Dates:
1892 - 1893
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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William Bateson: Scientific Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8634
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, field notebooks, material relating to Bateson's career, lecture notes, material relating to the University of Cambridge, papers documenting various scientific debates, draft publications, lectures, material relating to societies and organisations and photographs.
Dates:
1859-1935 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
William Bateson: Text of paper about fossils
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9882
Scope and Contents
With plates of photographic illustrations. First page missing.
Dates:
c. 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Batters: 'Harry Tate's Navy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7980
Scope and Contents
Memoir of Batter's time in the Royal Naval Patrol Service.
Dates:
1969 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
William Behnes: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9655
Dates:
1817-1869
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Black: Biographical notes on eminent seventh-day baptists, and on other observers of the seventh-day sabbath
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3101
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically. Among supplementary notes on slips, guarded in, are letters to Black from (fo. 4c) 'J. E.', no date; (fo. 4e) J. H. Bransby, 31 July 1846; (fo. 11a) J. O. Halliwell, 7 July 1850; and (fo. 11i) William Courthope, 16 Sep. 1847.
Dates:
1847
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Fonds
William Blake: poem
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8522
Scope and Contents
'When Klopstock England defied', a poem transcribed by A.C. Swinburne during the nineteenth century from p. 5 of the Rossetti MS of William Blake.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
William Blake: two poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8457
Scope and Contents
Copies of 'The shepherd' and 'The echoing green' by Edward Johnston.
Dates:
1905 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
William Borrer: Correspondence and notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8186
Scope and Contents
Some items are accompanied by typescript explanatory notes, apparently made at the Department of Botany.
Dates:
1811-1857
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Fonds
William Borrer: Letters to C.C. Babington
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8185
Dates:
1836-1860 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
William Butterfield Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS William Butterfield
Scope and Contents
Comprised of biographical material (including a large selection of diaries), material related to Butterfield's work at Guy's Hospital London, extensive documentation of Butterfield's period working at Cambridge University, a record of Butterfield's lectures and visits, and his work for conferences, material related to Butterfield's publications, documentation of Butterfield's substantial involvement in societies and organiations, material related to Butterfield's engagement with the House of...
Dates:
1945-2000
Conditions Governing Access:
Some items are restricted at the discretion of the Keeper of Manuscripts.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library