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Biographical material collected by Donald McLachlan relating to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DUPO
Scope and Contents
Pound's own papers were destroyed (by burning), shortly after World War Two, by his fellow admirals Cunningham and Geoffrey Blake.
Dates:
1865 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Management Group
Birdwood : diary and notes as an undergraduate at Peterhouse.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/BIRDWOOD
Scope and Contents
Verso of front endpaper: Ex Libris label: 'BIRDWOOD 183'.
a: 'Herbert M. Birdwood, Pet. Coll. Cambridge. 1858'.
b-d: 'Contents': chronological summary, with page numbers, of events evidently important to him, both personal and national.
Dates:
1858-01-01 - 1858-12-16
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Birmingham Library: Resolution of Condolence on the Death of Henry Bradshaw
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.23
Scope and Contents
Includes covering letter from C.E. Scarse to Charles E. Grant
Dates:
11 Mar. 1886
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
Bishop James Hannington collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045N
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 40 x 55 mm., with annotations and identifications on the reverse by H.B. Thomas. The collection consists of a portrait of Hannington (1884) and seven small snapshots showing the unveiling of the Hannington Memorial near Jinja in 1939. Y3045N/1 is by Lombardi and Co.James Hannington (1847-1885) first went out to Africa as a leader of a mission party in 1882 but was invalided home to England the following year. In 1884 he was...
Dates:
1884 - 1939
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
Blackspot removals in Natal: papers collected by John Aitchison
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 218
Scope and Contents
Papers, news cuttings, copies of articles, correspondence, and photographs and negatives, collected by John Aitchison documenting the impact of the Blackspot Removal Campaign in Natal.
Dates:
1953 - 1965
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Blennerhassett Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486
Scope and Contents
Personal papers, correspondence, notes, drafts and writings of Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett, chiefly, and her husband, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett. This includes a series of Lady Blennerhassett's working notebooks, collections of reviews and her correspondence with family members, friends and prominent individuals including Ignaz von Dollinger, Lord Acton, Franz Xaver Kraus and members of the German nobility. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett's papers include copies of his speeches, political...
Dates:
[1850s]-1917
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
Collection
Blofeld: John Blofeld collection
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/BLO
Dates:
1946 - 1987
Found in:
Downing College
Fonds
Bloomsbury: Papers Relating to Bloomsbury
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/BLM
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Bloomsbury figures for whom there is not an existing collection, or relating to more than one of the Bloomsbury collections.
Contains BLM/1-19, and publications.
Dates:
1900 - 1982
Management Group
Blount : Law Dictionary, and other legal texts.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/BLOUNT
Scope and Contents
Lettered on spine: 'Anno / 1626 // JUDGES' / RESOLUTIONS / ON / POPISH / RECUSANTS // LAW / DICTIONARY // MODUS DECIMANDI // CASES OF / THE SEA // CISTERCIAN / Matt: Hale / 1648,'Ff. a-b, 1-175.b: Liber Thome Blount de interiori Templo, 1639. // Non fruitur sapientia cui invisa est industria. (With notarial mark.) Liber Thomae Miller, pret. 8s 8d.1-4: The resolucion of all the Judges vnto severall Questions concernyng Popish Recusants in Trinity Terme Anno secundo...
Dates:
1632 - 1648
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Bob Le Sueur in East and Southern Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 200
Scope and Contents
A diary describing Le Sueur's time in Africa, November 1997 - April 1998, 190 pages with a two-page index. The volume covers the journey out (pp. 1-3), Kenya (4-65), Tanzania (65-85), Malawi (65-98), Zimbabwe (99-113), Namibia (113-125), South Africa (126-152, 157-172 and 174-184), Lesotho (152-157), Swaziland (172-174) and the journey home (184-188).
Dates:
2000
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
Bola Brankovic: Two works
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8084-8085
Scope and Contents
Typescripts of a novel and a play.
Dates:
1959-1975
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
Bombay photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022CCCC
Scope and Contents
Sepia prints on mounts. Their appearance suggests that cardboard frames, originally stuck down surrounding the photograph, have been crudely removed. The prints are interesting reflections of British social life and were the property of the grandfather of Mrs. M. Heuston (no further identification or information given).
Dates:
1900
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
Bond and obligation, Claypoole, Lincolnshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4110
Scope and Contents
John and Richard Parker to George Franckland
Dates:
1641
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
Bond and obligation, Knowle, Warwickshire and Wroxton, Oxfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3938
Scope and Contents
John Cope esq of Knowlehall [Knowle], Warwickshire, and Sir William Pope Kt of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, stand bound in #200 to Walter Coventrye of London, gent, to pay the said Coventrye the sum of #106 13s 4d at the dwelling house of Thomas Coventrye esq in Salisbury Court, parish of St Bride, London on 3 November next. Signed and sealed by Cope and Pope, witnessed by George Symcotts, William Ayre, and George Clarke.
Dates:
1 Mar. 1615 (12/48 James I)
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
Bond and obligation, Tadmarton, Oxfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3942
Scope and Contents
Sir William Pope of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, acknowledges himself bound in #400 to Ambrose Sacheverell of Todmerton [Tadmarton], Oxfordshire, clerk, to confirm his grant, of even date, to Sacheverell of the next advowson of the rectory of Todmerton. Signed and sealed by Pope, witnessed by Martin ?Tustian, Richard Robotham, John Alnewicke, Francis Osbaston, and Antoni ?Litlfild.
Dates:
19 Mar. 1628 (3 Charles I)
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
Bond and obligation, various places
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3931
Scope and Contents
John Bickerton of Croft, Leicestershire, gent, stands bound in #500 to Sir John Brockett of Brockett Hall, Hertfordshire, and to Edward Boughton of Causon, Warwickshire, to perform the conditions specified in indentures of even date between the same parties. Signed and sealed by Bickerton, delivered to John Spurling to the use of Brockett and Boughton, witnessed by William Fullwood, Henry Fynche, Nycholas Redman, and Rowland Hull. Fragment of red seal, pendant on tongue.
Dates:
28 June 1586 (28 Elizabeth I)
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
Bond and obligation, West Markham, Nottinghamshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4111
Scope and Contents
Rutland Molineux to Christopher Salmon
Dates:
1649
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
Bond and obligation, William Aldis Wright to Henry Bradshaw (Librarian), Cambridge University Library, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4141
Dates:
1874
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
Bond and surrender, Doddington, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.875
Scope and Contents
John Marriott Parman, farmer, of Chatteris, I. of E., Cambs., acknowledges his bond to Thomas Cole, farmer, of Doddington for £346; the condition being that John Marriott Parman surrenders 17 acres in a fen called Dikemore in Doddington, and 8 acres in Beestings, Doddington, to the use of T. Cole, his heirs etc. in consideration of £173, the obligation to be void as long as T. Cole is left in peaceable possession. Signed by John M. Parman. Witnessed by William Purrant and Robert...
Dates:
1 Feb. 1777
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
Bond, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.843
Dates:
22 Nov. 1717
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
Bond, Aynho, Northamptonshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3710
Scope and Contents
Shakerley Marmion esq of Atterbury, Oxfordshire, and Henry Marmion of the same county, gent, acknowledge themselves bound in #300 to John Dillon and Gerard Croker. This bond underwrites an obligation by Henry Marmion and his guarantors Dillon and Croker to pay Richard Cartwright esq of Aynhow, Northamptonshire #52 10s on 26 June 1619. Signed and sealed by Shakerley and Henry Marmion, witnessed by ?Richard Cartwright and Nicholas Fordham. Endorsed with contemporary financial calculations...
Dates:
24 Dec. 1618 (52 James I)
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
Bond, Barley, Hertfordshire and Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3978
Scope and Contents
William, prior of Anglesh' [Anglesey Priory, Cambridgeshire] and the convent there confirm that they are bound to pay Master Richard, rector of the church of Meldeburne [Melbourn, Cambridgeshire] an annuity of 20 marks for life, in respect of land at Berle [Barley, Hertfordshire] and Haselingefeud [Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire], with associated rents. Following his decease - or during his life should he wish it - they further agree to maintain a secular chapel to pray for his soul, the soul...
Dates:
4 May 1251
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
Bond, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.827
Scope and Contents
Bond of Leonard Gleane of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, for £360 lent to him by Thomas Batchelor, B.C.L. of the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Norwich. Signed by Leonard Gleane. Witnessed by William Ferrer, Edmund Ferrer, jr., and Ja. Wake.
Dates:
29 Sep. 1705
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
Bond, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1919
Scope and Contents
Zachariah Mart of Cambridge, gent, stands bound to John Whittred of Cambridge, butcher and alderman, in #40 as further security (with a mortgage of even date, Doc 1918) for #20. Signed and sealed by Mart, witnessed by Chs Martindale and N Farrin, duty stamps.
Dates:
30 Dec. 1765 (6 George III)
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
Bond, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1924
Scope and Contents
John Ashton of St Ives, Huntingdonshire, linen-draper, stands bound to Joseph Hart of Cambridge, linen-draper, in #300 to guarantee Hart's quiet enjoyment of a tenement in Preachers Lane, parish of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, lately purchased from Ashton (see Doc 1922, 1923). 3 pages, signed and sealed by Ashton, witnessed by Ed Randall and William Clarke, duty stamps.
Dates:
29 Sep. 1792 (33 George III)
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