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Diary of Samuel Viveash
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 287
Scope and Contents
A typescript copy of Viveash's diary of his activities from his emigration to the Swan River in 1838 until September 1851, 229 pages. There is a brief introduction and index by Canon A. Burton, who arranged the preparation of the typescript.
Dates:
1934
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Diary of Thomas Taylor Russell
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 408
Content Description
Manuscript diary written by Thomas Taylor Russell, Deputy Public Prosecutor in Perak, Malaya, captured in Singapore in early 1942 and interned as a civilian at Changi and Sime Road; a privately printed transcription reproducing Russell's diary; a typescript copy of the Double Tenth investigation and other publications from 1945 relating to Changi.
Dates:
1942-1945, and [2020]
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Dickinson: The Papers of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/GLD
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the fiction and non-fiction writing of GLD, including prose, poems, academic and political writing, personal and professional correspondence, articles written for newspapers and magazines, and his autobiographical writing. It also includes some newscutting, and writings about GLD after he died.
Dates:
1862 - 2012
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Dictata clarissimi Danielis Wyttenbachii ad Ciceronem de Finibus Bonorum and Malorum
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3659
Scope and Contents
Apparently unprinted. fos i v, iir, 144 and verso almost throughout: blank. Inside front cover are pencilled booksellers' prices. Attached to fo. i is the bookplate of F. O. Beggi.
Dates:
1814-1815
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Dictata Mathematica
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8458
Scope and Contents
A manuscript comprising Computus Ecclesiasticus, Introductio ad Geographiam, Tractatus de Sphoera, Epitome Astronomia, and Astrolabium sev. Plani-Sphaerium.
Dates:
1631
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Dictata Viri celeberrimi Tiberii Hemsterhusii in Antiquitates Graecas secundum ductum clarissimi L. Bos.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.107-109
Scope and Contents
Unpublished work on Greek antiquities by T. Hemsterhuis. Headings and general order follow those of Lambert Bros., Antiquitates Graecae, Franecker, 1714.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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Dictata...in P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistolas Heroidum
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3863
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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Dictionary of Arms
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3078
Scope and Contents
Includes alphabetical list of nobility and gentry of the United Kingdom, with descriptions of their arms, arms of episcopal sees, abbots, some Norfolk religious houses, Cambridge colleges, Oxford colleges, Inns of Court, and notes on mottoes. With lists of contents and authorities.
Dates:
1711
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Dictionary of East African biography
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 155
Scope and Contents
A wide range of material compiled in preparation for the D.E.A.B. A few letters and other items are in French, German and Italian.
Dates:
1916 - 1993
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Diego de Prado y Tovar: Encyclopaedia de fundicion de artilleria y suplatica manual
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2883
Scope and Contents
Autograph.
Dates:
1603
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Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7941
Scope and Contents
A collection of poems bound with another manuscript. The poems are untitled, but are either known to be by Mendoza or have been attributed to him. There are twenty-two lines to each page. The second manuscript is Bernardino de Albornoz's 'La gaticida. Historia y cuento apacible', a mock heroic poem in 146 eight-line stanzas, describing the death, burial and honours paid to Juan Crespo's cat, Crispina. It is probably a transcript of a book printed in Paris by Nicolo Molinero in 1604, the only...
Dates:
1620 (circa)
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Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: Poetry and prose
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7815-7816
Dates:
1575 (circa)
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Diocese of Central Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania] 1927-1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469G
Scope and Contents
A collection of 137 photographs and other pictures. The collection was mounted on sheets of brown paper for display at exhibitions and bazaars in the 1950s, but has now been transferred to an album. The photographs represent various aspects of the activities of the Diocese, and were gathered from local mission staff, who in many cases wrote descriptive notes on the backs. The majority are amateur snapshots not exceeding 14 x 8 cm, but there are a few larger ones, including some of people...
Dates:
1927 - 1952
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Diocese of Lincoln: accounts and correspondence connected with the contribution made to the city of Geneva
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.60.2.8
Scope and Contents
Including: letters from Jacob Anjorrantius, sieur a Soully, agent of Geneva, to an unidentified recipient, 27 Oct. 1603 and 28 Sep. 1604; copy of letter from W. Chaderton, bishop of Lincoln, to commissioners, 18 Apr. 1604; original letter from the privy council to Chaderton, signed by Lord Ellesmere, 1st earls of Dorset, Nottingham, Suffolk, Devonshire, and Northampton, Robert Cecil viscount Cranborne, and by William Knollys, 30 Sep. 1604.
Dates:
1604
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Diocese of Norwich: Ecclesiastical Formulary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9234
Scope and Contents
The formulary dates from the incumbency in the Norwich diocese of Bishops Edmund Scambler, William Redman and John Jegon, c.1591-1610.The formulary contains various ecclesiastical documents, some copies of documents, and a list of Latin forms of Christian names (53 leaves). It includes (f.1) Rudolph Game, resignation from the vicarage of Oulton, 1592; (f.1v) commutation of the penance of John Bowle of Tymworth, Suffolk, and Thomas Watson of Wilton, Norfolk; (f.2) note of the...
Dates:
1591-1610 (circa)
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Diploma of William Wright, Leyden
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.21
Scope and Contents
Certificate of admission of William Wright to the Mastership of Philosophy and Doctorate of Literature in the University of Leyden. Signed by the Rector and other members of the Governing Body. Great Seal of the University attached.
Dates:
2 Feb. 1853
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Directorate of Fortifications and Works maps for sites in England, Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Bermuda, Kowloon Peninsula
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Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/Maps.aa.F.06
Scope and Contents
Plans and drawings of army barracks, depots, forts, batteries and other military structures. Mostly marked 'secret' or similar. Show site details omitted from publicly available maps. Scales range from 1:500 to 1:126,720.
Dates:
1857 - 1956
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Discharge, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2289
Dates:
1860
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Discharge of conditional surrender, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1725
Scope and Contents
George Palmer of Chatteris, farmer, made conditional surrender of a property at Hive End with adjoining land in Burnsfield, manor of Chatteris Ramsey, on 23 May 1803, to the use of John Gardner esq of Chatteris, to secure payment of #160 plus interest. Palmer defaulted on the repayment, and Gardner is now dead. William Dunn Gardner of Chatteris esq, formerly William Dunn, his wife Jane being daughter and executrix of the late John Gardner, now requests and authorises the steward of the manor...
Dates:
10 Apr. 1810
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Discharge of conditional surrender, Sutton, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1777
Scope and Contents
William Dunn of Chatteris gent, in consideration of #30 plus due interest, discharges Freeman Cawthorne from a conditional surrender of six copyhold acres in Sutton North Fen, manor of Sutton, made on 16 May 1785. Cawthorne had earlier purchased the land from one Thomas Maylin (see Doc 1780). Signed by William Dunn, addressed to the steward of the manor, duty stamps.
Dates:
24 Aug. 1790
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Discharge of legacies, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1720
Scope and Contents
[George] Wheeler Palmer of Chatteris, yeoman, and Sarah his wife (nee Palmer), and William Palmer of Chatteris, baker, acknowledge receipt from George Palmer of Chatteris, farmer, of the legacies bequeathed to Sarah and William Palmer of #12 apiece, by the will of Mary Skeele of Chatteris, spinster, deceased, bearing date 17 Apr 1766 (Doc 1719). Signed by G W Palmer, William Palmer, and Sarah Palmer (who makes her mark), and witnessed by Thomas Moore, addressed to the steward of the manor of...
Dates:
21 May 1803
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Discharge of Legacies, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1744
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Skeels, Robert Cawthorn and Joseph Wright (as executors of Sarah Cawthorn's will), Mary Howell, and Ann Cawthorn all acknowledge receipt from Joseph Saberton and William Ruston the younger, both of Chatteris, farmers, of four separate sums of £200, bequeathed to them by their father Philip Cawthorn of Chatteris, farmer (d March 1824), probate of whose will had been granted by the Ely Consistory Court on 8 June 1824. The legacies had been charged upon Cawthorn's real estate. 21 Feb...
Dates:
8 June 1824
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Discharge of Legacy, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1682
Scope and Contents
Richard Smith of Chatteris, carpenter, acknowledges receipt from Robert Grimditch esq of the sum of 15 4s 8d farthing, bequeathed to him by his late father John Smith of Chatteris, schoolmaster. Signed and sealed by beneficiary, witnessed by John Smith.
Dates:
25 May 1787
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Discharge of Legacy, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1683
Scope and Contents
John Tillbrook of Chatteris, miller, and Ann his wife, acknowledge receipt from Robert Grimditch esq of the sum of 25 4s 8d farthing, bequeathed to Ann by her late father John Smith of Chatteris, schoolmaster. Signed by both beneficiaries (John Tillbrook makes mark) and sealed, witnessed by Richard Smith (cf Doc 1682).
Dates:
25 May 1787
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Discharge of Legacy, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1684
Scope and Contents
Frances Smith of Chatteris, spinster, acknowledges receipt from Robert Grimditch esq of the sum of 35 4s 8d farthing, bequeathed to her by her late father John Smith of Chatteris, schoolmaster. Signed and sealed by beneficiary, witnessed by Richard Smith (cf Doc 1682).
Dates:
25 May 1787
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