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Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5995
Scope and Contents
Transcripts made by Henry Pidcock of documents from Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire. Pidcock's name appears inside the front cover of both volumes. Vol. 1, 32 pages: (fo. 1) decree for fines certain, 16 February 1626; (fo. 15) copy of the will of Adam Kelfull; (fo. 20v) account of tithable arable land and leys in Whittlesea; (fo. 22) list of donations to St Mary's and St Andrew's churches, Whittlesea, 1713-1766; (fo. 23) terrier of lands belonging to the same; (fo. 24) particular of the lord's...
Dates:
1839 (Circa)
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
Whittlesea Mere, Huntingdonshire: Drainage Plan
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8827
Scope and Contents
'Thoughts upon and a Plan to Drain Whittlesea Meer' (anonymous)
Dates:
1819 (Circa, undated (has watermark of 1819))
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire: Copies of Documents
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4369
Scope and Contents
Copies of documents dating from 1626-1795, with the watermark 1806, 128 folios: (p. 1) copy of an inspeximus, 12 February 1684; (p. 48) list of lots; (p. 69) 'The manner of tything in Whittlesey'; (p. 80) copy of the decree for fines certain, 1626; (p. 100) contents of the fens; (p. 106) account of arable lands; (p. 107) copy of the writ of execution of the decree upon the statute of 43d of Elizabeth, 5 June 1668; (p. 123) copy of the exemplification of judgement in Budd v. Hemmant and...
Dates:
1806
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
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire: manorial surveys and rentals
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3826
Scope and Contents
(fo. 2) title page; (fo. 4) bounds of manors of Whittlesey St Mary's and Whittlesey St Andrew's; (fo. 5) survey of same, 1603; (fo. 8) rental for manor of Whittlesey St Mary's, 1603; (fo. 21) copies of leases in the same; (fo. 26) rental for manor of Whittlesey St Andrew's, 1603; (fo. 36) terrier for both manors. fos 7, 24: blank. Inside back cover: 'Toyer Forster his book', the name repeated five times, and the date 1699. The name also occurs, with much scribbling, inside front cover.
Dates:
1603 (Transcribed in late 17th cent. hand.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Who built the bandwagon? A study of the founders of the Colonial Society of 1868': D.Phil. dissertation
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 8
Scope and Contents
A D.Phil. dissertation in History for the University of California, San Diego, 335 pages.
Dates:
1993
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Widdrington : letters and orations.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WIDDRINGTON
Scope and Contents
pp. 1-76 from front and 1-25 from back. Many blanks between.Front:1-9: Oratio panegyrica habita in Aula St Joh. Cantab. Die initiationis Regis Jacobi. Presumably 1684, though the account in Cooper’s Annals, iii. 606 does not indicate a university-wide event in St John’s hall.10-20: Oratio in Inauguratione Augustissimi Regis Caroli. [May 1660]21-6: Gloriosior Jupiter fulmine quam Imbre Aureo. 166927-9: untitled and undated address to the U. Possibly soliciting...
Dates:
1650 - 1684
Found in:
Peterhouse Library & Archive
Fonds
Wilcockson: the papers of Colin George Wilcockson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/WIC
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of correspondence sent to Colin Wilcockson by the poet and artist David Jones and a small volume of poetry. There is also a series of tributes to Wilcockson gathered together posthumously.
Dates:
1956-01-03 - 2023-05-02
Conditions Governing Access:
The C. G. Wilcockson papers are open for consultation.
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Wiles Family: correspondence and genealogical papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7721
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence and genealogical papers of the Wiles Family, originally of Holywell near Stamford in Lincolnshire, then of Jamaica, London and Cambridge. There are letters from three sons of Henry Wiles (1729-1815), a gardener at Holywell, who settled in Jamaica: James (1768-1851) was superintendent of the Botanic Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica, and was joined by two of his brothers, Henry (1771-1846) and John (1778-1842). All three were plantation owners with enslaved labourers, and are...
Dates:
1791 - 1959
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
Wilfred Court collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302Q
Content Description
A collection largely of photographic slides and prints taken by the architect Wilfred Court (1929-2011) documenting his work and travels in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria from the 1950s to 1968, as well as documenting return visits to India and Ghana later in his life. The slides and photographs have been catalogued following a listing provided by Court, and his own system of numbering and labelling has been maintained. The collection also includes three digitised home...
Dates:
1954 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access:
The photographic slides have been digitised in their entirety. For ease of access, please use the high-resolution images available on Cambridge Digital Library. The other born-digital material in this collection (cinefilms and diaries) is not yet accessible in the Manuscripts Reading Room - please contact the RCS curator for access copies.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Wilfred Powell: General Braddock collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 238
Scope and Contents
Material collected by Powell on the death of General Edward Braddock (1695-1755), who was mortally wounded at Monongahela on 9 July 1755 while in command of the British forces in North America during the French and Indian War of 1754-1763, part of the Seven Years' War. A marble monument was erected over his grave site in Great Meadows, Pennsylvania, in 1913, an event which was attended by Powell in his capacity as Consul for Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1892 - 1913
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
Wilfred Powell: Personal papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 311
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Powell’s career in the South Pacific, including some letters and a cutting book on his expedition to New Guinea, and papers concerning his consularship in Samoa. Powell’s time in Samoa coincided with a period of imperial rivalry between America, Britain and Germany, as well as internal rivalry among indigenous leaders on the islands.
Dates:
1873 - 1970
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
Wilfrid Airy: Journals and Notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8498
Scope and Contents
Contain notes mainly on engineering.
Dates:
1862-1912
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
Wilfrid Bennett Lewis: Undergraduate Lecture Notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8727
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the twenty-three notebooks Lewis left in the care of his brother Mr J A Lewis when he emigrated to Canada in 1946. The notebooks contain chiefly lecture notes and practical work for Lewis's undergraduate degree courses at Cambridge 1927-30. Notebook 1 contains physics notes which predate his university career and notebook 22 contains postgraduate work. Lectures by G F C Searle are identified in notebooks 11 and 12.
Dates:
1926-1931 (Circa)
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
Wilkinson: Papers of Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson (1907-1985), classicist
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/LPWK
Scope and Contents
Drafts of lectures given as part of the Cambridge Classics Tripos.
Dates:
1935-1970s
Conditions Governing Access:
These Papers are open for consultation by researchers.
Fonds
Wilkinson: the Anthony Harwick Wilkinson collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/WLK
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of original illustrations for books printed by the Golden Cockerel Press [an English fine press operating between 1920 and 1961].
Dates:
1949 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
The A. H. Wilkinson papers are open for consultation.
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Wilkinson: The Papers of Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/LPW
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of papers produced by L P Wilkinson from his undergraduate days right through to his death in 1985, including undergraduate essays, radio broadcasts, notes and drafts for his unpublished 'Six Characters' and his successful 'A Century of King's' and 'Kingsmen of a Century' as well as details of his obituary and funeral.
Dates:
1928 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
Fonds
Will and probate (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2277
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
Will and probate of Thomas Ellnor (copy), Basford, Nottinghamshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1176
Scope and Contents
Will of Thomas Ellnor, of Basford, Notts. He leaves all his goods etc. to Isabella his wife. Signed by Thomas Ellnor, his mark. Witnessed by Sam. Mabbott and Thos. Hawksley.
Before Timothy Fenton, clerk, Dean (?) of Nottingham, surrogate of William Ward, LL.D. Commissioner for York. Signed by John Shaw, Dep. Registrar. Signed on 'turn-over' by William Ward.
Dates:
12 Jan. 1718
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Will, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3736
Dates:
1774
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
Will Carter's collection of engravings by Reynolds Stone
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9830
Dates:
1932-1982
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
Will, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3005
Dates:
1897
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1681
Scope and Contents
Copy of will of John Smith of Chatteris, schoolmaster. Messuages in Chatteris, after decease of Margaret his wife, are left in trust to Robert Grimditch, who is to sell some and from the proceeds to pay stated sums to testator's daughters Francis Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Ann Smith and Margaret Smith, remainder to be shared equally among them and his other children, Mary wife of Jonathan Ilett, John Smith, Richard Smith and Robert Smith. All other possessions are left to testator's wife...
Dates:
21 May 1779
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2291
Dates:
1860 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2444
Dates:
1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2349
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