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Articles on international treaties between Popes and rulers, late 16C

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9765
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A collection of articles in Italian and Latin on international treaties, 1510-59, including agreements between Pope Leo X and the Swiss, and Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian, 1516, and Pope Paul III and Emperor Charles V, about heresy and Protestantism in Germany, 1546. —1 volume, Sommario de capitalationi fatte fra diversi Pontefici, et Principi Christiani, Italian and Latin, in a single hand throughout, late 16C; in modern boards

Dates: 1550-1600
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).
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Ely Dean and Chapter records

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDC
Scope and Contents The archives consist of the administrative records of the cathedral, the College (or close), the extensive manors and estates of the Dean and Chapter, and include records of the medieval monastery, the `Prior and Convent' of Ely. There is also a small number of records about the Cathedral School. The monastery (later the Dean and Chapter) was a considerable landowner in the area and this collection is a superb source of information about social and economic history and agriculture in the...
Dates: 974-c2015
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).
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Ely Diocesan records

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDR
Scope and Contents The collection consists of records of the bishop's administration, and of his officials. The bishops' registers, which at first contained all episcopal acts but later recorded only certain important items of business, start with Bishop Montacute's register in 1337. Earlier registers, and those from 1610 to 1702, are lost, but transcripts of some 17th century registers survive.From the fifteenth century separate registers and records were kept of various branches of the bishop's...
Dates: 1251-c2015
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).
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George Wilson Meadley: Annotated 'Memoirs of William Paley'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8951
Scope and Contents Copy of the first edition of Memoirs of William Paley, interleaved and annotated in pen and pencil with supplementary information from several sources, including 'F' [William Frend], 'Quarterly Review' and 'Lambert'. Loose letters and papers: copy letters, Meadley to Earl Grey, and reply, 1818, on toleration for Roman Catholics and Dissenters; Francis Huish to Trevilian, c.1808; S. Hodgson to Meadley, 1809; J.K. Lewis to Miss Meadley, undated, used by Meadley for drafts of his memoir; and...
Dates: 1808-1831 (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).
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Henry Paine Stokes: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8717
Dates: 1878-1953 (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).
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John Lingard: Correspondence and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9418
Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence with several of Lingard's colleagues from Douai and Ushaw, Roman Catholic Vicars-Apostolic (bishops), religious historians, antiquaries, archivists, publishers and editors, both British and French. The correspondence includes that of Charles Butler, the Catholic layman and advocate of emancipation, including Lingard's letters, which were returned to him by Butler's daughter after the death of her father in 1842. There are also twenty-five letters...
Dates: 1791-1852 (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).
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John Strype: Correspondence

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1-10
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Includes letters on ecclesiastical affairs in the mid- and late-sixteenth century, transcripts of Edwardian and Elizabethan documents and copies of material relating the the diocese of Chester and Lincoln.

Dates: 1643-1737
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).
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Letters regarding the Irish Rebellion of 1641-1644

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4246
Scope and Contents Copies of letters of the Lords Justices of Ireland made at the expense of James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (see the note on fo. 178), 247 folios. On fos 229-236 are copies of further documents relating to Ireland, which are recopied in a later hand on fos 214-218, possibly by Henry St John. These documents include a letter from Elizabeth I to the Privy Council of Ireland; instructions of James I to Sir Oliver St John on his appointment as Lord Deputy of Ireland; letters from James I to the...
Dates: 1641-1644
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).
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Mark A. Tierney: Correspondence and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9419
Scope and Contents The correspondence reflects Tierney's interest in Catholic history and contemporary church politics, especially in the period leading up to the establishment of the new Roman Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850. There are extensive series of letters illustrating his dealings with his publishers, especially Booker and Dolman, and series in which Tierney attempts, not always successfully, to borrow manuscripts from the Jesuits, which illustrate the tension in England in the 1830s and 1840s...
Dates: 1823-1917 (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).
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Part of a Petition by Irish Roman Catholics for Emancipation

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.521
Scope and Contents

The text of the Petition is gone. The signatures are arranged for the most part in three columns.

Dates: 1813 (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).
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Petition of Magistrates and others of the above county to the House of Lords against Roman Catholic Emancipation, Elginshire, Scotland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.519
Scope and Contents

Signed by Archibald Dunbeck.

Dates: 30 Apr. 1813
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).
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Petition of Protestant freeholders and others of the above city to the House of Lords in favour of Roman Catholic emancipation, Dublin

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.523
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in from three to five columns.

Dates: 22 Mar. 1819
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).
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Petition of Protestants of the above county against Roman Catholic Emancipation, County Monaghan, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.503
Dates: 28 Oct. 1812
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).
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Petition of Protestants of the above county to the House of Lords against Roman Catholic Emancipation, King's County, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.504
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in five columns.

Dates: 24 Feb. 1813
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).
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Petition of Protestants of the above town to the House of Lords against Roman Catholic Emancipation, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.505
Dates: 24 Feb. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above city and county to the House of Lords for Emancipation, Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.517
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in five columns.

Dates: 23 Mar. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above city to the House of Lords for emancipation, Limerick, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.506
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in seven columns.

Dates: 1 Mar. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above county to Parliament for emancipation, County Donegal, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.507
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in four columns on leaves 2-5.

Dates: 11 Mar. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above county to the House of Lords for emancipation, County Clare, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.508
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in five columns.

Dates: 16 Mar. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above county to the House of Lords for emancipation, County Down, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.509
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in five columns.

Dates: 12 Mar. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above county to the House of Lords for emancipation, County Galway, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.522
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in five columns.

Dates: 1813 (Circa, undated)
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above county to the House of Lords for emancipation, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.514
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in three columns.

Dates: 19 Mar. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above town and county to the House of Lords for Emancipation, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.518
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in four columns.

Dates: 1 Apr. 1813
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above town and county to the House of Lords for Emancipation, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.524
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in five columns.

Dates: 1819 (Circa, undated)
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).
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Petition of Roman Catholics of the above town to the House of Lords for emancipation, Ballinakill, Queen's County, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.515
Scope and Contents

The signatures are arranged in five columns.

Dates: 19 Mar. 1813
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).
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