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(Untitled), 06 Mar 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/68
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Page from the "Patriot" including marked article criticising Harold Nicolson for playing down the extent of religious persecution in the Soviet Union in a recent broadcast.

Dates: 06 Mar 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/193/41-45
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Letter from Stanley Bratle, member of the Indian Empire Society, to WSC emphasising the problem of hatred between religions in India and the dishonest and indecent aspects of Hinduism, and arguing that the concepts of democracy are alien to the oriental mind and are merely being exploited by the unscrupulous.

Dates: 15 Apr 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 12 Nov 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/159/97-99
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Letter from Bernard Baruch (120 Broadway, New York, [United States]) analysing the result of the United States presidential election, attributing the defeat of Al Smith to religious intolerance and predicting that the rest of the world will follow the United States in enjoying an economic revival.

Dates: 12 Nov 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 21 Jan 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/147/31
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Letter from Ernest H Schiff (2 Lyall Street, Belgrave Square, [London]) to WSC praising his speech at the Festival Dinner on Jewish religious education.

Dates: 21 Jan 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 18 Jan 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/137/58
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Letter from A E Clarke [president of the Bible Brotherhood] (Oaklawn, Anerley Road, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/137/60 and stressing the atheistical aspect of Socialism.

Dates: 18 Jan 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/65
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Letter from Lady Dorothy Howard (Pudsey, [Yorkshire]) to WSC disassociating herself from the "rowdyism" of the Women's Freedom League and describing the gloomy prospects for the Liberals in the Pudsey by-election. Refers to a sermon by a High Church parson on the need to carry the Athanasian creed to the blacks of central Africa.

Dates: 14 Jun 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Sep 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/44/169
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Letter from James Caird (Roseangle, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC enclosing a further £1000 [not present] to help the cause of Free Trade. Hopes to hear an account of WSC's holiday and notes with reference to the death of Professor William James that religious experience is useful in life but not in death. Refers to his visit to the Dublin Horse Show [Ireland].

Dates: 06 Sep 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/50-52
Scope and Contents Letter from [the 9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC: praises his work at the Admiralty; refers to F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] and "politicians who clothe the results of calculation in the language of enthusiasm"; cites the religious wars in sixteenth-century France as a warning against provoking religious passion in Ulster [Ireland]; complains about having to assess the site value of his land; describes his efforts to re-house his labourers through a co-operative and...
Dates: 01 Oct 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/3/38
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Letter from T S Dennison, vicar of St Stephen's (St Stephen's Vicarage, Birmingham) to WSC disputing statements made in WSC's manifesto, as reported in the Daily Chronicle, that the Church in Wales was "imposed upon them from without" and that "they are all made to pay for the Church" through the payment of tithe. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 15 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 16 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/3/39
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Home Office) to T S Dennison [vicar of St Stephen's, Birmingham] supporting previous statements made about the Welsh Church [see CHAR 12/3/38]: the [Welsh Church] was described as "imposed on them from without" because the veto of the House of Lords is used to over-rule the unanimous wish of the Welsh members; and the financial support given to "a single Church representing a small minority" was originally intended for the whole people. Signed typescript annotated with a...
Dates: 16 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 04 Apr 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/9/127-128
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Letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury [Randall Davidson] (Lambeth Palace [London]) to WSC concerning a possible misunderstanding which may have arisen: he informs him that he has spoken with the Bishop of St Asaph [Alfred Edwards] concerning the Welsh Church and possible legislation on its disestablishment. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 04 Apr 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Valentin de Cespedes: Summulæ, seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.01.12
Scope and Contents 'Summulæ, auctore reverendo in Christo patre, patre Valentin de Cespedes e societate Jesu censore apud logicæ quæsitores eiusque apud Albanenses professore. Cum regis privilegio. Vallisoleti apud N. N. Anno 1622'. Begins (after a page containing the alphabet in several different characters) 'Ad artis dialecticam introductio prævia: vulgo summulæ. In publica divi Ambrosii Vallisoletani schola, anno 1621. Præfatio. Quemadmodum gladiosi quando hæbetati sunt ...'. This is apparently a manuscript...
Dates: seventeenth century
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Valuation of benefices, 1701 - 1714

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.25
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A valuation of all the benefices in England and Wales according to the taxation of Henry VIII.

Dates: 1701 - 1714
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Variæ lectiones N. T. ex ms Theclæ collato cum editione Leydensi in 12mo.', Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.72.04
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These are for the Acts, Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles only.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Vindication of a sermon, 1630s?

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.49
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The author's name appears to have been Bewick. The sermon was preached at Cambridge on Good Friday 1632.

Dates: 1630s?
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W. Malmesbury, De Antiquitate Glasconiensis Ecclesiæ, 1566

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.03.27
Scope and Contents Extracts from De Antiquitate Glasconiensis [Glastonbury] Ecclesiae made by William Darell, Canon of Canterbury and Chancellor of Bangor. Contains a leaf with a pen and ink drawing of the 'Scutum Henrici Sydnei, 1566' and on the other side Darell's dedication of the book to him, with the date Dec. 5, 1566. The date, March, 1617, is given at the end. This is the earlier portion of W. Malmesbury's treatise slightly abridged. It is written out in a clear hand, with lines ruled round each...
Dates: 1566
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Waldensian documents, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.25-38
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Waldensian Manuscripts, presented, together with other and more ancient documents, 'to the publick Library of the famous University of Cambridge in August 1658,' by Samuel Morland, according to the heading of the Catalogue appended to the Contents of the 'History of the Evangelical Churches of the valleys of Piedmont,' fol. London, 1658, by the Donor. See also Dd.15.29-35.

Dates: Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Waldensian documents, Sixteenth or seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.25
Scope and Contents 1. 'A Verbal process against the Waldenses by the Archbishop of L'Ambrun, in the year 1497 and 1502, written in the French tongue.' 16 pages, 6 of them blank. 2. A Bull of Pope Innocent against the Waldenses in the year 1487 in Latin. 9 leaves, some blank. Injured by damp and doubling. 3. A Latin Treatise called Origo Valdensium et processus contra eos facti. 15 pages. 4. 'Divers Informations and Examinations taken by the Archbishop of Evereux and others of the Popes...
Dates: Sixteenth or seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Waldensian documents, Sixteenth or seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.26
Scope and Contents 1. 'Divers ample and very remarkable processes and cruel Inquisitions against those of Fraissinere and other places in the years 1487, 1488, 1489, 1492 and 1494.' 2. A Bull of Pope Alexander, bearing date the first of April in the year 1501, for absolution of the Waldenses, etc. to encourage them to revolt and abjure their Religion. 3. A Bull of the same Pope Alexander, bearing date the fifth of April, 1501, for absolution of Usurers, etc. 4. A Bull of the aforesaid Pope...
Dates: Sixteenth or seventeenth century
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Waldensian documents, 1650 - 1660

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.27
Scope and Contents (Copies.) 1. The Agreement made between Henry the Fourth of France and the Evangelical Professors of the Valleys of Piemont, in the year 1592. 2. A Petition of those of Val Perosa, presented to his Majesty of France, with the King's Answer thereunto, upon the sixth of June, 1630. 3. Several Articles of Capitulation accorded by the King of France to those of Val Perosa, bearing date the eleventh of April, 1630, to which are annexed his Majesties Letters Patents. 4. The...
Dates: 1650 - 1660
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Waldensian documents, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.28
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1. The Concessions of the Duke of Savoy to the Evangelical Professors of the Valley of Piemont in the years 1602 and 1603. 10 leaves. Copy.
2. The Confirmation of the above said Concessions, bearing date the 2 and 4 of June and 29 of December, 1653. 5 leaves.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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Waldensian documents, Mid seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.29
Scope and Contents 1. A Memorial concerning the Evangelical Churches in the Valley of Piemont, in the year 1644. This is in French, with the heading, 'Memoire sur les affaires des Eglises en Piedmont en l'annee 1644.' 2. A Letter from the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland to the Duke of Savoy the 5/15 of March, 1655. This and the following articles are copies. The articles are in German with the exception of 3, 8, 11, 12, 13, and 23, in French, 5 in Latin, and 22 in Italian. 3. A Letter of the Duke...
Dates: Mid seventeenth century
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Waldensian documents, 1655 - 1656

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.30
Scope and Contents The MSS. in this volume appear to be all original, and on most the seals still remain.1. Marchio a Sancto Thoma his Letter to Mr Morland during his abode at Turin, bearing date the 10 of July, 1655.2. The said Marquess his letter to the said Mr Morland, the 17 July, 1655.3. A Letter from Major Weiss to the said Mr Morland, from Pignerol to Geneva, the 9/10 of August, 1655.4. A second Letter from the said Major Weiss to the said Mr Morland, from Pignerol, the 9/19 of...
Dates: 1655 - 1656
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Waldensian documents, 1655 - 1658

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.31
Scope and Contents Authentick Copies of several excellent Letters of consolation, from divers Protestant Churches in other parts to their poor afflicted Brethren in the Valleys of Piemont. The certificate of S. Borsetto, notarius, is subscribed to each. The letters are at present arranged as below.1. De Bergerac, ce 22 Octobre, 1655. (Formerly also 1.)2. De Paris, ce 19 d'Octobre, 1655. (Formerly 7.)3. A Clairac, ce 2me Nov. 1655. (2.)4. Ecclesiæ Reformatæ Middelburgensis Pastores … 22...
Dates: 1655 - 1658
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Waldensian documents, 1561 - 1655

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.32
Scope and Contents In this volume are contained sundry edicts and state-papers, all printed, viz.1. Edicts of the Dukes of Savoy, some against, others by way of answer to the petitions, and in favour of their poor Protestant subjects.2. a. 'Relatione de' successi seguiti nella Valle di Luserna, nell' anno 1655.b. The same in Latin, 'Gesta in Valle …'c. The same in French, 'Relation de ce qui s'est passé …'3. The Court of Savoy's reasons for the justice of the order of Gastaldo, etc.,...
Dates: 1561 - 1655
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).