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Found in 338 Collections and/or Records:

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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", D-K., Jan 1946 - May 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/27A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (9); 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief] of the Daily Telegraph (2); William Deakin (6); Edward Dodd of Dodd, Mead and Company, publishers (23); Denis Kelly [literary assistant] (18); Alan Hodge (77); Sir Newman Flower, director of Cassell and Company; Eliahu Elath [Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom] on the Hebrew edition; Henry Laughlin, President of Houghton Mifflin Company...
Dates: Jan 1946 - May 1961
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: various articles by WSC., May 1941 - Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/689
Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from Liberty for: "U-Boat Menace" on the war on the Western Front during World War I, the Dardanelles [Turkey] campaign, the German U-boat campaign, and the role of the Royal Navy in defeating it; "Tank Tactics" on the development of the tank, its initial rejection, WSC's intervention, and its use in action at the Battles of the Somme and Cambrai [France]; "Our Friendship with America" on misunderstandings with the United States, a history of Anglo-American conflicts,...
Dates: May 1941 - Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Liturgiæ S. Basilii magni, S. Gregorii theologi, S. Cyrilli Alexandrini, ex Arabico conversæ …, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.57
Scope and Contents 'Liturgiæ S. Basilii magni, S. Gregorii theologi, S. Cyrilli Alexandrini, ex Arabico conversæ, a Victorio Scialach, Accurensi Maronita e Monte Libano. Augustæ Vindelicorum. 1604.’ Manuscript copy of a printed work bearing the same title (which is in the University Library in a volume of tracts, Dd*.3.9(E)); it affords a few various readings, written over the words intended to be changed; even the corrigenda are copied. f. 31 contains a note of the transcriber not in the printed copy, with an...
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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Manual for the use of priests and confessors, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.07
Scope and Contents Following tables of contents and a prologue beginning 'Ut simplicium sacerdotum et confessorum penurie vel in modico consulatur …' follow parts headed 'De confessionibus, excommunicacionibus et absolutionibus', 'De x. preceptis', 'De vii preccatis mortalibus', 'De peccatis mortalibus in speciali et de eorum filiabus', 'De interrogacionibus faciendis in confessione spiritualium', 'De spiritalibus' and 'De morte et morituris', with an index to the preceding treatises and 'Rubrice juris civilis...
Dates: Sixteenth 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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Meditations and a letter, Late sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.76
Scope and Contents Contains: a dedication to Sir Francis Drake, signed 'Olyver Pigge'; 'Meditations concerning prayers to almighti God for the safetie of England when the Spanierds were come into the Narrow Seas. August, 1588'; 'Meditations concerning thanckes to almighti God for delivering England from the crueltie of the Spanierds and for their marveilose confusione and overthrowe. 1588'; 'Part of a letter sent to a Christian knighte employed in the service of her Majestie, in the Lowe Countries, 1585,...
Dates: Late sixteenth 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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Miscellany, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.12
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Sermons, Latin poems, notes from various authors, etc., written from both ends of the volume.

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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Nineteen Lectures upon some of the articles of the Church of England, by Robert Lambert, D.D., Master of St John's College, Cambridge, Early eighteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Nn.02.46
Scope and Contents There are dates in the margin extending from 1707 to 1719, not in chronological order, which probably indicate the periods when each Lecture was given in the College. The whole is fairly written as if for the press. On the fly-leaf at the end is Lambert's name, and a note that 3 MS. books are for his nephew, Leonard Chappelow. Lambert became Master of the College in 1727. A copy of his will, which was proved 21 Feb., 1734-5, is in Baker's MSS. XXXVI. 263. He bequeathed all his MSS. and...
Dates: Early eighteenth 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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Non-political, 1954 - 1998

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/3
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Material on JEP's theological, historical and literary interests.

Dates: 1954 - 1998
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Notebook of a law student, Undated

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.44
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(1) A summary of civil law, arranged tabularly, occupying 56 leaves; (2) Miscellaneous notes from the Christian fathers and upon matters religious and ecclesiastical, occupying 11 leaves, with a treatise 'De diversis regulis juris antiqui' (unfinished) and notes on various theological and ecclesiastical matters; (3) 'Miscellanea': theological notes, irregularly written from both ends.

Dates: Undated
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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Notebook of Alexander Ros, 1613

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.38
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Contains notes under the headings 'Loci communes theologici' and 'Dubia quedam de Porphyrii Isagoge', followed by miscellaneous theological notes, medical recipes, etc.

Dates: 1613
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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Notes and 'An evangelye...', Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.90
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(1) A collection of notes on various doctrinal subjects, interleaved, and having, at intervals, many blank pages; (2) 'An evangelye; or joyfull-message; of the kyngdome of God and Christ. Translated out of the base-almayne, into Englyshe …'; begins 'H. N. out of grace; according to the providence of God ...', the initials being those of Henry Nicholas.

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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Notes of sermons, c. 1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.24
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Notes of sermons, and comments over various passages of scripture, by the writer and others. Written in shorthand.

Dates: c. 1700
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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Notes of sermons, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.30
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
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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Notes of sermons, 1635

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.47
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Notes on sermons, almost illegible. See also MS Dd.06.70.

Dates: 1635
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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Notes of sermons, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.88
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The sermons are by Mr Spurstow, Mr Marshall and others; the notes are written irregularly from both ends of the volume.

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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Notes of sermons, 1634

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.70
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The sermons were apparently preached by Mr Crispe, Mr Wilson and others; one page bears the date 1634. Written from both ends. The handwriting of the greater part is probably the same as that of MS Dd.06.47, but the last few leaves are in a different hand. The notes were taken by Sarah Wilson, whose name is on the first folio.

Dates: 1634
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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Notes on books of the Old Testament, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.19
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'Here folowith certeyne notes, gathered out of the prophet David, out of the wourks of Salomon, Job, and Ecclesiasticus.' With a table of contents.

Dates: Sixteenth 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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Notes on Genesis, 1640s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.56
Scope and Contents Notes on the first two portions of the book of Genesis, extracted from Rabbinical sources (Abarbanel, Jarchi, etc.). ff. 1-50 are in a different handwriting to the latter part; on f. 51 b is written, in the second hand, ‘1646, March 20’, and on f. 100 b, ‘March 27, 1647’. f. 1 b contains references to several passages in the book of Exodus. ff. 2a-50 contain notes on the first 12 chapters of Genesis, the heading being ‘Nomen authoris ...’, beginning ‘According to the opinion of hamiddrash...
Dates: 1640s
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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Notes on the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, 1660 - 1662

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.06.13
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Notes in English (for the most part) on the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles. Prefixed (ff. 1-3) is 'The Contents of the 4 Evangelists as they are harmonized and divided into sections by Dr Lightfoot.' At the beginning (f. 13) is the date, 'Sept. 12, 1660.' At the end, ' Sept. 2, 1662.'

Dates: 1660 - 1662
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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Notes on the Old Testament, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.03.22, MS Mm.03.23, MS Mm.03.24
Scope and Contents Chiefly from the Rabbis. Possibly by John Worthington, Fellow of Peterhouse in 1688. The first volume contains the Pentateuch, with the preface of R. Abraham ben Meir ben Ezra: after this follows a list of 'the Sections of the Law according to the Masora', after which the notes begin: they are carelessly written and abound in corrections. The second contains the books from Joshua to Esther, with the prefaces of R. David Kimchi and R. Levi. The third contains the books from Job to...
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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Offices according to Carmelite use, c. 1525

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.06.28
Scope and Contents The volume, which is in the handwriting of John Bale, consists of three parts, and contains several offices according to the old Carmelite use. I. (1) B. Mariæ Carmelitarum patronæ. Ad horas. [16 July]; this is followed by a note about an attempt to prejudice Pope Honorius III against the Carmelites; II. (2) S. Cirilli Carmelitæ doctoris melliflui confessoris non episcopi duplex fm. Ad horas. [6 March]; (3) S. Bertoldi primi prioris generalis ord. Carm. conf. non epi. duplex festum. Ad...
Dates: c. 1525
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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Official: Cabinet: papers 170 - 200., 17 May 1922 - 15 May 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/94
Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham, Attorney-General] on leaks to the press about the Budget; Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Scotland, on Government lands and buildings; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill and the Local Government Franchise (Extension to Companies) Bill; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on Government lands...
Dates: 17 May 1922 - 15 May 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 301 - 325., 12 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/206
Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on church schools; [1st] Lord Cushendun [earlier Ronald McNeill], Acting Foreign Secretary, on the renewal of arbitration treaties; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the functions of dominion ministers and the title of His Majesty's Government; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board...
Dates: 12 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Malta Marriage Law: notes and papers., 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/37
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Includes cuttings on religious equality and marriages in Malta; copy of an 1897 record of the Marriage Laws of Malta.

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of WSC's correspondence., 14 Oct 1954 - 07 Apr 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/6A-C
Scope and Contents Carbons of letters from WSC to a variety of prominent individuals including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, Lords, foreign Heads of State, foreign ambassadors, British High Commissioners, Conservative parliamentary candidates, and others.Includes correspondence with Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury], Sir Ian Jacob [Director General of the BBC], 2nd Lord Camrose [earlier...
Dates: 14 Oct 1954 - 07 Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open.