will
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
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(Another) copy of last will and testament., 1549-09-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/2d
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Endorsed by an early hand and supplemented by Masters: "The Deane of West' testament. Mr Benson 10 Sept. 3 Edw. 6, who was formerly possessed of the Houses in Longditch West' now belonging to the College, which was of no other use than to make out the Title.'
Dates:
1549-09-10
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Attested copy of his will, proved Peterborough, 19 Feb/ 1876., 1883
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/18/251.4c
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Copy for E. Wayman
Dates:
1883
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Attested copy of probate copy of will, made 31 Aug. 1834, and codicils of 22 Aug. 1835 and 7 Sept. 1835., 1840-06-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/98
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From the Fonds:
The estate was purchased by Dr John Spencer, Master 1667-93, in 1687 for £3600, with an annual value of £200, and settled by Deed of Gift on the College for the augmentation of the Mastership, Fellowships, Scholarships and various other purposes.(see Masters, Appendix no. LIII (pp. 79-80).It was sold in 1929 for £3425 (Bury, p. 165).The two items under 43 have been reclassified as 39a and 40c.No. 60, which relates to St Bene't's parish has been reassigned to XVIII 237.41. Nos 68...
Dates:
1840-06-10
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Attested copy of will, made 7 Feb. 1818., 1843-11-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/91
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Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Dates:
1843-11-08
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Attested copy of will made 13 Jan. 1721/2, proved in the Consistory Court of Ely, 24 Feb. 1721/2; attested by Charles Greene, Register., 1743-05-17
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/74a
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From the File:
Recites 68-72 above.
Dates:
1743-05-17
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
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Estates and advowsons
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Deeds relating to Elmington, near Oundle, Northamptonshire.
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Deeds relating to land in Cottenham.
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Abstract of title of William Ivatt's estate in Cottenham, with opinion of Henry Pont that the title is good in spite of a confusion of the first with the second William Ivatt in 71.
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Certified copy WILL of Anthony Dean of Linton in the Diocese of York, 1699-03-17 - 1700
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/16/1
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Leaves all lands and tenements at Linton to wife Elizabeth Dean until son, Anthony Dean, is 16.
Executrix: Elizabeth Dean; Administrators: Richard Proctor of Linton, Gent., and Robert Dean.
Dates:
1699-03-17 - 1700
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
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Clauses from his will, dated 30 July 1782, bequeathing some of his Landbeach property to his daughter Catherine Taylor, and some to his daughter Ann Taylor., 1782-07-30 - 1785-04-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/294/3
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No note of presentation.
Dates:
1782-07-30 - 1785-04-12
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Copy, by W. Lovell, of Will, dated 29 June 1871, and codicil, dated 16 July 1874., 1877-09-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/51/18
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Testator died 22 January 1877.
Dates:
1877-09-28
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Copy of 1a, 1482-08-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/14/120A 1b
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The probate not included.
Dates:
1482-08-04
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
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Estates and advowsons
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Cambridge, Little St Mary's parish (AKA St Peter without Trumpington Gate) deeds
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Chancery case, Corpus Christi College v. Robert Cope or (Coope) and his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Kent, and sister of William Kent jr and other documents relating to 'The Katherine Wheel'
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Court papers
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Copy of 17., 1643
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC10/17a
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From the File:
Booth leaves £3 per annum from his lands in Laneham; £1 to be given yearly to the two students the speeches in the college on 5 November concerning the Gunpoder Plot; £1 to be spent on exceedings by the fellows and scholars; and £1 on 'some learned and pious work of some Protestant writer English or Latin to be placed in the public library'; he leaves his house nd lands at Laneham to his brother George, excepting the £3 above; he leaves to the college the 'De l'institution, usage, et...
Dates:
1643
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[Copy of clause in] PROBATE OF WILL of Dorothy Ralph, widow of Horley Green near Halifax, 1826-04-06 - 1827
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/16/4
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Bequeaths to daughters the income arising from property, including shares in Hull Dock. Endorsed: Entered Dock Office Hull 8 Feb. 1827, Thomas J. Backton, Clerk to the Dock Company at Kingston upon Hull.
Dates:
1826-04-06 - 1827
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
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Copy of codicil to his will leaving lands and tenements in the town and fields of Cambridge to his wife Margaret, 1382
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC01/P/21.1
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She is to pay 8 marks a year to the college for masses for the soul of Thomas and of his parents. After her death the property is to devolve to his sister Joan, John Attechurch, chaplain, Robert le clerke of Chesterton, Richard Fitz Wych and John London his executors.Note of probate on the Tusday after St Peter ad Vincula, viz. 3 Aug. 1361.On dorse a memorandum that John Attechurch survived the other executors and conveyed the lands by enfeoffment to Thomas de Eltisley senior,...
Dates:
1382
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
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Foundation, regulation and governance
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Records of the early acquisitions and transfers of property.
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Copy of Will of Thomas of Cambridge, son of John de Cantebri’, knight, providing, in a codicil, that his wife Margaret should pay to the Master and scholars of the gild of Corpus Christi 8 marks yearly to maintain a chaplain to celebrate for his soul.
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Copy of extract from his will dated 15 June 1793 bequeathing all his freehold, copyhold and customary, messuages, lands, etc., in Landbeach and elsewhere to John Headly., 1793-06-15 - 1793-08-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/300/2
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From the Fonds:
No. 1 not used. No. 116 relates to Swaffham; No. 178 is now 207A
Also included are holdings in the nearby parishes of Milton (Middleton), Cottenham (Cotenham), Impington (Impiton or Empiton), and elsewhere
Dates:
1793-06-15 - 1793-08-12
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Copy of extract from will dated 8 February 1876, proved at the Principal Registry, 29 December 1876., 1877-09-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/51/21
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Testator died 18 September 1876.
Dates:
1877-09-28
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Copy of extract from will, proved PCC, 9 February 1815, appointing his son John his sole executor., 1815
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/51/7
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From the Fonds:
Uplands Farm, Manor Farm and Church Farm, Ratley, were acquired from the executors of A. R. Motion on 23 October 1936 and sold to the Sheepshanks Coal and Iron Company on 19 October 1944.Nos, 1-13, 25-27 and 42-44 were in a packet entitled 'Purchase from A. R. Motion's executors. Schedule of deeds and documents relating to a close of land situate at Ratley, Warwicks, Field no. 78 on Contract Plan'.. Nos 14-16, 18-24, 29, 37-38, 57 and 61 were in a packet entitled 'Purchase from A. R....
Dates:
1815
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Copy of her will dated 8 Apr. 1789 bequeathingher copyhold messuage and lands (described) to her husband James., 1789-04-08 - 1793-09-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/300/3
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Note of presentation and verdict, 4 Sept. 1793.
Dates:
1789-04-08 - 1793-09-04
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Copy of last will and testament., 1549-09-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/2c
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Including bequest to Guy Gascon/Gascoigne.
Dates:
1549-09-10
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Copy of last will and testament leaving the messuage and all his other goods to his wife, Elizabeth., 1840-01-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/G 14
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With probate certificate, 26 Jan. 1841, from Archdeaconry of Dorset. Testator died 2 Jan. 1841.
Dates:
1840-01-09
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Copy of probated will made 20 May 1856; proved at Chester 2 September 1858., 1884-07-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/K 4
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Testator died 21 June 1858.
Dates:
1884-07-10
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Copy of probated will made 25 Oct. 1828, proved in the peculiar of Banbury, 17 Mar. 1831., 1831
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/51/9
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He leaves his lands to his wife [Ebarillah] for her lifetime and then to Joseph Grimson.
Dates:
1831
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Copy of the codicil to his will, 1735-06-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC10/12a
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From the File:
Under a codicil toTenison's will he left to the college £200 of which £100 was to be laid out on land the revenues from which were to be expended every four years on a 10s fee to the bursar for keeping the accounts; 10s per mess (four persons) of Fellows dining on 4 November, and the remainder for a prize for a Norwich Scholar most successful in an examination on Columella's De Re Rustica, which examination was to be conducted by the Masters of Corpus, Gonville and Caius and Trinity Hall,...
Dates:
1735-06-23
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Copy of the will of Lady Elizabeth Mannock dated 26 May 1789., 1789-11-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/29/4
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From the Fonds:
Matthias Mawson, Master 1724-44, Bishop of Llandaff (1739-40), then of Chichester (1740-54) and finally of Ely (1754-70), by his will dated 17 September 1770 'gave to the master and fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the sum of six thousand pounds in the New South-Sea Annuities, and three thousand pounds capital stock in the South Sea Stock for the purchase of an estate in freehold land; but to be continued in the said stock until it will amount to a sum sufficient to purchase a...
Dates:
1789-11-04
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Copy of will., 1666-11-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/19
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Part of manor of Elmington and all his land there bequeathed to Nicholas Pedley of Huntingdon, esq., brother-in-law Robert Allen, and Robert Elton of Whaddon in trust; the estate to be sold and profits disposed of as specified, including £2,800 to his daughter, Honor, on coming of age or marriage.
Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and in Chancery.
Dates:
1666-11-01
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Copy of will., 1634-09-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/199c
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Detailed bequests to the nine children of Robert Nutting of Waterbeach, including booths and booth-timber at Stourbridge with the timber house belonging to them, a manor in Impington which he holds of Christ's College. The lease from CCCC he leaves to Robert Nutting junior. See 200a-1.
Endorsed, inter alia: 'Miscell. Papers of no importance'.
Dates:
1634-09-07
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Copy of will, 1482-08-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/14/120A 1a
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The will leaves 40d to the Master of the college and 3s to each of the fellows to pray for his soul and also two books: to the college library an exposition of Thomas Aquinas with works by him on moral philosophy, 2o folio: Finem optumum; the other, an old text of moral philosophy, 2o folio: Qua propter, for the electiones (neither of which books seem to survive in the college library today). He also leaves the property which he has recently acquired on the death of his mother to the...
Dates:
1482-08-04
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
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Estates and advowsons
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Cambridge, Little St Mary's parish (AKA St Peter without Trumpington Gate) deeds
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Chancery case, Corpus Christi College v. Robert Cope or (Coope) and his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Kent, and sister of William Kent jr and other documents relating to 'The Katherine Wheel'
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Court papers