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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

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Agreement with Peter de Walpole of Cambridge and Elizabeth, Peter's wife, concerning the diversion of 20s annual rent proceeding from one tenement., 1353-09-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/13
Scope and Contents

The tenement lies between a tenement of Master Roger de Harleston and the King's Ditch and abuts on Roger de Harleston's tenement and on the king's highway.
Witnesses: Stephen son of John Morice, mayor; Master Rogert de Harleston; John Wyth; John de Essex; Roger de Refham.

Dates: 1353-09-21
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Amos: Diaries and photographs of Anne Elizabeth Fisher (later Pike and Amos)

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AMO
Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries and photograph album, with some loose enclosures. The diaries provide a detailed description of the daily social life of a wealthy young lady during the Victorian era, in London and on visits around the country, including dinners, dances and parties, concerts, galleries, theatre and academic lectures. Many include lists of 'books recommended' or read. From 1864, Anne gave detailed accounts of sermons she had heard and exhibitions in London, also describing first-hand...
Dates: 1852 - 1900
Found in: Downing College
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Annan: The Papers of Noel Gilroy Annan

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/NGA
Scope and Contents

The collection includes notes and drafts of published writings, texts of speeches given to the House of Lords and to other institutions, reference notes, subject files, engagement diaries, and personal papers.

Dates: 1889 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access: Some files are closed because they contain personal information. Most files which are marked as restricted access can be read with the written permission of the author. All other files may be consulted in the Archive Centre following the standard registration procedures.
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Bell: The Papers of Julian Heward Bell

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JHB
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises essays, reviews, poetry, plays and correspondence written by Julian Bell, as well as secondary material; that is, correspondence, printed obituaries and news cuttings assembled since Julian Bell's death by Quentin Bell.

Dates: 1922 - 1997
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Brooke: The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RCB
Scope and Contents

This collection brings together items by and about Rupert Brooke from a variety of sources. It includes manuscript and typescript copies of Brooke's poetry and prose, correspondence between Rupert Brooke and others and a number of photographs. A limited amount of biographical and supplementary material, concentrated on items originating after Brooke's death, can also be found in this collection.

Dates: 1869 - 1989
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Building policy, 1959 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/BUR/21
Scope and Contents

Bursar's memoranda and correspondence, mostly with the Provost, about various building schemes for King's Lane, Scholars' Piece, the Garden Hostels and the King's Parade area.

Dates: 1959 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD MAY BE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS. ASK THE ARCHIVISTS FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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Cambridge, Great St Andrew's parish deeds, 1317 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10
Scope and Contents

XI 9 appears not to relate to Cambridge and is listed at 09/1/10. Nos 51 to 59 (with the possible exception of 56.a and b) not found March 2005. Nos 99, 103-05, 108-10, 112, 115, 119, 122 and 129 not found, perhaps not used.

Dates: 1317 - 1950
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Cambridge, Oxford, British Isles, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/5/10
Scope and Contents The paper photograph wallet also lists on its cover numerous sites in Greece. However, this wallet only now mostly contains images from Cambridge, Oxford and the British Isles (save one photograph of a smiling lady and a minature donkey in Mycenae). Specific locations include All Souls College, Oxford; Trinity College, Pembroke College, Peterhouse and Trumpington Street, Cambridge. The album includes images of animals (ducks, swans, cows, sheep and a kitten putting its paws on a jug), street...
Dates: 1954
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Cambridgeshire Land Assessment Records

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5717-5745
Scope and Contents

Lists of landholders, tithe particulars, poor rates, rate assessments and valuations for the various parts of Cambridgeshire.

In 1856 the Poor Law Guardians in Cambridge resolved upon a survey and valuation of rateable property in the parishes of their union. The survey was carried out by Richard Harwood and John Rolfe Mann. Its findings form MSS.Add.5730-5745. An earlier assessment of land in Cambridgeshire, MSS.Add.5717-5729, was partly the work of Thomas Utton.

Dates: 1807-1856
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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Charles Edward Sayle: Diaries and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8501-8513, 10277-9
Scope and Contents

Diaries, writings on the history of music in Cambridge and the history of the Vatican library, correspondence and papers on Ximénès Doudan, Caspar von Kinschot and Reyner Wolfe.

Dates: c. 1864 - 1924
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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Dent: The Papers of Edward Joseph Dent

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/EJD
Scope and Contents The papers contain little relating to Dent's early life, his family or his work as a music professor. The bulk of the collection concerns his work as a translator of operas and as a music journalist and author. There are a small body of papers relating to his involvement with Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden opera houses, and to his presidency of the International Music Research Society and the International Society for Contemporary Music. Among Dent's own research papers are his transcripts...
Dates: 1882 - 1968
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Forster: The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF
Scope and Contents This collection contains a number of items by and about E.M. Forster. The heart of the collection consists of Forster's writings, published and unpublished, held by the archive centre in manuscript, typescript and photocopied forms. Items written for publication, or in some cases broadcast, have been placed at the start of the collection. These include manuscripts, drafts and fragments of his novels, short stories, essays, talks, plays, poems and memoirs. Contributions to periodicals, which...
Dates: 1777 - 2015
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Brereton: The Papers of Joseph Lloyd Brereton

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Reference Code: GBR/3243/BRE
Dates: 1871 - 1887
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Governance, 1924 - 2002

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/Leck/1
Scope and Contents Includes statutes, and committees connected to Leckhampton: including the preliminary setting up of Leckhampton, Leckhampton Committee minutes (1964-98), Committee to consider Mixed Residence for Post-graduate students Leckhampton, in the wake of green paper on Equal Opportunities (1974-5).It also includes leases, papers and correspondence about potentially listing.See also T. E. Faber (OA12C) for further papers covering this period; Faber was on the Leckhampton...
Dates: 1924 - 2002
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Grant to Eleanor de Gurnay of a parcel of land at an annual rent of a pair of white gloves. Gersuma of 18 shillings sterling (neighbours as in 09/10/1., 1260 - 1290

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/3
Scope and Contents

Witnesses: William Eliot; Thomas Plate'; Henry de Mordon; William Godson; John le Cutler; Robert Edward; William Molendinar; John Faber; Robert de Hauxton of York, scrivener.

Dates: 1260 - 1290
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Grant to Eleanor de Gurnay of a parcel of land at an annual rent of one halfpenny. Gersuma of one silver mark., 1260 - 1290

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/2
Scope and Contents

The land constitutes the southernmost part of Matilda's messuage and lies between the messuage held by Eleanor and a house given by Matilda to her daughter, and abuts on a tenement of Helen Althope and land once Simon Godelot's.
Witnesses: William Eliot; Peter de Wilbraham; Robert de Madingley; Ernisius Mercator; William Goldring; Robert Edward; William Molendinar'; William Godson; John le Cutler; Nicholas Day.

Dates: 1260 - 1290
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Grant to Geoffrey de Boudon, citizen and spice-dealer of London, of 20s annual quit rent from a corner tenement in the tenancy of Peter le Smith in the parish of St Andrew within Barnwell Gates., 1317-01-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/4
Scope and Contents

The tenement lies between a tenement once Walter le Usher's (N) and the King's Ditch (S) abd extends from the king's highway (W) to the King's Ditch (E).
Witnesses: Robert Dunning, mayor; John de Denford; Robert de Welton; Gilbert de Chacy; William de Bodeney, bailiff; Simon de Refham; Guy Lespicer; John de Leyk'; Adam de Bungay; Thomas de Elm.

Dates: 1317-01-04
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Grant to John de Beche and Emma de Wereham of two empty pieces of ground within Barnwell Gates, 1361-11-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/15
Scope and Contents

The plots lie between a vacant plot of CCCC and a plot once Stephen de Paunfield's and abut at one head on the college plot and the King's Ditch at at the other on Petty Cury.
Witnesses: Stephen son of John Morice, mayor; Roger de Harleston; John de Baldock; Richard de Finchingfield; Geoffrey Pawe; John de Fulbourn.

Dates: 1361-11-05
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Grant to John de Secchenill, William de Horwode, William the perpetual vicar of the church of All Saints' next St John's Hospital, and John de Stockton of Cambridge of part of a messuage with reversion to the rest on the death of Katherine Dengayne., 1356-10-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/14
Scope and Contents

The part-messuage lies between a college tenement and a tenement of Master Roger de Harleston, once John de Newton's, and abuts on the king's highway.
Witnesses: Roger de Harleston, mayor; John de Baldock; John Wyth; Roger de Refham; John de Berney.

Dates: 1356-10-31
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Grant to John le Noble, chaplain, Henry de Tangmere, William de Horwode, Thomas de Buckworth, Thomas de Childerley, John de Eccles and Simon de Sleaford of one messuage., 1349-05-06 - 1349-05-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/11
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The messuage is next to a tenement of John de Cottenham and abuts on the king's highway.
Witnesses: Robert de Brigham, mayor; Thomas Wyth; John de Cottenham; Peter Carbonel; John de Impington.

Dates: 1349-05-06 - 1349-05-13
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Grant to John le Noble, chaplain, Henry de Tangmere, William de Horwode, Thomas Wyth, John Arnold, Thomas de Buckworth, Thomas de Childerley, John de Eccles, Guy Foukes and Robert de Fulbourn of a messuage, 1349-05-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/10
Scope and Contents

The messuage is next to a tenement of William Pawe and extends from the king's highway up to a garden once William de Warwick's.
Witnesses: Robert de Brigham, mayor; John de Cottenham; John de Bromholm; William Pawe; John de Pupiton; William de Lindsey.

Dates: 1349-05-09
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Grant to John of Cambridge, of 20s annual quit rent as in 09/10/4., 1325-07-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/6
Scope and Contents

Witnesses: Simon de Refham; John de Denford; Robert de Comberton; John Pilet; John Morice.

Dates: 1325-07-01
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Grant to Master Thomas de Eltisley, senior, William Horwode and Robert de Stayne of an empty plot, once John Sedgeville's, in Petty Cury, 1362-01-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/16a
Scope and Contents

The plot lies between a tenement once Stephen de Paunfield's (W) and a tenement of CCCC (E)

Dates: 1362-01-02
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Grant to Richard de Walpole, his nephew, of a messuage in Preachers Street.;, 1349-05-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/9
Scope and Contents

The property lies between a messuage of Willliam Pawe and a messuage once Walter de Ware's and abuts (E) on the king's highway.

Dates: 1349-05-08
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Grant to Simon son of Henry de Barton of land in the parish of St Andrew without Barnwell Gate., 1260 - 1290

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/10/1
Scope and Contents

The land lies between land once Simon Godelot's and land once William de Newnham's and abuts (N) on land once Matilda Gallion's.
Witnesses: the Dean of Cambridge; Bartholomew Gogging; William Eliot; Robert de Madingley; Philip de Hingham.

Dates: 1260 - 1290
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