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Sale by John Eldred, John Verdon, both of London, and Zachariah Blackstock of Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, to Thomas Wale, merchant of London, and to Thomas Hall, merchant tailor of London. The purchase price is £250. Other lands are excepted. Signed by vendors. Tags, seal wanting. Endorsed with note of enrollment on close roll. Marked in ink, 'no. 33', and in pencil, '222'.

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A collection of remarks upon the history of advowsons, tithes, manors and other, similar, historial subjects in various Cambridgeshire parishes compiled by John Caley when secretary of the Record Commission in answer to enquirers, with transcripts and extracts from documents.

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'Visitation of Cambridgeshire taken by Henry St George, Richmond Heralde of Armes Anno Dom. 1619', a copy of the heraldic visitation, containing coats of arms in pen-and-ink, 96 folios. There is an index on folios 4-5. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of George, Earl Macartney.

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Minutes, claims, accounts and other material relating to inclosure commissions and Turnpike Trusts in Cambridgeshire.

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Assessment of payment of Cambridgeshire villages.

Scope and Contents Drawings in colour of the coats of arms of various Cambridgeshire families and personages, 46 folios. Those of the following appear: de Ghaundes; de Meynil; de Hastinges; Peche; Avenell; de Gardyn; de Hulles; Dakeney; de Haluntone; Bagehot; de Maneres; de Trumpingtone; de Lacy; de Boxworth; de Estafford; Touks; de Rydwere; de Fulbourne; Eschalars; de Bordeleys; Hereward; de Suylverstone; Ingle, Shelford; Wale, Bankes, L. Shelford; Blackburne, Metcalfe, Fowlmere; Bening, Thriplow; Stephenson,...

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A series of letters and other papers relating to the Corporation of the Bedford Level.

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Possibly intended for business of the Vice Chancellor's Court of the University when Dalton was deputy steward. Includes notes on duties of the clerk of the market, weights and measures and fines payable, draft minutes of the court, 1598 and copies of Elizabeth I's charter to the University, 1575. Also includes draft minutes of the courts of various manors in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, mostly the manors of Newmarket and Halesworth and Wratting Magna.

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Records, minute book, articles, photographs and notes.

Scope and Contents Nearly every parish in the diocese is represented in the records. There are citations, depositions and interrogations, also letters from incumbents or churchwardens to the Registrar of the Court commending persons cited to his interest or begging to be excused attendance on behalf of themselves or others. There are forms of confessions or penance, accounts and inventories. The dates of the papers lie between 1579 and 1674, though the majority belong to the years 1589-1596. Also included are...

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(pp. viii-196) Suffolk; (pp. 215-365) Cambridgeshire. Both counties ordered alphabetically. The vol. has been ruled for accounts. p. 295: 'I was here [Impington, Cambridgeshire] Ap. 9, 1726', with (p. 296) sketch of Impington Church. Stamps, inscriptions, and bookplates of Blomefield, Craven Ord, and Sir Thomas Phillipps.

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Photographs of sixteen early charters of Ely, each with brief manuscript details. There is a covering letter from Herbert Salter, 7 April 1908.

Scope and Contents The diary is concerned primarily with Issac Archer's student life and his next twenty years as a clergyman. There is a wide range of subject matter, but the focus is on family relationships, ministerial duties, and Archer's spiritual concerns, particularly his decision to conform to the Anglican Church against the wishes of his father. There are 228 numbered pages, of which 95 pages cover Archer's parochial ministry, but only 16 describe the last 12 years of his life. The volume was not...

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Comprises copies of various court rolls and other primary material on the history of Ely and Cambridgeshire, together with notes made by J.H. Crosby.

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Transcripts or extracts from Cambridgeshire church registers, copies of monumental inscriptions in Huntingdonshire churches and genealogical correspondence and notes relating chiefly to Cambridgeshire.

Scope and Contents Hospital case-books dating from Humphry's apprenticeship to J. G. Crosse, surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (2 vols.) and continuing under Humphry at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge (9 vols,). Includes general and surgical wards cases. Many entries are in Humphry's hand with some penned by other doctors and surgeons. Two later volumes include pasted-in patient charts; one in a printed surgical case-book format. Additional to the case-books is Humphry's Anatomical Museum...

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Journal of eleven journies from Braintree to Cambridge. There is a later addition on fo. 1 to 'Dr Woodward', but this is erroneous. The journal, on fos 1-43, is followed on fo. 48 by miscellaneous notes, and on fos 50-87, 92-107, by copies of monumental inscriptions in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, taken mostly from Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana.

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With drafts of his lives of Erasmus and John Colet. The book was formerly used by an unidentified 17th cent. divine to draft sermons. Among the notes (fos 60-2) are copies of the wills of John Sixtin (24 Mar. 1518), John Yonge (25 Apr 1516), Andrew Ammonius (17 Aug. 1517), and William Lychefeld (2 Nov. 1517).

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44 folios

Scope and Contents Autograph, hand of Charles Cowles, and other hands. Includes: (fo. 41) poem 'On the funeral of Robert Trotman Esq.'; (fo. 47v) poem, beg.: 'At Kirton near Bostone (my story is true ...'; (fo. 56) notes on Cambridgeshire items in PRO; (fo. 91) speech by Sir Simonds D'Ewes in parliament, on the antiquity of the University of Cambridge, 2 Jan. 1641; (fo. 100) 'Cantabrigiae Origo etc.': legendary account of early Cambridge; (fo. 102) chronicle of Cambridge, 1229-1388, with abstract of return for...

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Includes copy of Cambridgeshire entries in Domesday Book, copied from BL Harley MS 6016, 1869. Includes: transcripts re St Mary's Chruch and St Andrew's Church, Burwell, and the parish churches of Soham, Isleham, Swavesey, and Over.

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Coats of arms inserted in pen-and-ink, but several shields left blank. Occasional additions to the pedigrees in later hands. fo. i: 'The Booke belongeth to Mr Wm. Ayloffe', 'Acknowledged by me John Iuory' (late 17th-cent. hands). much scribbling inside covers. fos 54-9: torn out. fos 60v-62: index.

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Copies of documents relating to landholdings in Cambridgeshire, 13th century - 17th century, arranged by hundred.