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Land tenure

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Blackspot removals in Natal: papers collected by John Aitchison

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 218
Scope and Contents

Papers, news cuttings, copies of articles, correspondence, and photographs and negatives, collected by John Aitchison documenting the impact of the Blackspot Removal Campaign in Natal.

Dates: 1953 - 1965
 Series

Copies of and extracts from Dr John Woodward's will, 1778 - 1850

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/GEOL 1
Scope and Contents

Dr Woodward bequeathed a collection of fossils to the University at his death in 1728, together the means to endow a professorship and establish a museum.

Dates: 1778 - 1850
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
 File

Correspondence on agricultural tenancies; with related resolution, 1879-04-21 - 1879-06-09

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/VCCorr.VI.13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The correspondence includes items inherited by Power from his predecessors and added by Vice-Chancellors Cookson (1848, 1863-4, 1872-3), Porter (1881-4) and, perhaps, others.

Dates: 1879-04-21 - 1879-06-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Series

Deeds and related documents, mostly of University property in Cambridge, 1473 - 1973

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/FB Deeds
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Financial Board records comprise historic deeds of University property, an extensive subject file sequence, letter books and officers' working papers.

Dates: 1473 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Management Group

Deeds of title to University property and related papers, 1290 - 1975

 Sub-Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/D
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Assets records - comprises records relating to property and personnel. Accounting material is in this category, alongside records of endowments, charitable trusts, buildings and employees.

Dates: 1290 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Derek Stenning: Anthropological collections on Uganda

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7916
Scope and Contents

Four series of anthropological files relating to Uganda.

Dates: 1955-1965 (circa)
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).
 File

Grant to William son of Henry Eliot on his marriage to Alexandra daughter of Richard of a stone house with solar and cellar and 3 acres and 1 rood of land in the fields of Cambridge and Barnwell., 1272 - 1307

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/12/4.a
Scope and Contents The stone house Richard had by enfeoffment from Peter de Barnwell. Of the land, one acre is in Middlefield between land of the Prior of Barnwell and land formerly of William Godsho and abuts on the road to Hinton; one acre is in Clayhaugeles, between land formerly Warin Astur's and land of St John's Hospital; one rood lies in the same field and lies next to land of Nonancurter (?) and abuts on Milneway; one half-acre lies next to land of Margaret Michel and abuts on a ford; and another...
Dates: 1272 - 1307
 Item

Grant to William, son of Walter de Coten', tanner, of a messuage in Milne Street., 1321-12-20

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/11/23
Scope and Contents

The messuage lies between a messuage once Adam de Havering's and a messuage of William de Lolworth, and extends from the high street to land of Peter de Berningham.
Witnesses: Simon de Refham, mayor; John Morice; Peter de Berningham; Andrew de Hitchen; William de Sledmer.

Dates: 1321-12-20
 Sub-item

Letters concerning lease of 17 Paternoster Row, London, 1877-02-28 - 1877-08-18

 Sub-item
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Pr.B.13.A.41-2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

All letters are addressed to C.J. Clay, University printer, unless otherwise stated.
Sarah has re-numbered Pr.B.13.1-337. Still to do Pr.B.13.A-G.

Dates: 1877-02-28 - 1877-08-18
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
 Item

Quitclaim to John de Sedgeeville of a messuage which the said John holds by gift of the said Matilda., 1341-02-09

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/18/49
Scope and Contents

The messuage is between a tenement onc e of Robert Womb and a tenement once of Simon de Refham and abuts on the High Road.
Witnesses: Philip Cayly, mayor; Henry de Beche; Henry de Brunne; Daniel de Felsted; John Baron.

Dates: 1341-02-09
 Series

University estate plans and related records, 1724 - 1892

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/D.P.
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Assets records - comprises records relating to property and personnel. Accounting material is in this category, alongside records of endowments, charitable trusts, buildings and employees.

Dates: 1724 - 1892
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

William Cole: Papers on Cambridgeshire Landholdings

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6224-6225
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1746-1747 (Circa)
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).
 Series

Woodwardian Estates papers, 1731 - 1816

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/GEOL 2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The earliest records relate to Woodward's will, estates and the administration of his fossil collection. From the 1880s, administrative records of the burgeoning Department of Geology, its teaching, examining, and students, survive alongside papers for the lengthy project to build the Sedgwick Museum. The archives also include the papers of Professor T. McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor 1873-1917.

Dates: 1731 - 1816
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.