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Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 53
University of Oxford 41
Fisher | Sir | Ronald Aylmer | 1890-1962 | Knight | statistician and geneticist 22
Phillipps | Sir | Thomas | 1792-1872 | Baronet | Antiquary, and Collector of MSS and Books 22
Berlin | Sir | Isaiah | 1909-1997 | Knight | historian and philosopher 21
Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 20
Boyce | William | 1710-1779 | musician 18
Jenkins | John | 1592-1678 | composer 18
Conservative Party 17
Doll | Sir | William Richard Shaboe | 1912-2005 | Knight | epidemiologist and cancer researcher 17
Gielgud | Sir | Arthur John | 1904-2000 | Knight | actor and theatre director 16
Lowe | Edward | 1610-1682 | composer, music copyist, organist and writer on music 16
Olivier | Sir | Laurence Kerr | 1907-1989 | Baron Olivier | actor and director 16
University of Dar es Salaam 15
Purcell | Henry | c 1659-1695 | composer 14
Masahor | d 1890 | Sharif | opponent of Brooke rule in Sarawak also known as Musahor/Musahore 13
Wilberforce | William | 1759-1833 | MP, Philanthropist 13
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 12
Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 12
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 12
Lawes | William | 1602-1645 | musician and composer 12
Madden | Sir | Frederic | 1801-1873 | Knight | antiquary and palaeographer 12
Simpson | Christopher | c 1602/1606-1669 | composer 12
Strong | Sir | Roy Colin | b.1935 | Knight | art historian and broadcaster 12
Talbot | William Henry Fox | 1800-1877 | MP, pioneer of photography 12
Stukeley | William | 1687-1765 | antiquary and natural philosopher 11
Twining | William | 1934-2025 | professor of Law 11
University of East Africa -- Administration 11
University of Ghana 11
Ayer | Sir | Alfred Jules | 1910-1989 | Knight | philosopher 10
Bodleian Library 10
Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 10
Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman 9
Bennett | Sir | William Sterndale | 1816–1875 | Knight | composer 9
Blow | John | 1648-1708 | composer 9
Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | 1st Viscount Bryce | British diplomat and politician 9
Finzi | Gerald Raphael | 1901-1956 | composer 9
Gibbons | Orlando | 1583-1625 | composer 9
Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 9
Handel | George Frederick | 1685-1759 | musical composer 9
Medawar | Sir | Peter Brian | 1915-1987 | Knight | medical scientist 9
Sadler | Sir | Michael Ernest | 1861-1943 | Knight | educational pioneer and art patron 9
Villiers | George William Frederick | 1800-1870 | 4th Earl of Clarendon | statesman 9
Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 8
British Association for the Advancement of Science 8
Buckland | William | 1784-1856 | Dean of Westminster, geologist 8
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 8
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 8
Macray | William Dunn | 1826-1916 | Rector of Ducklington, Antiquary, and Archivist 8
Robertson | William Scott | fl 1957-1967 | university administrator and lecturer in Divinity 8
Ruskin | John | 1819-1900 | author, artist, and social reformer 8
Savile | Sir | Henry | 1549-1622 | knight | mathematician 8
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 8
Sherard | James | 1666-1738 | apothecary, botanist and amateur musician 8
Stoker | Sir | Michael George Parke | 1918-2013 | Knight | virologist 8
Anderson | Ava | 1896-1974 | née Bodley | wife of Viscount Waverley 7
Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 7
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 7
Byrd | William | c 1540-1623 | musical composer 7
Charles I | 1600-1649 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 7
Croft | William | 1677-1727 | organist and composer 7
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 7
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 7
Frith | Francis | 1822-1898 | photographer 7
Heath | Sir | Edward Richard George | 1916-2005 | Knight | prime minister 7
Hodgkin | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1910-1994 | nee Crowfoot | chemist 7
Hyde | Edward | 1609-1674 | 1st Earl of Clarendon | Lord Chancellor 7
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
Mayer | Sir | Robert | 1879-1985 | philanthropist and businessman 7
Ouseley | Sir | Frederick Arthur Gore | 1825–1889 | 2nd Baronet | Professor of Music at Oxford University 7
Parry | Sir | Charles Hubert Hastings | 1848-1918 | Knight | composer and musical writer 7
Spelman | Sir | Henry | 1564-1641 | Knight | Historian and Antiquary 7
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 7
United Nations 7
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 6
Baltzar | Thomas | 1631-1663 | violinist and composer 6
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 6
Bassani | Giovanni Battist | c 1650-1716 | composer 6
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 6
Bourne | Samuel | 1834-1912 | photographer 6
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 6
Butler | James | 1610-1688 | 1st Duke of Ormonde | soldier and statesman 6
Butterworth | George Sainton Kaye | 1885-1916 | composer and folk song collector 6
Buxton | Sir | Thomas Fowell | 1786-1845 | 1st Baronet | Philanthropist 6
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 6
Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 6
Corelli | Arcangelo | 1653-1713 | composer and violinist 6
Disraeli | Benjamin | 1804-1881 | Earl of Beaconsfield | statesman 6
Ducarel | Andrew Coltee | 1713-1785 | Antiquary 6
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 6
Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 6
Guinness | Sir | Alec | 1914-2000 | Knight | actor 6
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 6
Lacock Abbey | Wiltshire, England 6
Laud | William | 1573-1645 | Archbishop of Canterbury 6
Milner | Alfred | 1854-1925 | Viscount Milner | statesman 6
Oxfam GB 6
Oxford University | New College 6
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Rawlinson Manuscripts 5755
The Abinger Papers 2908
Tanner Manuscripts 2266
Archive of Bern Schwartz 655
Correspondence and papers of the Brooke Family of Sarawak 460
Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century 430
Archive of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1) 420
Archive of the Rt. Hon. Sir Roy Welensky, KCMG 388
Archive of the Fabian Colonial Bureau 288
Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures 263
Archive of Sir Walter Bodmer and Lady Julia Bodmer 233
Archive of William Clark 208
Archive of Sir William Harcourt and Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt 187
Papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1897-1998, with some family papers, 1903-1972 181
Conservative Party Archive: Conservative Central Office - Party Chairman's Office 177
Archive of the University of Oxford 171
Archive of Ferdinand Stephen Joelson (1893-1979), author, editor of East Africa and Rhodesia journal 154
Archive of Dame Margery Freda Perham 142
Bodleian Library Records 138
Archive of Arthur Creech Jones 131
Gough Collection 131
Papers of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) and of his family 131
Archive of the Dashwood Family of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 126
Papers of Frederick Dealtry Lugard, Baron Lugard of Abinger 126
Music manuscripts from the Library of St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells 121
Archive of Aldred F.G.B. Lumley (Earl of Scarbrough) relating to the Royal Niger Company 112
Correspondence and papers of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 1892-1969, and other family papers, 1852-2000 107
Walter Benington photographic portraits 102
Papers of Edward Max Nicholson 101
Topographical collections, correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Phillipps 99
Conservative Party Archive: Conservatives in the European Parliament 98
Archive of the Brookes of Sarawak 84
Papers of George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, with papers of related families 84
Archive of Sir James Bland Burges, mainly 1772-1824, with papers of the Burges and Head families 83
Archive of the Oman family 81
Archive of the Anti-Slavery Society 78
Archive of the Oxford Group 78
Radcliffe Trust Archive 69
Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot and the Talbot family 66
Conservative Party Archive: Printed and Published Material: Conservative Party (and affiliated groups) pamphlets 66
Gift of Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson 64
Papers of the Harcourt family 61
Philip and Rosamund Davies U.S. Elections Campaigns Archive 60
Archive of William Gilpin and family 59
Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families 59
Archive of the Russell Family of Swallowfield, Berkshire 59
Conservative Party Archive: Party Political Broadcasts, Speeches and Press Releases 58
Dodsworth Manuscripts 58
The Marconi Archives 58
Additional papers of Sir William Harcourt and Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, with other papers of Mary Ethel Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt, and Edward William Harcourt 57
Archive of Charles Sturt 57
Archive of Sir Denis Wright 57
Archive of John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn 55
Archive of Sir Edward Penley Abraham 55
Dr. William Cohn Bequest, Oxford University History of Art Department 55
Archive of Sir David Keir 54
Diaries of Harriet Acworth and her husband, William Acworth, Evangelical Clergyman 54
Archive of Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, D.D. 53
Papers of Sir Cecil Clementi 52
Archive of the Napier Family 51
Diaries of Lionel Hichens, General Sir Neville Lyttelton and Lady Lyttelton 51
Archive of the Smyly family 49
Carte Papers 49
Conservative Party Archive: Conservative Research Department 49
Conservative Party Archive: Private papers: Keith Joseph 49
Douce Manuscripts 49
Records of grants made by Oxfam ('project files') 49
Correspondence and papers of Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen and his family 48
Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, 1824-1955 47
Archive of Harold Macmillan 47
Archive of Sir (D'Arcy) Patrick Reilly, 1914-1999 with some family papers, 1885-1963 46
Archive of the Colenso Family 46
Conservative Party Archive: Photographic Collection 45
Archive of Robert Henry Brand, Baron Brand 44
Letters to John and John Bowyer Nichols, booksellers and antiquaries 44
Wight Manuscripts 44
Laudian Collection 43
Archive of Sir Eyre Crowe 42
Higher Education in Anglophone Tropical Africa 42
Wood Manuscripts 42
Archive of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison 41
Archive of Cyril Dean Darlington (1903-1981) 41
Weld Family Papers 41
Dugdale Manuscripts 40
Papers of Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915), editor of the Oxford English Dictionary 40
Archive of David Astor 39
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology: Historical Papers 38
The M. Deneke Mendelssohn Collection 38
Archive of Roger Bannister 37
Additional papers of Sir Cecil Clementi 36
Harcourt estate and family papers, late 12th cent.-1967 36
Taylor Family Papers, 1798-1895 36
The John Dillwyn Llewelyn collection of Talbot photographic materials 36
Archive of Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-1974) 35
Archive of Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet 35
Archive of the North Family 35
Archive of Francis John Stephens Hopwood, Baron Southborough 34
Archive of Sir Matthew Nathan 34
Papers of Sir Rex Hunt 34
Edgar Wind Papers 33

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Correspondence on labour, 1926-1939

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Shelfmark: MSS. Lugard 113
File 1, fols. 1-25: Correspondence with the Anti-Slavery Society about the British Government's proposed inter-departmental committee to consider the Slavery Convention, forced labour and related matters, with enclosures, 1926-1939. File 2, fols. 1-124: Correspondence with International Labour Office and Colonial Office officials about the former's Report on Forced Labour and the proposed...
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1926-1939

A description of the viscounty of Turenne; by Geraud Fauchier

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 642
A very lengthy title is prefixed, of which the following is an abstract. "Invantaire general contennant les privilleges de la ... viscomte de Turenne, avec les privileges particuliers des villes principalles ... le nombre des seigneurs, barons, chastelains, gentilshommes et autres vassaux ... le nombre des villes, bourgs, paroisses, villages et feux, avec lestat sommaire des gens de guerre ... le nombre de ces jurisdictions particulieres ... avec la reduction et nombre des offices, avec la...
Extents: 250 Leaves
Dates: 1617

Diaries kept by Dr. Rawlinson during his travels, especially in Italy: Volume VIII, 12 Jan to 16 Feb 1726

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Shelfmark: MSS. Rawl. D. 1187
Genoa, Toulon, Marseilles, to Lyons. Prefixed is a short itinerary of the places visited, from Rotterdam, 24 June 1720, to Rotterdam again, 4 Apr., n.s., 1726, arriving at London 5 Apr., o.s. At fols. 28–30 are references to classical authors for descriptions of various places; and at the end of the volume an account of money-remittances received from England during the travels by Rawlinson and his brother Constantine, and some short memoranda relating to Messina. The series...
Extents: 32 Leaves
Dates: 12 Jan to 16 Feb 1726

Diary, 1817, 1819-1824

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Shelfmark: MS. WHF Talbot 68
The diary is comprised of entries relating to Lady Elisabeth's travels in Europe. Includes a description of William Henry Fox Talbot's first meeting with John Herschel, 20 Sep 1824. Also includes drawings and botanical speciments pasted into the volume: Pen and ink titled 'Bouteille de Cidre à Blangy', n.d. Pen and ink titled 'Hôtel Mirabeau Rue de la Paix 1817' of a head with feather...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1817, 1819-1824

Diary in French kept by a French merchant during a stay in Lisbon from 1 May, 1695, to 24 May, returning on 11 June to Nantes, and again (vol. reversed) from 25 March, 1696 (on which day he left St. Malo) to 24 Jan. 1697, at Lisbon, Genoa, Pisa, Lucca, and Leghorn, 1 May to 11 Jun 1695 and 25 Mar 1696 to 24 Jan 1697

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 423
At fol. 74 his name occurs in the bill of health given him at Leghorn as a passport for Rome, "Alessandro Oliviere Exquemesir (?) f. di anni 40." He dealt in linen, and appears to have had a desire to engage in the slave-trade. He every day went to Mass, and occasionally makes notes of sermons; his acquaintance was largely amongst Capuchins and members of other religious orders.
Extents: 91 Leaves
Dates: 1 May to 11 Jun 1695 and 25 Mar 1696 to 24 Jan 1697

A diary, in Italian, in weekly divisions, of devotional and spiritual exercises, kept by members of a Jesuit community; from the 15 May, 1700, to about Oct. 1703

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 420
Although the diary is continuous throughout in point of time, it is written by five or six different hands. It begins thus: "A di 15 Maggio, 1700. Sono stato modesto in scuola. / Ho fatto ogni sera la disciplina. / Ho lasciato il pospasto. / Essendo stato invitato a dir la corona non ho ricusato benchi ci havessi ripugnanza. / Sono stato senza vino. / Ho fatto una croce con la lengua per terra. / Sono stato quasi per un quarto d’ora con le braccie in croce. / Volendo parlar con...
Extents: 142 Leaves
Dates: 15 May 1700 to c. Oct 1703

Elvira Walter (1827-1852): Songs with piano, 1845

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Shelfmark: MS. Horsley c. 8
70-92 and 94 are blank. Autograph score, iv + 94 pages. Elvira Walter married John Calcott Horsley in 1846. Each song has 'EW' indicated as the composer. The piano introductions to some songs have not been written, although space is allowed for them. (pp. 1-4) 'Absence'. Begins: 'Tis not the loss of love's assurance. Words by Thomas Campbell. (pp. 4-7) 'To Inez'. Begins: Nay smile not at my sullen brow. Words by Lord Byron. (pp....
Extents: 98 pages
Dates: 1845

English pedigrees, with notes of arms: A-B

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. B. 73
Compiled by Thomas Wilkinson, vicar of Laurence Waltham, Berks - see MS. Rawl. B. 84. With an index prefixed. Dated on the cover, with the price of the paper for the book, 15 Aug 1654. Occasional additions by Le Neve are here and there interspersed.
Extents: 189 Leaves
Dates: Majority of material found in 15 Aug 1654

English pedigrees, with notes of arms: L-MA

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. B. 77
Compiled by Thomas Wilkinson, vicar of Laurence Waltham, Berks - see MS. Rawl. B. 84. At fol. 70 the writer speaks of Edward, son of lord Lyttleton of Mounslowe, as "my scholar, (aged) 16, 1643." With an index prefixed. Occasional additions by Le Neve are here and there interspersed.
Extents: 190 Leaves
Dates: Majority of material found within 17th century

English pedigrees, with notes of arms: O-P

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. B. 80
Compiled by Thomas Wilkinson, vicar of Laurence Waltham, Berks - see MS. Rawl. B. 84. With an index prefixed. Occasional additions by Le Neve are here and there interspersed. Consists in some part of rough collections, probably intended for subsequent transcription. All the pedigrees are entered in the general index to this catalogue.
Extents: 72 Leaves
Dates: Majority of material found within 17th century

English satirical pieces, written in about A.D. 1750-1760

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Shelfmark: MS. Douce 201
Comprises: (fol. 1) 'Oblivion. A poem. By the late Martinus Scriblerus ... Published from an Original Manuscript in the Editor's hands': beg. 'Thy pow'r, Oblivion': followed (fol. 12) by 'Comments and Notes on Oblivion. By the author Martinus Scriblerus': and (fol. 25) by 'The Reviewers Criticism on Oblivion with the Editor's Answer.' (fol. 34) 'The Jewiad. An Epic Poem': beg. ' I sing...
Extents: 167 Leaves
Dates: written in about A.D. 1750-1760

"An eternall Testament, which the soul maketh with the being of God, by resigning of herself to have communion with the eternall Deitie in the coessentiall life, testified within the hearts of the lovers of truth for a patterne of life; all by Hiel, [the coessentiall life of God];" a translation from Hiel's Ewig Testament published in German at Amsterdam in 1687

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. C. 540
The real name of the fanatical mystic who wrote under the pseudonym Hiel was Hendrik Janson, or Jansen, who lived in the Netherlands in the middle of the seventeenth century. See Arnold's Kirchen-und-Ketzer Historic, Frankf. am M. 1700, vol. iii. pp. 23–30. In Adelung's Supplement to Jöcher's Allg. Gelehrten-Lex. he is erroneously identified with Friedr. Breckling, a German mystic, who died in 1711.
Extents: 84 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

An exact table to all the printed presidents of pleadings, writs and returns of writs, etc., which are only contained in the books of reports now extant, methodically digested, necessary for all pleaders and practisers of the law

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. A. 337
An exact table to all the printed presidents of pleadings, writs and returns of writs, etc., which are only contained in the books of reports now extant, methodically digested, necessary for all pleaders and practisers of the law. By John Allen, of the Inner Temple, gent., and clerk of the errors to Thomas, earl of Macclesfield, whilst his lordship was chief justice of England. "31 July, 1727. Transcribed from the original by, and for the use of, Edw. Umfreville, of the Inner...
Extents: 102 Leaves
Dates: 1744

Family papers, c.1812-1889

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Shelfmark: Dep. Hughenden 10
Includes: (fols. 1-5) document relating to the D'Israeli family in Italy, 1856, sent to Lord Rowton by Rawdon Brown, 1879 (fols. 6-19) papers relating to Disraeli's clerkship with William Stevens, solicitor [see also Dep. Hughenden 26/5, fols. 32-41], and to his membership of Lincoln's Inn, 1821-1889, including (fols. 7-8) letter about Disraeli as a young man, 1889, (fols. 9-12)...
Extents: 135 Leaves
Dates: c.1812-1889

Forms of documents used by the steward of the court of the manor of Worcester in Enfield in the county of Middlesex

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 1010
With the oaths of the officers, and the form of the charges to the juries of the court baron and court leet. At the end, reversing the volume, are these articles:— (fol. 1 [volume reversed]) i. Form of an agreement by the son of Roger Gurd, of Melbury Abbas, Dorset, respecting an exchange of land; c. 1676. (fols. 2–5 [volume reversed]) ii. Entries of proceedings at the courts...
Extents: 48 leaves, of which fols. 21-38 are blank
Dates: 1685 to 1687

General political papers of Douglas Jay

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Shelfmark: MS. 6745/36
Comprises: Labour Party papers, including official diary for the 1953 Labour Party Conference, Reynolds News booklets "12 Months Hard" and "Guilty Again", Hampstead Labour Party membership cards belonging to Douglas and Margaret [Peggy] Jay, press cuttings, flyer regarding the 1951 Labour Party election manifesto, Economic Information unit memorandum on...
Extents: 1 box (3 folders)
Dates: 1942-1995

High Commission Territories (Lesotho, Botswana, and Eswatini) - Transfer Question, 1934-1951

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Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 382
Comprises: folder 1 (fols. 1-40) Alan Pim: printed record of his talk to the Royal Empire Society, 11 Apr 1934, on 'British Protectorates and Territories'; notes on the discussion following his lecture at Chatham House on 'The Question of the South African Protectorates' led by Margery Perham, 7 Jun 1934; and 'Memorandum on the Position of the three High Commission Territories of South Africa', with a...
Extents: 8 folders
Dates: 1934-1951

An historical note-book, chiefly relating to the county of Kent

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 969
Written in a large and clumsy, but clear, hand. Dated on the cover at the end, "July ye 29th, 1669," and on the cover at the beginning, "Feb. ye 4th, 1669, due to Mrs. Crook 6 shillings". (fols. 8–14, 18–22, 25b, 29b, 30, 35, 43b–44, 67b, 70b) i. Notes on the descent of various manors in Kent. (fols. 15, 25–9, 30b–37 b, 40–43, 45, 67b) ii. Notes on appropriations and...
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: 4 Feb and 29 Jul 1669

The History and Law of Drainage; by Nath. Sharpe

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. C. 433
An extremely diffuse title is prefixed, of which the following is an abstract: "An account of various theories relateing to the supposd Mosaick origine of the univers and universall Deluge, with an account of divers great floods ....... occasioning a multiplicity of vast stagnations, fenns.... and marshes;.... the many great benefits... that have accru'd ....... by imbanking, drayning and sewering .......; to which as a second part is added all the laws of sewers, ..... as also another book...
Extents: 403 Leaves
Dates: late 17th centure

'The Imployment of my Solitude . T[homas, lord] F[airfax]'

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Shelfmark: MS. Fairfax 40
'The Imployment of my Solitude . T[homas, lord] F[airfax]', containing: (p. 1). A translation of the Psalms in English verse, preceded by a short verse preface, and followed (p. 390) by the Canticles ('Songs of the Old & New Testament'). (p. 432). 'The Songe of Salomon', in English verse. (p. 480). Miscellaneous pieces, consisting of: 'Honny dropps', proverbial...
Dates: written in about 1660-1670 by lord Fairfax