Notes and extracts on the history of Queens' College, Cambridge

Scope and Content

The papers include notes on the Carmelite Priory; a list of Presidents, 1448-1820; notes of seals and prints in the hand of C. [Collistree]; a list of Fellows, 1446-1826; notes from the Public Record Office State Papers Domestic; extracts from William Cole's MS Vols 2, 7, 8, 47 and 48; extracts from British Library Lansdowne MSS 980, 983 and 985; extracts from MS Baker, Vols 4 and 6, including a copy of a letter from Richard Sterne, Archbishop of York, to [ ] Sayer. On fos 135-136 are extracts from the Huntingdon Corporation Accounts, 1769-1835, in the hand of F. Gerald Vesey, with a letter from the same to [W.G. Searle], 29 May 1869. The remaining leaves and the versos almost throughout are blank.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Presented by W.G. Searle, 1905.

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