William George Searle: Historical papers

Various notes on Cambridgeshire villages, manuscripts, Crowland Abbey and lives of various saints.

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MSS.Add.5983 and 5984 were formerly part of the library of W.G. Searle. MSS.Add.5983-5986 and 6599-6600 were presented to the Library by Miss Searle, 1916; MSS.Add.6601, 6602 and 6951-6954 were presented by W.G. Searle, 1912.

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Cambridge University Library holds Searle's own copy of H.T. Riley's edition of Ingulph's chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland with the continuations, interleaved and extensively annotated, Adv.d.94.5-6 (see MSS.Add.6952-6954).