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Autograph document, signed, granting admission to two ladies to St. James’s Palace on Friday 24th February, 1832. Embossed with a red wax seal.

Parchment document in French signed by Charles the Bold. The document is cropped along the right-hand edge and therefore some of the text is missing.

Transcription by Prof. Anne Cobby:
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avoir Receu de Nicholas de gondenas n(ost)re argenteur La somme de <...>
Mil livres de quarante gros de n(ost)re [?] de Flandres la livre <...>
par n(ost)re commandement et ordonnance Il Nous a baillie et del<...>
compartant ey nos mains ou mois de Fevrier derenierment passe e<...>
et [put'?] mois de mars y donc en faire n(ost)re plaisir en rerta[..?]><...>
dont ne voulous Icy autre declaracion estre faute . De la qu[..?]<...>
de [?] [?] Nous sommes contens Escript sou[..?] n(ost)re no<...>
xxiiiie jour d[..?] mois de mars Lan mil CCCC soixante unze an<...>
pasques

Later inscriptions added:
Inscriptions in later hands have been added to the document, including "Anno 1803"; "Finis L'ande le 3 mars 1803" and "Louis vanden Bogaerde".

Plan, particulars, and conditions of sale of estates in Impington and Chesterton. The sale took place at the Black Bull Inn in Cambridge on 7 October 1831.

This was an auction of the following: 'Freehold & Copyhold estates, comprising two dwelling-houses, and valuable pasture ground, in the parish of St Giles in Cambridge, and very superior arable land known as Howe's Closes containing 13 acres, 3 roods, 17 perches lying in Impington. Also 13 acres, 2 roots and 15 perches of excellent freehold corn land lying in Chesterton'.

Accounts for the £1,000 legacy left by Margaret Dongworth (a widow from Durham) to to augment four of the 'small' fellowships.

Parties: (1) Francis Eaden, (2) Magdalene College

Draft agreement for the sale of a newly erected messuage in the occupation of Thomas Willett in Chesterton Lane, part of the Copped Hall Estate.

Parties: (1) Dr Peter Peckard (Master of Magdalene College), (2) Mr Nathaniel Wedd

Draft lease for a piece of waste ground in the parish of St Peter's, Cambridge, behind the brewhouse belonging to the messuage and premises late of Jesus College and also the lane lying between the said messuages and Magdalene College.

Parties: (1) Magdalene College, (2) Geirge Ashby

Draft licence to alienate his interest notwithstanding a provision of the lease of 26 December 1772.

Drawing of Martha Peckard by Thomas Kerrich. Undated.

Drawing of the exterior of the Wren Library, Trinity College, as seen across Neville's Court. Drawn by Thomas Kerrich.

Drawing of William Gretton, Master of Magdalene College (1797-1813) by Thomas Kerrich. Undated.

Copies of the order of service and the eulogies given by Sir Christopher Greenwood, Frank Salmon, and Margaret Greaves at the memorial service held for Duncan Robinson held at Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge on 22 April 2023.

(1) Handwritten poem ‘Lords Coëval with creation’ (1958) by C.S. Lewis
(2) Explanatory letter to Francis Turner, 10 June 1958
(3) Printout of the music by Peter Relph (who sang bass in the choir), June 2016.

Copy of a short biography of Edward Digby, who matriculated at Magdalene in 1792 but doesn't appear to have proceeded to a degree. Was tried for a 'Foot-pad robbery' at the Old Bailey in 1802. A transcript of the trial can be read at the Old Bailey Online website: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18021027-119?text=%22medical%20gentleman%22.