William George Searle: Historical papers

Scope and Content

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

Access Information

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).

Acquisition Information

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.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Related Material

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).