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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Dana P. Ripley Collection #11042, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Dana P. Ripley of Durham, N.C., in December 1990 (Acc. 91007).

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Boyce family.
• Channel Islands--Description and travel.
• Colledge, J. R., fl. 1820.
• Colledge, Thomas R.
• Farm tenancy--Great Britain--History--18th century.
• Farm tenancy--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• Gardner family.
• Gibbons family.
• Inclosures--Great Britain--History--18th century.
• Inclosures--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• Kibworth (Leicester, England)
• Kilsby (Rutland, England)
• Land tenure--Great Britain--History--18th century.
• Land tenure--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• Ophthalmologists--China--Macau (Special Administrative Region)--History--19th century.
• Ophthalmologists--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• Real property--Great Britain--History--18th century.
• Real property--Great Britain--History--19th century
• Richardson family.
• Ridgely family.
• Rutland (England)--History.
• Shakespeare, Thomas.
• Travelers--Channel Islands--Diaries.

The collection is chiefly legal documents relating to rents, freeholds, copyholds, and other tenancy issues at Kilsby, Parish of Liddington, County of Rutland, England. Many of the documents relate to Thomas Colledge of Kilsby, and other Colledge family members, including J. R. Colledge, who was an ophthalmologist in Macao and China in the 1820s. Thomas Colledge was also involved with John and Elizabeth Gardner and others in a land shares scheme at Kibworth, County of Leicester. Some of the documents relate to actions taken to satisfy the requirements of the act for dividing and inclosing open and common fields passed by Parliament in the mid-1770s. Also included are documents relating to members of the Richardson, Ridgely, Boyes, and Gibbons families, some of whom appear to have been related to the Colledges. The earliest item is an indenture dated 1506, which bears Thomas Shakespeare's signature on the back; the latest is an 1886 inventory of a public house at Kilsby. There is also a short travel diary of a journal to the Channel Islands in 1836.

Note that documents were arranged into lots by the donor, and that these numbered lots have been maintained. These "R" numbers may reflect the way in which materials were collected. There is no R-9, R-16, or R-33.

• Oversize volumes: SV-11042/1 (R-2); SV-11042/2 (R-3)