Given to the College in the will of Dr. Henry Hornsby in 1517. Hornby (BD 1489/ 90) was a Fellow of Clare College and afterwards of Michaelhouse, before becoming Master of Peterhouse in 1509; he was one of the circle of Lady Margaret, mother of Henry VII,
Caldecote, Bourn and Toft: Deans and Pecks Farms (Blithe), 1680 and 1821 (combined with Gregorys Farm to create Caldecote and Highfields Farms; sold, 1932 and 1937). Deans farm and Pecks farm appear to be the same property according to the 1594 terrier.
Admitted to Clare College and was a Fellow (1613-1631).
1618-1624 director to the affairs of the Virginia Company.
1626 ordained as a deacon and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.