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This collection is made up of two separate deposits - one transferred from the Fellows Library and the second a gift to the Archives directly.

Miscellaneous accounts of Bursars and Masters as Bursar, in various hands, including those of William Grigg, Richard Laughton, Robert Greene and Charles Morgan.

Includes accounts for:
(1) Pyke Scholarships, 1713-1724
(2) Girton land, 1713-1727
(3) surpluses on Buttery accounts given to poor of Cambridge, 1713-1727
(4) Scholars' coal, 1713-1727
(5) Castle End estate, Cambridge, 1713-1724
(6) Foxton land, 1713-1727

Mathematical papers, including:

(1) tables of data gathered for Edmond Halley's survey of solar and lunar eclipses (in preparation for the 1715 solar eclipse), transcribed by Charles Morgan from figures 'communicated by' Clare fellow, Martin Folkes.

(2) Morgan's manuscript copies of texts by Isaac Newton and Isaac Barrow (some taken from manuscripts, some from published works).

(3) Notes and data in other hands, including Martin Folkes and Roger Cotes.