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Masters' memorandum book, containing copy of 1359 Statutes, brief history of Clare College and list of Masters to 1781.
Includes:

(1) genealogy of Elizabeth de Clare, undated
(2) case of Robert Hagar (admitted 1747) about his Fellowship (on the Old Foundation), undated (1763)
(3) notes on elections of Masters and Fellows, 1693-1787
(4) Act of Parliament about Blythe Benefaction, 1763
(5) copies of, or extracts from, wills of Barnabas Oley, 1684, Robert Greene, 1721, Peter Stephen Goddard (Master), 1781, Gilbert Bouchery, 1783, and Mark Anthony Stephenson, 1790
(6) lawyers' opinions on powers of Visitors and Proctors, undated and 1770
(7) legal case concerning wrongful imprisonment by Proctor, undated (1830)

At the end, reversed:

(1) copy College orders, 1686-1809
(2) Visitors' decisions in appeals, 1799-1848, including appeal against Fellowship of William Fischer (admitted 1847), 1848. Presumably compiled by John Torkington (Master, 1781-1815), and continued by William Webb (Master, 1815-1855)

Entries for 1631-1729 are in one handwriting, and were presumably compiled in 1729 from memoranda in Buttery accounts. With biographical notes, many in the handwriting of Peter Stephen Goddard (admitted 1721, Master 1762-1781).
At the end: list of admissions of members of Clare College and other Colleges as Fellows or By-Fellows, 1657-1883.

Includes copies of College Orders on discipline, 1764-1765, and appointments of locum tenens; Masters during absences of Peter Stephen Goddard, 1763-1777.

Includes appointments of locum tenens during the absences of Master, Peter Stephen Goddard, 1779-1780.