Accounts of Barnabas Oley, Bursar, for money spent obtaining a Royal Licence to receive (in mortmain) property of yearly value of £800. Possibly in connection with endowment of Diggons Foundation.
''C. X.'': papers concerning loans (for rebuilding). With accounts of a dinner etc at the opening of new Hall, 1693, and expenses at primary visitation of Bishop of Ely (John Moore), 1708.
Copies of the 1359 and 1551 Statutes, and a memorandum (1608) about the condition of the 1551 letters of visitation.
With a painting of former buildings by Edmund Prideaux, 1714, which must have been made from an earlier drawing.
Copy of the 1359 Statutes with additions of 1463 and 1505.
Copies of part of the 1359 Statutes, the 1551 Statutes, and a memorandum from 1608 on the very poor condition of the Statutes.
With copies:
(1) Act of Parliament against abuses in elections of Scholars and presentations to Benefices, 1589
(2) Letters Patent of George IV, 1828
Loose:
(1) Copy orders and memoranda, 1861-1880
(2) Notes for ''Seniority Meeting'' (Master and Senior Fellows), 1891
(3) An index of references in Statutes to Masters, Fellows, Lecturers and Visitors (undated, c.1800)
''Statuta antiqua 1359'' - a copy of the Statutes of 1359, with notes on a comparison with a copy in British Library Harleian Manuscripts series.
Proposed Statutes for Cambridge Colleges including Clare College.
Includes:
(1) copy of Letters Patent of James I appointing Visitor (1605)
(2) Statutes of 1861, 1878 and 1898
(3) survey of estate at Stepney, 1872
(4) letters about the creation of Council, 1896-1897
Also an envelope of documents given by Stuart Morse in 1875, including:
(1) an agreement between Richard Cawmonde (executor of the will of Richard Heynes of Colchester (Essex), gent) and Clare College, concerning a donation towards construction of buildings next to the Chapel, in exchange for yearly requiem masses etc in Chapel and sermon at Colchester, 1527,
(2) list of Fellows, 1756.
Including memoranda on estate matters, buildings, etc.