Note: the letter is dated ''May 25 67'', but cannot have been written in 1667 because Robert Carter (admitted 1657) was a Cave Scholar between 1657 and 1660, and Robert Doughty, one of the signatories, died in 1663
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.
Varying levels of details in entries; some entries pasted into volume.
Lists examination results, 1834 - 1900, prizes awarded, 1834 - 1920, examination marks, 1836 - 1900, and Scholars, Exhibitioners and winners of Greene Cups, 1839 - 1920. At end, reversed: lecture lists, 1845 - 1850, with copy notices about prizes, 1845 - 1847
Chiefly concerns leases of properties, presentations to benefices, appointments of University Officers, and appointments of gamekeepers for manors owned by Clare College.
Includes:
(1) references to Greene Benefaction, 1738 - 1747,
(2) payment for making steel seal, 1742,
(3) benefaction of William Acton (admitted 1700/1) for rebuilding Chapel, 1747,
(4) consolidation of rectories of Fornham All Saints and Westley (Suffolk), 1749 - 1750,
(5) accounts of individual dividends paid to Master and Fellows from ''sealing money'', 1718 - 1729.
At the end, reversed: ''sealing money'' accounts, 1729-1739 with index.
At beginning: memoranda about specific offences, 1769 - 1785