Orders chiefly concern leasing of properties, presentations to benefices and appointments of University Officers.
Also includes:
(1) orders concerning alterations to buildings and proposed building of a stable for Master and four Senior Fellows, 1763
(2) proposed rebuilding of the Chapel, 1763
(3) Greene Benefaction, 1764
(4) division of dividends from corn rents between Master and resident Clare Fellows, 1765 and 1767
(5) consecration of Chapel, 1768
(6) status of Fellow Commoners, 1770-1774
(7) Johnson Exhibitions, 1776
(8) separate Bursarship, held by Rev. Thomas Clarke, 1781
(9) repainting of Hall and staircase (Staircase H), 1783
With index (though not comprehensive).
Includes minutes of meetings of the Master and Fellows in College (precursor of the Council) concerning financial matters and properties, 1858-1887, and of Master and Senior Fellows, 1860-1896.
With index at rear and also loose copy of typescript index.
Also printed Statutes appointing Council, 1897 at rear.
Engraved title on front board of volume includes "William Webb Master".
Chiefly draft and copy appeals (in Latin) for donations Includes memorandum and agreement about field to be used for brickmaking, 1637, and memorandum of money placed in College Treasury, 1694
Includes papers about timber taken for fortification of Cambridge castle, 1643 - 1654 (items 2, 4, 7 and 8 of Class XX, with list), plan of Hall and Kitchens, nd ((C17)), bill for stone, 1705, estimates for altering windows on west side, 1815, plan and estimate for greenhouse ((in Master's garden)), 1816, and proposals for heating Chapel, 1846 With order discontinuing burials in Chapel, 1855
With copy of inscription and dimensions of former Chapel. Copied from Vol 4 of Samuel Blithe's accounts with his pupils (Safe A: 1/ 8) On reverse: draft abstract of (College) accounts for 1800 - 1804