Includes accounts for properties, buildings, stipends, wages and College supplies. Also includes payments for trees and other garden plants, 1655. At beginning: summary of costs of converting and fitting out Library above Chapel, 1624 and 1627. The majority of the accounts are written in a mixture of English and Latin.
At end: memoranda about Clare College finances, including costs of rebuilding work, 1704 - 1719.
At beginning of the volume is a memoranda of money taken out of ''Treasury'', 1781.
Described by J. R. Wardale as the only volume to survive the fire in the Master's Lodge and Muniment Room in 1521.
Includes detailed valuations of Library (manuscripts), chapel vestments and ornaments, plate and other utensils. Also includes lists of muniments, benefactions and elections, cartulary and accounts, and memoranda about College properties. The volume also includes information about the 1521 fire and the subsequent rebuilding of the College.
Paginated and with loose papers, apparently in the handwriting of Samuel Blithe, nd (? 1682).
Compiled by Samuel Blithe and continued by William Grigg. Includes memoranda about:
(1) parish of St Edward, Cambridge, nd
(2) rebuilding of manor house at Risby in Walesby (Lincs), 1694-1710
(3) Tetney (Lincs), nd and 1719
(4) Dullingham, nd (after 1698)
(5) Caldecote, nd (after 1680)
(6) Girton land, 1686-1712
(7) Foxton