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Buttery quarterly accounts, 1687-1690, and letters of thanks (possibly for benefactions) in Latin

Reverse sides re-used for index to first three Registers of Leases (1562-1691), probably by Samuel Blithe

Copies of entries covering 1502-1562 on pp 51-67 of 'Master's Old Book', with memoranda by Blithe about blank pages found and about his copying.

With copy (in 2 other hands) of licence from Edward III to Elizabeth de Clare to give advowson of Litlington to Clare College, nd (1336)

Comprises:

(1) Act for ... drainage of... Bedford Level, 1663; similar Act, 1754

(2) Act for establishing Addenbrooke's Hospital, 1767

(3) Acts for paving, cleansing, lighting and road widening in Cambridge, 1788 and 1794

(4) Acts for repairing roads from Cambridge to Long Leys and Royston (Herts), 1793, road to Arrington, 1797, and road to Newmarket Heath, 1815

(5) Act for new prison for town of Cambridge, 1827

(6) Act to create gas lighting company, 1834

(7) Cambridge Corporation Bill, 1849

(8) Resolution of Heads of Houses about defence against proposals to impose rates on Colleges, 1850

(9) Cambridge Improvement Bill, 1874

(10) Report (with map) on proposed diversion of sewage to pumping station on River Cam, printed 1885

Contains:

(1) Testimonial for Thomas Leman of Emmanuel College, 1774

(2) Survey and valuation of inclosed and open land in parish of Warmfield (Yorks), nd (C18th)

(3) List of ''places'' held by Matthew Witt, Porter, including Gardener, Lamplighter, Sweeper of the Leads, etc, with salaries paid.

Also lists other payments, e.g. for waiting at table, cleaning knives, collecting letters and newspapers etc, nd (early C19th)

Includes Act amending Act for making River Cam navigable from Clayhithe Ferry (at Horningsea) to Queen's Mill, Cambridge, 1813, and Act to amend Cambridge Improvement Act (exempting Eastern Counties Railway from tolls), 1846

Oversize items with compilation of letters including proclamation by Oliver Cromwell forbidding billeting of soldiers in Colleges or harm to members, 1652; letter, from John Tillotson to Theophilus Dillingham, about compensation to College for loss of building materials, 1656

On reverse: ''Presented to Mrs Clare with the kind love of John L. Newton '62''