On reverse: ''Presented to Mrs Clare with the kind love of John L. Newton '62''
Publications on the life and manuscripts of Nicholas Ferrar:
(1) The Story Books of Little Gidding being the Religious dialogues recited in the great room 1631-2 by E. Cruwys Sharland (1899)
(2) Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding by A.L. Maycock (1938)
Include Sonnets by William Wordsworth (London, 1903); A. Clutton-Brock, The Ultimate Belief (London, 1916); P. MacGillivray, Pro Patria (Edinburgh, 1915); A.A. Jack, Poetry and Prose (London, 1911).
This series of records relates to the Borage Foundation, financed by the rent charge on property at North and West Barsham (both Norfolk), established by the will of John Borage.
Copy will of John Borage of North Barsham (Norfolk) (1636, pr. 1637).
Note: the will established the Borage Foundation, financed by the Borage rentcharge on property at North and West Barsham (both Norfolk).
Includes extracts, 1650 and nd, from will of John Borage of North Barsham (Norfolk), 1636 (pr. 1637)
Exemplification of proceedings in Court of Chancery in dispute over non-payment of rentcharge bequeathed to Clare College by John Borage. Explains terms of Borage Foundation. The Great Seal of the Lord Protector is tucked inside.
Receipt from Samuel Burrage (Fellow), to the Master and Fellows, for £397 paid to them by Thomas Russell of North Barsham (Norfolk), after decree in Court of Chancery.