This series of records relates to the Pyke Scholarship, settled on the White Horse Inn, Cambridge and later on Butt Close (the Fellows Garden).
With copy decree of Court of Chancery, 1708. Also lease of house and lands owned by Clare in the parish of Foots cray, Kent to Mr Samuel Herring.
Press cutting about small number of men from Hull (Yorks) at Universities.
Remnant of bundle concerning William Greaves' gift of 100 guineas as prize for essay on William III, consisting of regulations signed by Greaves.
Endorsed list refers to 2 other documents, now missing.
Letter from Rev. Francis Lodington offering a donation of his accumulated College dividends to augment Exeter, Freeman and Diggons Fellowships.
Includes:
(1) degree and matriculation accounts, 1778-1779
(2) accounts of debts owed to Stephenson and money owed by him at Cambridge
(3) inventories of furniture, scientific apparatus and valuables at Cambridge, and books, furniture, plate, shop goods (chiefly fabrics, ribbons and wallpapers), clothes and money at Scarborough (Yorks) with 2 bonds, 1789
(4) vouchers, 1789-1805
Notes: Mark Anthony Stephenson (admitted 1767, Fellow 1773 - 1790) bequeathed houses in Newborough Street and Awborough Street, Scarborough, to found the Stephenson Scholarship; the properties reverted to Clare College in 1843, but a legal dispute over the Newborough Street property absorbed most of the value of the benefaction. The Awborough Street houses were sold in 1852.
This series of records concerns a scholarship established with a gift of £1000 by Benjamin Cherry with a preference for candidates who were natives of Hertford