''Class XI. Interpretation of Statutes'' - interpretations concerning the election of a Master; the holding of Fellowships with benefices; admissions; appointment of a Tutor; and disputed elections. With list.
Includes:
(1) a signed order concerning the income of a Fellowship in dispute between John Heaver and Thomas Wilson (1661)
(2) the case of John Jennings for election as Fellow on the Diggons Foundation (1698)
(3) copy documents about St. John's Hospital, Ely (1458-1585)
(4) copy of a letter from Nicholas Ridley to the Duke of Somerset objecting to a proposed dissolution of Clare College and union with Trinity Hall (1549)
(5) copy of an Act of Parliament against abuses in elections of Scholars and presentations to benefices (1589)
Papers concerning an appeal made by the Cambridge Colleges (including Clare College) against the University Commission's Statute ''For contributions of Colleges for University purposes''.
Contains statutes 1600-2017 and related papers 1627-2001.
The original statutes of Lady Elizabeth de Clare, granted in 1359, and the 1551 statutes of Edward VI have been lost.
The oldest copies in the College Archive date from the early seventeenth century.
Orders concerning leasing of properties, and administrative and academic matters.
Includes:
(1) orders about BA degrees of John Peel and Samuel Blithe, 1656
(2) decision to refer clause in Statutes about the number of members of Clare College from one county to the Visitors, 1658
(3) leave of absence for John Tillotson and Nathaniel Vincent, 1659
Chiefly concerns tenancies of Clare College properties.
Also includes:
(1) references to presentations, 1686-1708
(2) benefactions from John Win, James Goodwin, Barnabas Oley and Nicholas Carter (admitted 1645), 1686, George Payne, 1687-1688, John Love, 1689, John Jones, 1693, Mr Ireland (? Richard Ireland, admitted 1627), 1694, John Acton, 1704, Alexander Metcalfe, 1708, and Samuel Blithe, 1713
(3) appointment of Chestkeeper, 1686
(4) Johnson Exhibitions, 1686-1711
(5) appointments of University Scrutator, 1687, and Proctor, 1694
(6) Warmfield tithes, 1687-1705
(7) drainage in Fens, 1694
(8) repayment of 10 pounds benefaction to free Edmund Walthew (admitted 1668, vicar of Isleham 1686-1704), imprisoned for non-payment of First Fruits, 1697
(9) donation for ransoming of prisoners in Morocco, 1700
(10) order that a terrier be produced before any lease is sealed, 1701
(11) timber at Wheatham Farm, Liss (Hants), 1702
(12) proposed completion of buildings on west side of Old Court, 1704
(13) property of Philpott Foundation, 1704-1705
(14) Dr Hicks' Anglo-Saxon grammar, 1705
(15) Buttery arrears of Fellows
(16) Diggons Fellows and Scholars, 1705
(17) Marshall Scholarship, 1705-1706