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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''.

Comprises:
(1) benefaction made by Thomas Cowper
(2) donation by Rev. Joseph Cape
(3) bequest by Mrs Eleanor Bartlett (widow of Symeon Bartlett, admitted 1835)

Includes:

(1) papers about timber taken for fortification of Cambridge castle, 1643 - 1654 (items 2, 4, 7 and 8 of Class XX, with list)

(2) plan of Hall and Kitchens, nd (17th century)

(3) bill for stone, 1705

(4) estimates for altering windows on west side, 1815

(5) plan and estimate for greenhouse (in Master's garden), 1816

(6) proposals for heating Chapel, 1846

With order discontinuing burials in Chapel, 1855

Includes deeds of each Foundation, 1870 and 1883.

''C. X.'': papers concerning loans (for rebuilding). With accounts of a dinner etc at the opening of new Hall, 1693, and expenses at primary visitation of Bishop of Ely (John Moore), 1708.

Includes papers about property at Great Gransden and Little Gransden

Includes schedule of deeds, 1796, and Charity Commission report, 1872

Chiefly draft and copy appeals (in Latin) for donations Includes memorandum and agreement about field to be used for brickmaking, 1637, and memorandum of money placed in College Treasury, 1694

Includes:

(1) copy of Letters Patent of James I appointing Visitor (1605)
(2) Statutes of 1861, 1878 and 1898
(3) survey of estate at Stepney, 1872
(4) letters about the creation of Council, 1896-1897

Also an envelope of documents given by Stuart Morse in 1875, including:
(1) an agreement between Richard Cawmonde (executor of the will of Richard Heynes of Colchester (Essex), gent) and Clare College, concerning a donation towards construction of buildings next to the Chapel, in exchange for yearly requiem masses etc in Chapel and sermon at Colchester, 1527,
(2) list of Fellows, 1756.