With biographical list (in Latin) of Masters to 1621
Chiefly comprises extracts from Wood's _Institutes (compilation on legal matters), concerning legal terminology, status of clergy, aristocracy and others, marriage, duties and status of Sheriffs, Coroners, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of the Highways, law of property, and benefices. An entry about wills is dated 1732.
At end, reversed: memorandum on writs of right, nd, and (in a later handwriting) instructions for educating daughters, nd (c19th).
Note: Talbot Williamson was not apparently an alumnus of Clare College or Cambridge University, but may have been an ancestor of the brothers Edmond Riland Williamson (admitted 1814) and William Williamson (admitted 1820), uncles of Edward Atkinson's wife.
Includes:
(1) notes on Nicholas Ferrar and his contemporaries, and on Clare family, with notes on relic found at Clare castle (Suffolk) in 1865
Loose papers include:
(1) part of a notebook containing extracts from documents, and historical notes about College properties, Statutes of Clare College, nd (1858), with related papers, 1857-1860
(2) 'Report of the proceedings of the Congress of the Architectural Society, held at Cambridge...', 1860
(3) notes on Rotherhithe (Surrey), nd
(4) letters about Nicholas Ferrar from William Hopkinson (admitted 1859), including offer to subscribe to copy of Ferrar's portrait, 1864, with poems about Little Gidding, nd (1863)
(5) Charity Commission scheme for Oley Trust, 1865
Vol I: Bedfordshire to Norfolk
Vol II: Northamptonshire to Yorkshire and Anglesey to Radnorshire
Gives names and addresses of landowners and acreages and rentals of land. Also gives population of each county in 1871, with number of parishes and inhabited houses
Manuscript and typescript copies, apparently made by Major E.T. Newton-Clare. Envelope post-marked 1944.
Guide to living in Cambridge for freshmen.
Mortality bills from the time of the great plague listing numbers of people who died in the parishes of Cambridge. Also with detailed list of those who died between 2 July to 10 August 1665. Wrapped in sheet of blank College receipts from 17th century relating to rent received by the College from tenants.