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With copy of inscription and dimensions of former Chapel. Copied from Vol 4 of Samuel Blithe's accounts with his pupils (Safe A: 1/ 8) On reverse: draft abstract of (College) accounts for 1800 - 1804

Written in the hand of William Webb (Master, 1815-1856). Includes references to Tamworth (Staffs), Wrawby (Lincs), Ely, Risby in Walesby (Lincs), Liss (Hants), Ipswich (Suffolk), Caldecote, Great Gransden, Haddenham, Everton (Beds), and Borage rentcharge on property at North and West Barsham (Norfolk). Also includes notes on allocation of rooms and appointment of sizars, undated (c.1827).

The first memorandum states that the charity formerly took the form of a dole at the College gates, but from 1764 money was given to needy individuals at the discretion of the Master.

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Recording on open reel tape of performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion in Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge in 1957 with conductor Michael Brimer.

Described by J. R. Wardale as the only volume to survive the fire in the Master's Lodge and Muniment Room in 1521.

Includes detailed valuations of Library (manuscripts), chapel vestments and ornaments, plate and other utensils. Also includes lists of muniments, benefactions and elections, cartulary and accounts, and memoranda about College properties. The volume also includes information about the 1521 fire and the subsequent rebuilding of the College.

Paginated and with loose papers, apparently in the handwriting of Samuel Blithe, nd (? 1682).

Masters' memorandum book, containing copy of 1359 Statutes, brief history of Clare College and list of Masters to 1781.
Includes:

(1) genealogy of Elizabeth de Clare, undated
(2) case of Robert Hagar (admitted 1747) about his Fellowship (on the Old Foundation), undated (1763)
(3) notes on elections of Masters and Fellows, 1693-1787
(4) Act of Parliament about Blythe Benefaction, 1763
(5) copies of, or extracts from, wills of Barnabas Oley, 1684, Robert Greene, 1721, Peter Stephen Goddard (Master), 1781, Gilbert Bouchery, 1783, and Mark Anthony Stephenson, 1790
(6) lawyers' opinions on powers of Visitors and Proctors, undated and 1770
(7) legal case concerning wrongful imprisonment by Proctor, undated (1830)

At the end, reversed:

(1) copy College orders, 1686-1809
(2) Visitors' decisions in appeals, 1799-1848, including appeal against Fellowship of William Fischer (admitted 1847), 1848. Presumably compiled by John Torkington (Master, 1781-1815), and continued by William Webb (Master, 1815-1855)