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Includes accounts for repairs to Cambridge tenements and in Kitchens and Gardens

Includes records of named funds and trusts, 1525-2013, miscellaneous bequests, 1928-1994, Donors Books 1630-1986, records of alumni events, 1993-2012, appeals and campaigns 1983-2012.

Inventories of College goods and chattels taken on the admission of the Master

This is a volume with correspondence pasted in on most pages, apparently arranged in sections by author and then in chronological order; mainly for the Civil War period, but also some later; also file of loose correspondence; Two letters of particular interest are from the Earl of Essex and Cromwell allowing safe conduct for Fellows and students during the Civil War.

Most significant letters include orders of Earl of Manchester, Committee for Reformation of the Universities, and Charles II, concerning administration of Clare College

2) Mandamus of Earl of Manchester appointing William Spurstowe as Master, 1645

3) Order of Earl of Manchester ejecting William Paske junior, John Heaver, John Hickman, John Newman and Henry Watts from their Fellowships, 1645

9) Revocation of appointment of William Spurstowe, 1645

14) Order of Committee forbidding Fellows and students to travel without special permission, 1652

16) Copy order appointing named Commissioners as Visitors to Oxford University, Cambridge University, Westminster School, Winchester College, Merchant Taylors' School and Eton College, 1654

23) Decree of Charles II concerning Fellowship of Thomas Wilson, 1662 with list, apparently by William Webb, including 17 other numbered docs subsequently removed to ''College Letter Book'' (Acc 1988/ 17: 1/ 1)

Several volumes awaiting cataloguing

Chiefly concerns tenancies of Clare College properties. Also includes references to presentations, 1686 - 1708, benefactions from John Win, James Goodwin, Barnabas Oley and Dr. Carter (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, appointment of Chestkeeper, 1686, Johnson Exhibitions, 1686-1711, appointments of University Scrutator, 1687, and Proctor, 1694, Warmfield tithes, 1687 - 1705, land drainage in Fens, 1694, repayment of 10 pounds benefaction to free Edmund Walthew (admitted 1668, vicar of Isleham 1686 - 1704), imprisoned for non-payment of First Fruits, 1697, donation for ransoming of prisoners in Morocco, 1700, order that a terrier be produced before any lease is sealed, 1701, timber at Wheatham Farm, Liss (Hants), 1702, proposed completion of buildings on west side of Old Court, 1704, property of Philpott Foundation, 1704 - 1705, Dr Hicks' Anglo-Saxon grammar, 1705, Buttery arrears of Fellows and of Diggons Fellows and Scholars, 1705, and Marshall Scholarship, 1705-1706; also ]