Registers of accounts (cash books)
Papers relating to the payment of electricity accounts.
Compiled by Samuel Blithe, William Searle and John Reynolds Wardale.
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)
Includes:
(1) letters of application for scholarships, 1821, 1822, 1832, 1848 and 1856
(2) bonds concerning loans to Clare College, 1830-1839
(3) letters to William Webb about mathematics, 1831
(4) papers in a dispute about College finances between Webb and Fellows, 1854-1857
(5) papers concerning the Cambridge University and Town Bill, 1855-1856
(6) complaint by students against opening of their letters, nd (? 1870)
(7) petition for weekly communion services in Chapel, nd (1871)
(8) papers in dispute between College and Dr Ffrangcon Roberts, 1924-1926
Master's memorandum book, apparently begun by William Grigg and continued in other hands.
Includes memoranda on Cambridge University affairs, Clare College finances, properties, disputes, gardening etc, and numerous copies of earlier documents, including account of College finances in 1654. Also includes copies of documents in various disputes, chiefly concerning University, 1768-1840. With index.
Lists documents, many no longer extant, in the handwriting of William Webb (Master). With fragmentary index.