Plans show Clare College before C17 rebuilding, with adjacent buildings including old King's College. Overlays show plan after rebuilding, but Chapel is not in final position
With memorandum about very poor condition of original 1551 Statutes, 1608; now in new binding (with original boards retained for interest).
Copy of the 1359 Statutes with additions of 1463 and 1505.
Copy estimate for heating Chapel with plan.
Includes notes on repairs (1890 - 1907), and survey of cubic contents of buildings, 1908
Copies of part of the 1359 Statutes, the 1551 Statutes, and a memorandum from 1608 on the very poor condition of the Statutes.
With copies:
(1) Act of Parliament against abuses in elections of Scholars and presentations to Benefices, 1589
(2) Letters Patent of George IV, 1828
Loose:
(1) Copy orders and memoranda, 1861-1880
(2) Notes for ''Seniority Meeting'' (Master and Senior Fellows), 1891
(3) An index of references in Statutes to Masters, Fellows, Lecturers and Visitors (undated, c.1800)
Compiled by Richard Laughton.
At the beginning is a brief history of Clare College, a list of Masters to 1762 (with additions to 1815), and a genealogy of Elizabeth de Clare showing her relationships to the Royal Family.
At the end is a copy in various hands (undated) of the 1359 Statutes and consents of Cambridge University officers etc.
Copies of the 1359 and 1551 Statutes, and a memorandum (1608) about the condition of the 1551 letters of visitation.
With a painting of former buildings by Edmund Prideaux, 1714, which must have been made from an earlier drawing.