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This series of records relates to the Diggons foundation based on property in Braintree, Liss and Stepney.

Letter patent of Charles II: licence to the Master and Fellows to purchase or receive property of yearly value of £800.
Probably concerns Diggons Foundation (endowed in 1657).

Copy will of Theophilus Dillingham 1678 (proved 1679). Includes reversion of property at Newnham in Cambridge for endowing two Exhibitions for Scholars of Dillingham's name or family, or for sons of clergy.

Note: if no suitable candidates were available, the endowment was to be used to buy books for the College Library.

Copy probate will of Thomas Pyke of Cambridge, (1708, proved 1709), with related papers.

Includes copy contract for building stables at White Horse Inn, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, 1815.

Note: after a long dispute with King's College, the White Horse Inn and a small piece of land at the south-east corner of Old Court were exchanged for part of Butt Close (now the Fellows' Garden) in 1823.

This series of records relates to a bequest by Thomas Philpott of lands in Eltham and Foots Cray, Sidcup for the foundation of by-fellowships for natives of Kent.

Includes copy will of 1680.

Printed statement of Master and Fellows in answer to petition of Borough of Hull (Yorks).

This series of records concerns an estate in Calne, Wiltshire, left by the Revd. John Wilson to found a scholarship.

Note: the will bequeaths property at Tamworth (Staffs), bank stock, books and Greene's own skeleton to Clare College.