This archive consists of the administrative records of Clare College Cambridge. These comprise records of the governance of the College, 1448-2019; records of the Master, c1440-2011; accounts and bursarial records, 1549-2013; estate records, c1350-2012; bequests, benefactions and development, 1525-2014; College charities, 1854-2011; admission and tutorial records, 1631-2019; domestic records, 1575-2016; building records, 1636-2016; records of the chapel and choir, 1783-2013; library and archive records, 1659-2013; records of porters, 1867-1923; garden records, 1869-2007 and records relating to Clare Hall, 1960-2003
Clare College CambridgeOriginal volume and copy; original inscribed by Winterbourne
Statutes, c1600-2017; records of the Council and its predecessors, 1644-2011, Governing Body records, 1871-2012; Committee Records, 1856-2017
Contains statutes 1600-2017 and related papers 1627-2001. The original statutes of lady Elizabeth de Clare, granted in 1359, and the 1551 statutes of Edward VI have been lost. The oldest copies in the college archive date from the early seventeenth century.
With memorandum about very poor condition of original 1551 Statutes, 1608; now in new binding (with original boards retained for interest)
Printed copies with some revised editions
Amendments dated: 2 Feb 1939; 22 Dec 1948; 10 Mar 1952; 25 Nov 1952; 3 Jun 1954; 29 Jul 1955; 3 Aug 1956; 8 Feb 1960; 30 Jul 1960; 17 Jan 1963; 28 Jul 1967; 16 Jul 1973; 25 Jun 1975
As approved by Her Majesty, by and with the advice of the Privy Council on 22 April 1998 and 14 May 2001