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- c.1763 (Creation)
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1 volume, paper
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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)
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Old Muniments Ref (CAIRS): Bay D Shelf 2 Box 1
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- Hagar, Robert (Subject)
- Oley, Barnabas (1602-1686), Church of England clergyman and Fellow of Clare College (Subject)
- Bouchery, Gilbert (Subject)
- Greene, Robert (Subject)
- Stephenson, Mark Anthony (Subject)
- Fischer, William (Subject)
- Torkington, John (Subject)
- Goddard, Peter Stephen (1705-1781), Master of Clare College (Subject)