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- c 1400-c 1700 (Undated (cC15th-17th)) (Creation)
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1 volume paper
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Described by J. R. Wardale as the only volume to survive the fire in the Master's Lodge and Muniment Room in 1521. Includes detailed valuations of Library (manuscripts), chapel vestments and ornaments, plate and other utensils. Also includes lists of muniments, benefactions and elections, cartulary and accounts, and memoranda about College properties. The volume also includes information about the 1521 fire and the subsequent rebuilding of the College.
Paginated and with loose papers, apparently in the handwriting of Samuel Blithe, nd (? 1682).
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Finding aids
Use Mansucript Abstracts as finding aid as it contains transcriptions and index of elections
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Existence and location of copies
The volume has been digitised by the University Library Digital Content Unit.
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Publication note
Wardale describes this volume as the 'Old Register' in his 'Clare College' (London, 1899), pp v-vi (leading to some confusion with the later 'First Register of Leases').
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Formerly Bay D Shelf 1 Box 3