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- 1790 (Creation)
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2 files paper
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Includes degree and matriculation accounts, 1778 - 1779, and accounts of debts owed to Stephenson and money owed by him at Cambridge. Also includes inventories of furniture, scientific apparatus and valuables at Cambridge, and books, furniture, plate, shop goods (chiefly fabrics, ribbons and wallpapers), clothes and money at Scarborough (Yorks) With 2 bonds, 1789, and vouchers, 1789 - 1805 Notes: Mark Anthony Stephenson (admitted 1767, Fellow 1773 - 1790) bequeathed houses in Newborough Street and Awborough Street, Scarborough, to found the Stephenson Scholarship; the properties reverted to Clare College in 1843, but a legal dispute over the Newborough Street property absorbed most of the value of the benefaction. The Awborough Street houses were sold in 1852