Item 1 - Executors' Statutes

Robert Duckett [or Doket], Rector of Chevening (d.1522), in 1521 gave the College a barn and a plot of land at Castle End, Cambridge (later this was joined with another barn to form the headquarters of the College's Great Barn Farm near Huntingdon Rd.) and 40 acres in Cambridge fields, with 5 acres at Horningsea, Cambridgeshire. (The original value of the land in 1513 was 33s. 4d. which, with the plot and barn; of which 48s. 4d. for the lands in Cambridge is given in Duckett’s Foundation).

The foundation was to endow 2 studentships with chantry duties; one for a student from the parish of Keyingham Yorks., and the second for a student from Chevening and neighbouring Kentish parishes, of Sevenoaks, Sundridge, Shoreham, or Otford. The scholars were to be of Duckett's foundation 'over and above' the foundress's [Lady Margaret Beaufort’s] or any other, and to have 'meat and drink and other profits forever as other scholars of the said college now have; and the said scholars to have yearly their chambers within the said college, reading, barber and launder, and to be discharged of cook's and butler's wages [i.e. bills] and of other charges annual of the said college all the costs and charges of the said college'.

The scholars' chantry duties were set out by the Statute; a bond for the performance of the foundation, replacing an earlier one for 1 s. only, was dated 13 Sept. 1519.

The foundation was terminated under the new arrangements for scholarships in 1860.

Edward Gregson, Rector of Fladbury, Worcestershire, gave, between Michaelmas 1519 and Michaelmas 1520, £50 to found one scholarship. The scholar was to enjoy the same rights as those on the Lady Margaret’s foundation. The boy was to come from Preston, Lancashire, or from the neighbouring parishes and by preference to be born in Lancashire. He was to perform chantry duties for the souls of Edward Gregson, Gilbert and Alice his parents, and his benefactors, and to commend their souls to the people when he preaches. The student was to be nominated by Gregson during his lifetime.

In April 1527, Gregson gave the College a further £329 13s. 4d. to support his original foundation. Gregson also left money for the College to establish one fellowship for a fellow born in Norfolk and another fellowship for a fellow born in Lancashire.

The local restrictions of the Gregson scholarship were abolished like those of others when the new open scholarships replaced them after1860.