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Account of John Scott, Fellow: includes expenses for completing Christ's College Chapel and repairs to the manor of Malton, Cambridgeshire.

Accounts related to Lady Margaret's various households, her estates and those of her executors.

A signed draft copy of Lady Margaret’s will, annotated with additions and corrections in various hands. It includes a list of her particular benefactions to ‘Cristes College’ and ‘to my lord Prince’ which has been altered to read ‘the kinges grace’. Also includes a paper about the purchase of Bassingbourne in Fordham, Cambridgeshire inserted at front.
A folio paper book of 72 pages.
Pages 1-38: annotated draft will
Pages 39-56: list of legacies
Pages 57-72: blank

Deeds and papers relating to College property at Barway and Soham, Cambridgeshire.

Includes: a catalogue of books left by Dr Gower to Mr Brome with the remainder to go the College Library; and a list of books sold to Mr Brome.

Comprising:
1) Indenture of bargain and sale, Christopher Stanke[s], to Nicholas Metcalfe and Ralph Baynes, land at Barway with water and fishing rights at Barway, Soham and Stretham, known as 'Beche', from bushoploode to Bradforth Were (sic) which Stanke[s] purchased from Thomas Barton, dated 4 Feb. 1525.
2) Notes of the boundaries of the land and fishing rights at Barway bought by the College from Christopher Stanke[s]

A report sent to the President of the College on the College's farm at Barway, with recommendations as to the repairs and a statement that the last tenant had neglected to plant the 30 willow trees yearly which he ought to have by his lease. The document is signed with the marks of 4 men: William Longe, Tho[m]as Lambert, Roger Burridg and Thomas Paggett.

Certificate of proceedings under the Conventicles Act, including an attempt to arrest dissenters in Toft Cambridgeshire: a vivid description of how the Act was enforced, by Stephen Perry & others.

Conveyance, James D Dimock to SJC of 2 acres 1 rood and 12 perches next to Soham Lode, Barway Cambridgeshire.

With memorandum, 1708

Correspondence related to the tenure of land and fisheries at Barway, also includes valuations of the estate.

Map of SJC lands and fisheries at Barway in Soham Cambridgeshire, traced from second-class tithe map. The original scale is 6 chains to 1 inch.

Deeds of fisheries at Barway and Soham, sold by John Peachie to the College.

John Hammond, Greenwich to Richard Clayton SJC Master or the Senior Bursar, about rents, repairs and sub-tenancy at Thriplow, Cambridgeshire.

Map of SJC lands and fisheries at Barway in Soham Cambridgeshire, coloured, with an inset showing the junction of the Cam and West rivers. The map is similar to BWC/6/2 but shows more detail of Soham Lode and Mere drain. The original scale is 5 chains to 1 inch. There is a pen and ink floral cartouche.

Lease, SJC to William Lister, land at Barway & Soham Cambridgeshire.

Letters patent of Henry VII, granting manors in Devon, Somerset, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Northamptonshire, Dorset, South Wales and property in London to his mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
Westminster, 22 March 1486/7

Remise and quitclaim [undated] by the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Thomas Thomson, clerk, and rector of Wellwyn, Hertfordshire, of all their rights in lands etc in the parishes St Giles, Cambridge and of Coton which were formerly Richard [Foxe], Bishop of Winchester's, Thomas [Ruthall] Bishop of Durham's, John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester's and John Cutte's ,knight, and which Thomas had of their gift. And the Master and Fellows will guarantee the lands against John [Islip], Abbot of Westminter and his successors.

Report and valuation of the College estate stituated at Barway.

Robert Cecil [later earl of Salisbury and Richmond] to SJC, about tenancies in which the Queen [Elizabeth I] has deferred to the College's wishes. (The letter is referring to North Stoke, Oxfordshire and Thriplow, Cambridgeshire)