File 12 - Legal Suit: SJC v D Fleming

Includes documents connected with a suit brought by the College against Daniel Fleming concerning a moiety of the Addingham tithes, left to it by John Ambrose. These documents consist of a great number of letters from John Armstrong, former Fellow, and Curate of Cartmel who was acting locally for the College. These letters are mostly addressed to Richard Berry, Senior Bursar & College Fellow. Also included are abstracts of wills; notes by Berry (some made on the backs of elaborately written letters addressed to him by clients for Fellowships, who are very subservient in Latin); receipts for tithe payments; depositions of local residents; lawyers' bills; drafts of the College's and Fleming's case in the Court of Chancery; summonses to attend Chancery Court (addressed to counsel); recommendations of persons tho handle the case. Also included is a certified copy of the will of John Ambrose of Lowick, Fellow, in which he left his moiety of the tithes of Addingham Rectory to the College and its choir.