Item 2 - Letter from Thomas Browne to Robert Lambert

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SJCR/SJAR/1/2/Lambert/2/2

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GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/1/2/Lambert/2/2

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Letter from Thomas Browne to Robert Lambert

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  • 14 November 1721 (Creation)

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(1654-1741)

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Letter from Thomas Browne to Robert Lambert: Browne confirms that he has received both the book of College by-foundations and Lambert's letter, in which he describes the period for which the College maintained the fellowships first established by Bishop Williams and the financial reasons for their suspension. Browne writes that he considers the suspension of the fellowships to have been justified.

The letter also refers to a dispute between the Salters' Company and St. John's College, concerning the terms of the foundation of William Robson - primarily the election of two exhibitioners to the College.

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A printed transcription of the letter can be found in The Eagle XXXIII (Lent Term, 1912), p.p.119-120.

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Although the original copy of the letter cannot be found, another letter from Browne to Jenkin, dated 26th April, 1722, and concerning the College's dispute with the Salter's Company, is printed in full in The Eagle XXXIII (Lent Term, 1912), pp 134-135.

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William Robson, himself a Salter, bequeathed a tene­ment in Fleet Street to the Salters' Company on the agreement that the Company should pay an annual sum of £10 to St. John's College in order to support two exhibitions. The exhibitioners would be preferably the sons of less wealthy relatives of Company members. The source of the dispute between the College and the Company as discussed in Browne's letter appears to concern the right of the Company to nominate exhibitioners to the College. See The Eagle XXXIII (Lent Term, 1912), p.135.

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D59.67

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  • Box: 136/COLLEGE