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SJCR/SJAR/8/1
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- 1635-2022 (Creation)
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3 sub-sub series, paper
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Includes: order books and memoranda, registers kept by the Junior Dean recording chapel attendance and conduct, registers kept by the Senior Dean, registers of Chapel services, records of attendance at Chapel, orders of service, records of marriage and baptism.
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Note
The earliest statutes (1516) prescribed two deans, to aid the Master. The statutes of 1580 stipulated that one whom must be a Bachelor of Theology and a senior, the other a Master of Arts. This was presumably to provide effective disciplinary supervision for all grades within the college. In 1852 and 1867 (see The Eagle, vol. 43, p. 262) it was recalled that the Junior Dean was responsible for first and second year men, the Senior Dean for the rest.
In 1860, the office of Sacrist was discontinued, and the care of the chapel came under the Chapel Clerk, who had (so it seems from this order) previously been responsible to the Sacrist. The Chapel Clerk reported to the Junior Bursar. He was responsible for the management of the College shoe-blacks and porters (see Conclusion Book, 1846-72, p. 110 and The Eagle, vol. 30, p. 297).
An amendment of the College statutes on 25 June 1903, ordered by the Privy Council, permitted the appointment of a cleric to assist the College Dean or Deans if they were not in Holy Orders. Until this amendment it was understood that the Dean or Deans would have taken Holy Orders.
The last Junior Dean was elected in 1904, and the Senior Dean was re-elected in 1905 as sole Dean. Thereafter, apart from a brief period in 1918, there was one Dean. In 1964, the offices of Dean of Chapel (clerical) and Dean of College (lay) were separated, the latter being responsible for discipline. On 2 October 2008 the Council decided that the lay Dean should be called Dean of Discipline.