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Endorsed by an early hand and supplemented by Masters: "The Deane of West' testament. Mr Benson 10 Sept. 3 Edw. 6, who was formerly possessed of the Houses in Longditch West' now belonging to the College, which was of no other use than to make out the Title.'

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Copy for E. Wayman

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased by Dr John Spencer, Master 1667-93, in 1687 for £3600, with an annual value of £200, and settled by Deed of Gift on the College for the augmentation of the Mastership, Fellowships, Scholarships and various other purposes.(see Masters, Appendix no. LIII (pp. 79-80).It was sold in 1929 for £3425 (Bury, p. 165).The two items under 43 have been reclassified as 39a and 40c.No. 60, which relates to St Bene't's parish has been reassigned to XVIII 237.41. Nos 68...

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Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

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Recites 68-72 above.

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No note of presentation.

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Testator died 22 January 1877.

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The probate not included.

Scope and Contents From the File: Booth leaves £3 per annum from his lands in Laneham; £1 to be given yearly to the two students the speeches in the college on 5 November concerning the Gunpoder Plot; £1 to be spent on exceedings by the fellows and scholars; and £1 on 'some learned and pious work of some Protestant writer English or Latin to be placed in the public library'; he leaves his house nd lands at Laneham to his brother George, excepting the £3 above; he leaves to the college the 'De l'institution, usage, et...

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No. 1 not used. No. 116 relates to Swaffham; No. 178 is now 207A
Also included are holdings in the nearby parishes of Milton (Middleton), Cottenham (Cotenham), Impington (Impiton or Empiton), and elsewhere

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Testator died 18 September 1876.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Uplands Farm, Manor Farm and Church Farm, Ratley, were acquired from the executors of A. R. Motion on 23 October 1936 and sold to the Sheepshanks Coal and Iron Company on 19 October 1944.Nos, 1-13, 25-27 and 42-44 were in a packet entitled 'Purchase from A. R. Motion's executors. Schedule of deeds and documents relating to a close of land situate at Ratley, Warwicks, Field no. 78 on Contract Plan'.. Nos 14-16, 18-24, 29, 37-38, 57 and 61 were in a packet entitled 'Purchase from A. R....

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Note of presentation and verdict, 4 Sept. 1793.

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Including bequest to Guy Gascon/Gascoigne.

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With probate certificate, 26 Jan. 1841, from Archdeaconry of Dorset. Testator died 2 Jan. 1841.

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Testator died 21 June 1858.

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He leaves his lands to his wife [Ebarillah] for her lifetime and then to Joseph Grimson.

Scope and Contents From the File: Under a codicil toTenison's will he left to the college £200 of which £100 was to be laid out on land the revenues from which were to be expended every four years on a 10s fee to the bursar for keeping the accounts; 10s per mess (four persons) of Fellows dining on 4 November, and the remainder for a prize for a Norwich Scholar most successful in an examination on Columella's De Re Rustica, which examination was to be conducted by the Masters of Corpus, Gonville and Caius and Trinity Hall,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Matthias Mawson, Master 1724-44, Bishop of Llandaff (1739-40), then of Chichester (1740-54) and finally of Ely (1754-70), by his will dated 17 September 1770 'gave to the master and fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the sum of six thousand pounds in the New South-Sea Annuities, and three thousand pounds capital stock in the South Sea Stock for the purchase of an estate in freehold land; but to be continued in the said stock until it will amount to a sum sufficient to purchase a...

Scope and Contents The will leaves 40d to the Master of the college and 3s to each of the fellows to pray for his soul and also two books: to the college library an exposition of Thomas Aquinas with works by him on moral philosophy, 2o folio: Finem optumum; the other, an old text of moral philosophy, 2o folio: Qua propter, for the electiones (neither of which books seem to survive in the college library today). He also leaves the property which he has recently acquired on the death of his mother to the...

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The testator bequeathes his house to his wife Margaret and then to his son William whom he also names as his executors. As his son's will was probated on 13 Feb. 1482/3 the younger William Kent must have died between these two dates.
Note of probate by the Official of the Archdeacon of Ely on 30 June 1484

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Part of manor of Elmington and all his land there bequeathed to Nicholas Pedley of Huntingdon, esq., brother-in-law Robert Allen, and Robert Elton of Whaddon in trust; the estate to be sold and profits disposed of as specified, including £2,800 to his daughter, Honor, on coming of age or marriage.
Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and in Chancery.

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Detailed bequests to the nine children of Robert Nutting of Waterbeach, including booths and booth-timber at Stourbridge with the timber house belonging to them, a manor in Impington which he holds of Christ's College. The lease from CCCC he leaves to Robert Nutting junior. See 200a-1.
Endorsed, inter alia: 'Miscell. Papers of no importance'.

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The testator leaves lands in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire (Haverhill, Withersfield, Clemsford, Cavendish, Somerton, Hawkedon, Boxted; Shudy Camps, Castle Camps, Harston, Newton and Foxton) to the children of his deceased brother John, and to his two reputed sons and two reputed daughters.

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Notes at foot on production of the will and the examinations of Mrs Rachel Croson, alias Stephens, and Mrs Joan Booth in the case of Alice Margetson (widow) and others v. James Margetson in 1692.