Colby refers to his experience as president. He was a Fellow from 1612 to 1619.

Brigges has understood from William Roberts, Thomas's successor as bursar, tht the sum demanded is £130 and expresses his dismay. He has twelve childen of whom Thomas is the eldest. He has another son [Henry] at Corpus and another [Nathaniel] at Clare, whom he may have to remove. He asks for time to meet the debt.

He apologises for delays in communication, partly caused by a fellow citizen's failure to deliver a letter at Sturbridge Fair.

He has been called before the Mayor and Aldermen of Norwich to account for sums paid by them to his son Thomas but not received by the college and demanded again. They have suspended Richard's stipend. He asks for acquittances for the sums paid by the city and for the £40 which he has already paid to Robert towards the debt.

He has sent an acquittance from the city, and refers to dealings with Messrs Sedgwick and Lukin.

He has met Mr Wyndham who has promised that arrears will be paid but hopes there might be some remittance on account of the hardness of the times.

He has spoken to Colonel Strode, who reports that the Committee did not meet when he was in the county, and with Mr [Hugh] Wyndham [feoffee in trust for Portman].

A Major Sallaway has told Thurloe of a difference betweeen him and the college concerning the lease, both as to the lands concerned and as to the term of the lease, of which he requires a sight.

He is ashamed of the 'crying injustice of Committtees and in particular of this' but suspects that Glassbrook has 'not been fayre in' the matter.

The rectory, with the perpetual advowson of the vicarage, was presented to the college in 1594 by Roger Manners of Uffington, third son of Thomas Earl of Rutland and one of the Esquires of the Body to the Queen, for the maintenance of four poor scholars.
Nos. 1-2, 22-27 not used.

Cawthorne was not elected a fellow. In 1662 he was to be ejected from Stamford, Lincs., and was later a preacher in and around London.

The Earl claims that Dr Butts had made him a promise on his behalf, and he refers to the letter sent by his brother the Earl of Holland (03/15).

The Earl, like his brother, claims that the fellowship for Norton had been promised to Warwick by Dr Butts.

Corbold was MA from the college in 1642 but was not elected a fellow.

He has served the order of the Committee on Thomas Bartlet, sequestrator for that hundred, spoken with Lady Portman. The vicarage is currently valued at £25 p.a. but has lately been let for £3 less. He offers to survey the property. The Order of the Committee is in his custody.

8p should be at the start of the sequence.

Because of the sickness his rents are not coming in and he is unable at present to pay the annuities

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

He has received Sterne's letter of 31 Jan. and discusses at length the validity of the city's claims.

The letter concerns a search of the court rolls for Landbeach in respect of the tenement called 'Frances' and the matter of the unpaid heriots.

Concerning the tenancy of Mr Harkness

Went to Cambridge to have fixed the old affair as the deed was long since finished to the satisfaction of Mr Baron Clarke

He has inspected the papers sent to him, and is pessimistic about the outcome. The granting of letters of administration to Mrs Fawcet has, however, been opposed.