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The Committee has been and is in dispute with the Commissioners for Sewers/Adventurers who wish to impose tonnage and who will not allow the navigators to deepen the shallow places by staunches, etc., and wish the University to join with them in a petition and bill to parliament.

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Encorsed: 'The fyrst supplication for the vewing of . . . .Copie'

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Endorsed: 'Our bille directe vnto owr souerayn lord the kyng at Wyndesore for Henry Somer as acter enformac[i]on of al the mater'

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The petition recites sums already received: £200 from Lord Keeper Bacon; £20 from the Archbishop of Canterbury; £20 from the Mayor and Aldermen of Norwich; £20 from Lady Bacon; £20 from Mr Sergeant Bendelose; £10 from the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury; £10 each from Mr Butts, Esq., Mr Read and Mr Pearson.
On the second folio are listed members, and in some cases officers, of 12 city companies.

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Note at foot that the petition was signed by Bradford as Master, Mawson, as President, John Denne, Christopher Fawcett, Thomas Herring and William Bradford (son of the Master), Fellows.
No, 3 in Mawson's list (03/4/1).

Scope and Contents From the File: Allen was B.A. from Pembroke, 1520/1; Fellow there, 1521; Fellow of Corpus 1536; Vicar of Grantchester 1540-45; died. 1545.Most items are undated and no attempt has been made to present them in chronological order.Allen's patron (see items h to k) is not named, but in the draft of his letter to him (k) Aleyn deletes your 'mastership' and substitutes 'lordship'; further, when Allen refers to his patron's solicitations on his behalf the master is reported as saying 'that Master...

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Shorter than 105d, and perhaps not an alternative version of the petition of this date.

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Venn records the degree as conferred in 1736

Scope and Contents The petitioners seek alterations to Statute XXI, De concedendis gratiis, vesting power in the Regent House, and Statute XLI, De Capite, allowing individual members of the Caput a veto on every grace proposed.The petition, perhaps never submitted, may have arised from the suspension in 1725 by VC Savage of William Campbell, Senior Regent, for contumaciously exercising his veto on the Caput. His suspension was reversed by the delegates on appeal.The document is in Mawson's...

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Briscoe was Rector of St Martin's Outwich, London, and had been educated at the University of Leiden. It does not appear that the mandate was procured.

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Ashburnham was a Fellow of the college from 1733-35, subsequently Bishop of Chichester, then succeeding to his father's baronetcy.

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Houblon was admitted to Corpus in June 1725 as a Fellow-Commoner. He subsequently migrated to Emmanuel, and was later (in 1737) to marry Mary, daughter of Sir John Hinde Cotton.

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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

Scope and Contents From the File: Allen was B.A. from Pembroke, 1520/1; Fellow there, 1521; Fellow of Corpus 1536; Vicar of Grantchester 1540-45; died. 1545.Most items are undated and no attempt has been made to present them in chronological order.Allen's patron (see items h to k) is not named, but in the draft of his letter to him (k) Aleyn deletes your 'mastership' and substitutes 'lordship'; further, when Allen refers to his patron's solicitations on his behalf the master is reported as saying 'that Master...

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Mention of a rural deanery in the gift of Norwich priory. On dorse, petition for an unspecified benefice in the diocese of Lincoln.

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Copy of 6 recto.

Scope and Contents From the File: Allen was B.A. from Pembroke, 1520/1; Fellow there, 1521; Fellow of Corpus 1536; Vicar of Grantchester 1540-45; died. 1545.Most items are undated and no attempt has been made to present them in chronological order.Allen's patron (see items h to k) is not named, but in the draft of his letter to him (k) Aleyn deletes your 'mastership' and substitutes 'lordship'; further, when Allen refers to his patron's solicitations on his behalf the master is reported as saying 'that Master...

Scope and Contents From the File: Allen was B.A. from Pembroke, 1520/1; Fellow there, 1521; Fellow of Corpus 1536; Vicar of Grantchester 1540-45; died. 1545.Most items are undated and no attempt has been made to present them in chronological order.Allen's patron (see items h to k) is not named, but in the draft of his letter to him (k) Aleyn deletes your 'mastership' and substitutes 'lordship'; further, when Allen refers to his patron's solicitations on his behalf the master is reported as saying 'that Master...

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Annotated with the Keeper's instructions for the defendants to have notice of the petition and with notice of Robert Spicer's have shewn and read it to Sir George on 26 June 1622.

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Annotated at the foot by Williams: 'I must first knowe whether witttnesses be examined, and the cause readie for hearinge before I appointe a daie'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: For the acquisition of the site by the college see the introductory note to nos 45 following.Numbers 2 and 3 Central Buildings were sold to Christ's Hospital on 31 December 1938; the last of the property, 4 Central Buldings, was sold in 1982.Nos. 14 to 18, comprising valuations, bills for repairs, correspondence, solicitors' bills, rental accounts, etc., 1795-1862, not found, July 2007.No. 26 not used.Some of the later items listed are no longer held by the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Many of these documents are undated and the order of them below is largely conjectural. The internal evidence for dating seems often contradictory.The case arises from disputed wills of William Kent, fellow, d. between 28 Aug. 1482 and 13 Feb. 1482/3, and of his father William Kent, burgess. Margaret, wife of Robert Cope or Coope was sister of William Kient, M.A., and named with Thomas Cosin as his co-executor. The matter was disputed, apparently, before the Vice-Chancellor, Dr John...

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With notes by Robert Norgate, master, on Norrey's failure to observe covenants, etc., on his lease including reference to a demand that Norrey yield up his bond. 'This was done before me in my great chamber at the Collefdge, 23 of September Anno 1586'.
Endorsed: Instructions for Scocroftes house.

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Annotated by Mawson: Signed by Dr Lambart Vice-Chr Dr Bentley

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The rectory of Alford was bequeathed to the college by John Green, Master 1750-64, Bishop of Lincoln 1761-78, for the purpose of purchasing annually three pieces of plate for presentation to undergraduates who distinguished themselves academically; he also gave £100 for the renewal of the lease (see, in more detail, Lamb's edition of Masters' History of the College at p. 247. and no. 2, below).