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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

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Petition to the crown, 1490

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/14/120A 10
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The Copes maintain that John Syclyng and William Brygges made use of a forged will, and petition for them to be summoned by privy seal to appear before the King and Council.
Endorsed: 'the Fyrst possession of the coll: after the death of Mr Kent [1485] by dysspossing Robert Cope'.

Dates: 1490
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Petition to the Earl of Holland, Chancellor of the University, 1632 - 1635

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC03/11
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The petitioners state that that William Roberts' fellowship is not void; that the next vacancy has been pre-elected to four years ago, and that Norton is not a suitable candidate for a fellowship.
Signed by Robert Tonstall, president, and John Booth, Isaac Dobson, Edward Boys, John Tindall, Edward Palgrave, Thomas Brigges and Francis Walsall, fellows.

Dates: 1632 - 1635
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Petition to the king requesting confirmation of papal instruments for lack of which he maintains that the patrons of the living (Master and Fellows of CCCC) are unjustly depriving him of the use of his vicarage., 1540

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/113a
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...
Dates: 1540
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Petition to 'youre honourable lordshipe' against the Master and Fellows of CCCC, John Howsden, William Gill and William Croke., 1544 - 1545

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/113q
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Gives reasons for refusing to stand to the arbitration of the Bishop and his Chancellor. The latter part corresponds to 113p

Dates: 1544 - 1545
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Portions of one or two petitions., 1540 - 1544

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/113o-p
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One sheet carries allegations of perjury by the college's famer, John Howsden, the other recites events at the hearing before the Bishop of Ely.

Dates: 1540 - 1544
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The case of the fellows of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge appellants to their visitors, 1718-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC03/4/3
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The attribution to Moss is in Mawson's hand.
No, 1 in Mawson's list (03/4/1)

Dates: 1718-02
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