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Indenture of bargain and sale

Sir Thomas Saunderson K.C.B. to Thomas Small of Nailsworth, clothier, sale of the advowson of King's Stanley for £300.

Conveyance by lease and release

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/12/3
  • File
  • 21 June 1736-22 June 1736
  • Part of College Archives

Three-part indenture, conveyance of the advowson by Thomas Small of Nailsworth, as trustee of Thomas Baghott of Howletts, Glos., to the College, for £900.

Commutation of tithes

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/12/5
  • File
  • 1833-1839 (With a bundle of unrelated letters of 1849)
  • Part of College Archives

Statements of what has been done in the recent past, and calculations of the value of the tithes.

Church Restoration and discussion of the advowson

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/12/7
  • File
  • 23 April 1862-16 February 1874
  • Part of College Archives

Correspondence with the Rector about his plans for restoring the church and raising the necessary funds (1862-63), his plans for a new school (1866) and Mr Marling's wish to acquire the advowson (1871-3)

History of the living

An essay on the history of the living of Swavesey, dealing mainly with the nedieval period, endorsed with the name of Mr Caley and the date of 1840.

Purchase of land

Consideration in 1880 of the purchase of a piece of land lying between the church and the railway: offer from the owner, Mr Daintree, letters from the vicar, Henry I. Sharp, and a favorable report by Edward Long, surveyor, with a plan attached. There are also two letters from the Vicar, Thomas G.L. Lushington, in 1885, making suggestions for improving to the vicarage.

Sale of Preston estate

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/13/6
  • File
  • 12 January 1902-21 December 1904
  • Part of College Archives

Letters from the Vicar, Arthur C. Vidler, about the farm in Preston, its bad state and reasons why it is losing money. There is a building on the farm which was paid for by a mortgage from Queen Anne's Bounty, not yet paid off. A new tenant took over in 1902. Two offers to buy the land were received in late1902. Much discussion ensued, including consultations with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and a report from A.G. Grain, land agent, recommending a sale. In 1904 the farm was to be leased again, but by the end of that year, a sale for £600 was agreed.

Tewin Old Rectory

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/14/7
  • File
  • 18 February 1924-29 June 1926
  • Part of College Archives

Repairs and redecorations: extensive correspondence with the Vicar and George Kett, of Wood & Stone Carving Works, Cambridge. The Vicar lives in the 'Cottage Rectory' and the Old Rectory is let, to the advantage of the living, but needs considerable repairs. There are discussions with solicitors about the rights of the tenant.

Tewin Old Rectory

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/14/8
  • File
  • 21 November 1925-13 November 1929
  • Part of College Archives

Report and valuation by J. Carter Jonas & Sons (bound typescript, 4 pp., 21 November 1925). There is also a letter from the St Albans Diocesan Dilapidations Board, 23 September 1929, about the removal of a barn and pigsties, with a covering letter from the Rector. A.C. Vidler.

Will of Adam Buddle

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/15/1
  • File
  • 9 January 1685 (This is 1686 in modern reckoning.)
  • Part of College Archives

Copy of the will of Adam Buddle of Hadleigh, Suffolk. He bequeaths the perpetual advowson of the Church of Whatfield to his nephews Adam, Richard, George, and John Buddle and their issues and successors.

Purchase of land adjoining the Vicarage garden

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/16/2
  • File
  • 22 February 1887-5 February 1892
  • Part of College Archives

Correspondence about the possible purchase of land (sometimes called the 'Church plantation') adjoining the vicarage: letters from vicars, E Glover and J. Robertson, and land agents, with sketch maps, culminating in an Indenture betweenWalter Randolph Farquhar and Alfred Farquhar (London bankers), Jesus College, and James Robertson, vicar, to sell the land for £200. The deed refers back to earlier transactions relating to the whole estate.

Lease of land to the Air Ministry

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/16/5
  • File
  • 11 March 1939-12 February 1941
  • Part of College Archives

Report and valuation by J. Carter Jonas & Sons of glebe land, part of which is proposed to lease to the Air Ministry for a wireless station. With a plan of the area. Also a similar report relating to an extra piece of alnd for the same purpose. Agreed by the College

Augmentation of living

Correspondence with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners about augmenting the living on the ground of population. Most of the correspondence is from 1931, and includes statements of existing income and the decision of the Commissioners to make a grant of £119 per annum in augmentation of the living. There is a letter from the Revd Percy Sharp in Birmingham, interested in the living but unable to afford it (pre-augmentation), and an exchange of letters with the Clergy Pension Board about the effect of a pension for Canon Wood on the income of the living. In 1933 there is a letter from the Commissioners to the Revd J.T. Plowden-Wardlaw, informing him of an increase to the living, and in 1941 a formal statement that the benefice has become vacant by the resignation of J.T. Plowden-Wardlaw.

Repairs to chancel roof

Brief notes on necessary repairs in 1931 by Messrs Rattee and Kett: £25 to mend broken Tenons to the Purlins and add iron plates; and by Coulson &Son Lts in 1936: £56.13.6 to re-lathe and re-tile north side of chancel roof.

Cavendish Tithe Commutation

Correspondence, on the working out of the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales. Disagreement of what tithes are owed on land belonging to Earl Howe. See also file 17, with lengthy opinions of counsel.

Schemes for improvement of the living

Letters from the Vicar, A.R. Davies, about his financial difficulties, and possible schemes for augmenting the income. Also a few letters suggesting the union of the parishes of Comberton with Barton

Lease

Copy of letters patent of Elizabeth I. Grant to George Lazenby who has been despoiled of his goods by order of the King of Spain in time of war, of the lease of the Rectory of Elmstede in Essex with all its appurtenances formerly belonging to the Monastery of St. Osyth, Essex, and formerly parcel of the possessions of George Harte by letters patent 18th July 1567 for term 21 years from Michaelmas 1582. Rent £9 6s 8d. Except for timber, wardships, marriages etc Court Leet and view of frankpledge, requisitions, profits of courts, etc and the advowson of the Church. Term of this lease Michaelmas 1603 for 31 years. Rent £9 6s 8d. Attached is list of documents removed from and returned to the Treasury of John Sherman and others.

Order for an exchange of land

An exchange of a field and a strip of land in the occupation of William Parson Partridge, with a close of land in the occupation of Osmond Fisher, Vicar of Elmstead. The document includes a sketch map and schedules describing the lands.

Inclosure Commissioners

Petition about the pews

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/5/4/9
  • File
  • 23rd December 1892 - 2nd May 1899
  • Part of College Archives

A petition signed by communicants and adult members of the congregation, explaining that the pews in the chance are unsatisfactory and seats and in their position with their backs towards the communion table. The whole church needs reseating: if the College with pay for the chancel pews, the parishioners will pay for the seating in the body of the church. With a covering letter signed by the Vicar and Churchwardens, and a letter from the Curate, R.H. Marsh, on the same subject, dated 1892.

Section III: Cambridge bachelorhood and marriage.

John Bell: A brief sketch of the past history of the parish of Fordham 1873

Arthur W. Ivatt: A brief sketch ... by the Rev. John Bell, with supplement by the Rev. Arthur W. Ivatt, 1923

Registers for February 1917 (1 page)

The District Parish Magazine: Fordham (1 page, covers 1903-1922)

Photograph of the Church, on a postcard.

Loss of farm buildings and sale of Rushden estate.

Correspondence with the Rector, W.O. Cleave, and with Queen Anne's Bounty office, about whether to reinstate farm buildings destroyed by fire and insufficiently insured; also negotiations for he sale of the Rushden estate to a local builder.

Valuation ands Report of the glebe

A six-page report (typescript) by Charles Bidwell, of Bidwell & Sons, land agents and surveyors, with comments on the state of the land and its use. Also two handwritten notes, unsigned and undated, giving details of income, NB. W.O. Cleave was Rector until his death in August 1904.

Glebe land transfers

Correspondence about an exchange of land agreed with a neighbour, and a requisition by Cambridgeshire County Council.

Licence in Mortmain granted by James I

Licence granted to acquire lands to the annual value of £200 including the Rectory of Harlton, Cambs.

In Latin. Ornamented capital letter, with a portrait of the King in pen and ink. With a great seal, green wax with red and white silk cords.

In Steel Press, shelf 10.

Grant of patronage to College

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/9/4
  • File
  • 6 February 1636-16 April 1636
  • Part of College Archives

Grant by Richard Duport to the College of his right and interest in the patronage of Harlton Rectory, and an official confirmation of the grant.

Duport, Richard

Terrier

A document described at the end as "A copy of a terrier in Mr Hawby's [?] hands of the glebe land belonging to the Rectory of Harlton". Four lists of land in the 'Brook Feild' [sic], the 'Windmill Feild', the Home Feild', and the 'Low Field'.

Dilapidations

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/9/7
  • File
  • 11 November 1784-26 November 1784
  • Part of College Archives

Repairs found to be necessary after the death of the Revd Richard Oakley, and the problem of how to get the money.

Railway plan and valuation of glebe

Valuation of the Glebe Estate at Harlton, by Charles Bidwell. With small sketch of the parish land. Also a sketch of the position of the railway line in the parish, and a note 'plan removed to cabinet'.

Reconveyance of a piece of land

Conveyance of land from the London and North Western Railway Company to the Revd Osmond Fisher, Rector of Harlton, a small piece of land compulsorily purchased, now superfluous. With a preliminary Memorandum between the railway company and O. Fisher (1872), a couple of drafts and two letters of Fisher in May 1873.

Proby cottages and land, also organ maintenance fund.

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/9/20
  • File
  • 10 January 1887-5 March 1926
  • Part of College Archives

Correspondence about two cottages and ten acres of land, belonging to the Proby Fund. Much discussion about the value, rents, suggestions for sale etc. With a small coloured plan, Letters from the Rectors Osmond Fisher 1887-1906, Willam Ellison 1909-1922, his widow 1922, and F. Rowling 1923-1926.

Printed conveyance (copy) by Osmond Fisher of a cottage and land at Harlton to form an endowment for maintaining the organ, which Fisher designed and installed in 1869 in memory of his wife.

Terrier

A true Terrier of all the Glebe lands, messuages, tenements, tythes, portion of tithes and other rights belonging to the Vicarage and Parish Church of Hundon. Signed by the Churchwardens and some principal inhabitants.

Financial situation

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/11/11
  • File
  • 13 March 1909-28 April 1915
  • Part of College Archives

Correspondence with Queen Anne's Bounty and the Ecclesiastical Commission about an existing loan on the benefice, and measures to be taken for its augmentation. Theer is a reference to damage done to the chancel in 1914.

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