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Records students' presence or absence, to ensure they "kept" the necessary number of complete terms by residence.

Letters about the vicarage garden and its possible purchase by the neighbouring Clergy Training School; also agreement with the latter about party wall, and related letter.

Discusses the donation of a piece of land by Jesus College to extend the vicarage site and the subsequent building of a wall.

Correspondence with the Ecclesiastical Commission and the Diocesan Board of Finance, negotiating an increase in the value of the living.

Considerations on the decline of church and parish, and suggestions for reversing this.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two legal documents relating to the agreement between John Warren and Mr Peppercorn.

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.

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.

Standard valuations, and discussions about rents, building cottages, and insurance. With a note 'plans removed to cabinet'.

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

Compulsory purchase of glebe land for the railway.

Particulars of land and rents

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

Mostly copies of deeds

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.

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.