Janus: Fellowship

Corpus contains:
CCCC01	Foundation, regulation and governance
CCCC02	Officers
CCCC03	Fellowship
CCCC04	Scholars and other students
CCCC06	Chapel
CCCC08	College premises and buildings
CCCC09	Estates and advowsons
CCCC09L	Papers relating to college livings.

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Fellowship

Title	Fellowship
Reference	GBR/2938/CCCC03
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	1530–1910
Repository	Corpus Christi College Cambridge Archives

Content and context

For admissions to fellowships recorded alongside those of admissions of students see 04/O/4 following. Elections and admissions to fellowships are also recorded in the chapter books (CCCC01/C).

Access and Use

Please cite as Corpus Christi College Cambridge Archives, Fellowship, CCCC03

Corpus/CCCC03 contains:

Draft congratulatory letters to ex-Fellows and Masters and other college members elevated to sees, etc., with some of their replies.
Creator: Master and Fellows.
1 folder.

1721–1774

Papers relating to the attempt to force the resignation of Robert Moss, D.D. (see Masters, p. 181).
Creator: Thomas Greene et al.
1 envelope; paper.

1709

Legal opinions as to prebends as ecclesiastical benefices, and their compatibility with Fellowships, partly with reference to Alured Clarke.
Creator: Various.
Manuscript.

1734–1735

Papers relating to a dispute within the college regarding pre-elections to fellowships.
Creator: Various.
1 folder; paper.

1718

Mandate to the Master and Fellows to eject [Robert] Tonstall and [Edward] Palgrave from their fellowships.
Creator: Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

8 Apr. 1644

Written consent to his receiving a fixed sum of £400 p.a. in lieu of divident, share of fines and allowances. Burgess, a non-resident fellow, elected in 1875 was the only remaining fellow elected under the old statutes.
Creator: Duncan Burgess.
1 sheet; paper.

21 June 1910

Letter to William Sowode, Master, and the Fellows soliciting their permission for Edmund Allen, Fellow, to prolong his sojourn abroad. On the dorse draft of reply from John Porie.dated 27 May. The correspondence is summarised in Masters, pp. 213-15, and in the article on Allen by Felicity Heal in the ODNB, where it is dated 1545, the year of Allen's subsequent letter to Porie. The present document must rather, however, date from 1544, the year of Sowode's death,.
Creator: Sir Henry Knyvett.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

12 May 1544

Letter to the college from Landau asking for payment of his stipend because of 'the extreme dearth that hath bene here so great thes three yearys'.
Creator: Edmund Allen.
1 bifolium; paper; Manuscript.

22 Mar. 1546

Letter written from Bedlam, apparently to Matthew Parker, requesting continuation of the payment which he received from the previous Master, amounting at Michaelmas to £5. Bonenfant last appears as in receipt of commons in 1542.
Creator: Thomas Bonenfant.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

17 Sep. 1545

Resignation of his fellowship. Witnesses Edward Boys and Thomas Fawcett.
Creator: William Roberts.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

26 Oct. 1635

11-18

Papers relating to a mandate for a fellowship for Thomas Norton.
Creator: Various.

1632–1636

Letter to Richard Love, master, soliciting at the request of Sir Thomas Merry a fellowship for Francis Corbold. Corbold was MA from the college in 1642 but was not elected a fellow.
Creator: William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke.
1 bifolium; paper; Manuscript.

18 Oct. 1642

Letter to the Master and Fellows, from his printing press in Suffolk Lane, offering to print [John] Booth's oration given in Great St Mary's on 5 November 1631 on the Gunpowder Plot,. The oration would have been printed in memory of Booth who died on 7 Feb. 1642/3 and was a benefactor to the college leaving an annuity which was, among other things, to reward the two scholars who made the best Gunpowder Plot oration each year (see 10/17). Dugard also asks whether there are any other works of Booth suitable for the press. It does not appear that the oration was ever printed.
Creator: William Dugard.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

29 Sep. 1648

Letter to Richard Love, Master, soliciting a fellowship for Joseph Cawthorne. 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.
Creator: Valentine Walton.
1 bifolium; paper; Manuscript.

26 Oct. 1652

Mandate for John Tyndall to defer proceeding B.D. As chaplain to Lord Howard of Escrick and tutor to his eldest son Tyndall has not time to perform the exercises for the degree; the request is that he be given five years to fulfil the obligation. Tyndall proceeded B.D. in 1639, almost, if not quite, within the statutory period.
Creator: The Crown.
1 bifolium; paper; Manuscript.

12 May 1637

Mandate for Robert Tonstall, ejected in 1644, to be restored to his fellowship. Tonstall is to replace either the person put in his place [Richard Kennet, ejected in 1650] or the junior fellow. It does not appear that, in the event, any fellow needed to be removed.
Creator: Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

17 Aug. 1660

Letter to Dr [Thomas] Preston, VC, concerning disturbances, misdemeanours and oufrages committed in Corpus Christi College. The likely matter is the continued dispute of Anthony Hickman with the college (see Chapter Book, pp. 93-4).
Creator: Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

19 Jan. 1590