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ECR 49 313

Reference code

ECR 49 313

Title

Mixed Estates: Letter concerning

Level

Item

Date

4 July 1632

Extent & medium

4 folios

Content description

John, Bishop of Lincoln, visitor of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College, to all clerks and literates within his diocese and in the said Colleges. It has been shewn to him by John Wilkinson, proctor of William Rawson, of Eton College, that Rawson, according to the custom of elections, was nominated and elected to King's Colege on the next vacany. But, though Leonard Kempe, late fellow there and one of the bursars, was deprived and removed in the current year 1632 and is a notorious dilapidator of the goods of the College and has consumed 4 or £500 of the goods of the College illicitly to the public scandal and detriment of the College and should be expelled (all which is know to Samuel Collins, Provost, and Vice-Provost, deans, bursars and seniors and the whole College), and Rawson should be admitted, in spite of frequent applications, he has been refused. Mandate that the Provost and Vice Provost of King's and Sir Henry Wootten, Knight, Provost of Eto, [are to appear before the bishop's representative at Buckden for the settlement of the matter.
Buckden.
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