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Commemoration of Benefactors
PPC/CNLB/01/24 · File · 1980
Part of Papers and Correspondence of Caians

Research notes for sermon given at Service for the Commemoration of Benefactors 26th October 1980; with copies of former orders of service, copy of ms.612/363 giving list of benefactors and copy of sermon.

Commemoration of Dr Perse
COLL/08/01/01 · File · Dec 1996
Part of Collections

Invitation to a feast that was cancelled due to continuing building work in Gonville Court

Orders of service. The service in Commemoration of Benefactors developed from the duty of medieval colleges to commemorate the dead. It survived the Reformation, taking the form of 'thanks and praise to Almighty God for our Founders and all our Benefactors'. For several years in the nineteenth century the practice of reading the Commemoration at the evening chapel service on College feast days was discontinued, but the idea was revived by the Senior Tutor, E.S. Roberts in 1894 when a date in November was fixed for an annual commemoration service, with an updated form of service based upon a version of c.1700 being drawn up by Roberts, John Venn and the Dean in 1899.