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This patent (numbered 8384) was registered 12th Feb 1840

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Robert Willis entered Caius College in 1822. He became a Foundation Fellow in 1829 and later became Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosopy at Cambridge.

Plus (V.11) London Gazette of 31 Oct 1922containing Order uniting benefices of Wheatacre and Aldeby, and accompanying notices from Ecclesiatical Commission

With dedication from John Sclater to Christopher Brooke on fly leaf.

Includes provision for the jointure 0f his wife Anne le Straunger, his main feofs to his son John - and others, including his brother Roiberrt, who is to pay £7 to the church of Hunstanton for repair and ornament; £40 to support a priest in Gonville Hall in Cambridge 'for his exhibition' there 'to learn and sing for me and my friends for 6 years'. Also several gifts to the friars of Lynn and elsewhere, and other churches - and 3 more pages of detailed provisions. His brother John le Straunge and others are appointed executors.

John Norris was a student at Caius from 1756 - 1760 and founded the Norrisian Professorship. This copy of his will was made for Benedict Chapman (Master 1839 - 52) in 1850. (NB Venn gives Norris' date of death as 1763)

also photographic copies of an article from Granta relating the event