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Royal Mandate of James II to the President and Fellows restoring John Peachell to the Mastership.

Quitclaim by Peter Betson, College Cook, and administrator of the goods of John Peachell, to Gabriel Quadring, his successor to the Mastership.

(1) Notification from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Fellows of the suspension of John Peachell from the Vice-Chancellorship of the University and Mastership of Magdalene College.

(2) Modern transcript of the notification to the Proctors of the suspension. The original document is in the University Archives I.14.

Mandate for the suspension of John Peachell from the Vice-Chancellorship of the University and Mastership of Magdalene College by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

He was suspended for representing the University in standing up to King James II and refusing to confer an Honorary MA on a Benedictine Monk, Alban Francis.

Deed of presentation by the Visitor James, Earl of Suffolk and Baron of Walden, of the Revd John Peachell to the Mastership.

The document has the date as 'about the 28 August 1679' but Peachell was admitted as Master on 12 August 1679 - see MCGB/4/1/4, p.16]