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Deed of presentation of the Revd and Hon. Barton Wallop to the Mastership by the Hon. Sir John Griffin (Visitor) and George Jennings [named in the will of the Countess of Portsmouth]

Letter from the Hon. Sir John Griffin Griffin (Visitor) to Samuel Hey (President of Magdalene College)

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Sir,

I return you many thanks for your obliging attention in regard to poor Mr Wallop's death; who seems to have died from neglect of himself having been very unwell at times with faintings & violent oppressions upon his stomach without applying for relief.

If not too much trouble I shall esteem it a favour if you could give me a rough sketch of the profits & emoluments of the Master of Magdalen, how they arise & how they become due & at what period [see MACD/1/1/27].

When I inform you that I have offered the Mastership to my very old & amiable friend Mr Peckard I do it out of respect to your situation in the College, & to the character you have maintained in that office & I do assure you that you are the first person to whom i have conveyed my intentions. If Mr Peckard should accept, which I trust he will, yourself & the College will have a very worthy & ingenious gentleman to live with & whom other qualities will I am sure endear him to you all.

I cold have wished indeed on this occasion that Mr P. had been a Cambridge man but I trust every liberal mind will overlook this when put in competition with the rights due to a sincere & uninterrupted friendship of above thirty years standing.

I am etc etc etc etc

Letter from Samuel Hey (President of Magdalene College) to the Hon. Sir John Griffin Griffin (Visitor) explaining how he worked out the income of the Mastership which Sir John had requested in his letter [see MCAD/1/1/29]

He also says that he and the Fellows were not acquainted with Mr Peckard, but should he accept the Mastership they would endeavour to do everything in their power to make it as agreeable as possible. As Mr Peckard was not acquainted with the ways of the University he might find some trifling inconveniences at first. If Mr Peckard wished to see the College and Lodge or had any questions about the College before making his decision then he [Mr Hey] would assist.

Letter from Samuel Hey (President of Magdalene College) to the Hon. Sir John Griffin Griffin (Visitor) informing him of the sudden death of the Master Barton Wallop at Wallop and therefore the Mastership was vacant.

Resignation and accompanying letter from George Sandby

Transcript of letter

Dear Sir,

As Mr Wallop is very desirous of being invested with the Mastership of Magdalen as soon as may be, I with great readiness transmit my resignation of it to you. It is an office, which, I hope will afford him much more pleasure, than it ever gave to,

Dear Sir,
Your most humble, and obedient servant
George Sandby

Transcript of resignation [there is a red wax seal fixed to the resignation]

I George Sandby Doctor in Divinity master of St Mary magdalen College in the University of Cambridge do for divers and good considerations me thereunto moving, freely, and voluntarily, give up, and resign, all my right title interest in and to the said Mastership into the hands of the Honourable St John Griffin Griffin Knight of the Path Patron thereof and Visitor of the said College. In witness whereunto I have set my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of April, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy four,
G. Sandby