Black and white photograph of members of Spider Club having dinner.
The men in the photograph are [from left to right]:
Arthur Kingsland, Colin Methven, Prince Mario Colonna [standing], John 'Jackie' Davis, Alfred Fabian de Ledesma, George Walker.
Ledesma is the only one not in a dinner jacket but is instead dressed ready to take his horse box containing his mare 'Chiquita' on the night train to London Kings Cross. He then went across London to the Great West Road and rode mostly cross country to Poyntington, Sherbourne, Dorset, a distance of 150 miles which took him one week [this is according to notes made by Ledesma]
Parties: (1) The Lord Bishop of Ely, (2) The Revd Joseph Goodall (Provost of Eton)
Conveyance of a piece or parcel of ground in the parish of St Giles. Includes a lease plan.
Parties: (1) The Revd Joseph Goodall (Provost of Eton), (2) Magdalene College
Conveyance of a piece of land and premises in Chesterton Lane. Draft and final copy.
Copy of a surrender from Samuel Potter to Thomas Watson of two messuages in Chesterton Lane called Copped Hall, copyhold of the Manor of Merton Hall, Cambridge.
Bond for the performance of the covenants in the absolute surrender by Samuel Potter and Thomas Watson [in relation to two messuages called Copped Hall].
Parties:(1) John Dison and Elizabeth his wife (2) Jacob Smith
Letter of Attorney to sell estate and secure rents etc [in relation to Copped Hall].
Steward's copy admission of Richard Rowley as nephew and devisee for life named in the will of Jacob Smith to two messuages (Copped Hall).
Steward's copy of an admission of the tenants, Pratt Collier and John Angier, surviving trustees named in the will of Jacob Smith to two messuages called Copped Hall in Chesterton Lane.
Abstract of the title of the Devisees in Trust for sale under the will of Jacob Smith to a copyhold messuage, part of the Copped Hall Estate held of the manor of Merton Hall.
Plain copy and Absolute Surrender from Pratt Collier and John Angier of all that messuage late in the occupation of Katherine Smith, part of the Copped Hall Estate to the use of Ralph Neville son of the Hon. Revd George Neville Grenville, Master of Magdalene College, in trust for the said Master and Fellows and their successors.
Steward's copy of the admission of Ralph Neville as trustee for the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College to the messuage in Chesterton Lane to which Pratt Collier and John Angier were admitted on 13 November 1831.
Indenture (enrolled in Chancery) between (1) the Warden and Scholars of Merton College, Oxford (2) Two Commissioners appointed under His Majesty's Letters patent, (3) Ralph Neville a trustee on behalf of the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Conveyance of sundry copyhold dwelling houses in Chesterton Lane.
Original and copy.
Correspondence between Magdalene College and St John's College about the development of Merton College's property in the Backs (Cambridge).
Parties: (1) Mr and Mrs James Wentworth, (2) Magdalene College
Lease for a year.
Conveyance in fee of a house and premises in Chesterton formerly belonging to James Wentworth to Magdalene College. Draft and final version. Includes a site plan showing the location of the property.
Statutory declaration by Arthur Rutter (estate agent) and William Frampton Andrews (timber merchant) in relation to Wentworth House, Chesterton Lane.
Parties: (1) William Frampton Andrews (timber merchant), (2) Magdalene College
Conveyance of a messuage and four cottages in Chesterton Road [now 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Chesterton Road]. Includes a site plan.
Conveyance of 23 Hertford Street to Sir Stephen Gaslee.
Assent by representative of Sir Stephen Gaselee to the vesting of 23 Hertford Street in Magdalene College.
Agreement to purchase 28 Hertford Street by Sir Stephen Gaselee.
Conveyance of 28 Hertford Street to Sir Stephen Gaselee.
Probate of the will of Sir Stephen Gaselee in which he bequeathed 23 and 28 Hertford Street to Magdalene College.
Parties: (1) Mary Bradford, (2) Thomas Nutter and George Sully
Lease for a year.
Parties: (1) Thomas Goodfellow (yeoman), (2) John Burrell (linen draper) in trust for James Herbert (innholder) and Elizabeth his wife
Parties: (1) Thomas Wetenhall (plumber and glazier), (2) William Lovett (trustee)
Release of a tenement.