Extracts from the Archives handlist
Buildings and Estates(C.IV-V, F.IV, K.IV, L.I, L.V, M.II-V, N.I-V)
Includes Lease book of 1859; Surveys and valuations, 1838-1851; 19thC Estates Books; Tally sticks, 1704; 18th and 19thC rolled maps and plans; 18thC and 19thC building accounts and estimates; Report on drains, 1888; 20thC correspondence concerning Margary Quad; 13th and 14thC papers relating to early Halls; Leases granted by Exeter College between 1553 and 1796; Papers relating to Oxford properties between 1333 and 1933 - includes property on Ship St, a Bakehouse in St Mary Magdalen; papers relating to Exeter estates between 1271 and 1971 - includes lands in Bampton, Bensington (Benson), Garsington, Kidlington, Merton, Oxford, South Newington, Rype, Little Tew, Thrupp, Trethewin, Little Waltham, Long Wittenham, Yarnton; papers concerning Livings & Benefices.
Bursary (A.III, B.I-IV, C.III, H.I, G.IV-V, H.IV-V, J.III-V, L.II, O.II, P.I)
Includes Bursary quarterly accounts between 1596 and 1853; Fellows’ quarterly accounts between 1866 and 1954; Buttery Books between 1592 and 1913; Register of Exeter College servants 1909-1939; SCR financial papers 1787-1929; Fellows’ quarterly wine accounts 1795-1864; Register of rooms 1767-1818; Domestic diaries between 1959 and 1970; inventories of College property, plate, and pictures, and correspondence relating to College properties between 1618 and 1996; Various papers relating to College servants between 1886 and 1948;
Chapel (C.II.3, D.II, E.V, F.II, G.III, O.II, O.IV)
Includes Chapel documents 1319-1477; Subscribers to Hall and Chapel, 1745-1750; Choristers’ book 1864-1878; Registers of services; Chapel building fund records between 1813 and 1860; Letters concerning the new Chapel, including from George Gilbert Scott between 1847 and 1860; William Morris’s letters concerning the tapestry; Commemorative services between 1856 and 1965; nineteenth-century papers concerning the organ; College Church Society minutes 1886-1961; Architectural designs for the Scott Chapel.
- See also E.A. Greening, ‘The woodwork of Hakewill’s Chapel, Exeter College’ Notes and Queries 187, 7, (1944) 137-9
Clubs and Societies (F.II-III, G.II-IV, O.IV)
Includes Amalgamated Clubs Central Committee Minutes between 1881-1993; Amalgamated Clubs Central Committee Accounts between 1901 and 1993; Boat Club 1831-1921; Anonymous Literary Society Minutes between 1890 and 1914; Boat Club – Captain’s Books between 1831 and 1998; College Church Society 1886-1961; Dialectical Society 1892-1919; Literary Society 1884-1893; Stapeldon Society Minute Books, 1869-1989; Esperanto Club, 1920s-1992; Oxford Borstal Camps, 1964-1972; misc. College magazines and theatrical programmes; Music society, papers between 1864-1971; Boat Club albums.
College History and Archives (J.I-II, L.I-II, L.IV, O.I)
Includes Licence of mortmain for Richard de Stapeldon to grant premises premises on Draynet in Penryth to the Dean & Chapter of Exeter, 1312; Two royal licences in mortmain granted by Edward II, 1314; Elizabeth I’s Charter of incorporation, 1566; Letters patent of Charles I regarding Channel Island Fellowships; six 19thC cartoons; Note on Exeter College garden by Effie Gray (Later Ruskin, then Millais), 1848; Boase papers in preparation of the College Register and his personal academic notes, including an 1873 examination paper; ‘Towards co-education: the case for Exeter College becoming co-residential’, by John Grey, c.1969; Papers relating to the Visitor; College anniversaries; Papal Bull of Gregory XII; also incorporates matters relating to Oxford history less directly connected with Exeter, including papers relating to Oxfordshire Parliamentary elections, 1752-55; proclamation for the ordering of Oxford market, 1634.
- See also C.W. Boase, Register
- See also J.P.V.D. Balsdon, ‘Bishop Stapeldon and the founding of Exeter College, Oxford’. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, pt. iv, vol. XVII.
College Records (A.I-III, C.II-IV, O.III 1-4)
Includes College statutes 16thC-1807; College registers 1539-1987; College orders 1778-1965; Compoti Rectoris 1324-1566; Caution books between 1629 and 1966; nineteenth-century letters and pamphlets concerning university prizes and other university matters; election materials from 1754 and 1854; Dividend books 1660-1882; Entrance books, 1770-1955; early eighteenth-century Benefactors’ book; nineteenth-century accounts of College alms; War Memorial Fund (1939-1945); Register of College plate lent to King Charles I; Inventory of College Plate, 1836; Lists of Rectors and benefactors between 1319 and 1805; Oaths of supremacy and allegiance, early 17thC-1797; Entrance books 1768-1955; nineteenth-century inventories of plate and furniture; Residence lists 1828-1889; Notes on students progress 1849-1852; Collections results between 1835 and 1867; Residence lists, 1814-1889; 19thC History of the College; Degree Book 1870-1921
- See also: C.W. Boase, Register
Junior Common Room (E. I-III)
JCR Committee minutes between 1887 and 1949; JCR suggestion books between 1901 and 1960; Adelphi Club minute book 1879-1919
Junior Members (H.II-III, J.III, L.II-III)
The first place to look for information on students of Exeter is in the following publication:
- C.W. Boase, Register of the rectors and fellows, scholars, exhibitioners and Bible clerks of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the college (1879, 2nd edn 1894)
There is little biographical information about the students among the archives. Please remember that records of more recent students are covered by the Data Protection Act. We do not have the following: Dates of birth before the twentieth century, with very occasional exceptions Names of mothers Detailed examination results Copies of theses and dissertations
- See also Members' Personal Affairs
Library(D.III-V, E.IV-V)
Including two indentures concerning William Rede’s gift of books to the Library, 1374 and 1400; Library accounts book 1817-1922 and twentieth century; Suggestions books between 1828 and 1970; Registers of books borrowed from Fellows’ Library between 1785 and 1957; Library accounts between 1837 and 1963; nineteenth-century Library rules; Papers concerning the building of Scott’s Library, c.1855-56; Letter concerning Eric Gill book-plate.
- See also Shortridge Papers
- See also G.M. Watson, A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford (2000)
Members' Personal Affairs(L.III.1-12)
Mainly 19th and 20thC papers relating to various members; also includes Deed of gift, William Brocland to his daughter, Sarah, 1291 or 1326; 17thC papers concerning Nathaniel Carpenter’s Geography delineated (1625); papers of John Prideaux Lightfoot, Vice-Chancellor 1862-66; autograph letter of William Morris, refusing professorship of poetry, 1877; correspondence of John Toone Carkeet with his parents, 1891-99
Photographs, Engarvings etc (K.I, K.II, K.III)
Varied collection of late 19thC and early 20thC members’ photograph albums; mid-19thC photographs of college buildings; collection of 1990s photographs of college events and views; collection of caricatures of College members; College portraits; misc collection of matriculation and other college group photographs from 1873; College photographs 1899-1953 (not continuous)
Rectors and Senior Members(A.I, A.II, A.III, C.II, F.IV, H.III, J.III, O.III, O.IV)
Includes note of Rector’s duties, c.1845; Rector’s accounts between 1556 and 1882; Lists of Rectors, Fellows and benefactors between 1584 and 1819; Letter books of nineteenth-century rectors; Visitors’ book of J.P. Lightfoot and Louisa Lightfoot (1863-82); misc. correspondence including letters from R. Peel (1830), J.H. Newman (1830), E.B. Pusey (1832), W.E. Gladstone (1850-56); papers concerning various disputes concerning Rectors and Fellows between 1669 and 1721; Correspondence concerning Fellows between 1374 and 1950; Channel Islands / King Charles I Foundation; Fellows’ official files; Large collection of papers relating to Robert Ranulph Marett, philosopher and anthropologist (1866-1943)
- See also: C.W. Boase, Register
- See also: Farnell, L.R Bibliography of the fellows and tutors of Exeter College, Oxford, in recent times (1914)
- See also Members' Personal Affairs
Scholarships and Exhibitions(J.II)
Includes Acland exhibtion, Gifford Scholarships; War Memorial scholarship fund, 1946-65
Senior Common Room(B.II)
Includes Stewards’ account books, 1787-1885; SCR wine lists, between 1845 and 1862; SCR day books 1905-1967; Fellows’ quarterly wine accounts 1797-1864
Shortridge Papers (E. IV 1-5)
Dr Hugh Shortridge was appointed executor of the estate of Lady Elizabeth Shiers of Slyfield, Surrey in connection with her benefaction to Exeter College. (Cf Boase p. cxxxix). The papers relate to this benefaction and principally to the timber from woods in Surrey and Hertfordshire, the profits from which were to go to the Exeter College Library fund from 40 years after Hugh Shortridge’s Deed of gift. Most of the papers concern the dispute which arose between the College, on the one hand, and the trustees and vicars involved on the other when the 40 years ended in 1813. Later papers concern the administration of the properties and the Library fund itself.
