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BALLIOL COLLEGE STATUTES -- A MANUSCRIPT notebook, sm. 4°, headed: "Statuta Ball Coll: Oxon 1504," 31pp. on paper in Latin in an early 18th-century copperplate hand, with original or contemporary copy manuscript, bound in at end, headed: "Peter Blundells fellowe e Schollar of Balliol College in Oxon," 5pp. on paper in English, concerning the "Indenture Tripartite" dated November 1615 by which not only the continuing endowment of the grammar school in Tiverton, provided for under Blundell's will, was assured but also two thousand pounds kept in trust for the sending of six scholars to Oxford or Cambridge each year, two of whom were to attend Balliol College, 18th-century reversed calf with central panel and corner ornaments in blind.
Provenance: "Donum Executris Testamenti Desideratissimi Viri Johannis Baron 1721" (inscription on front blank).
Peter Blundell (1520-1601), merchant, of humble origin, was born at Tiverton. Accumulating great wealth as a merchant and manufacturer in the kersey trade, he endowed Blundell's school Tiverton (erected 1604) and also left considerable sums for other charitable purposes.
Provenance: "Donum Executris Testamenti Desideratissimi Viri Johannis Baron 1721" (inscription on front blank).
Peter Blundell (1520-1601), merchant, of humble origin, was born at Tiverton. Accumulating great wealth as a merchant and manufacturer in the kersey trade, he endowed Blundell's school Tiverton (erected 1604) and also left considerable sums for other charitable purposes.