Deel No. 1 - 'Attendance of Fellows at Trinity College Chapel, for the week ending February 17th, 1838'

1 folded sheet, printed. Small section missing from bottom of second page.

'Published by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates'. Table of attendance by each Fellow at the morning and evening services each day, marked by 'o' or 'x'. with 'Sum Total' recorded at the end.

Prompted by an agreement by the Master and Seniors '"that all Undergraduates, Scholars, and Foundation Sizars, do attend Chapel eight times at least! in every week, - that is, twice on Sunday, and once on every other day, on pain," &c.- Vide Notice*.

'Does, then, this new Regulation of the "Master and Seniors" proceed from any religious motive? Do they practice what they force on the Undergraduates? They are very regular in their attendance in Hall, but why are their places vacant in Chapel? LET FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES!'

Addressed by hand to 'Rev. J [?] Thompson, Trinity College'.

Tipped into R.1.75.

O.10a.38: 'Copy of certain papers, notices &c connected with or issued by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates in 1838'. Contains copies of all 'Attendance Sheets' issued by the Society in Feb.-Mar. 1838, as well as of four humorous poems on the subject. With notes by W. W. Rouse Ball.

C.13.60-63, 66, 75. '[Chapel lists and other ephemera relating to regulations regarding chapel attendance in Trinity College published by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates].' Collections of attendance lists, verse, notes and correspondence etc, received from various sources.

C.13.64. Forms used for non-attendance at Chapel by the Deans, pasted onto 6 pieces of cardboard.

C.13.65. Copy of the Bible with inscription on front flyleaf, 'From the Undergraduates of Trinity College to the Revr Charles Perry, M. A. as a mark of affection, and esteem for the good example which he set them, and the rest of the College by his constant attendance at Chapel'.

An account of the forming of the 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates' can be found in Ball, W. W. Rouse. Cambridge Papers. London: Macmillan, 1918, Chap. 4 (pp. 71-83).