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your being made Master of the said college, you did expend or lay out near upon the sum of £2000 of the college stock, in altering, fitting up, beautifying, and improving the lodge belonging to you as Master, which was then in very good condition and repair, and in no need of any such reparations and improvements; and since that time, and particularly since the year 1715 or 1716, you have, over and above the said sum of £2000 exorbitantly and unnecessarily laid out and expended many other large sums of money out of the college stock, in making many other unnecessary and superfluous additional buildings thereto, and in other extravagances; particularly, by causing a double vaulted cellar to be made or sunk in your back yard, for keeping your wine cool; by ordering and causing your garden to be laid out and formed after a new model, and a terrace to be erected therein by the water side; by building a summer house, or room of entertainment in the garden belonging to you as Master, and in that a bath, which you have caused to be supplied with water and other conveniences for bathing; by converting two edifices belonging to the college into a very large and spacious granary, at the expense of £400 or at least £300 for your own private use, to carry on the trade or business of a farmer or maltster, which you followed for some time; by seizing upon two pieces of ground belonging to the college, to keep a couple of cows in, for the use of yourself and family; and by hedging, ditching, and trenching the same for that purpose; by causing a new brick house to be built in the back side of the college, for wintering the said cows, and building three new coach-houses for the use of particular persons; all which were paid for out of the college stock, and amounted in the whole to the sum of £2000. or some other such large sum of money, as by the accounts of the Bursars of the said college, reference being thereto had, will more fully appear. Hocque, etc. Et objicimus & articulamur de quâlibet aliâ summâ, etc. Et ut supra.

LIII. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you have further and unnecessarily and profusely wasted and consumed great part of the common stock of the said college, by building, or causing a fine new country-house or seat to be built upon part of the college estate, at Over, in the county of Cambridge, for the use of yourself and family, fit for the reception of a person of rank and quality; and have already expended therein, though not yet finished or furnished, more than £800 of the college money. Hocque, etc. Et objicimus & articulumur de quâlibet aliâ summâ, etc. Et ut supra.

LIV. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that Dr. John Christopherson, formerly Master of the said college in the reign of Queen Mary, did, by his last will and testament, give and bequeath all his hangings, bedsteads, tables, forms, chairs, wainscot, ceiling, and all the furniture belonging to his kitchen, to the said college, for the use of his successors, Masters of the said college for the time being, upon condition that every successive Master should oblige himself in the sum of 200 marks, to leave the same in as good condition as he found them; as by the said will, now remaining among the muniments of the said college, reference being thereunto had, will appear. Et ut supra.

LV. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you, upon your becoming Master of the said college, found the lodge belonging to you as Master well and sufficiently supplied with all necessary and useful furniture, fit and sufficient for a Master of the said college; all which came to the hands or possession of you the said Dr. Bentley. Et hoc fuit & est verum, etc. Et ut supra.

LVI. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that notwithstanding the premises, and notwithstanding there is not any allowance made by the statutes to the Master of the college for the furniture of his lodge, yet you the said Dr. Bentley have squandered away great and excessive sums of money out of the college stock, over and above those before mentioned, for finishing and furnishing the said lodge; and particularly, in setting up nine marble chimney-pieces, and furnishing the same with a scarlet cloth bed, and chairs and stools, a damask bed and quilt, two large looking glasses, a silk squab, japan and walnut-tree tables; and in buying a couch for the use of your wife and daughters, and several other goods for the use of yourself and family, to the amount or value of £600, £500, or at least £400 sterling; all which charges was by you paid for out [232] of the common stock of the said college. Hocque, etc. Et objicimus & articulamur de quâlibet aliâ summâ, etc. Et ut supra.