The Scholars or Fellows are to be twenty in number, of whom six are to be in priest's orders at the time of their admission. The remaining fellows are to be selected from bachelors or sophisters in arts, or from "skilful and well-conducted" civilians and canonists, but only two fellows may be civilians, and only one a canonist. The clauses relating to the scheme of studies are, moreover, apparently intended to discourage both these branches of law. Of the further progress of the College in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries we have no record, for the archives perished in the fire which almost totally destroyed the early buildings in the year 1521. In the seventeenth century, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, it was proposed to rebuild the whole College, but owing to the troubles of that time it was not until the beginning of the eighteenth century, in the year 1715, that the work was finished. "The buildings are," said the late Professor Willis, "among the most beautiful, from their situation and general outline, that he could point out in the University." There is extant an amusing account of the controversy between Clare Hall and King's College, caused by the desire of the former to procure a certain piece of land for purposes of recreation on the east side of the Cam, called Butt Close, belonging to King's. Here are two of the letters which passed between the rival litigants. "_The Answer of Clare-Hall to Certaine Reasons of King's College touching Butt-Close._ "1. To the first we answer:--Iº. That y{e} annoyance of y{e} windes gathering betweene y^{e} Chappell and our Colledge is farre greater and more detriment to y^{t} Chappell, then any benefitt which they can imagine to receiue by y{e} shelter of our Colledge from wind and sunne. "2º. That y^{e} Colledge of Clare-hall being sett so neare as now it is, they will not only be sheltered from wind and sunne, but much deprived both of ayre and light. "3º. That y^{e} remove all of Clare Hall 70 feet westward will take away little or no considerable privacy from their gardens and walkes; for y{t} one of their gardens is farre remote, and y^{e} nearer fenced with a very high wall, and a vine spread upon a long frame, under which they doe and may privately walke." "_A Reply of King's Colledge to y^{e} Answer of Clare-Hall._ "1. The wind so gathering breeds no detriment to our Chappell, nor did ever putt us to any reparacions there. The upper battlements at the west end haue sometimes suffered from y^{e} wind, but y^{e} wind could not there be straightned by Clare-hall, w^{ch} scarce reacheth to y^{e} fourth part of y^{e} height. "2º. No whit at all, for our lower story hath fewer windowes y^{t} way: the other are so high y^{t} Clare-Hall darkens them not, and hath windows so large y^{t} both for light and ayre no chambers in any Coll. exceed them.