August 22 1654
Order in Council that £200 a year be settled on the Regius Professor (of Divinity) in Cambridge out of some donative in his Highness's gift instead of Somersham rectory. Rous and Cooper to confer with the Vice Chancellor and Mr Nye thereon and report.

(The revenue from the rectory went to support the Regius Professor and in the event no alternative source was found - Somersham Rectory continued to provide an income for the college for the next 300 years.)

8 November 1655
£300 worth of timber assigned out of Somersham Park for the building of Clare College (Cambridge)

19 December 1655
The Protector to the Admiralty Commisioners. According to an order in council dated 8 November last you are to assign trees in Somersham Park reserved for the state to the value of £300 for the building of Clare Hall, Cambridge University and to deliver them to the nominees of the master and wardens.

(Note that each individual tree really was marked. We know this from many of the surveys done at the time, and the larger trees at Somersham Park were marked down for the Admiralty for ship building)