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Slavery and charity: Tobias Rustat and the African companies, 1662-94*

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By M. Brandon Robbins, Osborn Collection, Brit. Libr, Rustat to Boldero
| Oxford University Press (OUP)
The accounts of Jesus College, Cambridge, record a six shilling payment, made on 28 November 1682, ‘For carriage of Mr Rustat’s Picture’.1 The half-length portrait by Godfrey Kneller that arrived from London depicted the most generous benefactor in the college’s history. Between 1671 and 1672 Tobias Rustat (1608–94) gave more than £3,000 to Jesus to found scholarships for the orphan sons of ‘orthodox clergymen’ and to relieve impoverished clerical widows.
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