| Creator Name | James Fraser (1645-1731) Dr; founder of a bursary 1730; L.L.D., King's College, 1725; The eighteenth-century revival in the fortunes of King's College Library, both as a building and as an intellectual resource, can be attributed in no small part to the benefactions of James Fraser... A King's Alumnus, Fraser was a book trader to members of the Royal Court, the aristocracy, and to scholarly and scientific circles sometimes tutor to Royal children, one of the royal librarians to James VII, a licenser of the press, landowner, translator and the first appointed secretary of the Chelsea Hospital. King's College was justifiably effusive in its gratitude: the senatus gave Fraser an honorary doctorate in 1715.' A.U.R, XXV, pg.138; Principal authority on Fraser is Ker's 'Frasereides'; |
| Administrative History | Previously listed as MSK but transferred to MS during the King's College Archive Project in August 2016. |
| Custodial History | The papers of Secretary Bale's papers, former reference numbers MSK 257/44/22 and MSK 257/44/23, were removed on 24th April 1929 and catalogued as MS 1009. |