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- 1560-1599 (Creation)
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1 volume Stamped leather binding, 12+ x 8+ in. paper
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Contains the accounts of Henry Worley, Receiver, at Michaelmas 1560: receipts, then payments, then a separate Steward's account. Contents in detail are: receipts - Cambridge rent by parishes, rents of college rooms, rents from outside Cambridge, recepta forinseca (including interest on arrears of rent and loans, and receipts for wood, coal and fish); payments - for chapel, buttery, kitchen, stipends (paid quarterly), outgoing rents, fees to rent collectors and Steward, pensions to the University Bedells, the Vicar of All Hallows, the poor of Shelford at Christmas, and the Rede lecturers, "expensae necessariae", repairs outside college, and repairs inside college; Steward - separate weekly totals for the Master and Fellows' table and the undergraduates' table, with the account rendered monthly. After the auditing of the account there is a calculation of annual funds and costs.