1 - Audit book - Fundationes Collegii Jesu Cantabrigiae

1 volume, parchment

One volume made up of three mss bound together: College accounts for 1556-57; Steward's accounts for 1556-57; College accounts for 1558-59. [See JCGB/4/3/1 for accounts for 1556.]

1st part contains 6 items: first, a list of charters and donations, beginning with the gift by Malcolm, King of Scots, to the nuns and the licence of Henry VII to Bishop Alcock to found the college. Other donors enumerated are: Bishop James Stanley, Roger Thorne, Robert Rede, John Batemanson, John Andrewe and John Royston; in a later hand, John Fuller, Thomas Roberts, Richard Pigott and John Risley. Other lists follow: "Rentes and revenues" of the college; costs of maintaining the the Master, Fellows and pupils, in stipends and victuals; stipends of college officers and servants; outgoing rents and expenses; cost of repairs in preceding and present year. There is a note that the college would be in serious debt if it did not add more fellows and students. There is also a note on the dorse of the penultimate folio, in a contemporary hand: "Concerninge Jesus College in Cambridge"; and, in an 18th century hand "Fundationes Collegii Jesu. A. D. 1556". Note by Freda Jones (former archivist): "I take this to be the statement the College submitted to the Royal Visitors in 1556 (See Lamb, Documents). They would have had also to submit the annual audit account. As there are no account rolls after that of 1548-9, it may be that the Royal Visitors of Edward VI in that year ordered that the accounts be kept in a book instead of a roll, and that this first account book, which covered the years 1550-55, is missing because the Marian Visitors did not return it. 1556. 8 folios

2nd part [in Dr Caryl's hand] contains: firstly, 12 fols in the hand that wrote STA 1.1, probably that of John Johnson, receiver, presenting a rental of the college properties [except most of London] for the year ending Michaelmas 1557, receipts of money owed to the college and paid to it by the Steward (Henry Worley), room rents, money taken out of the Chest by the Steward, and expenses under the usual various headings, including stipends for the Master and seven Fellows; secondly, two folios of Steward's accounts, in the hand of Henry Worley, rendered monthly with amounts stated weekly for the different kinds of table, and with an account of expenditure at feasts. 14 folios. 1557;

3rd part contains accounts by the receiver and the steward, in the same two hands as the 2nd part; includes stipends for the Master and 12 Fellows, 15 folios. 1558-9

JCGB/4/3/1 for 1556 accounts