4 - Dead College Accounts

Begins 2 Feb. 1668/9, when the Master appears to have made up a deficit from his own pocket. The account was audited by the resident Fellows on 2 Feb. each year. Under the date 26 Jan. 1679 is a list of "Orders agreed upon as a means of reducing the debt of the College to the Bursar, Mr Lewis", involving sealing money, feasts commuted for payments (to the Dead College and to the library), and rents raised. There follow Library accounts, 1681-1743/4, giving prices of books and of binding, and a debt to the library fund created in 1716, with arrangements for paying it off; also an account of offerings in Chapel, 1681, and how they were spent. At the end of the book are: a record of borrowings from the treasury, 1667/8-1747 (of documents, money and plate to be sold or exchanged); sums withdrawn from the Rustat Chest; an audit of plate (no lists given); notes of the use and return of the college seal, with a note about the surrender and exchange of "broad gold" from the college bags, 25 April 1733.