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A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Keeching'), includes: cleaning 2 Jacks (3s 6d); laying 'pooker' [poker?] (1s); hoops to mend a pail (6d); mending the cook's key (1s); mending the Range bars (3s 6d); mending the Jack line (6d). Total bill amounts to 11s, signed by Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Kettching'), includes: cleaning 2 Jacks (3s 6d); a new shovel (3s 6d); laying a 'pooker' [poker?]; mending a large poker (6d); for 'cutting' a pan and fitting the handle (6d). Total bill amounts to 10s, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Keeching'), includes: cleaning the 'Great Jack' (2s 6d); cleaning the 'small Jack' (1s); 3 new copper 'bar' (5s); laying 3 'bass' (3s); 'to Copper' the door frame (3s); one 'Barring bar' (2s); laying and mending 5 range bars (3s 6d); for new feet, 2 sides and mending 2 stoves (6s); mending 10 bars (5s); 2 new bars (5s); pokers (1s); mending the 'Jack Line' (6d); poker (1s). Total bill amounts to £1 16s 2d and signed by John James.

A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Kettching'), includes: cleaning the 'Great Jack' (2s 6d); cleaning the small Jack (1s); a key for the kitchen door (8d); laying the 'pooker' [poker?] (1s); mending the Jack line (1s); painting & 'Strater' [straighter?] 4 spits (2s); 6 sieves (9d); poker (1s). Total bill amounts to 9s 11d, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work undertaken between March and May 1769, includes: cleaning the 'Great Jack' (2s 6d); 'small Jack' (1s); laying pokers (1s); mending 'stillyard [steelyard]' (6d); a new grate (9s); two hooks (4d); a barring 'bard [board?]' (2s 8d); shovel and '2 pale Eam' (8d); mending the 'Chafend ixl [chafed axle?]' (6d). Total bill amounted to 19s 2d, and was signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work between December 1768 and February 1769, includes: cleaning the 'Grate Jack' (2s 6d); cleaning the small jack (1s); 'shatering' and mending the 'Great' range (5s); laying a poker (1s). Total bill amounts to 12s, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work to the College kitchens between October and November 1768. Includes: mending a lock and key for the kitchen doors (1s); cleaning the great Jack (2s 6d); cleaning the small jack (1s); laying a poker (1s); laying 2 hoops '& 4 hott to Stoves' (8s 6d); laying 7 bars for the stove (3s 6d); mending a poker (6d); mending 'Jack fliers' (1s). Total bill amounted to 19s, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work to the College kitchens between June and August 1769. Includes: cleaning the great jack (2s 6d); cleaning the small jack (1s); mending 5 range bars (2s 6d); laying a poker (1s 6d); 'pale Ear' (6d). Total bill amounted to 13s 10d, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for food served at the 'Rustard's Feast', includes: a dish of salmon and smelts (15s 6d); stewed pigeons (6s); quarter of Lamb 'Spin[spine?]' (6s); lemon pudding (4s 6d); sirloin of beef (10s 8d); salad with eggs (1s 4d); broiled fowls with mustard (5s); lobsters (4s); sweetmeat tarts (3s); boiled custards (2s); 'Oyster Loaves' (3s); a pig (5s). The bill also includes additional entries on later dates, including a servant's dinner on the 15th May (8d), and salad and tarts on the 17th June (1s). Total bill amounted to £3 7s 8d, and was signed by John James.

Paid £3 15s 6d for dishes served at "Commenc[men]t Dinner" in Jesus College, included: hot salmon; 6 fowls; cauliflowers and "Greens"; a ham; "Chine Mutton"; cucumber salad; a lemon pudding; "Dish of Beans"; "Hash'd Calves Head"; 3 ducks; "Dish of Pease"; "Dish of Lobsters"; strawberries and cream; 8 cheesecakes; 8 pears; "a Green Goosd".

A cook's bill, includes: paying college servants (8d) and 'v[eal] cutlets' (9d). Also includes foods for 'Rustards [Rustat's] Feast', including: 'Forc'd Pike', eels and smelts (12s 6d); a dish of 'soot'd[?] Collops' (3s 8d); puddings (4s 6d); a pig pie with four meats (4s); loin of beef (10s 6d); salad eggs (1s 8d); roast chickens (7s 6d); cheese cakes (1s 6d); large trifle (5s 6d); lobsters and crayfish (4s 6d); pig (5s 6d). Signed by John James.

A bill for food consumed within college, includes: 4 fowls and oysters (10s); 'New Coll: [college?] Pudd[in]g' (4s); a goose (5s); mutton (4s 8d); potatoes and currant jelly (1s 8d); lobster (6s); 3 pairs of veal cutlets for servants (1s 6d); 3 [mutton?] pies (9d); 3 pairs of mutton chops (1s 6d); 3 tarts (9d); oil 'for Parlour' (3d). Total bill amounted to £1 14s 4d, signed by John James.

A bill for food consumed within college, includes: college servants' dinner (10d); 4 beef steaks with pickle for the college servants (2s 8d); mutton pies (6d); 2 fowls and oysters for the servants (2s 6d); beef steaks and 2 tarts (1s 8d); 2 pails (4s). Total bill amounted to 12s 10d, signed by John James.

A bill detailing food for the 'Comt [Commencement?] Dinner' on the 4th July, including: service of two servants (1s 8d); hot salmon (16s 6d); 6 fowls (12s); cauliflowers and greens (1s); a dish of lobsters (5s); a ham (11s 8d); strawberries and raspberries (11s); lemon pudding (4s 6d); a dish of beans (2s); 'Chine' Mutton (6s 8d); 'Sulld. Eggs' (1s 6d); 'Green Goose' (4s 6d); stewed tench and eels (8s). This section of the bill amounted to £4 6s, and was followed by further entries under the heading "Supper": tame rabbits (2s 6d); 8 artichokes (2s 8d); collard eels (2s); strawberries (9s); sweetbreads (3s); gooseberry puffs (1s 6d); a dish of 'Peases' (1s 6d); 3 'Ro: Ducks' (5s). The total bill amounted to £5 9s 2d, and was signed by John James.