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Received of the Bursar. Paid 10s to the porter for winding up the clock in the quarter ending at Lady Day 1766.

Signed by Richard Brett.

Paid £0 10s 0d to the porter given by the bursar Richard Brett for winding up the clock.
Signed by Richard Brett

Paid £1 0s 4d to the Porter by the bursar for: cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, a size, cleaning the works (?) the outside.
Signed by Richard Brett

A bill for: cleaning the courts (6s 8d); 'a size for the Corts' [courts] (4s); cleaning the 'Clorsters' [cloisters?] (6s 8d); 'Pitch for the Trees in the grove' (1s 6d); 'Quarter Angle to Quarters' (4s). Total bill amounts to £1 2s 10d, signed by 'Rd. Brett'.

A bill for winding up the clock (10s), signed by Richard Brett.

Signed by Richard Brett.
Christmas lowance bill of £6 6s 9d (including deductions). Costs include: 401 pints; paid to Bennett's College 2 years quit rent; College tennants' ale; Catley 1 quarter for cards.
Bill for £2 5s 10d, received 11th April 1816. Costs include: 155 pints; tennant.
Bill for Mids and Michaelmas £8 0s 2d (minus deductions), received 11th December 1816. 311 pints; paid Green; men as witness; Leach 3 bottles of port; man for rat; man from Gravely; Preston; 2 tenants.

Paid 19s 8d to Richard Brett. For cleaning the corts, gravling the corts, gravling the works the outside of the college, for the quarter angle.

Paid 10s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning quartangle and side works

Paid £1 0s 8d to Richard Brett for lightingg the lamps, cleaning the courts, quarterangle and the outside of College.

£1 5s 8d paid to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts and the quarter angle, lighting the lamps, paying for gravel and taking the old gravel out and putting the new in.

Paid £1 7s 4d by the bursar of Jesus College to the porter for the quarter ending at Lady Day 1781 for: lighting lamps, cleaning the courts, cleaning the walks outside the College, cleaning the Quadrangle, cleaning the Cloisters.
Signed by Richard Brett.

A bill 'to the Porters for the Cleang the Courts', includes: cleaning the courts (6s 8d); cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d); cleaning the outside courts (2s); lighting the lamps (10s); 'sticking' the Hall (3s); washing the hall (4s); mops and brooms (2s). Total bill amounted to £1 14s 4d, and was signed by Rd. Brett.

Paid 12s 2d to Richard Brett for a quarter's work of cleaning the courts, quarter angle, and outside of the gate, scouring the boards and wainscotting, and mopping.

Paid 7s to Richard Brett for trimming the trees in the grove.

Paid 13s to Richard Brett for cart, horse and man. Paid £2 8s to Richard Brett for laborers' work in the close. Paid 10s to Richard Brett for a quarter of lighting the lamps. Paid £1 1s 8d to Richard Brett for a quarter's work of cleaning the courts and the quarter angle, slicking the hall, and lighting the lamps (16th January). Two receipts of 8s 8d each paid to Richard Brett for a quarter's work of cleaning the courts and the quadrangle. Paid 16s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the quadrangle, cleaning the outside walks, walking the hall, and mops and brooms.

Paid £1 14s 10d to Richard Brett for cleaning the cloisters, the courts, and the quarterangle, for lighting the lamps, for washing the hall, for mopes and plow, and for greens and sticking the hall.

Paid 8s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts and the quarter angle for one quarter.

Received of Dr Caryl. Paid £1 14s 4d including cleaning the court, winding up the clock, washing up the Hall. Signed by Richard Brett.

Paid to Richard Brett on 11th December 1823.

Audit Dinner for 21. 10th December 1822. Paid for bread, cheese, butter, audit ale, mild ale, 7 bottles of sherry, 1 bottle of port, cup, 9 bottles of port in combination room, 2 bottles of sherry, tea and coffee for 20, and 4 packs of cards. Paid for £8 18s 6d.
For Supper, paid for bread, butter, cheese, audit ale, mild ale, milk, punch, 1 bottle of port, 1 bottle of sherry, lemons, biscuits, sugar, cup, candles, launders and scull. Paid for £2 1s 9d.

Commencement Dinner for 20. July 1st 1823. Paid for bread, cheese, butter, ale, small, cup, wine in hall, 7 bottles of sherry, 1 bottle of port, wine in combination room, 8 bottles of port, 2 bottles of sherry, team and coffee for 19. The servants dinner included bill for bread, cheese, ale, scull and launders.

Rustat Audit Dinner for 12. 4th of April 1823.
Paid in the morning for 1 bottle of port and 1 bottle of sherry. For dinner, paid for bread, cheese, butter, ale, wine at dinner, 4 bottles of sherry, 1 bottle of port, wine after dinner, 4 bottles of port, 2 bottles of sherry, tea and coffee for 12, laundress, scullion and house maid. Paid for £5 8s 10d.

At Gravely Court on 7th of June 1823. Paid for 4 bottles of port, 1 bottle of sherry, tobacco. Paid £1 14s 6d.

1 year coaler fir the Butler up to Michaelmas 1823. Paid £3.

1823. College lowance bill. 555 pints, lowance for washing the hall, at the new building ale and bread, 10 quarts, 1 gall, call for servants. Paid for £8 11s 1d.

Received 11th December 1823 by R Brett.

Received of the Bursar, £2 15s [?]d for winding up the clock, cleaning the court, cleaning the cloister, washing up the hall on the 14th November 1759. Signed by Richard Brett. Also paid 1£ 15s 10d on the 24th March 1759. Also paid 1£ 5s4d on the 30th December 1758.

Paid £1 5s 4d for winding up the clock, cleaning courts, cloisters and Quadrangle. Signed by Richard Brett.

Received of the Bursar. Paid 10s to the porter for winding up the clock in the quarter ending at St. Thomas December 1765.

Signed by Richard Brett.

Payment of 16s 4d received from the bursar by the Porter for cleaning the court, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, jar and grees for the lease in the grove [?] at St. Thomas.

Signed by Richard Brett.

On the other side of the page there is a different sum (it is not clear if it is the draft of another bill)

Payment of 19s 4d received from the bursar by the Porter for cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle,sticken the hall, cleaning the rooms at Lady Day.

Signed by Richard Brett.

A bill for: 'winding up ye Clock' (10s); keeping the courts clean (6s 8d); cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d); a 'Prime Garden Sythe' [scythe] and 'Rubs' (4s). Total bill amounting to £1 7s 4d, signed by Richard Brett.

Paid 8s 8d to Richard Brett. For cleaning the corts and cleaning the quarter angle.

Paid 18s 8d to Richard Brett. For cleaning the corts, the quarter angle and lightin the lamps.

Paid £1 3s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the corts, quarterangle, outside the gate, liting the lampes and greenes to stick the hall

Paid £2 0s 4d by the bursar of Jesus College to the porter for the quarter ending at Saint Thomas, December for: cleaning the courts, cleaning the quarter angle, cleaning the outside walks, for sticking the hall, for lighting the lamps.
Signed by Richard Brett.

A bill for cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d) [struck through], cleaning the courts (6s 8d) and cleaning the side walks (3s), signed by Richard Brett. In a different hand below, there are calculations headed 'Xtmas', 'LDay', 'Midsr' and 'Michs.', totalling £4 8d.

Includes: cleaning the courts (6s 8d); cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d); cleaning the outside of the college (2s); lighting the lamps (10s); paid men for carrying 'the stuf out of the Angel or Quart' (10s); wax and wafers (6s). Total bill amounted to £2 1s 4d and was signed by R Brett. Beneath are draft calculations in a different hand.

£3 3s paid to Richard Brett.

Paid 8s 8d to Richard Brett for a quarter's work of cleaning the courts and the quarter angle.

Paid 14s to the porter, Richard Brett, for planting trees.

Paid 8s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts and cleaning the quarterangle

Paid 18s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the court and quarter angle and for lighting the lamps.

Dividends paid to the butler B. Prior of £1 and the porter Richard Brett of 10s for attendance extraordinary at the audit.

8th July: Received of the Bursar. Paid £2, 4s, 10d for cleaning work, including 'looking after the clock', cleaning cloisters, washing Hall. Signed by Richard Brett. 24th December 1757: also paid £1, 5s, 4d for cleaning work to Richard Brett. 25th October 1758: Also paid £1, 15s, 10d for cleaning work and cutting trees to Richard Brett. 4th May: Also paid £1, 15s, 10d to Richard Brett.

Received of the Bursar. Paid £1 9s 4d for winding up the clock, keeping cloisters clear, new gravel in courts, cleaning outside of college, hedges in the Fellows Close. Signed by Richard Brett.

Paid £1 16s 4d including winding up the clock, keeping courts clear, cleaning cloisters, Quadrangle, washing the Hall, mops, plough, booms, a 'green set up for the Hall at Christmas'. Signed by Richard Brett.

Payment of £1 4s 4d received from the bursar by the Porter for cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, cleaning the warkes, washing the hall, mops, brooms and a plough, sand for the hall for the quarter endind at midsummer.

Signed by Richard Brett.

Payment of 4s 10½d received from Brett by Jeffs and Bentley for a mason one day and two hours setting the chimney piece in Lodge kitchen, a labourer 3/4 of a day and two hours at the lodge kitchen, to one hod mortar.

Paid £0 10s 0d to the porter given by the bursar Richard Brett for winding up the clock.
Signed by Richard Brett

Paid £1 9s 4d to the Porter by the bursar for:winding up the clock, cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, cleaning workes of the right side of the gates, seling walks.
Signed by Richard Brett

A bill 'to the Porter', includes: cleaning the courts (6s 8d); cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d); cleaning the 'Quarterangle' (2s); cleaning the walk by 'outside of the Gate' (2s); brooms (1s); washing the Hall (4s); 'Plow' (1s 4d); mops (1s). The total bill amounts to £1 4s 8d and was signed by 'Rd Brett'. Includes rough workings.

A bill to the Porter, which includes: cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d); cleaning the courts (6s 8d); cleaning the 'Quarterangle' (2s). There is no signature, but the hand is the same as in Richard Brett's bills.

Paid 11s 8d to Richard Brett. For cleaning the corts, cleaning the quartriangle, cleaning the outside of the workes (sic).

Paid 10s to Richard Brett for lamps.

Paid £3 11s 4d by the bursar to the porter the quarter ending at Michaelmas 1781 for: locking after the Master's Garden two half quarters, cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the works the outside of the college, for watering the trees in the grove.
Signed by Richard Brett.

Four (quarterly) bills from Brett the Porter for cleaning courts, cloisters, walks, the quadrangle; lamplighting, gardening etc.