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College lowance bill. Paid for £5 1s 10d.
Lowance for washing the hall, college servants and Catley four quarters.

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.

Paid to Richard Brett for collecting rent and getting rid of rats. (NB: has 'Vice Chancellor of Jesus College' written on the back).

Paid to Richard Brett by Reverend French for the sum of fifty five pounds for:

Rustat Audit Dinner - 18 persons on April 26 1821. Bill for bread, cheese, butter, ale, wine in the morning, 2 sherry, cake, wine at dinner, port, sherry, tea and coffee, scull, house maid.

Cards up to Michaelmas 1821 - College lowance. 357 pints, college servant, Catley for 1 year cards.

King George IV Coronation Dinner for Fellows - July 19 1821 in hall and the combination room. Bill for bread, ale, cheese, port, sherry, tea and coffee. Servants bill for a barrel of ale, bread, cheese, tobacco, pipes.

Graveley Court - Bill for sherry, tobacco, and Catley.

Foundation Dinner - In hall: 2 bottles of sherry, In combination room: 4 bottles of port, stock, wine.

Audit Dinner - December 20 1820 for 31 persons. Bill for bread, cheese, butter, audit ale, small, wine in hall, bottles of sherry, port stock, wine in combination room, 13 bottles of stock port, 3 bottles of sherry, tea and coffee.

Audit Supper - Bill for bread, cheese, butter, audit ale, milk, punch, 1 bottle of port, 1 bottle of sherry, lemons, biscuits, sugar, candles, 4 packs of cards, scull.

Commencement Dinner - July 3 1821 for 25 persons. Bill for bread, cheese, butter, ale, small, wine in hall, 2 bottles of port, 4 bottles of sherry, wine in combination room, 9 bottles of port in combination room, tea and coffee. Servants bill for bread, cheese, ale, scull.

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.

Signed by Richard Brett.
For Commencement, 2nd July 1816, £7 12. Costs include: bread; cheese; butter; ale; port (10 bottles); sherry (6 bottles); tea and coffee (for 16 people); servants' ale; servants' bread; servants' cheese; laundress; scullery.
For 7th June 1816 for the Officers from Ely, £4 18s 9d. Costs include: bread; cheese; ale; 2 bottles of Audit ale; 4 bottles of sherry; 9 bottles of port; tea and coffee for 16 people.
For £59 4s: Audit 1815; Rustat 1816; Gravely; coals; Officers dinner; Commencement; Audit Fee; rats; Town Rent.
For £14 4s 1d for Audit Dinner 15th December 1815 and Audit Supper. Costs include (dinner): bread; butter; cheese; Audit Ale; mild ale; 10 bottles of sherry; 14 bottles of port; tea and coffee for 16 people; 2 packs of cards; candles; scullery; laundress.
Costs include (supper): bread; cheese; butter; Audit Ale; mild ale; small; commons; biscuits (biskets); brandy; sherry; port; sugar (suggur); milk punch.
Rustat Audit 26th April 1816 for £7 17s 6d.. Costs include: bread; cheese; butter; ale; small; 1 bottle of port, 1 sherry in the morning; cake; 6 bottles of sherry; 10 bottles of port; tea and coffee for 15; laundress; house maid; scullery.
Bill for £3 for one year's coals up to Michaelmas 1816.
Bill for £1 10s for Gravely, 3rd June 1816. 4 bottles of wine; 1lb of tobacco; catley.

Paid £61 3s 6d to Richard Brett for audit dinner and supper, commencement, alowance bill, Steward's bill, allowance for coal, audit fee, Christmas allowance bill, collecting the rents, Christmas wine and combination wine.

Paid £7 9s 6d to R Brett dinner.
Costs listed: bread, cheese, butter, porter, ale, sherry, small, port wine (11 bottles), tea and coffee, money for servants, laundress, scullery

Lady Day 1814, College Lowance bill. Total 18s 5d: costs include 71 pints and 2 tenants.
Received 20th May 1814, signed by R Brett.

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.

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.

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.

A bill for cleaning the courts (6s 8d), cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d) and cleaning the side walks (2s), signed by Richard Brett.

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

Paid £0 17s 4d by the bursar to the porter the quarter ending at Midsummer 1781 for: cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, cleaning the outside walks.
Signed by Richard Brett.

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.

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.

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.

Paid to Richard Brett. For cleaning the corts, for the quarter angle, cleaning the outside of the gates, liten the lamps, 4 years wax and wafers, cleaning the outside walkes and greenes in the hall.

£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.

Two receipts of 10s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts, quarter angle and the outside of the gate, dated 9 July, and 13 October 1779, and one receipt of 18s 8d to Richard Brett for lighting the lamps, and cleaning the courts and quarter angle dated 24 December 1778.

Paid 10s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning courts, quarterangle and outside of College

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

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

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 10s to Richard Brett for lamps.

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

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

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

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

Paid 10s to Richard Brett for lighting the lamps.

Paid £1 3s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts, the quarter angle, and the outside of the works, lighting the lamps, and sticking the hall.

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

Paid 19s 10d to Richard Brett for two quarter's work of cleaning the quarter angle, and one quarter's work of cleaning the courts and cleaning the outside works.

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

Paid 10s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts, quarteranble, and outside courts.

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

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

Paid 10s to Richard Brett for the audit.

Paid 10s to Richard Brett for attendance at the last commencement. Paid by Dr. Caryl.

Paid 7s to Richard Brett for washing the cloisters and brooms and mops (1773). Paid 12s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts, quarter angle, and outside walk and sticking the hall (1773). Paid 10s to Richard Brett for lighting the lamps (1773). Paid £1 4s 2d to Richard Brett for lighting the lamps, cleanin gthe courts and quarter angle, and gravel and laying gravel (1774). Paid £1 6s 10d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts, quarter angle and sidewalks, trimming the trees in the grove and wax for the ceiling (1773). All dated 4th October.

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 10s to Richard Brett for looking after the lamp for a quarter.

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

Paid £2 13s 6d to Richard Brett for work done by the porter in the garden.

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 8s 8d to Richard Brett for cleaning the courts and the quadrangle.

Paid 18s 8d to Richard Brett for a quarter's work of cleaning the cloisters and the quarter angle and lighting the lamps.