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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 10s to Richard Brett for lamps.

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

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 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 £1 7s 10d to the Porter by the bursar for: winding up the clock, cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, cleaning the work outside of the gate, for tar in the trees of the grove.
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

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.

Paid £0 18s 4d to the Porter by the bursar for: cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, for sticken (sic) the hall.
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

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

Paid £4 8s 10d to the porter to pay men for laying and graveling the works. Received on 26th December by Richard Brett.

A bill for winding up the clock (10s), 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.

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.

A bill for: cleaning the courts (6s 8d); 'a size for the Closters' (6s 8d); cleaning the courts (6s 8d); winding up the clock (10s); 'cleaning the Quarter Angle' (2s); cleaning the wall around the cloisters (1s); cleaning the 'warks' [walks?] (1s 6d); brooms and 'Rubs' for the courts (1s); laying down turf (1s); brooms for the chapel (3s 10d); washing the hall (4s); mops and brooms (2s). Total bill amounts to £1 19s 8d, signed by Rd. 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'.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Payment of 15s 4d received from the bursar by the Porter for cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle at quarter ending at Michaelmas.

Signed by Richard Brett.

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.

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.

Received of the Bursar. Paid £2 for a year of winding up the clock. 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)

Paid to Richard Brett by Reverend French for the sum of fifty five pounds for:
Rustat Audit Dinner - 18 persons on April 26th 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 19th 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 20th 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 3rd 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.

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.

Paid 10s to Richard Brett for lighting the lamps.

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