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The cook's bill to the Bursar for the Rustat Dinner of 4th April, including: a dish of salmon and (smelts?), a quarter of lamb boiled and fried, broccoli, a rump of beef, a salad (?) & oil, three roast chickens, a dish of sweetbreads larded, a large trifle, three lobsters, sweetmeat tarts & puffs, a roast pig, a leg of mutton etc.

Paid £0 5s 6d to the smith for work done in the kitchen up to Midsummer 1782 for: mending a spit, laid two pokers, cleaning and looking after the jack.
Signed by Thomas Coe.
The name Jonathan James is also written down.

"Bursar for Coll. Ser[vants?] &c."
Expenses for various dates from January-June, 1782, for mutton chops, pies, porter, coal scuttles etc.
Signed, Jonathan James

Bills from Coe, the smith, from Christmas 1781 to Michaelmas 1782, all paid in November 1782. Kitchen parts of the bills examined and signed by Jonathan James, the cook.

Paid £4 0s 10d to John Apsey, the brazier, for work done in the kitchen: pair of large kitchen bellows, change a large copp on cover, mending the fry pan and stew pan and letting on the handle, mending basket and setting the convert rights, to the use of 12 dozen of plates and 20 dishes 2 days for fish plate, tinning frying and stewing pans, tinning a large bonett and cover and a frying pan, to the use of plates and dishes, mending stew pan and slew, furring and tinning a boiler and a large posett, stewpan, mending a sauce pan and brassing boiler, etc.
Signed by John Apsey.

Paid £0 6s 0d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchenup to midsummer 1781: mending the jack line, new jack lines, a quarters looking after the jack.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £0 7s 7d to the Cook for: beef stakes, sausages, tarts, beef steak pie, beef steak patee, mutton chops.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £2 19s 8d to the cook for Rustat's dinner: dish of hot salmon and lobster, pigeon pie with forement (?), 2 puddings, a dish of scotch collops, large chine mutton, salad dish of broccoli, dish of sweetbreads larded, etc., lobster and oil, large triffle, asparagus, 4 roasted chickens, loin of veal.
Signed by Jonathan James.

The cook's bill for the quarter to Christmas, including the Audit feast: a dish of salmon and lobster, a turkey and oysters, a hunting pudding, a chine of mutton, potatoes, celery etc., a hot apple pie, two ducks (?) and a calf's head hash; also fowls, tarts and a dish of tongue. Received and signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £0 17s 17½ d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen the quarter ending at Christmas 1780: mending the range barr, repaired a clever, new door fraim (frame?) and 2 barrs, straightening 4 barrs, adding 3 jon to poker, band the jack.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 4s 1½ d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen from Christmas 1780 to Lady Day 1781: pair of bitts to a pair of tongs, plate and nails to the coal house door, fixing two spitt wheels, laying pokers, new stove and 2 barrs, straightening and mending 3 other barrs, quarters cleaning the jack. Received old frame and barrs (which is deduced from the payment).
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £0 8s 5d to the Cook for: mutton chops, meat pies, beef stakes, beef pate (?), coal baskets, pail.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 6s 6d to the cook for: Dish of salmon and lobster, 3 fowles and oysters, large hunter's or hunting pudding, chine mutton, celery greens (?), hot apple pie, a goose, etc.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 8s 5 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For: cleaning jack, new point to a spitt, straighting barrs, adding to poker and fixing wheel.

Paid £2 18s 11d to John Apsey. For: use of plates, mending a fish kettle and mending pans.

Paid £1 18s 8d to Jonathan James. For puddings, cauliflower, hot lobsters, goose, currant pye, beans and strawberries and cream

Paid 12s 1d to Thomas Coe. For: new shovel handle, mending stoke tongs and lever, new poker, cleaning jack.

Paid 3s 1d to Jonathan James. For: pickles, pye, cutlers and sausages

Paid £2 16s 8d to Jonathan James. For: pig, apple pye, marrow pudding, salmon and shrimp, sallad and bread.

Paid 12s 6d to Thomas Coe. For: new spitt wheell, spitts, cleaned jack, laid a poker and straightening stove barrs.

Paid 8s 8d to Jonathan James. For beef, chops and coal.

Paid 11s 2 3/4d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of cleaning the jack, new copper bars, and straightening and mending the old copper bars. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 15s 2d for commencement bill. Includes payments for Disk salmon and lobster, puddings, three roast ducks, dish of peas, strawberries and cream etc, shin of mutton, cauliflowers pata etc, a currant pie, roast rabbits, disk of beans and Ba(?). Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 8d to Jonathan James for ?

Paid 5s 7d to Jonathan James for cooking in the first quarter of 1779, including: meat pies, veal cutlets, beef steaks, sausages, pate, pickles, as well as paying for a pail.

Paid £2 4s 5 3/4d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of adding iron to the range, straightening and mending bars, laying a poker, cleaning a jack, and in the rest of the college, including: new flaps and mending the sink grate in the pump court, mending the rim of the pump, wedges up the tower, grinding copper to put in the master's pond, staples for filling up the leads, hooks for trees in the master's garden, mending the lock of the fore gate by Mr. Matthew's order with the master out, laying a scythe for the master's garden, nails for the garden gates, a hook with a socket for the hall windows by Mr. Matthew's order, keys and locks for the stairs in cow lane, and fixing bars to the stairs in cow lane. Section detailing kitchen work also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 9s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college and 4s 3d paid to the same for smith's work in the kitchen. Work in the college included: mending the back gate lock, a bow to a key for the porter, a new rake for the fellow's garden, laying a new scythe for the fellow's garden, a new key and mending the lock of the porter's lodge, new key and a plate to a lock for the toolhouse in the fellow's garden, a hook, key, henge, staples and nails for the leads, mending a padlock, laying a poker for the combination, straps with nails and screws for the doorposts on the leads, a hasp and staples and padlock to the clock, sharpening a grave iron for the bricklayers, strong plate and nails for a wheelbarrow, sharpening a chisel for the bricklayers, altering a scythe for the fellow's garden, fixing spikes, fixing nails to the coachhouse door, mending a brass lock in the master's bedroom, and mending the lock of the master's pond gate. Work in the kitchen was affixing a hook to the range, laying a poker and cleaning the jack. Section of kitchen work also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 6s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of cleaning a jack, mending the range bar, making a chopping knife, and adding iron to the poker. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £2 19s 9d to Jonathan James for Rustat dinner, including: a dish of salmon and lobster, lemon pudding, a dish of veal, hash, mutton, eggs, chickens, a large tripe, tarts and puffs, and a pig.

Paid 7s 3d to Thomas Coe for new jack line, mending a ladle, mending a trivet, cleaning a jack and hinges.

Paid £1 7s 4d to Jonathan James. For: pudding, pheasant, tarts and custards, veel and oyster, mutton and pye.

Paid 11s 6d to Thomas Coe. For: jacks, shovel, spitt and mending pale. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 5s to Thomas Coe. For jack, pale and pookes. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 7s 7d to Jonathan James. For pickles, pyes, chops and steaks

Paid £1 13s 4d to Jonathan James for dishes including: new college pudding, mutton, potatoes, fowls and oysters, hot apple pie, a goose, and hash.

Paid £1 16s 5d to Jonathan James. For salmon, lobster, puddings, goose, mutton, currant jelly, cauliflower, rabbit, pigeon pye, veal and oysters, tarts and custards.

Paid 3s 3d to Jonathan James for cooking in the last quarter of 1778, including: mutton chops and pickles, a dish of cutlets and bacon, pies, and veal cutlets and sausages.

Paid £3 11s 6d to Jonathan James. For: salmon, pigeon pye, lamb and spinach, puddings, rump beef, chickens, asparagus, custards, tart and pig.

Paid 8s to Thomas Coe. For spits, jacks and stove handel. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 2s 8d to Jonathan James. For beef and lamb steaks.

Paid £1 11s 4d to Jonathan James. For: pudding, pig, pigeon pie, ducks, mutton, cauliflower and potato, hot apple pie.

Paid to Thomas Coe. Work included: mending locks, adding hookes, cleaning jacks, new hoops.

Paid to Jonathan James £3 0s 9d. Bill lists money spent on fowls, cauliflower, ham, puddings, mutton, veal pie, beans, goose, white collop balls, lobster and oil, artichokes, larded sweetbreads, strawberries and cream, cold tongue, gooseberry pie and custard, peas, ducks

Paid £2 18s 8d to Jonathan James. For: cod and shrimp, stewed pigeons, pudding, rump beef, pickles, chickens, asparagus, trifle, lobsters, apple pye and a pig.

Paid 13s 9d to Thomas Coe. Work included: jacks, fixing jack line, hookes.

Paid to Jonathan James. Bill includes: pies, tarts, chops, pickles, cutlets, coal baskets.

Paid 15s 4d to Thomas Coe. Work including: mending line, fixing cole rake, adding hooks, changing locks.

Paid 1s 5d to Jonathan James for beef steaks, pye and cutlets.

Paid £2 18s 9d to Jonathan James for Rustat's dinner, including: pike, eels and perch, pigeon pie, hanging pudding, clod of beef, chickens, asparagus, sweetbreads, tarts, lobsters, and a pig.

Paid 6s 7d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending a port hook, laying a poker and mending the lock for the outer door. Also signed by Jonathan James.