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Payment of £4 11s 3s received by Jn. James for chickens, dish of cauliflowers, ham, dish of beans, loin beef, salted lucas [?], hunting pudding, pig, strawberries and cream, tench st., breads larded, lobsters, tarts and cheese, dish of artichokes, ral. fricasse, trifle, dish of peas, dish of bottled bels, duck.

Paid £2 12s 10d to the cook Jonathan James, received from Mr Darby. For: fowles, tongues, hunting pudding, neck of pork, breast veal, gravy and apple sauce, dish of cod and oysters, chime mutton, celery pots, goose, dish new college pudding, boiled veal, minced pies, dish bacon, tarts and minced pies, tents, butter, spinach, mutton chops, stakes, duck, etc.

Paid £2 4s 5d to the smith Thomas Coe for work done in the kitchen: new lack and hoy (?) for the cook, new chafsmith, a large gridiron, pooker, clean jacks, mend chains, new poul and fixing, new lack and hoy fixing, stitches new door, mend lark lach, kott pookers, hand roll, new shovel, adding spreedpair to stove, new fett (?), new side laying, stove hoops, mend layings, cotton hair, mend jack line, fixing up pulley.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £0 7s 4d to Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen: clean jack, clean small jack, booker, mend shovel, mend pooker, mend lines (?), mend steelyards.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid to Jonathan James by the Bursar, £1 3s 7d, includes reference to meat chops and frick, roast fowls, dishes of beef stew, mince pies, tarts, and cutlets.

Paid by Jonathan James to Mr. Jeffs & Bentley 15s for one marble mortar, 12 in diameter. Mortar received on 23rd June.

Paid to James by the Bursar £1 10s 2d, includes references to mutton, lobsters, pudding, and stuffed turkey.

Paid £3 to Jonathan James for commencement dinner, including: fowls, pudding, mutton, strawberries, lobster, beans, and goose.

Audit of cook's bills for various quarters in 1770 and 1771, including for commencement dinner. Mr. Darby pays Jonathan James £7 9s 9d in full of the audit, which includes such items as: fowl, mutton chops, tarts, cutlets, bacon, hot salmon, green goose, beans, lobster, boiled tongues, bread pudding, salted eggs, boiled custard, japple pie, turkey, and cod.

8s 6d paid to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including close jacks, pokers, and mending a lock. Also signed by Jonathan James.

15s 10d paid to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including copper bars, and great and small close jacks. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 11s 4d to Thomas Coe for smith's work, including: great and small jacks, mending line, pokers, materials to lock the kitchen, spits, and mentding a pale. Also signed by Jonathan James.

15s paid to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including great and small jacks, laying pokers, mending a spit, and adding powder to the Great Range. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 9s to Jonathan James for a master of arts at the last commencement.

Paid 4s 6d for smith's work in the kitchen in 1773 of great and small jacks and laying pokers. Paid 5s 6d and signed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen in 1773 of great and small jacks, pokers, and laying pokers. Paid £2 2d and signed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen in 1772 including: great and small jacks, jack line, laying pokers, and pokers. Paid 7s and signed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen in 1773 of great and small jacks, laying poker, jack line and mending a large gridiron. All undated. Bundled together with outside saying received in full by Thomas Coe.

Paid £3 1s 4d to Jonathan James for food at commencement, including: salmon, sole and shrimp, beans and bacon, pudding, strawberries and cream, ducks, peas, chicken with eggs, lobster and crayfish, lamb, pickled salmon, and cold ham. Below, a note for an extra 1s 4 1/2d paid for mending baskets.

Paid £2 5s 6d to John Apsey and witnessed by Jonathan James for work in the kitchen, including: mending a pot saucepan, lining stewpans and pot saucepans, lining a large posnett, lining a boiler, the use of plates, dishes and an iron chafing dish, and lining a copper bake pan.

Paid £1 2s 4d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: laying pokers, and mending pails, stillyards, and stove hoops.

Paid 6s 6d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: laying pokers, mending line, cleaning jacks, and adding iron pokers.

Paid 13s 6d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks and the small range, laying pokers, mending the copper door, and laying and mending bars on the copper door.

Paid £1 10s 11d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending the chafing dish, adding iron to the range, laying pokers, providing a shovel, and mending copper bars and a copper door.

Paid £5 1s 10d to Jonathan James for food, including: mutton chops, tarts, steaks, pies, brawn, pike and eels, goose, pudding, cauliflower, apple pie, veal, raspberry puffs, salmon, veal in ragou, fowl, lemon pudding, eggs, roasted pigeons, lobster, fricassed rabbit, raspberry tarts, custards, and a roast pig.

Cook's bill for Dr. Rendge's degree. Paid 3s to Jonathan James.

Cook's bill for Dr. Cornden's degree. Paid 3s to Jonathan James.

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 £2 4s 5d to Jonathan James for food, including: dish brown, hot salmon and lobster, a large hunting pudding, mutton, a dish of greens, scotch collops(?), tarts and puffs, fouls, a goose.

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.

Paid 7s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jakes, pokers, mending a lock, and mending a copper door. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £2 4s to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending stoves, adding a bar to a round stove, putting new bars on a square stove, laying a poker, a key and mending the lock on the outer door, and hooks for the plummers [plumbers]. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 16s 10d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, a large gridiron, mending a pot hook, and adding iron to a poker. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 5s 8d to Jonathan James for the cook's college sizings, including: pigeons and tarts, cold fowl, sausages, coal bark, and tarts.

Paid £2 18s 8d to Jonathan James for commencement dinner, dishes including: salmon, fowl, lemon pudding, mutton, cauliflower, strawberries and cream, goose, peas, and lobsters.

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

Paid 4s 3d to Jonathan James. Bill includes: chops and pie.

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

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

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

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

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

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 £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 £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 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 8d to Jonathan James for ?

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 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.