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A bill for food, includes: for the college servants, veal cutlets and mince pies (1s 3d); for 4 college servants, 2 fowls and oysters (5s); beef steaks and pickles (2s); 6 mince pies (1s 6d). Total bill amounts to 9s 9d, signed by 'Jn. James'.

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.

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 £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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A bill for food, includes: 'Brawn in Parlour' (4s 6d); cod with lobster sauce (9s 6d); 'Hunting Pudding' (3s); 'Chine Mutton' (5s 8d); potatoes and pickles (10s); a dish of lobster (4s 6d); mince pies (3s); 3 fowls and oysters (7s 6d); 2 dishes of brawn (9s); 8 mince pies (2s); for college servants, beef stakes (8d); 2 mince pies (6d); duck (1s 6d); 3 mince pies (9d); dish of 'B. Stakes' [beef steaks?] (1s 6d); veal cutlets (1s); chops and pickles (9d); mince pie (3d). Total bill amounts to £2 8s 11d, signed by 'Jn. James'.

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

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.

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 £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 £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.