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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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 11s 6d to Thomas Coe. For: jacks, shovel, spitt and mending pale. Examined 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 to Jonathan James. Bill includes: pies, tarts, chops, pickles, cutlets, coal baskets.

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

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 8d to Jonathan James for ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.