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Paid by Mr. Darby 18s to Ann Harper for four quarters of washing the college linen. On the bill for the quarter ending Lady Day there is also an entry for 2s paid to Anne Harper for mending a table cloth.

Contract between Mr. Darby and James Dealtrey for the paving the middle walk of the outer court of the college and other walks in the same court in the same manner as the court of Clare Hall, with an agreement on wages per load. Mentions requirement of approval from Mr. Essex and witnessed by Richard Barett. On the back of the contract the audit for the work, totalling £86 18s, received 25th April 1771.

£75 19s 9d paid by Mr. Darby the Bursar to James Dealtrey for paving in the college, including in the back court (11th April). Folded inside paper of 9th April stating the number of yards of new paving in the court as measured by James Essex.

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 by Mr. Darby to Thomas Smith £36 12s ½d, covering the year November 1769 through November 1770. Includes entries for: making a pair of shutters for a large kitchen window; joints, nails, screws and glue; mending a chair and installing a mahogany elbow; making trussels to support the parlor ceiling and mending the floor in the chamber over the parlor; oack benches and lengths of oak; lengths of timber (sawing included); making a new post and replacing an old one; work on shutters in the parlor; iron locks and screws for hall door; leathering and corking a pump; a new ladder for the tower; deals (including some from Finland); repairing the clock house and the floor over it and the windows in the tower; elm boards; leathering a pump in the garden; altering and finishing the library stails and making a handrail for them; mending the kitchen garden gate; mending dumb waiter for the hall; making a door frame to the library; repairing the cupola and making sashes for the cupola over the hall; double ladder for the garden (scored through in pencil); working to drain in the master's garden; mending sashes and jobs at the lodge; trussles for the garden; mending fence of close; mending mahogany elbow chair; mending door in the coffee room; making and fixing two draw-up window curtains; crimson morien and best lace; thread, tape, and buckram; iron and brass hooks; mending Rockleys door; work in Moulds room fixing the door frame; a pair of joints with rails; a panel door; levelling the ceiling in the Bogous chamber; work in Crumptons room, including providing a sash and frame; two chimney pieces one for the Crumptons room and one for the Bogous; putting planks to cesspool; altering the hearth and jobs in Bogous room; and putting a post and nails down opposite college wall.

Paid to Richard Dealtry for the use of his father, James, 1 guinea by Mr. Darby (8 Dec) below a letter by James Dealtry dated 8 December 1770 asking for 1 guinea to pay his men for paving. At the bottom, a receipt for £9 3s paid to James Dealtry (17 Dec)

Paid by Mr. Darby 4s to the Beadle, signed John Beverley. Also, 10s punishment fine for Mr. Dawson [possibly the same as Major Dawson, listed in Venn's Alumni Cantabrigiensis]

Paid to Edward Bore by the Bursar, the Reverend Mr. Darby, £4 7s for half a year's window tax and marshall's wages (October 1770) and paid to Edward Bore by the Bursar, the Reverend Mr. Darby, £4 2s for half a year's window tax and marshall wages (April 1770).

Paid by Mr. Darby, the Bursar, to Trinity College 4d, signed by Thomas Parker.

Paid by Mr. Darby to Ann Harper 18s for washing the college linen for a quarter (29th September 1770), paid by Mr. Darby to Ann Harper 18s for washing the college linen for a quarter (24th June 1770), paid by Mr. Darby to Ann Harper 18s for washing the college linen for a quarter (25th March 1770), paid by Mr. Darby to Ann Harper 18s for washing the college linen for a quarter (21st December 1769).

Paid 2s 6d to Mr Darby, the Bursar, by Thomas Goodall.

Paid by Mr. Darby to James Bretherton £1 4s for engraving a dozen spoons with a crest and twenty four knives and forks.

Paid by the Reverent Mr. Darby to P.J. Pratt 6s 8d to the waits.

Paid 2s 6d to Mr Darby the Bursar by Thomas Goodall

An unspecified receipt for 14s paid by Mr Darby to Edward Wybrow.

A bill for joinery work done in the college between November 1768 and October 1769. The bill includes: 2 doors in 'Lodge' (2s 6d); oak (1s 1d); nails (4d); 'Mending the Landing of gateway stair' (1s 6d); deal (10d); 'dying damask Curtains' for the chapel (£1 4s); undoing and remaking the chapel curtains (7s 6d); 28 yards of 'best silk lace' (9s 4d); silk thread tape and 13 rings (1s 9d); 2 door springs (18s); lifting handles (2s); making board (2s); 'Altering door' (1s 3d); 'Leather for box & mending pump in Lodge' (1s 9d); 'putting Irons on hall doors' (1s); altering rails in the chapel (2s); hanging a sash in the Lodge (1s 8d); 'Repairing large Wooden gates next Close' (£1 12s 6d); 'findland deal' (3s 9d); making a door and a frame for the Master's garden along with a fence in the Close (18s 9d); brass doorknobs and nails (6s 9d); lining the ceiling in the parlour and repairing the cornices (£1 2s 6d); 2 brass buttons for shutters (3s 11d); mending the fence next to the pond ['pound'] (1s 9d); new leathering pump and a new bucket for the Lodge (3s 6d); making a door for the chapel (£1 18s 1/2d); glue (1s). Also includes references to labour costs. Total bill amounts to £15 4s and was signed by Smith.

A bill addressed to 'Revd Mr Darby' for washing the college's linen, which amounted to 18s.

A receipt for 2s 6d paid by the bursar to Thomas Goodall "for the Batchelours Commencement".

A bill for several items, including: "attending Dr Caryl" and drawing up a bond for £700; drawing up a power of attorney for "Mr Richardson", vicar of All Saints church in Cambridge, so that Mr Darby can receive rents for the "Vicarage Houses"; writing up on parchment the college's "representation" to the Bishop of Ely in relation to "Mr Rustats Scholarship". Signed by W. Roberts.

A receipt for the payment of £13 6s 8d as a year's stipend to the 'Sequestrator' of Great Shelford, signed by Thomas Hirst.

A receipt for £1 6s 8 'for Two Years Salary for holding the Court' of the Manor of Gravely between 1768 and 1769. Signed by John Waller.

A receipt for Paul Pattison's salary, 2s. Signed by 'Paul Pattison Coyer'.

A receipt for window tax (£3 16s 2d) and marshall wages (5s 10d), paid by Rev. Mr Darby and signed by Edward Bore.

A bill for work done to the college, including: painting the parlour chimney pot three times, painting the chimney piece, and painting the Great Staircase in the Master's Lodge (6s); painting the new irons on the Hall doors (6d); painting the parlour in the Master's Lodge at 3d per 105 yards (£1 6s 3d); painted the chimney, and blacked the back of the chimney and leaded the hearth (2s 4d); painting 2 pairs of window sashes and frames (3s); painting "the New & Bare places" and wainscotted in lead (4s); painted the passages at 3d per 20 yards (5s); whiting the ceilings and painting bare places (2s); painting 4 pairs of windows sashes and frames in the garden (6s); painting the outside of the door leading to the garden (1s); painting the dining room, the passages, staircase and hall (4s 6d); painting the garden door which leads to the walk (2s); puttying and painting a door and window sashes in oil, and painting all the wainscot within the lodge (6s); puttying the "Joiners" for the garden doors (2d); painting the new garden door and door frame three times with oil, and painting the large door by the chapel (7s); blacking the "Coves" and back of the Hall chimney twice, and painting the chimney piece (3s); for lead, putty and carpenters working on the Gates near the close (6d); cleaning and painting the Great Gates, posts and iron-work in oil (18s). This part of the bill amounted to £4 17s 3d, and was followed by further entries: painting the new and old chapel doors three times (6s 6d); painting a door and door frame in the cloisters "by the Door going into the Lodge" (1s). The total bill amounted to £5 4s 9d and was signed by James Ivers.

A bill for work done to the college 'by the Order of' Revd. Darby. The bill includes: cleaning the windows and repairing the sash in the Combination Room (4s 4d); repairing 3 'Gardin Glasses' in the Master's garden (1s); repairing and fitting new glass and putty in the Master's garden. Total bill amounted to 15s 4 1/2d, and was signed by Robert Painter.

A bill addressed to 'Revd Mr Darby' for washing the college's linen, which amounted to 18s.

A bill for two paper books, one described as '4 Quire Fool Cap. Rules & bound', the other as '6 Quire Medium & binding'. The total bill amounted to £1 13s 6d, and was signed by 'Ed Moor'.

A bill for a 'Folio Paper Book half bound to the Master', costing 6s. The bill was signed by John Merrill.

A receipt for 6s 8d as the college's allowance towards the University Waits for 1768. Signed by J. Pratt.

A receipt for £50 paid by Mr Darby to William Wicksteed. The money was taken from "Mr Trotter's Legacy" and was used for "fitting up a Room to receive his Books". JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/66 specifies that this room was located in the Graveley parsonage.

A receipt for 4d paid for one year's quit rent to Trinity college. Signed by Thomas Parker.

A bill addressed to 'Revd Mr Darby' for washing the college's linen, which amounted to 18s.

A receipt for £3 19s 6d for six months of window tax (£3 16s 2d) and marshall wages (3s 4d), signed by Edward Bore.

A receipt for 2s 6d paid by Rev. Mr Darby for the Master of Arts Commencement. Signed by Thomas Goodall.

Paid by Mr. Darby, the Bursar, 2s to Paul Pattison.

Paid by Mr. Darby to Henry Gee £2 6s for transcribing the Declaration of the Trust for Gravely School for the Master of the college. Received 12th January 1770.

A bill addressed to 'Revd Mr Darby' for washing the college's linen, which amounted to 18s.

Payment of £16 3s 8d received from Mr. Darby by Thomas Smith to work to coal place roof in 10 days, oak, fir, whole deals, lath hook and nails, beams, baukers, eves board, leaves slitt, alter doorway and making doors up, mending fence round pound close in two days, to fixing pictures in Hall in half a day and one hour, to mending lamp ladder, oak plank for drain in court, plank for dresser board in kitchen.

Signed by Thomas Smith.

Paid £0 18s 0d to the Laundresses by Mr Darby for washing the college linen.
Signed by Ann Chafer

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 £0 1s 4d by the bursar of Jesus College Mr Darby for a full year's quit rent for the use of Corpus Christi College.
Signed by Edward Goode and Bayliff

Paid £0 18s 0d to the Laundresses by Mr Darby for washing the college linen.
Signed by Ann Chafer

Paid £0 18s 0d to the Laundresses by Mr Darby for washing the college linen.
Signed by Ann Chafer

Payment of 2s 6d received from the bursar Mr. Darby by Thomas Goodall for the Bachelor's commencement.

Paid £0 6s 8d to Thomas Wadsworth received from Mr Darby for sweeping the kitchen chimney for one year.
Signed with a cross.

Paid £0 0s 4d by the bursar of Jesus College Mr Darby for a full year's quit rent due to the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College.
Signed by Thomas Parker

Accounts relating to the estate at Graveley, starting at May 1767. The accounts include: "Graveley Fines" (£3 10s 6d); rent of Hearn's farm between 1767 and 1768; three-quarters of a year's payment (unspecified) "at 36£ pr ann"; 2 years and 3 months for payment of the same at £12 per annum; half-year payment for "Stow Groves". Also includes sums deducted for a fine at Graveley (£40) and for paying a steward ("Mr Tyrt."). The total balance amounted to £89 17s 9 1/2d, and was signed by W. Wicksteed.

Payment of £18 17s 11d received from Mr Darby by Thomas Smith for handles [?] for a fork and a cutter, to work to cook's coal place and lander and nails, to mending wheel barrows, to making doors and frame for cloisters staircases, to whole deals, to repair large jointer screws, holdfasts, nails and glue, lock with keys each, mending kitchen door and foarms in chapel, putting a knife board, oak, plan the fork knife board, mending gate, mending plate, hanging sashes at lodge, to work on the gates, to repairing the roof of necessary in the Garden, eaves board, repairing rales in lane, oak pasts, repairing gates and post hanging, pikes, making door, slitt deals, to pair joints 2 large tables nails and glue, sash line, making covers for necessary and door, mending parlour chairs, mending garden frames, putting new oak planks down in drane and Lodge, altering door in cloisters and making handles, to make large beer stall, to mending coal place, latches, screws, to mending post and tables in master close, to new leather mending pump in backyard and master pump, to altering Buttris door, to mending lamp ladder, mending 2 casements, mending parlour sash, to new elbow mending and hair, to mending the pump, to making a center for casspole in garden, to make a door and frame in passage, to large bow latch pair joints, screws and glue, new leather, toe for pump.

Signed by Thomas Smith.

Payment of 16s received from Mr Darby by Robert Painter for, in rooms in the first court: leading old glass, broad lead and repaired, in the Master's Lodge: 1 crown square, 1 square of glass 4 D VI Quare, mending two glasses, squares of glass, in staircase in the cloisters: 1 crown square, in the Fellow's garden: 2 crown squares, the Buttris [buttery?]: 1 square of glass.

Signed by Robert Painter.

Payment of 3s 10½d received from Mr Darby by Edward Whyborough for work done in the Pond Close, and of 10s 6d for planting trees in the grove.

Signed with a cross.