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A bill to Edward Wybrow
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/57 · 28th July 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of half a guinea received from Mr. Darby by Edward Wybrow. Signed with a mark.

Darby, Rev. Mr. Samuel
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/58 · 2nd August 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of £1 5s 3d received from Mr. Darby by Edward Wybrow for work in the Grove and clipping the Master's Hedge. Signed with a mark.

Darby, Rev. Mr. Samuel
A bill to John Merrill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/32 · July 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of £5 5s 0d received from Mr. Darby for the taking of a catalogue of the books of the late Reverend Mr. Henry Trotter at Graveley.

Signed by John Merrill.

Merrill, Mr. John
A bill to the painter
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/33 · 27th December 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of £2 2s 8½d received from Mr. Darby for putting the joiner, for lamps ladder, painting the now broad stop ladder, to whitening and blacking the Hall chimney, to painting the great chimney piece, to cleaning and painting the door cave (?) on both sides joice(?) in oil, at the lodge going into the garding, to painting the parlour chimney twice, to blacking the back and several places about the parlour and the dining room door at Lodge, to time(?) 3 people and shelf lind a sabour, to scour and wash the Hall, to soap, sand and brushes, to cleaning and painting all from the wood work, going up to the hall in blue, to whitening all the bottom parts going to the Hall both ways and blacking the bottoms whitening several places about the Hall all the bottoms of (?) and passage going into the commonation (?), to painting the new palsing woodwork, to the coal house, to painting done to the posts in the Close, again of casmonts (?) and frames to the porters lodge, to painting the two lamp irons in the first court.

Signed by James Ivers.

Ivers, James
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1759/28 · 3rd January 1759 (3rd January ; 10th July ; Michaelmas)
Part of College Archives

Received of Mr Newton. Paid £1 2s 6d additionnal allowance for the garden. Signed by S. Darby Stew. Michaelmas 1759: the same. 10th July 1759: the same.

Newton, Mr
Attorney's bill (W. Roberts)
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/61 · Item · 7 January 1768 - 18 January 1769
Part of College Archives

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.

Roberts, William
Bachelor's commencement bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/5 · 18 March 1767
Part of College Archives

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

Goodall, Thomas
Beadle's annual stipend
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1770/10 · 2nd December 1770
Part of College Archives

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]

Beverley, Mr
Bill for book binding
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/34 · Item · 19 May 1769 - 8 June 1769
Part of College Archives

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'.

Moor, Edward
Bill for book binding
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/35 · Item · 3 January 1769
Part of College Archives

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

Darby, Rev. Mr. Samuel
Bill for Graveley Court
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/25 · 16th May 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of £1 6s 8d received from Mr. Darby for keeping their Court at Graveley in the years 1765 and 1766.

Signed by J. Waller.

Waller, John
Bill for Graveley Court
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/7 · 20th May 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of 9s 11d received from Mr. Darby by Beaut Prior for 2 bottles of port, 3 empty bottles, a pound of tobacco, 1 bottle of brandy, half a pound of sugar.

Prior, Beaumont
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/16 · Item · 21 October 1769
Part of College Archives

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.

Smith, Thomas
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/15 · 6th April 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of £4 5s received of Mr. Darby for half a year's window tax and marshall wages due at Lady Day last.

Signed by Edward Bore.

This receipt has been found inside of the next Window Tax receipt [JCAD/2/2/9/1767/16]

Bore, Edward
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/16 · 14th October 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of £4 4s received of Mr. Darby for half a year's window tax and marshall wages due at Michaelmas last.

Signed by Edward Bore.

Bore, Edward
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/22 · 21st July 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of 9s received from Mr Darby by Edward Whyborough for work done in the Master's Close, and of 8s 5d for 1/2 day's work in the grove and close.

Signed with a cross.

Wybrow, Edward
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/19 · 27th June 1767-5th December 1767
Part of College Archives

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.

Wybrow, Edward
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/12 · 2nd November 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of £2 12s 8d made by the bursar Mr Darby to the painter James Ivers for painting two new doors in the cloisters the few parts three times and backsides, painting the new posts and the great gates for the close garlick fair the new posts cotton places 3 times in oil all year, rest twice in oil for oil colour at time, to putty used, to painting all the new posts at railingthat was made good in the walk loading to the gates, painted the new door that used to go into the lodge in cloisters, to painting both the boggs in the fellows garden three times olive colour 24 yards, whitening both the ceilings, to painting the outsides of the boggs load colour, to painting the garden gate next to the close on both sides part 3 times, to scouring the seat at the end of the walk, to scouring and painting the boggs and the end of boggs for oil and colour, time.

Signed by James Ivers.

Ivers, James
Bill to Jeffs and Bentley
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/49 · 28th October 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of £25 3s 11¾d received from Mr Darby by Jeffs and Bentley for a piece of base for side of college 3 foot long, paving in west side of cloister, Yorkshire paving in passage at north east corner of court, 8 hodsfine mortar, load of sand, 2 days of a masontaking up old floor, 9 days of a labourer carrying out old floor and carrying in sand.

Jeffs, Benjamin
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/24 · 9th December 1767
Part of College Archives

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.

Painter, Robert
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/23 · 1st January 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of 12s received from Mr Darby by Robert Painter for cleaning of windows in the combination room, and in Mr Nevel's and Tumith staircase, 3 crown squares, the lamps to taking down and putting up the cleaning, in the Master's lodge: 1 square of glass, new lead to whitesmith, 1 crown square and 11 quares.

Signed by Robert Painter.

Painter, Robert
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/25 · 5th May 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of £1 14s 5d received from Mr Darby by Robert Painter for a day's work 2 men cleaning and throwing off the snow in the Leads, several day's work of men a labourer for work done also in the Leads, 1 square of of crown glass for staircase in the cloisters.

Signed by Robert Painter.

Painter, Robert
Bill to Rustat's Bursar
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/39 · 18th October 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of £1 received from Mr. Darby for half a year's salary to the Rustat Bursar.

Signed by Samuel Benmore

Benmore, Samuel
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/29 · 27th November 1767
Part of College Archives

Payment of £25 3s 1½d from Mr Darby by Margaret Foster the bricklayer for workman and labourer, bushells of lime, load of sand, bricks, hare mortar, brick mortar, lorth and nails, to paving by the pumps and bogs, scuttle of sand, to garden wall, tills, set pool in fellows garden.

Signed with a cross.

Forster, Margaret
Bill to the Chimney Sweeper
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/37 · 1767
Part of College Archives

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

Wadsworth, Thomas
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/4 · 15th October 1766
Part of College Archives

Paid £13 6s 8d by the Reverend Mr Darby for one year's stipend to the Curate of Great Shelford. Received and signed by Thomas Hirst.

Hirst, Thomas
Bill to the Laundresses
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/59 · Michaelmas 1767
Part of College Archives

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

Ann Chafer
Bill to the Laundresses
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/61 · St Thomas 1766
Part of College Archives

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

Ann Chafer
Bill to the Laundresses
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/60 · Lady Day 1767
Part of College Archives

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

Ann Chafer
Bill to the Laundresses
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/62 · Midsummer 1767
Part of College Archives

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

Ann Chafer
Bill to Thomas Smith
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/26 · 30th December 1767
Part of College Archives

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.

Smith, Thomas
Bill to Trinity College
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/30 · 31st October 1766
Part of College Archives

Payment of £4 received from Mr. Darby for one year's quit rent at Trinity College at the Feast of St. Michael 1766.

Signed by Thomas Parker.

Parker, Thomas
Blue tile bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1771/10 · 28th June 1771 1771-3rd May 1772
Part of College Archives

Paid 4s by Mr. Darby to Edward Mason for 600 of blue tile freight (28th June 1771). Payment received 3rd May 1772.

Mason, Edward
Butler's Audit
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/33 · 30th and 31st December 1766
Part of College Archives

Paid £2 13s 4d to Beaumont Prior by Mr Darby for the Audit. For: bottles of madeira, mount, port, punch, sizings, coffee for four, pipe's tobacco.

Prior, Beaumont
Carpenter's bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/61 · May 1766-17th November 1768 (The work was done in May, June and November 1766 and it was paid in November 1768.)
Part of College Archives

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.

Smith, Thomas
Cook's audit
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1771/13 · 3rd January 1771
Part of College Archives

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.

James, Jonathan
Cook's Audit
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1767/35 · 7th April 1767
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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.

James, Jonathan
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1766/1 · 10th November 1766
Part of College Archives

Paid £7 3s 8d by the Reverend Mr. Darby to Bartholomew Fuller.

Cold lamb, salads, turbot, Lobster sauce, venison pasty making, chickens, bacon, dish of cauliflowers (colliflowers), dish of beans, pudding, loin beef, to dress a haunch of venison, dish of lobsters, raspberry cream, jellies and syllabubs (sullibubs), dish of peas, turkey pouts, commons, cold fowls, dish of ham, coast lamb, cucumber salad, strawberrys and cream, tarts, Ladyday to Midsummer.

Signed by Bartholomew Fuller.

Fuller, Bartholomew
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/17 · Item · 16 May 1769
Part of College Archives

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.

Darby, Rev. Mr. Samuel
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/64 · Item · 17 May 1767
Part of College Archives

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.

Wicksteed, William
Joiner's bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1770/31 · 26th December 1770
Part of College Archives

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.

Smith, Thomas
Laundress' bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/29 · Item · June 1769
Part of College Archives

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

Harper, Ann
Laundress' bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1770/26 · 21st December 1769-29th September 1770
Part of College Archives

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).

Harper, Ann
Laundress bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1771/4 · 1770-1771
Part of College Archives

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.

Harper, Ann
Laundress' bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/27 · Item · 29 September 1769
Part of College Archives

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

Harper, Ann
Laundress' bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/26 · Item · 25 March 1769
Part of College Archives

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

Harper, Ann
Laundress' bill
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1769/28 · Item · 21 December 1768
Part of College Archives

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

Harper, Ann