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Received of Mr Newton. Paid 1s 6d for a 'jack of bowls'. Signed by S. Darby.

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.

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.

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.

Payment of 6s received from Mr Darby [it appears as Derby] by Edward Whyborough for trimming trees.

Signed with a cross.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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]

Payment of 10s 4d received from Mr Darby to Edward Whyborough for moving trees in the grove.

Signed with a cross.

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.

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.

Received of Mr Darby on the 11th of May one pound to the Rustat Bursar at Lady Day last and ten shillings due to the Lecturer at last Easter. Signed by S. Benmore.
Received of Mr Darby on the 11th of December one pound due to the Rustat Bursar at Michaelmas last. Signed by S. Benmore

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 £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.

Payment of 18s received from Mr Darby by Ann Chafer for washing the college linnen for the quarter ending at St. Michael.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Payment of 18s received from Mr Darby by Ann Chafer for washing the college linen for the quarter ending at midsummer.

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.