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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.

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 £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 £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.

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

Signed by Samuel Benmore

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.

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 linen for the quarter ending at midsummer.

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.

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.

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

Signed by Edward Bore.

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.

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

Signed with a cross.

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 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.

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 £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.

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 £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.

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 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 £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 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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.