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Summary of work undertaken to the Lodge including repairs to cupboards, fences and repairs to the stables. Sum of £32 10s 01/2d.

Summary of work undertaken by Christopher Pemberton, Lawyer. Sum of £25 17s 4d

Includes a receipt of payment on 27 December 1842, signed by Christopher Pemberton

A summary of work undertaken in the courts including general repairs, replacement screws and nails, and roof repairs. Sum of £19 5s 3d.

Summary of stonemasonry work undertaken including taking out windows, paving and lengthening walls. Sum of £8 1s 0d.

Includes a receipt of the sum received and signed by Thomas Clayton.

Summary of painting services to the sum of £71 16s 10 1/4d.

Includes a receipt for the money received, signed by W. A. Goode on behalf of J. Goode and Son.

Summary of labouring work undertaken to the Lodge of the College. Includes cleaning of cesspools, mending floors, and plastering. Sum of £26 18s 2d

Summary of items sent to Steeple Morden from the Master of Jesus College to J. Webster. Items unexplained.

Summary of ironworks undertaken over the course of a year including the courts, buttery and kitchens. Sum of £30 16s 4d.

Includes a receipt of the sum received and signed by Shallow and Coleman.

Summary of chimney sweeping services to the sum of £3 7s 0d. Signed R. Press

Summary of building work undertaken including pointing, mending walls and plastering. Sum of £95 17s 4d

Includes a receipt of payment on 22 December 1842, signed by John Turner.

Bill and receipt for the payment of £21 9s 7d for work done at the College.

Series of letters to the Revd. Dr. French from Rev. Robert Merry;

(1) Ely, 25th August 1845

Rev. Sir,

At present I have great doubt whether the Law will allow me to accede to your request, however disposed I may be to do so. The 1 & 2 Victoria c. 106 feet 62 appears to the imperative upon me; but I will carefully examine the matter, and do the best I can in the case. I will write again in the course of a week or so.
Understanding that the money for your school will not be wanted till next year, you may put me down for £10.

I remain, Rev. Sir, yours very faithfully,

[Signed] Rev. Robert Merry

(2) Ely, 27th August 1845

Rev. Sir,

I can find nothing that can abate the force of the Act which I specified in my last note. A house cannot be built in a day; so that some time must be allowed for the building of one. Uour best plan, as it appears to me, will be to ascertain when [underlined] you may rely [underlined] upon the assistance of the Froby Fund; and let me know the result of your inquiries.

I have the honour to be, Rev. Sir, your very faithful servant

[Signed] The Rev. R. Merry.

(3) Ely ,8th of September 1845

Rev. Sir,

On inquiry, I find that the clause to which I referred you is compulsory [underlined]: in other words, that there is no other Act or clause that can relieve me from the necessity of enforcing the building of a house of residence. As therefore I have no discretionary power in the matter, I trust that you will take such steps as may be needful for the building of a Glebe House.
In almost all cases of small livings without fit houses of residence, the same difficulties will arise; but however much a Bishop may lament that there should be such difficulties, he is bound to carry the Act into effect.

I have the honour to be, Rev. Sir, your very faithful servant.

[Signed] Rev. Robert Merry.

(4) Ely, 17th of September, 1845

Rev. Sir,

I have given directions for a License for non-Residence, corresponding to your Petition, till 31 Dec. 1846. This will afford time for considering what may be the best to be done.
I have the honour to be, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant.

[Signed] Rev. Robert Merry.

Schedule of Bills to J. Webster & Son totalling £535 12s 6d;

(1) Graveley Repairs; £387 10s 0d
(2) New houses in Jesus Lane; £64 13s 8d
(3) Estates;
Divers' Garden Wale; £6 15s 9 1/2d
Posts [?]; £2 9s 1 1/2d
[?]Fence; £2 4s 0d
Fence Jesus Lane; £3 19s 1d
Dr New Square; £0 11s 9d
Dwf [?] Wall Wale inft [?]; £2 19s 3 1/2d
[Total=] £33 3s 9 1/2d
(4)
Covets [?]; £13 6s 7d
Gravel; £10 5s 0d
Lodge, £9 12s 2 1/2d; [Total=] £33 3s 9 1/2d
(5)
Mr Hunell new floor; £31 6s 0d
[Total=] £535 12s 6d
Overleaf signed by the Revd. Dr. French.

Bill and receipt for 10 loads of road stones/gravel for £10 1s.

This letter from Dr. Rev. French to a recipient is to inform the recipient that on 18 October the Rev. directed Mr Hoares to transfer the sum of £77 2s 9d, the balance found to be due from the Estate at Steeple Morden by College from Michaelmas 1844. The Rev. asks for a receipt for the above as the Court of Chancery needs it for any sum above £5. There are sums added on the exterior of the letter

Receipt for payment of Mr. Robson's rent due Michaelmas 1847 totaling to £10. Signed Dr. French, bursar.

Receipt for work done to the sum of £3 3s 4d. Signed by E. Littey and [?]

Receipt for the purchase of Revd Dr French's Barnaby Lectures, £3 4s 0d. Signed by B. W. Beation[?], Pembroke College.

Receipt totalling for £34 1s 4d for the restoration of Bishop Allcock’s Tomb;

• November the 1st 1845 – Paid Stone carvers, Bostock and Holmes, for labor [sic.]; £31 3s 1d
  Paid for copper cramps, moulds; £2 18s 3d
  [Total=] £34 1s 4d

[Note]
Revd. Dr.,

Above I beg to hand you account of money paid for restoring Bishop Allcock’s Tomb and shall be glad to receive the amount.

I am, Revd. Dr., your indebted humble servant,

[Signed] Mr. Bacon

Ely 5th Janury [sic.] 1846

From the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge to J. Cropley. Receipt for payment of 6s 6d for repairing the silver waiter and candlesticks.

Receipt for plumbing work undertaken by H. Jerrold, Plumber. Sum of £0 9s 6d

Summary and receipt for journey's undertaken to Graveley and Steeple Morden. Sum of £2 5s. Signed by Jas Webster.

Johnson prize £1 10s. Shakespeare for Mr Bramal (possibly Bramah).

Addressed to Mr Mitchell. Receipt for houses of Ely. 1s 19d.

Receipt for the rent of gas from June to September 1841 to the sum of £7 10s 0d. Attached is an acknowledgement of payment receipt from George Gifford on behalf of the Gas Company, dated 29 January 1842.

Received Oct. 31st 1846 of the Revd. Dr. French, Master of Jesus College, the sum of five pounds nine shillings and two pence [£5 9s 2d] for contribution money and Marshal's fee.
[Signed] William Ellword, University Marshal.

25th of March 1846

Received of the Bursar of Jesus College the sum of Five Founds Five Shillings [£5 5s 5d], being the annual donation to the Parish of All Saints.

[Signed]
Robert Ellis, Richard Billington; Churchwardens

This document from Rev. French to James Grose is a payment to copying an award. The amount listed is £0 4s 0d. This was certified by the Chief Clerk. Elmstead Essex is written at the top of the table

Paper Mills Trust Rents at Red Lion Inn, Saturday April 25, 1846 at Eleven.

Labour by Walker;

Coll. - £0 18s 0d
Ditto - £0 18s 0d
Ditto - £0 8s 0d
Ditto - £0 7s 6d
Ditto - £0 3s 0d
[Total=] £2 14s 6d

In filling up Grant pits.

[Jottings and notes fill rest of page]

Notes relating to the installation of gas lighting in College, c. 1830. Notes that the present gas lamp in first court be removed and replaced with two gas lamps on pillars about 5 yards distant from the extremities of the east side of the grass flat. The Chapel should also be lit with eight gas lamps on brass brackets. Two gas lamps should be placed in the ante chapel and that the cloisters should also be lit by gas with two lights, one in the corner by the Chapel door and the other in the opposite corner. Most of the sheet also records notes relating to, perhaps, either a sermon or marriage ceremony.

Miscellaneous receipt. Details £27 8s 6d of unknown costs; Bills totalling £27 8s 6d; Income Tax totalling £15s 6s 3d; and other costs amounting to a grand total of £525 0s 9d.

Memorandum by French concerning his wishes should he not survive his illness, Written at Ryde, Isle of Wight, 15th February 1845. Includes money to be given to Shackle, Malyn, Hall, Harriet, Eliza and William for their kindness to him during his illness. Also for £100 to be lodged with the Society for Building Churches for the purpose of building a small chapel of ease and school room at Hissay, Yorkshire. Full wages also to go to all his servants with him at the time of this death.

Memorandum Book of Proceedings of College Meetings made by William French, 1842 - 9. Also some notes glued into book, presumably notes made at meetings made on scraps of paper rather than directly into the book

List, probably in the hand of William French, detailing plants to be bought for the University Observatory and Jesus College. For the observatory, plants listed are beech, box, holly, silver fir, Portugal laurels, laurustines, evergreen oaks, evergreen privet, evergreen and flowering shrubs, laurels, purple beeches, crab stocks for grafting, gooseberries, rough rid champagne, hornbeam, whin, sweets, Phillyneas. For Jesus College, plants listed are Irish ivy, evergreen and flowering shrubs. For himself, plants listed are silver fir, holly, Portugal laurels, Common laurels, evergreen oaks, purple beeches, sweet briars, laurestines, whin, sumacs, spruce firs, larch, dwarf cherries, flowering shrubs.

Further correspondence between R. Merry and the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge. Makes a renewed request that the College Makes a renewed request that the College ‘relieve’ R. Merry from the ‘necessity of building a house’ at Guilden Morden by purchasing it with money from the Froby Fund.

The letter makes a renewed request for the full payment of £10 10s 0d, promised to the author (Mr. George Berry, of 14 New Square, Cambridge) and of which only £8 has been received (£2 10s 0d outstanding). Mr. Berry mentions that he is in a state of distress, and that he does not having clothing “suitable for this inclement season”, namely, a coat (“I positively have not a coat to appear in”).

Letter from William French to Thomas Wythe .Written from Cambridge 24th June 1834. Recalls a recent trip to Oxford, saying that he had good weather for the days journey and that he found suitable accommodation when he got there. Talks about cost of lodgings. He was only in Oxford for a day to witness the ceremony. Went to the theatre and met Mr. Goulburn. They then spent the rest of the evening together, first at the theatre, then the Duke's levee and then the Archbishop's. Between levees they had a 'very acceptable' lunch in the Hall of All Souls. The scene of people paying their respects to the Archbishop was 'much enlivened by the various military drepes which peeped from under the doctors gowns'. Called upon Lord Eldon with Mr. Goulburn and they all met in a court at University College. He recalls Lord Eldon pointing to a window in University College and saying 'it is now just 68 years since I first took possession of that room'. He finished his day in one of the rooms of the censors of Christchurch with a small party of his friends. The following Friday, after returning to Cambridge, he went with the Dean to Ely where he stayed for four or five days. Talks of needing to plan a journey to Yorkshire. Signed W. French. Red wax seal.

Letter from William French to Thomas Wythe. Written from Cambridge 17th December 1834. Recounts that his daughter Valance, or Little Val, is recovering from her intermittent fever after taking some medicine. Mrs French was almost in despair at Valence's illness. The Chancellor was very hospitable. Visited Lord Camden the following day, installing him as chancellor. After this ceremony a splendid second table was laid out. Went to Northumberland House afterwards and then started back to Cambridge. Tomorrow the election for the High Stewardship takes place. The Duke of Northumberland is a very agreeable person. Thinks there will be a general election in a few days. He heard from Sir. C. Vere the same day as writing the letter. Must travel over to vote for Lord ? and he for the Eastern Division. Tomorrow I dine at St. John's, next day as vice chancellor at Caius, Friday at Jesus. On reverse is written 'Mr. Moore does not give quite so good an account of you as I could wish'. Signed W. French. black wax seal with 'to give to forgive' alongside a hand and a heart.

Letter from R. Merry, of Guilden Morden, Royston, to the Master of Jesus College, regarding permission to buy a property with money from the Froby Fund. Dated October 1st 1845.

I certainly took this living with the intention of building a parsonage; but on counting this cost of building, laying out the ground, making a road, fitting up, furnishing it I find I should quite impoverish myself for life by the undertaking. I therefore proposed to my landlord Mr. Smyth Fedworth to take my present house on a lease of 7 or 14 years on condition that he could make certain alterations such as building a drawing room but on my applying to the Bishop (at Mr Smythe’s suggestion) for his sanction to this flaw, his lordship refers me to the Plurality Act of 1838 (which I before knew nothing of) he considers himself bound to refuse me to build – this notwithstanding my [?] that if only this house might be [illegible] for the Vicarage, in about 60 years or lest (as I calculated) the Froby Fund would yield 500 towards building. All that I have now to obtain is a license to live in my present residence to Dec. 31 1846 “if being intended in pursuance of the provisions of the Plurality Act that I should build a new House or make the present one fit for residence or reside therein.” Being thus it [illegible] forced to provide a Vicarage I have turned my thoughts towards the purchasing of my present house & converting it into a permanent & convenient residence by such repairs as it well admits of I think. Mr Smythe bought this house with a barn stables & an adjoining yard of 13./2 acres of the best land of this parish for £1575 (as he himself has told me). The land, he tells me, lets for £43, two cottages on it let for £7, the barn is rented by my tenant for £10, I pay £25 for the house & the malting premises in my yard let for something more, £5 I dare say. Now all this he has offered me to sell for 2000 [underlined] (which I certainly consider very little money as he paid £80, he says, for making out the title). Dr. Webb told me a short time ago that the land alone (I understand him) would have been worth 1700 to the College, from its value and favourable situation, as it adjoins the Vicarage paddock. Now I suppose you consider the Froby Fund could not be employed to uby this house. But my proposal is this, that 1670 should come and of the Froby Fund to purchase the land with the two cottages (which certainly come under the item “tenements” of the Froby act) the rental of which is £50, & that the remaining 330 to buy this house, garden, premises, & barn should come out of the living. The land is well worth the rent, indeed Dr. Webb told me he had understood some of it was worth £5 an acre. I have calculated the fee of 3 percent for the Froby money, according to what I understand from Ian [?]. The land would be most valuable to the Vicar, besides its intrinsic worth, from its situation, and if I buy the barn out of the living, the amount wanted for this living is 106 a year
Add Mr Graham’s 48
And then there will be more than enough for the [?] next Xmas at 3 percent. I confess I am extremely anxious that the purchases that he made & as seen as affordable for Mr. Smythe being a monied man know fitting more than 5 percent for his money might not he dispound [?] to sell it at another time besides that he is in a bad state of health this heir in the event of his death might choose never to part with so good a purchase.
To prevent delay, if the College would permit me to buy the land as I have prepared for 1670 at 3 percent out of the Froby Fund, when it can be done, I would borrow the 2000 of my mother (who has offered it me) & make the purchase myself at once (if you thought it proper [all underlined]) in order to secure this bargain [all underlined], on condition that the College would afterwards buy the land of me for this living.
I am very anxious for an immediate settlement of the bargain (if possible) for this reason also, that the house wants general repairs to make if comfortable for the winter who cannot be done under this uncertainty.
I trust your health is now completely restored.
I remain, my dear Master, your’s [sic] truly,

[Signed] R. Merry

An added note thanks Mr. French & Family.

Letter acknowledging the receipt of payment of £100 0s 0d from Jesus College, Cambridge. Signed by J. Webster.

Letter detailing the receipt of payment of £5 0s 0d from the Revd. Dr. French, on behalf of Jesus College, Cambridge, as a donation towards Over Schools. Signed by Charles Warren, Vicar of Over.

Bill and receipt for the payment of £18 17s 10d for work done at the Lodge.

Bill and receipt for the payment of £39 11s 1d for work done at the College.

Receipt for £387 10s 0d for work done in the Graveley Account

For repairing walls and re-erecting a range of buildings consisting of fowl houses, pig sties, cart horse and nag stables, fowl houses, cow lodges, calves places also a brick all from House to pond; £137 0s 0d

For building a new Barn with Brick underpinning Stud and Batten eather boarding, slated roof, wood floor on oak joice [sic; joist]; £239 0s 0d

3 new oak Gates & Irons and batten fencing in yard 28 x 6 ½ x 6 oak 24 x 5 x 5 oak, 70 x 6 x 4 oak, 24 x 4 x 6 oak and labour to do; £11 10s 0d

Total = £387 10s 0d

Received the 12th day of December 1846 of the Revd. Dr. French by cheque.

Sept 1st 1825
33 Chald Ducks Coals at 33/6 - £55 5s 6d

Includes personal papers, correspondence and notebooks.