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Feoffment to uses

Establishes an annual rent of 40s. to be paid out of the manor of Chickney, Essex, during the life of Dame Agnes Banastre, nun of St Radegund's, Cambridge. Attached seals of five of the seven feoffors survive.

Livings

Administrative records of church livings owned by Jesus College. Most material runs to about the 1940s, there is some later correspondence about the history of various livings, e.g. by the church recordeers NADFAS (National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies).

Cavendish

The advowson was bought by the Proby Trust in 1708. Five earlier deeds are listed, going back to 1570, but only four can be found (2012: LIV 3/5 is mislaid). They are housed in the steel press, shelf 10.

Cambridge, All Saints

The advowson of All Saints (also called All Saints in the Jewry) was given to the nunnery of St Radegund, in 1180 or earlier, by Sturmi of Cambridge. For this and other early deeds, see Nuns/Gray 79-99. The church was very croded by the 1850s, and was demolished in favour of a new one in Jesus Lane. A draft history of the parish by A.C. Bouquet is kept in the Old Library, in the modern MSS collection.

Harlton

The advowson and lands were bought in the early years of James I, to provide extra revenue for the College.

Elmstead

The College purchased Elmstead Rectory including the advowson on 30 May 1613 from Francis Morice and Francis Phelips. See the conveyance in the steel press, shelf 10.

Comberton

For the acquisition of this living, see the Grant by Letters Patent of Philip and Mary 5 March 1558, in the Steel Press, shelf 8, labelled Dr Fuller's foundation. The advowson was conferred on the College by Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely 1554-59, who purchased It from the Crown for £100. The files contain one document of 1619, and others from 1839-1945.

Hundon, Suffolk

The advowson of Hundon was acquired by the Proby Trustees under the provisions of the will of Edmund Proby, D.D., proved 5.2.1585 (NS). Dr Proby's executors bought the impropriate rectory of Hundon with the advowson from Bartholomew Soame, citizen and woollen draper of London (see Proby Trust 1). The Proby Trustees, who were the Master and six senior Fellows of Jesus College, continued to prresent to the living until in 1909 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners pointed out that by the Proby Act 1853 (a private Act to enable the College to vary the Trust) the patronage now belonged to the College.

Domestic

Papers relating to the domestic side of College life, including housekeeping, kitchens, buttery, cleaning, paintings and silver.

Whatfield, Suffolk

The advowson of the Rectory of Whatfield was bought for the College by the Proby Trust in 1736.

The benefice was united with Semer in 1929.

King's Stanley, Gloucestershire

The advowson was purchased in 1736, in haste before the Mortmain Act of that year prohibited the purchase of advowsons by colleges. In 1859 the parish was divided in two and a new parish of Selsley was created, on the initiative and at the expense of the local landowner Samuel Marling, who was given the patronage. In 1871 Mr Marling made an offer to buy the patronage of King's Stanley as well, which the College refused, to the relief of the Rector, the Revd John Gibson (Fellow of Jesus College 1942-57, Rector 1857-86.

College Account receipts (audit vouchers)

The information contained within these receipts, vouchers, invoices, bills and related correspondence, provides a unique source of detailed information relating to the goods and services provided to Jesus College and its estates by people in Cambridge and neighbouring counties over nearly 200 years.

Originally, the contents of each bundle was used to compile the annual College accounts for the corresponding year. Entries in the College Accounts are highly summarised and contain almost none of the same detail as listed in the vouchers. Some suppliers of goods and services waited several years before submitting their invoice for payment and as such, goods and services detailed in some vouchers date from up to five years before the year of accounts in which they were included. A few date to the following year.

The catalogue entries for individual vouchers are not full transcriptions and are designed to give researchers an indication of the type of information they can expect to find in a particular voucher. As such, it was decided that references to goods and services and any other information would be listed when it is first mentioned. However, individual costs and multiple entries for the same good or service within the same voucher is not included. The total for all goods and services listed in a voucher is listed where it exists. For further information on costs of individual goods and services and to specific quantities of goods mentioned, researchers should contact the Archivist.

Swavesey

The advowson of Swavesey was given to the College in 1558 by Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely, who purchased it with five others from the Crown for £100. See the Grant by Letters Patent, Philip and Mary, Cal. Pat. Rolls 1557-8, p.40. The original patent is in the Steel Press, shelf 8. Dr Fuller' Foundation.

Graveley

The advowson of Graveley was given to the College in 1558 by the Master, the Rev.John Fuller, who had bought it from the Crown, with the Manor of Graveley. It was formerley the property of Ramsey Abbey. See the grant of Letters Patent of Philip and Mary 5.3.58 (Cal.Pat. Rolles 1557-8, p.40). The original is in the Steel Press, shelf 8. The benefice was united with that of Yelling on 1.January.1929, the College retaining the right of presenting every alternate turn.

See also material relating to Stow Groves, in a separate brown box, not listed here.

Clarke to his mother

Written "At Achmedchid, in the house of Professor Pallas, in the Crimea", it praises the host's kindness, describes preparations for a voyage to Constantinople, discusses home news, promises a Persian carpet, and gives instructions for dealing with jars of "Lapland strawberries" previously sent.

Fordham

Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely, gave this living to the College, with five others, see Cal. Pat. Rolls 1557-8, p.40. See also the Grant by Letters Patent, Philip and Mary, 5 March 1558, in Steel Press, shelf 8.

Whittlesford

The advowson was acquired by the College in 1558 by the gift of Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely. See the royal Grant of Philip and Mary, in the steel press, shelf 8 (Dr Fuller's foundation).

Guilden Morden

The living was acquired by the College by gift from Thomas thirlby, Bishop of Ely, who purchased it from the Crown 5.3.1558. See the Grant by Letters Patent, Philip and Mary. Steel Press, shelf 8, Dr Fuller's Foundation.

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