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Copy of deed dated 28 December 1675, which recites that Lady Margaret Boswell of Bradbourn, Sevenoaks, Kent, settles on trust Halliwell Farm, Burnham, Essex, containing 106 acres with 60 acres of salt marsh, to pay two scholars each £12 p. a. until the expiration of one year after they have taken the degree of M. A. The scholars are to be chosen from Sevenoaks School, or, if there are none fit, from Tunbridge School, with those born at Sevenoaks having the preference. No taxes are to be deducted from the amount. Scholars are to be examined by one or two examiners sent by Jesus College, who are to be paid £3 for expenses plus £5 if there be one examiner, £6 if there be two, to buy a piece of plate in memory of Sir William Boswell.

Paid to John Turner for work done in the kitchen, back kitchen and back yard. Includes payments for

A bill for oil purchased by Jesus College between October 1767 and March 1769, includes: 'Lamp oil', 'Spermacetic' oil, and cotton. Total bill amounts to £12 16s, signed by Bennet Brown on behalf of John Purchas.

Paid 16s 6d received from the Bursar of Jesus College to the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College for one year's rent to Michaelmas 1781.
Signed by Edward White (Bursar).

Receipt received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College from the Sun Fire Office. Pol. 1004952 at £5 5s per annum, rect no. 12, 171. The sum of £5 5s for one year's insurance in the Sun Fire Office, London: And £10 10s for one year's duty, according to Acts of Parliament, on £7000. Insured from Mids 1832 to Mids 1833. Total of £15 15s. Dated June 25 1831. For the managers of the Sun Fire Office, signed Richard Comings.

Bought for the Master or Keepers of the College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge, commpnly called Jesus College ....?

90p 8s 15p

First Document:
Property and income tax receipt from the Parish of Willingham to D. Whittley of the College, for rent due Lady-Day 1849, amounting to 7s 8 1/2d. Signed Charles Underwood.

Second Document:
Property and income tax receipt from the Parish of Willingham to D. Whittley of the College, for rent due Michaelmas 1848, amounting to 5s 6 1/2d. Signed Charles Underwood.

Third Document:
Property and income tax receipt from the Parish of Willingham to D. Whittley of the College, for rent due Michaelmas 1848, amounting to 1s 5 1/2d. Signed Charles Underwood.

Forth Document:
Property and income tax receipt from the Parish of Willingham to D. Whittley of the College, for rent due Lady-Day 1848, amounting to 14s. Signed Charles Underwood.

Fifth Document:
Property and income tax receipt from the Parish of Willingham to D. Whittley of the College, for rent due Michaelmas 1848, amounting to 14s. Signed Charles Underwood.

Bill for papering college rooms, made out to the college by John Swan and Son, at 19 Sidney Street, Cambridge. Total payment of £10 10s 8d, and includes payment for: preparing, sizing and hanging lining paper in Rev. E. H. Morgan's gyp room and keeping room; putting up 80 yards of gilt moulding along top and bottom of Mr Morgan's room; preparing, sizing and putting up lining paper in Mr Dix's keeping room. Also includes payment for lining paper, brown paper, tacks, gilt and size. Total payment of £10 10s 8d. Undated and unsigned.

Letter "A" no. 1 & no. 2
Washing & Whitening Bedroom Ceiling

Letter "C" no. 1
Washing & Whitening Sitting Room Ceiling, Painting round Ceiling with Plaster
Washing & Whitening Dressing Room Ceiling
no. 4
Washing & Whitening Sitting Room Ceiling & Girder, Mending with Plaster
no. 6
Washing & Whitening Sitting Room Ceiling
Washing & Whitening Bedroom Ceiling

Letter "E" no. 3
Washing & Whitening Sitting Rm Ceiling & Cornice, Mending with Plaster
no. 11
Washing & Whitening Bedroom Ceiling

Letter "F" no. 3
Washing & Whitening Bedroom Ceiling & Painting round with Plaster

Letter "I" no. 4
Washing & Whitening Ceilings to Bedroom & Dressing Room, Painting round with Plaster for Papering, Cleaning down, Preparing & Painting usual Work to both Rooms, twice
no. 5
Washing & Whitening Bedroom Ceiling, Painting round with Plaster, Preparing & Painting usual Work to Room, twice

Mr Lillistone's Room
Washing & Whitening Sitting Room Ceiling
Cleaning down & Painting Ornamental Garden Seats
Painting Ornamental Vases

At the College Buttery
Washing & Whitening Ceiling & Walls to Front Apartments including Entrance Lobby, Preparing & Painting usual plain Work, twice
Preparing, Painting, Graining & Varnishing usual Work
Cleaning down & Lime whitening the Cellar & Pantry Ceiling & Walls, Cleaning down & Painting the usual Work
Cleaning down & Varnishing the Entrance Door, both sides

At the Porters Lodge
Washing & Whitening Ceiling to Front Rm
Preparing Painting & Graining the Window stool, Skirting &c. & Cleaning down & Touching up & Varnishing the Whole & Marbling Chimney piece Painting the Girder & Mullions to Windows
Washing & Whitening Ceiling and Washing & Coloring Walls to Bed Rm, Preparing and Painting usual Work

At the Fellows Closets, Front Garden
Washing, Mending & Whitening Ceiling and Washing & Coloring Walls, Preparing & Painting the usual Interior & Exterior work to both Closets

At Lecture Room
Washing, Mending with Plaster & Whitening Ceiling

Painting up Wall with Plaster for Papering Distempering Girder to Room, Rubbing down Stopping with Putty & Painting the usual Work to Room twice in Oil White Painting & Varnishing Chimney twice Painting Outside Work to 6 Pair of Sashes (three times), Painting on Entrance Wall to 9 Stair cases for Name Plates (3 times), Writing up Names & Bracketing (49 in number)

The Fellows Water Closets (Pump Court) Washing & Whitening Ceilings and Washing, Whitening & Coloring Walls, Washing & Whitening Lobby, Washing, Whitening, & Painting Inside Woodwork to New Closets, Three times & Lobby Woodwork once, Painting New part to Door to Staircase B

Washing & Whitening Ceiling to the Boys School Rm & Lobby Entrance & Distempering Girder to Rm, Mending with Plaster, Knotting and Priming New Work, Rubbing down Stopping with Putty, & Painting twice the usual work to Rm twice in Oil Painting the Entrance Lobby Work

Washing Stopping & Whitening Ceiling to Clap Rm Rubbing down & Painting the usual work to Clap Rm (twice)

Touching up Wainscot Work to College Hall, Combination Room & Lobby to Combination Room

Painting New part to Trow Fence (Christ pieces, three times)

Total: £24 19s 6d

Bill of £35 5s 10½d from William Cory Daniel (grocer) for wax candles, altar candles, wax tapers, wax matches.

Paid £3 1s for insurance on Hundon.

Letter from the Vicar to the Master, that the Vicarage is to be let to Mr Worthy, one of the regular Trinity Hall lodging housekeepers, for £125 p.a.

Statement of money received during 1913, with covering letter from the Vicar to the Bursar.

Long letter from the Vicar to the Master, describing the bad state of the spire, the damage done in recent storms, and the necessity of having it pulled down.

John Smith to Robert Glover of Frostenden, the advowson and a piece of land; for a consideration of £100 and £20 per annum for life.

Official letter from the Tithe Commissioners, inviting the College to attend a meeting at the Half Moon Inn in Clare on 23 November, for the purpose of making an award.

A batch of letters correspondence between the Vicar and the College about the details of where the electic points should be etc.

Letter from T. Norfolk, surveyor, to the vicar, listing the lands and values. Note that a plan has been removed to the cabinet.

Agreement between Charles Wing and Joseph Rushbrook of Graveley, William Rushbrook of Lavenham, and George Wing of Mildenhall, farmers,on the one part, and F [orT] Jackson of Middleton, on the other, for the lease of the Rectory farm, for 11 years, with covenants for good husbandry. The tenant undertakes the outside repair of the parsonage house.

Messrs Looker & Theakston to O,P, Fisher, setting out the terms for employing Mr Herbert as tenant farmer.

Letter to the Master, announcing commencement of the process for the union of the parishes of Gravely and Yelling.

Letter from the Vicar, asking for a grant from the Proby Fund to build a new vicarage, the present one was described by the surveyor as 'only a cottage of a very ordinary description'.

Survey my Charles Humfrey, of the repairs necessary to the parsonage house, the barn, stable etc., and to the church, amounting to £380.19.8.

Printed form, with details of income and expenditure for the year 1913.

Encloses a map of the glebe [removed to the map cabinet]. Sir Wiliam Marling wishes to purchases two pieces of land, asks permission to proceed.

Undated document endorsed "Mr Metcalfe's copy of what passed upon the subject of dilapidations in the Court of King's Bench". (apparently case of Wise v. Metcalfe)

(1) 9th December 1902 - letter from Sidney French (Architect and Surveyor) to J. H. H. Goodwin (Bursar) asking for permission to put in a window on behalf of the tenants Messrs Marris Bros
(2) Sketch plan showing the position of the window
(3) 27th December 1902 - letter from R. W. Marris thanking Mr French for obtaining permission to put in the window

Estimate from Coulson & Son Ltd for work on garden wall as detailed in the specification

Letter from Hugh Shield (Bursar) to Mr Gray offering him a new lease for 40 years from 25 March 1895 of 1-12 College Terrace [now 101-123 Hills Road]. Also two lease plans showing the outline of the properties [one is dated 1881 and the other is undated]

(1) Letter from J. Carter Jonas & Sons reporting that a lorry owned by Mr J. W. Taylor had run into the garden wall of 7 Fair Street and the estimate for making good the wall was £6 15s 0d. A Mr Taylor had failed to agree to pay this they asked for instructions to place the matter in the hands of the College solicitors;

(2) Letter from J. Carter Jonas & Sons again asking for instructions to put the matter in the hands of the College solicitors

Specification of dilapidations at Claremont [internally and externally covering 1-6 Claremont]

Statement of the case, with the opinion of Mr Const of Pump Court, Temple

Thanks the College for allowing him to withdraw his resignation, and asks them to convey land.

Valuation of five houses Nos. 27-31 Jesus Lane, on lease to Mrs Sparrow.

(1) Letter dated 21st May 1880 from Charles Turner (solicitor) to Francis & Francis (College solicitor) asking for permission for Arthur Gray to assign to the Great Northern Railway Company two perches of land held by him on lease from the College. The letter refers to a lease plan, dated 12th May 1865 [this is included in the file and has the 2 perches shaded in pink being part of the Weigh House Allotment]

(2) Letter dated 22nd May from Francis & Francis to Dr Westmorland asking for permission from the College. Note dated 26th May from Dr Westmorland giving permission

File containing the following items:

(1) 18th June 1908 – letter from Francis Mugliston, writing on behalf of Cambridge St Mary’s Football Club, to ask if the College would lease them a ground for the purposes of association football during the coming season. He explains that Cambridge St Mary’s were in dispute with the Football Association (FA) and had severed their links with them and joined the Amateur Football Association. The result was that they had been turned out of their old ground and were looking for a new one

(2) 13th July 1908 – letter from F. Rayner (builder) to the College informing them that he had been approached by the Committee of the Cambridge Town Amateur Football Club with a view to hiring the ground in Purbeck Road, He states that he was agreeable of the College would give their consent. The proposed rent was £7 which they paid for use during the football months

(3) Pencil notes of terms for an agreement written on Jesus College headed paper

(4) 8th May 1909 – letter from H. W. Mouel (Honorary secretary of the Cambridge Football Association) to the Bursar – requesting whether the College would enter into negotiations for the tenancy of ‘the field adjoining the disused Newmarket railway siding near the Romsey Council School’. Attached is a copy of their balance sheet

Consists of 2 letters from J. Carter Jonas & Sons (Land Agents) to the Bursar:

(1) letter stating that Miss Kett had been granted an abatement in the rent of £5 owing to war conditions and asking this be extended as conditions were worse than during the war and much inconvenience had been experienced owing to the houses on both sides having been requisitioned;

(2) letter presenting an account from Mr F. Andrews for work done and giving details about tree roots causing drains to be blocked at 18 Station Road

(1) Letter from Hugh Shield (Bursar) to Mr Alfred Mason, dated 30th September 1889 offering him a new 40 year lease and setting out the terms

(2) Letter from J. H. H. Goodwin (Bursar) to Mr Alfred Mason, dated April 1900 correcting the amount due as a fine which was in error in a previous letter

(3) Letter from J. H. H. Goodwin to Mr Alfred Mason, dated 29th October 1902 offering him a new 40 year lease

(4) Site plans of Nos. 19-22 showing the outline of the property including dimensions and the names of neighbouring lessees [undated but 1889 is written in pencil at the top of one of the plans]

Letter from the Sanitary Inspector to the Bursar informing him that he had sprayed two bedrooms at No. 39 [which was unoccupied] for vermin and advised him to repair plasterwork to keep vermin out. He had also made arrangements with tenants of No. 40 to have their house disinfected

Specification of work required to be carried out at Nos. 5 and 6 Park Street to improve the drains and prevent flooding.

2 letters:

(1) 29 December 1933 from J. Carter Jonas & Sons to the Bursar advising him to accept the offer of £29 against the original claim of £31 17s. 6d. for dilapidations and stating that Mrs Haddock was living in the property with no formal agreement and asking if they should contact her and re let on the usual College terms.

(2) 10 January 1935 – from the Bursar to H. M. Inspector of Taxes confirming that on the expiry of the lease on No. 9 at Ladyday 1934 the property was let to Mr W. E. Haddock.

Letter from Hugh Shield (Bursar) to Mr John Yeoman offering him a new 40 year lease from 10th October 1880 for premises assigned by him to Mr Henry Houlden. Also a site plan showing the outline of the property including dimensions and the names of the neighbouring lessees

Barnwell Inclosure - College claims

Two letters: (1) From Gray, Son & Cook setting out the position with regard to the leases of 5, 7, 9 and 11 Station Road; (2) Letter from the Bursar to J. Carter Jonas & Sons with regard to the dilapidations to be paid on the above properties at the end of their leases

Letter from J. H. H. Goodwin (Bursar) to Mrs Turner offering her a renewal of her lease. Also a site plan showing the outline of the property including dimensions.

Letter from Hugh Shield (Bursar) to Miss Smith offering her a new 40 year lease from 24 June 1890 and a subsequent letter dated 13 June 1890 offering a change to one of the terms of the lease. Also a site plan showing the outline of the property including dimensions and names of neighbouring lessees.