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Contains accounts of the livings of Swavesey, Comberton, Guilden Morden, Longstanton, Harston and St Giles's [Cambridge], augmented from the appropriated rectory of Sutton, which was leased from the Bishop of Ely by the college as trustees of the Proby Fund. A new system of accounting was introduced in 1774, after the college tenant had got into arrears; a sum was laid by annually towards the payment of the next Fine. The front flyleaf has a statement of profits for 1738-58. There follows a conjectural valuation of Sutton rectory, 23 May 1752, with a note about the decline in rent from the time of Henry IV to Henry VIII. This is in the hand of J. Warburton, Bursar.

Contains accounts of the augmentation from the Rectory of Sutton of the livings of Swavesey, Comberton, Guilden Morden, Hinxton, St Giles [Cambridge], Longstanton and Harston.

Comprises invoices and copies of cheques signed by Bronowski and Rita Bronowski for items including curtains, a table, lamps, crockery, fireplace, barbeque, scrapbook, a sculpture by John Rogers ('Wunderkammer II'), and an ashtray.

Letter from W.W. Godden, vicar of Elmstead in Colchester, to Dr Corrie, thanking him for the 'seasonable gift' of £10 by cheque for the poor of the parish, 'reciprocating all the good wishes of this kindly and "time honoured" season.

Eustace Carter (carettarius) has received from Prioress Milesentia and the nuns a piece of land on the suburbs of Cambridge at Eldestede, lying between the land of Roger Garlek and the land of the nuns. Width 3 roods. Rent: 3s and services to the king; gersuma: 6s 8d. Witnesses: Robert de St Edmunds, Wiliam Pilet, William Toilet, Michael Bernard, Michael Malherbe, Michael Parleben, Walter le Porter, William Sweteye, Hugo servant, Richard clerk et aliis.

Prioress Joan and the nuns have given to John Dale a messuage in the street leading from Cope's Cross to Barnwell, lying between a messuage of the said John Dale to the east, abutting on Walls Lane to the south and on a messuage of John Dale to the north. Term: in perpetuity; rent: 2s and 2 capons, value 4d. Witnesses: Nicholas Hylton, Mayor of Cambridge, Robert Bolton, John Helgey, Richard Deken and Simon Abrah[a]m, bailiffs, et aliis.

Alan Whitlof and Alice, his wife, have received from prioress Letitia and the nuns a messuage in Milne Street (vicus molendinorum) between the land of John, son of Alfred and the land given to the nuns in free alms by Walter Gyssard. Rent: 18d and 2 capons. Witnesses: Robert Saman, Hervey, son of Martin, Michael and John, his sons, Richard de Hiwenham, John Alur', Martin Brictnot, William, son of Maurice, Reginald Mulloc, Henry Mulloc, Robert, son of Roger, Peter le Hunte et multis aliis.

Richard Burs, butcher (carnifex), acknowledges the gift from Prioress Letitia and the nuns of land between the land of Richard Smereles and that of Henry Scolemaister. Rent: 12d and 2 capons; gersuma: 6s 8d. Witnesses: Sir (Dominus) Drogo, chaplain, Roger Leriche, Symon Seled, Eustace, his brother, Richard Smereles, Henry Scolemaister, Symon Croft, Symon, son of Ernest, Walter of Thosus, Alberic Lybbel, Gilbert Baker (pistor) et multis aliis.

Correspondence

Comprises: lists of books acquired by the Salk Institute library; statistics about the number of books and periodicals in the library or ordered, acquisitions and cataloguing, expenditure, and public services such as interlibrary loans; memoranda from Fred West (Senior Librarian) to the Library Committee about recommendations for purchase, and to laboratories about binding journals; a summary of subject areas, volumes of holdings, budget and staffing for the library (1966-1967)

Comprises tables of statistics about the Salk Institute library. Covers acquisitions and cataloguing, expenditure, and public services such as interlibrary loans.

Includes correspondence relating to acquisition of silver for the College by the William Hustler, the College Butler, from either Lambert silversmiths at 11 Coventry Street, London or Garrard's on Panton Street, London. Hustler describes which old College silver could be disposed of to pay for the new, what qualities the new silver should have and includes a diagram about how it should be laid on the table, c.1830; donation in 1849 by Dr. William French of twelve dessert forks; Bequest in 1896 by Alderman Death of three epergnes; Gift in 1896 of gold memorial cross in memory of E. H. Morgan (topaz jewel insets supplied by Mrs. Morgan); Gift in 1915 by E. Llewellyn Jones of pineapple cup made in Nuremburg c,1660 and embossed alms dish, c.1650; Gift in 1936 by James Paterson of a silver cockerel collected by his cousin Herbert Paterson; Bequest in 1936 by Dr. T. B. Dickens of a gold chalice; Gift in 1968 by Lady Lane Poole of Tobias Rustat's snuff box; Note concerning gift in 2006 of processional cross and a silver plate given by the parents of student Duncan Roland who died in 2006; Copy of note from M. D. Wood of Gonville and Caius confirming he collected the Caius Haarhof Trophy on 10th September 2007;

Prior William Downe of Barnwell and the convent acknowledge the receipt from Prioress Agnes Seyntclowe and the nuns of 40s in full discharge of arrears due from two tenements in Barnwell leased by the nuns to Alexander Westmorland and John Bruce.

Acquittance of the nuns to Richard Pyghttesley for a year's rent of Tylydhostelle, viz. 2s 3d.

Prioress Agnes and the nuns to Richard Spycer for 8s in discharge of arrears of rent for a year for a tenement with 2 solars lying between a tenement of Corpus Christi College to the west, and a tenement of Richard Bushee to the east, abutting on a tenement of Corpus Christi College and on the Cheese Market, the rent of which 8s per annum was given to the nuns before the Statute (Quia Emptores, 1290).

Prioress Agnes and the nuns to John Chance for 10s, being 2 years' rent for a messuage at the north end of Butcher Row, between the Oat Market and a shop formerly of John Broun, butcher, abutting on the highway and a messuage, late of John Sexteyn.

"An Act for better enabling Incumbents of Ecclesiastical Benefices to demise Lands belonging to their Benefices on Farming Leases"

Acts of the Apostles with glosses; M. R. James's no. 40. Begins (f. 2): Quibus et (gloss: humanitate a divinitate). Ends: Explicit liber actuum apostolorum liber VIII [with symbol over]. D. C., which James says is thus written for "habet versus III. D. C.".

Acts of Parliament relating to Jesus College

Includes menus

Adagio for String Orchestra, by Samuel Barber.
Published by Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, and G. Schirmer, Inc., New York.

Adagio from Sonata IV for violin and cembalo (BWV 1017), by J. S .Bach. Arranged for organ and guitar by Peter Hurford.

Annual subscription towards the support of Addenbrooke's Hospital. Signed by Thomas Morlock (?). Subscription amount 5 guineas.

Correspondence, costs and sketch showing possible bathroom to be added to the bedroom of F. J. Foakes-Jackson, from William Sindall of Mill Lane, Cambridge, 1906

Includes letter from Rattee and Kett relating to extension to porters lodge, 3rd July 1920.

Additional abstract of the title of Mr John Phillips Gray to leasehold premises in Eastbourne Terrace.

Mainly comprises files which had belonged to, or had been retained by, Rita Bronowski.

Letter from J. R. Eve & Son requesting the rents and tenants' names for two Tutors' Houses for re-valuation.

Document 1:
Land tax receipt from the Parish of St. Andrew the Less to Jesus for taxes due Lady-day 1849, amounting to £13 15s. Signed T Asplen.

Document 2:
Land tax receipt from the Parish of St. Andrew the Less to Jesus for taxes due Michaelmas 1849, amounting to £13 15s.

Received of the Bursar. Paid £1 2s 6d additional allowance to the garden at Christmas 1760. The same amount at Lady Day 1761. The same amount at Midsummer 1761. The same amount at Michaelmas 1761. Signed by R. Tyrwhitt.

Print showing Chapel Court when only the Carpenter building existed. Shows layout of gardens, new porters lodge, East House and outbuildings by Pump Court.

Includes files relating to the index, captions, illustrations, bibliography.

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.

Address given by the Lord Chancellor to the members of the Senate of the University of Cambridge, 13th November 1840. Gives thanks for being elected into the position of high steward. Thanks for the support he has received. Is proud of his prior connection to the University as one of its MPs.

Address stamp Cambridge University Students Union Jesus College.

Consists of a booklet containing the text of 'On Being an Intellectual' by Bronowski, and 'Engagement and Objectivity in Science' by Gerald Holton (Professor of Physics at Harvard University).

Consists of photocopies of articles by Adler (some with other authors), in an envelope listing the contents. Many of the photocopies are stamped "Melvin Cohn".

Papers relating to the administration of the College kitchens. Includes printed copy of tariff for Jesus College kitchen listing costs of all different foods created by the kitchen at that date. Also includes notices concerning serving times and arrangements for ordering food in advance, October 1912; Notes relating to the training of apprentices to the kitchen, 1967; Suggested training scheme for training SCR waiters, 1967; Papers concerning the resetting of staff wages, 1967; copies of stock sheets, c. 1970; Papers relating to kitchen staff annual leave, 1970; Papers concerning the purchase of silver plated cutlery and flatware for the College (presumably for general use in Hall), 1968 - 1973; A report on potential improvements to the activities of the catering department of Jesus College Cambridge by Geoffrey Hall, Alfred Eccles and Ian Merrick, 1987;