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Received 7th December 1833 of the Revd Dr French £19 4s 5d for ironwork as per bill. Signed Thomas Shallow.

Received of Dr French, bursar, the sum of £7 13s for the amount of bill against Jesus College. Dated 11th October 1833 and signed by William Wiseman.

Reverse of the bill from the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for work done in the Master's Lodge, dated from August 24th to September 14th 1833. Includes purchase of nails and the making and hanging of a new door, as well as installing a new lock. Carried on from obverse calculations, total of £13 3s.

Reverse of bill for work done to the college courts from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster. Includes repairing a fence, mending a gate. Total of £4 8s 5d (including the obverse). Received the amount for the bill, december 7th 1833, signed J. Webster.

Reverse of Fence repair bill from Joseph Langram, rough calculations for the total of 19s 6d.

Invoice addressed to the Reverend Master & Fellows of Jesus College, to Thomas Prince, gas filler, noting work done from 21st September 1829 until 27th December 1832.

Includes repairing gas pipes, grinding up the cocks, repairing the gas lights in Cloister Court, thawing the condensation loose in gas pipe in courts, repairing a broken join next to main cock in porter's lodge, taking water out of lamp in New Court, searching for an escape of gas and repairing, and two men opening ground for lamp in New Court to find out the place where the water is in pipe, cutting pipe in two, letting water and connecting pipe again. Total of £6 16s.

Reverse of glazing and printing bill, continued courts and rooms work on 21 September and 10 Ocotber 1833 - including pounds of solder to the leads, installation of crown glass to staircase lamps.

Work on the Master's Lodge between 5 November 1832 and 22 October 1833 - Incldes installation of crown glass in the pantry, the hall, doors and windows, repairing water closet, new bucket & leathers to water closet pump, sheet lead for sink, crown glass, new bucket box and leathers to pump, repairing the pump. Total of £4 5s.

Total of the bill (chapel, hall & comination rooms, kitch, courts, Master's lodge) is £15 8s 2d.

Reverse of letter concerning the disposal of the next presentation to Hundon. Lockwood's name noted, as well as the date 2nd of August. Note of carry forward / this removed only ground to determine [?] apl[?] values and age of [?].

Reverse of a Norwich Union Life Insurance receipt. Printed, notes patrons (the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Argyle, the Early of Rosebery), notes secretary Samuel Bignold, Esq.

The Association for Life Insurance is founded upon the principle of mutual guarantee - the whole surplus capil, being dividied amongst the representatives of the Members, by additions made to the amount secured by their Policies - Bonusses of £20, £24 and £25 per cent on the Premium paid have been declared upon all Policies issued prior to July 1815 and bonusses of £24 and £25 per cent on Policies issued between July 1815 and July 1822 and July 1829. The Premnums, under 45, are nearly 10 per cent, below most other Offices. - As an instance of the great utility of Life Insurance, it may be remarked, that a person in his 28th year, may, by an annual payment of 2l. 6s. 8d. insure £100 payable to his executors at his decease; or for 23l 6s. 8d. may insure £1000, and thus, at a moderate yearly expense, preserve his family from distress. The rapid progress of this Society is evidenced by the amount of its Preminums, which, at the undermentioned periods, stood as follows: -

Year ending March, 1824 .... £117, 465 5s 11d
Year ending March, 1827.... £137, 304 4s 1d
Year ending March, 1830.... £155, 273 19s 3d

In the last 12 months, upwards of 800 Policies were issued, and the sum insured thereon amounted to about 6000,000l.
The Fire Society and the Life Society are wholly distinct Establishments. Surrey-street, Norwich, March, 1830.

Also a table exhibiting the yearly premium which a person must pay during the whole of his life, to insure 100l. to his family or nominee, independent of the additions which may be made to that sum of the savings of the Office. [Table included].

Written "Hundon Jesus 3. 1 -"

Reverse of a Norwich Union Life Insurance receipt. Printed, notes patrons (the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Argyle, the Early of Rosebery), notes secretary Samuel Bignold, Esq.

The Association for Life Insurance is founded upon the principle of mutual guarantee - the whole surplus capil, being dividied amongst the representatives of the Members, by additions made to the amount secured by their Policies - Bonusses of £20, £24 and £25 per cent on the Premium paid have been declared upon all Policies issued prior to July 1815 and bonusses of £24 and £25 per cent on Policies issued between July 1815 and July 1822 and July 1829. The Premnums, under 45, are nearly 10 per cent, below most other Offices. - As an instance of the great utility of Life Insurance, it may be remarked, that a person in his 28th year, may, by an annual payment of 2l. 6s. 8d. insure £100 payable to his executors at his decease; or for 23l 6s. 8d. may insure £1000, and thus, at a moderate yearly expense, preserve his family from distress. The rapid progress of this Society is evidenced by the amount of its Preminums, which, at the undermentioned periods, stood as follows: -

Year ending March, 1824 .... £117, 465 5s 11d
Year ending March, 1827.... £137, 304 4s 1d
Year ending March, 1830.... £155, 273 19s 3d

In the last 12 months, upwards of 800 Policies were issued, and the sum insured thereon amounted to about 6000,000l.
The Fire Society and the Life Society are wholly distinct Establishments. Surrey-street, Norwich, March, 1830.

Also a table exhibiting the yearly premium which a person must pay during the whole of his life, to insure 100l. to his family or nominee, independent of the additions which may be made to that sum of the savings of the Office. [Table included].

On the rightt hand column, written "Valley Jesus 1.16"

Reverse of William Harvey's porter's bill for Christmas 1832. Rough claculations coming to £21 13s 10d. Possibly calcuations for porter's bills for the year.

Certification that Elizabeth Collett, widow of the late Peter Collett, rector of Denton in the County of Sussex, the orthodox clergyman of the Church of England is now living in Bromley College in the county of Kent of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromley College, 25th March 1833.

This is to certify that Ann Holgate, widow of the late Revd George Holgate, Rector of Stowting in the County of Kent, a vicar of Theydon Bois in the County of Essex, an orthodox clergymen of the Church of England, is still widow of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromlet College, Kent, March 25th 1833.

Certificates of Rustat Widows.

Certifying that Susanna Basely of Bromley, in the county of Kent, widow of the late Revd. Henry Basely, curate of Kibworth Beauchamp, in the county of Leicester, an orthodox clergyman of the Church of England, is still living, a widow of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromley College, Kent, March 25th 1833.

Certifying that Grace Murgatroyd of Bromley College in the county of Kent, widow of late Revd. William Murgatroyd, vicar of West Thurrock in Essex, an orthodox clergyman of the Church of England, is still living a widow of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromlet College, Kent, March 25th 1833.

Totals of lodge work, kitchen work, buttery work, courts work, stables work, felling trees, Manor(?) street. Total of £29 12s 5d.