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Paid to John Willis (cook) for Audit dinner, Rustat dinner, Commencement dinner, College tenants dinner and dinner celebrating coronation of George IV. Payment also made to Mrs. Jiggins for cleaning and chopping. Also money allowed for coals, brazing, fees for degrees and amount deducted for garden.

Paid to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing work.
Includes work done to the masters lodge (including servants lodgings, staircase, bedroom, scullery), the chapel, the kitchen and the courts.
Works include crown glass in porters lodge, crown glass in the kitchen, new box and leather to pump, combination room, crown glass lamp, new leading, painted glass, new bucket leather to pump, new leather to valve.

Paid to Haselgrove for cutting away old stone works, reworking old stone, fixing new stone, stone for door heads, doorways, . Work done in the first court, the masters lodge, and hall.

Paid to W. Harvey (Porter) for work done on lamps, courts and cloisters. Work includes grove, lamp outside of gate, cleaning windows and washing hall.

Paid to Alexander Watford for surveying work. Work includes journey with the bursar to Graveley and Tempsford (Temsford) to look at the college estates, horse hire for two days (not getting home until the Sunday morning and expenses paid), paid for search at the Pembertons Office for the quantities from the Graveley ward, 1 day employed in making out valuations in the office, 1 day journey to Harston to value the Rectory Estate, horse hire and man for opening the gates, to making a fair plan on parchment of the gravely property, 1/2 day searching amongst papers for the disputed point with the Bullen of Barnwell which I found.

Paid to J Hodson for printing for cards with blank orders 'for her', advertising house Jesus Lane to be sold, cards with blank orders 'for he', letters about caution money, rent receipts for graveley, letters with blank account of rent, and blank receipts for rent.

Paid to Mr Deighton for the five guineas he was "so kind as to send" for the use of the poor on the day of the Coronation of George the IV in 1821. Trinity Street.

Paid to William Bright for the administrative work. Work includes postage of letter from Crompton Newton & Co inclosing draft from £100 (1 year of estate at Allenborough) and writing to them to acknowledge the receipt thereof. Also for drawing notice to quit and two copies to serve on for Mrs Foster and Edward Walker.

Paid to J West by Benjamin Wyatt for time employed in calculations and examinations of paper and on your direction connected with Mr Bernasconi's claim for plasterer's work done at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Paid by Mrs Susan Halls to Jesus College the sum of two shillings and two pence for a year's free or quit rent, due to Sir Robert Harland, Lord of the Manor of Hundon, with its members, to wit, Stradishall, Farley, and Chillbourn, due at Michaelmas Last Day. Signed by James Mills.

Paid to W. Harvey for lamps, courts, cloisters and audit.

Paid to Jesus College Cambridge for 16s 6d by William Okes, the bursar of Caius College.

Paid to G. Ware for 19s for esquire bedell stipends, including 3s for morning sermons.

Letter from Benjamin Wyatt to Mr Hustler. From London 25rd July 1821.
He says that having not examined his bankers book for some days past, he was aware until today that any money had been paid in on his account on behalf of Jesus College. However, he now encloses these acknowledgements, from himself, Mr. West and Mr. Bernasconi, respectively, and shall be glad to hear that they reach him safely.

Paid to Matthew Painter, includes payments for cleaning windows in the combination room, new windows in the barber's shop and new glass in Walker's staircase

Paid to Margaret Forster for work done at the College, including payments for the garden wall, a workman, bushels of lime, bricks, a labourer, sand,

22nd April: To Judith Dodgson living in the parish of St. Ives, signed by Samuel Cooper, curate, and John Whetham and Philip Dull, church wardens. Signed by her confirming payment of £4 pension. 11th November: Received of the Bursar fo Jesus College. Paid 4£ in full half years pay for the use of Judith Dodgson. Signed by John Whealden, Curate of [?]. Reversed side signed by Judith Dodgson [she writes 'to the geantelman Willdin'].

From Thomas Smith to Mr Newton for the College. Paid 15s 8d for joinery work in College, including work for 'boarding back of picture' and 'for carveing ornament for picture' in Hall.

2nd of May: Paid £4 to Mr Ball, half years pension due to Mrs Phoenix Clopton. Signed by Thomas Meads, Church Warden, Henry Osborne, Vicar,; Phoenix Clopton and Thomas Ball. Received of Mr Newton. 5th of July: Received of the Rev. Master. Newton, 40s, being a quarter's pension due to Mrs. Clopton. Signed by J. Heckton

To Susan Bottomley from the Rev'd Master of Jesus. Paid £3,18s,6d for fenestration and pointing steps in College.

Received of Mr Newton. Paid £22, 14s, 2d for interest money due to Mr Rustat, Chef on the 5 of July. Signed by J. Milner

23 May: Paid £1, 0s, 11d for Gravely Court.
15 July: Paid 6s, 10d for Mr Richardson's room, received of Dr Caryl Sworn Master. Both included bottles of wine.

7 April 1757: Received of Honory Appiling. Paid £1, 4s for land tax. Signed by William Harradine. 11 October: the same but received of Mr. Asplen. 11 April 1758: Received of Mr. Asplen.

Paid £24 13s 10 1/2d to Jeffs & Bentley for the following masonry work: 3/4 of a day's labour "Cutting a Door Way" in the Masters Lodge; paving the east-side of the cloister; constructing a "Cube Stone Step" at a door into the court; "plain work"; 10 "hods" of fine mortar; 4 loads of sand; labourers paid for 12 days of work in taking up old paving stones, and altering the paving at the Chapel door; 3/4 of a day's labour in altering the paving in the chapel. Signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

Paid £1 13s 9d between July and August, 1767, for: two locks on the Fellow's Garden; "Lock pon gate; "mend wealarrow[wheelbarrow?]"; "4 spikes"; "mend hole" and the lock in the Chapel; lock "masters Cloore[?]"; clean the "parlow stead"; clean "sett from & frett Fender"; mend "parlow hoe"; cleaning a hoe; 3 "for 3 keys" and "bag" Fellows Garden and Library; for a "chovell"[shovel]; fix a "week College pump"; fixing a "sweepe pin" on the "masters pump"; locking and altering the coal hole; purchase of a scythe; 2 keys for the porters; "laying sythe" and gardening; 3 staples in the "Buttress".

Receipt for one year's fire insurance, amounting to £3 15s. Signed by Bruce Fisher, John Fisher and Tho. Shill.[?].

Receipt for 2s 6d paid by Revd. Derby to Thomas Goodall "for the Batchelors Commencement".

Mr Barker - St John's College

Mr Barker presents his complements to Dr French and in the absence of Mrs Wilson from Cambridge begs leave to acknowledge the receipt of his order

St Johns College

Received of the Reverend the Bursar of Jesus College for rent due to the master and fellows of Caius College at Michaelmas 1823.

William Okes, Bursar
11th November 1823

October 13th 1824

Received of the master and fellows of Jesus College one year rent due Michaelmas last the sum of two shillings and sixpence - 0.2.6

William Webb