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Contains accounts for the storey added to the Master's Lodge and south block of First Court, with table of contents by Dr Corrie (Master, 1849-85).

Book containing minutes from 5 Nov. 1908 onwards. At the front is an elaborate coloured title page and list of members; then two pages have been cut out - presumably they were pages containing earlier minutes. After the series of minutes is a list of past and present members on active service, 1914. At the end of the volume are subscription records for 1909-14.

Programmes for Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme performed in the Cloisters at Jesus College during May Week on 11th and 12th June 1950. The music was played by the College Orchestra conducted by Raymond Slee

Programme of Comus (John Milton) and Dido and Aeneas (Henry Purcell)

Includes menus with some events with table plans and lists of attendees. From the 1970s onwards, some of the events were held at the Mansion House in the City of London, possibly in connection with the Jesuans who became Lord Mayor. Photograph of 36th annual dinner held at the Cafe Royal, London, 5 July 1937.

(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]

Letters concerning renewing the lease for Nos. 29-34 Lower Park Street. These had been leased to John Death for 40 years from 29th September 1876. Following his death the trustees under his will had assigned the lease to Mrs Anna Maria Folkard [by an Assignment dated 3rd July 1903]. The lease was due to expire in September 1916 and Mrs Folkard approached the College via her solicitors to see if they would grant a renewal of the lease and if so on what terms. There was a proposal that Mrs Folkard give up the lease of property she held in Jesus Lane [Nos. 25and 26] in return for an Annuity and renewal of the Lower Park Street properties but this was rejected by the College Council

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

Includes menus for joint dinners Middlesex Hospital rugby club, 1919; Association and Rugby Football clubs, 1928-30, 1933; Magdalen College Oxford and Jesus College Cambridge Rugby Clubs dinner, 1929-31, 1935-6, 1938; Rugby and Association Football and Hockey dinner, 1934, 1953; Rugby and Association Football, Hockey and Athletics dinner, 1935-7, 1939; Rugby and Hockey dinner, 1955-61, 1970; Rugby cement luncheon, 1987, 1989;

Includes joint dinner for Cambridge and Oxford University's tennis clubs, 1926; Jesus College Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford tennis clubs, 1926

Flyleaf has title: "Collectanea ad procancellarii officium spectantia. An. 1702. C. A.". It contains a copy of the University's statutes of 1570, wth annotations by the transcriber, Dr Charles Ashton (Master 1701-52). JCGB/5/1/2 is a companion volume.

Headed: "Jesus College / The Revd. Dr. Corrie (Bursar) / to Joseph Diver (Cook)". Contains accounts for dishes supplied on special occasions, such as the annual Audit Dinner, MAs Dinner, Tenants' Dinner and Servants Dinner and the occasional breakfast, luncheon or supper.

Letter from E. Welbourne of Emmanuel College to Percy Gardner Smith concerning the possible acquisition of a chair once owned by Laurence Sterne by the College from one Basil W. Batchelor. 9th March 1928; Letter from Arthur Scott, uncle of Basil, describing how the family had acquired the chair through Athur's father Rev. George Scott, vicar of Coxwold, who got it from his predecessor the Rev. Thomas Newton who in turn had succeeded Laurence Sterne when he was vicar of Coxwold. Letter dated 10th September 1926; Photographic records of chair made in 2005;

Minutes, agendas and associated papers.

There is an electronic index to the supporting papers compiled and updated by the Bursar's Assistant. This is closed to researchers as it is a current working document but can be searched by the Archivist.

Typescript ' Conclusions' of Society meetings, so called to 7 Mar. 1950, thereafter 'Minutes' (but with no change in their summary style). The meetings were held a few times a year, at irregular intervals depending on the nature of business demanding attention

Contains captions and photographs of exhibition on display in the Creswick Room in the QL.

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.

Contains half-yearly rentals, with: name of tenant, reserved rent in money, wheat, malt, total rent in money, and college commons. Then follow: Cambridge rents in money only, total of London rents, pensions (Foljambe's, Lady Bennet's, Marshall's Exhibition). A second column, in the Michaelmas accounts only, has: quit rents received, out rents including payments to the University waits, the London rent collector, the University beadles, for sermons, the Steward of Graveley, the Shelford poor, and the University Marshal. At the foot of the account are tables of current prices of wheat and malt. After the rental for 1745 is: the Dividend Paper, 1685-1745, consisting of a list of receipts, chamber rents, receipts from degrees fees, and payments to various servants, the library, the garden, etc.; the last to be deducted from the sum of the first three. In a second column, to be added, are fines received; to be deducted "corn money owed to Commons" and "capon money owed to Commons". This calculation establishes the dividend, which is divided in 18 parts, two of which go to the Master and one to each Fellow. From 1709 there is "a charge for Exceedings at Christmas" and from 1712 "a charge for Commencement Supper".

Contains: Rustat statutes, 1671 (17 pp.); interpretation of the statutes by King Charles II, 1672 (4 pp.); register of admissions of Rustat Scholars, 1671-1819. At the end of the book is a register of leaves of absence granted from 4 June 1715 to 22 December 1744.

Coleridge Society meeting minutes, preceded by a list of secretaries from April 1888 and a note explaining how the society began as "The Literary and Philosophical Society". Minutes for 1888-89 were transcribed from an earlier notebook.

Includes subscriptions and lists of members

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

Correspondence about the sale of land to the Clergy Training School and negotiations for the sale to the Borough Council of a piece of frontage to widen the road in front of All Saints Church and Westcott House. Also a page from the parish magazine showing the eight houses known as the 'Barracks'

File containing letters of complaint to the College about the noise from Lawrence's Garage and the fact they left cars and vans in the lane behind Rhadegund Buildings. Most of the letters are between the College and the Misses Goody (tenants of 52 Jesus Lane) but there are also some from the owners of the garage.

Letter referring to the lease of 12, 13 and 14 Manor Street and 83 King Street

Valuations of 1-6 and 10-12 Rhadegund Buildings