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Addressed to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College. Receipt for 15 shillings to be paid to James Tibbit for carpentry work done on the college estate occupied by John Tew. Work carried out included a new gate, two posts, and two wing rales [sic].

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.

Receipt dated October 11 1833, Cambridge. Received of the Rev Master & Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £15 as by account to Septembeer 29 1833 for the Gas Company. Signed Thomas Frend Curtis, collector.

Invoice from Cambridge, to the Revd Master & Fellows of Jesus College, dues(?) to the Gas Company. Rental of gas from 20th September 1832 to 25th March 1833 by contract. Total of £15.

Received of Dr French the sum of £2 18s 3d, the amount of the bill for desserts in May 1831 Election. Signed William Wiseman.

Received of the Master the sum of £10 3s 8d for election dinners in 1831.

From the Rev Dr French to R. Press, listing chimney-sweeping work carried out in College to the chimneys in the kitchens, Hall, servants' hall and Porters' Lodge, and the cleaning of the oven and flues. Total cost £1 10s.

Invoice from John Crabb to Rev Dr French for work done around the college dated 24 January 1829. For 34 bags of (?) for the pensioners and 2 loads of bushes for the use of the college. Total of £2 5s.

Noted as settled on March 23 1833 by John Crabb.

Receipt dated 23 March 1833, received of the Rev Dr French the sum of £2 5s. Signed John Crabb.

Sun Fire Office Insure Receipt - Poil. 1004952 at £5 5s per annum, rect no. 9774. Received of Jesus College

1833 Expenses for Crown Inn Hundon, name [?], to Thomas Knock & [?]. Includes 18 teas, punch, wine, liquor, cigars and tobacco for a total of £4 15s 6d. Noted as left to pay £1 6s, servant £1 3s and [?}. Total of £4 19s 6d with later additions of 4s, coming to £5 3s. Noted on the reverse as paid 15th February 1833.

Bill for ironwork addressed to the Fellows of Jesus College Cambridge, directed to John Angel by the order of Mr Robert Cuthbert. Work drom 21 March to 14th August 1832, includes the purchasse of nails, stapling, screwing nails to the door, one eye mended, mending of a latch. Total of 7s 8d. Settled by John Angel on 31st December 1832.

1833 invoice from Jesus College to J. Webster for carpentry. Includes Rhadegund ground, Master's lodge, courts, staircase & laundry, kitchen. Total of £31 11s 14.

Receied of the Revd Dr French the sum of £5 5s, being the annual donation to the Parish of All Saints, up to Lad Day 1833. Dated April 13th 1833, signed Robert Clayton, churchwarden.

Bill from the Revd the bursar to Joseph Langram, dated April 29th 1833. For 2 days work to removing and repairing fence and pitching rope for gence. Total of £5 6s. Setteld by Joseph Langram on May 1st 1833. Also noted ditch on (?) agent £2 6s. Signed by Joseph Langram with his mark.

Bill from Master and Fellows of Jesus College to John Turner & Son for work done to Courts, obverse of first page from dates Dec 8 1832 to Oct 12 1833. Includes repaving, glazing, bricklaying, repairing plastering, whitewashing, emptying bault to servant's out offices, whitewashing and colouring 4 staircases & entrance to the porter's lodge. Total of £12 19s 5 1/2d.

Receipt dated December 7th 1833, received of the Rev Dr French the sum of £29 12s 5d for work done at Jesus College. Signed John Turner and Son.

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

Continued painting bill for College staircases, including painting the staircase by the Porter's Lodge, painting of light sashes, window seat grained and varnished, H Staircase in clositers installation of skirting, H staircase 2 over white 49ft skirting 2 over Chocolate at 1 1/2d. Total of £4 2s 1 1/2d.

Courts work includes estimate fror scraping, clearing and puttying and painting 2 over the whole of the sashes frames bans(?) casemets and comices(?) in Cloister Court, great encrance gates to the Lodge Garden scraped, cleared, puttyed and painted 2 over best N. Green both sides 23 yards at 9d. Total of £8 7d carried over.

Bill from Jesus College to William Wiseman, for dates December 17th 1832, April 11th 1833 and July 2nd 1833 for Audit day, Rustat Fruit, and Midsummer. Total of £7 13s.

Letter from E. Lockwood to Rev Dr French, dated 26th July 1832. Notes that Mr Perry of Great James Street has informed him through his son, a member of Jesus College, that the next Presentation to Hundon is to be disposed of. He state that he should be inclined to purchase it and inquires to the offering price. Lockwood states that he is acquainted with the place and its uncommonly great disadvantages and he should not be disposed to give the full value at which the living might be estimated as an annuity. Signed E. Lockwood.

Postscript notes that by the advice of Mr Perry Lockwood went to Jesus College on Saturday last where he had the mortification to learn that French was in Cromer.

Receipt for Mr. C Deeks, signed by W. C. Miller of Nicholl and Co. Slate Merchants for materials, paid £12 12s 11d for: pieces of weatherboards, gel, and deals. Labelled for Hundon.

Paid £300 from Dr. Westmoreland for works in hand to the Westwing building south front Jesus College.

This is a receipt for items purchased from James Paine, Corn and Coal Merchant, by Mrs. Ann Fielding. The list includes from June 16 bricks, cut lime, dow lath, a pound of hair, pavings, buck, plain tiles, pan tiles, stone whiting, and red 5 cub. On October 16 the list includes four pounds hair and cut lime. One December 21 there is an order for tiles. The total amount of the receipt is £3.7.6.

Receipt from Samuel Coulden, engraver, printer, and heraldic painter, for engraving work done for the College, including 4 dozen ivory dessert knives. £1 6s 6d and a cruet stand 2s 6d.

Receipt for work done on the Chapel
16 October 1847: 16 22Ls Yards of Best 4/4 Hush mending 1/8 £1 17s 6d
Bendy and of do with Leather 3s 6d
More Putting down Mending 1s
Total £2 2s

Receipt of payment by Darling Whittlesey for half a years Land Tax charged on the estate of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College at Willingham due Michaelmas last, amounting to 14s. Signed C. Underwood Collector.

Bill for shaving wallpaper in Hughes Keeping Room; preparing, sizing, and papering walls of bedrooms in L3 and B4; preparing and sizing walls of Mr Morgan's WC with own paper; stripping walls in sitting room and bedroom of L5 and lining them with new paper. Total cost £8 7s.

Receipt for preparing and sizing rooms for wallpaper, and for the papering and canvasing of walls, including the costs of wallpaper and lining paper. Work carried out in bedroom of K1 and K2, sitting room of H4, lobby and sitting room of F1. Total cost £7 4s, paid by cheque.

Receipt for donation of £20 from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to the Cambridge Home and Training School for Nurses. Signed by Elizabeth Pulling, treasurer.

£1 12s. 0d.
For sweeping the kitchen chimney, the servants' hall chimney, the porters and hall chimney, seventh hall chimney, and cleaning the copper and oven flue

For Audit Dinner, College Tenant Dinner, and Rustat Dinners. Total of £34 19s 2d (including deductions for Commons) received for period 15th December 1815 - 2nd January 1817. Settled 21st January 1817, signed by John Willis.
Costs include: turbot in lobster sauce; mutton; boiled fowls; roast tongue and udder; mock turtle; round of beef; hare soup; pigsface; roast fowls in sauce; pig's jaw; ragout veal and sauce; stewed eels; turnips, carrots, potatoes, greens and beans; boiled turkey with oyster sauce; muffin pudding; macaroni; apple pie; custards; Italian cheese; jelly; tartlets; mince pies; Charlotte pudding; hare; jelly; beef and pickles, bream; oysters; apricot tartlets; celery; beef steaks and vegetables; mutton chops and vegetables; salmon and lobster sauce; sole and Dutch shrimp sauce; fricandeau veal sauce; pigeon pie; vegetables and butter; oyster patties; beef cutlets; sirloin beef; roast chickens; stewed spinach; blancmange; apricot tart; salad with mint sauce; radishes; Spring soup; cold beef, bread and ale; dinner in Hall; boiled chickens in sauce; salmon patties; White soup; beef cutlets; lamb curry; roast pike in sauce; hind of mutton; breast of veal; rhubarb tart; plum pudding; ducks in sauce; salad; new potatoes; asparagus; mutton chops and vegetables; lamb chops and potatoes; Mrs Jiggins for cleaning apples; boiled fowls with parsley and butter; hashed calf's head baron; loin lamb curry; veal and ham pie; green pea soup; stewed veal breast; roast fowls and sauce; cauliflower and carrots; new potatoes and peas; ducks and gravy; currant pie; sweetbreads; marrow pudding; trifle; German puffs and wine sauce; cucumbers; gooseberry pie with custards; goose with gooseberry sauce; vegetables and butter for servants; College Tenant's dish of boiled beef and vegetables, beef steaks and potatoes and mutton chops; extra dinner in Hall.

6s 2d received from Mr Hustler, Bursar, on 27th November 1816.
Costs from 26th March 1816 include 4 hods brick mortar; 26 bricks; half-day bricklayer; half-day labourer.

To advertising in the Cambridge Chronicle Building Ground, Gravel Close,
Feb 20, March 7, 14, 21. 28, April 6 times at 7d
Ditto April
£2 9s

Purchase of a rectangular silver inkstand with three glasses for £9 9s, engraving College Arms and Latin inscription theron for 15s and 1s 6d for a packing box. Total including carriage and discount £9 17s 8d. Note to say that the inkstand had been put on that days coach . Signed Rundell Bridge & Rundell.