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Quarterly bill for £87 10s 5d for the fourth quarterly instalment of the General District Rate.

Gig and duty June and July 1816. Total £1 11s 6d.

Bill for gig hire to Over for 14s 3d

Paid £11 18s for re-gilding 2 frames, new ornaments for a frame, refitting frames, cleaning and varnishing pictures.
Signed Thomas Johnson

Work done up to 27th September 1815 (Michaelmas Term). Costs include:
19th November 1814 Work done at the Master's Lodge: 1 1/4" brass cock to soft water cistern; 2lb solder to soft water cistern; work of 2 men to soft water cistern.
Signed by W. Pearce 3rd November 1815.
February 1815 Work done at the Chapel: 3/4 of a day work 2 men to the leads; 3lb of solder; 1 days work 2 men to the leads.
June-August 1815 2x 1 day work 2 men cleaning windows; 18 quarries at 2 1/2 each; 3x 1 day work 2 men; 60 quarries at 2 1/2 each; 4x 1 day 2 men; 8 quarries; 1 day 2 men; 9 feet of 3 1/2" wall pipe at 3s per foot; 1 day 2 men; 9 feet glass repaired at 4d per foot; squares of crown glass; 1 day 2 men; 16 quarries; 3/4 of day 2 men; 1/4 of day 1 men. September 1815 11 feet glass new lead; 14 feet glass repaired ; 6 squares of crown glass; 1/2 day 2 men.
April 1815 Work done at the kitchen: 3 squares crown glass; 3 old squares putting in; new box leathers to pump.
December 1814 Work done at the Courts: 2 squares of glass knife house; estimate for cloyster leads; 10 of milled lead to cloyster leads.
April 1815 Work done to the Porter's Lodge: 8 feet of leaded glass; 9 squares of glass; 2 lights nailing in; payment due on last year's account.
June 1815 Work done in the Hall: 1 1/2 day 2 men cleaning the windows; 4 feet of glass leaded; 1 cast pinned and puttyed; 3 squares crown glass; stair case at 1 square crown glass; cleaning windows.

A long bill for work done in college, which includes: repairs done "flashes" on the seats in the Fellows' Garden (1s 6d); lead (2 1/4d); "1 Crown Square" in the Master's Lodge (1s); cleaning of the windows in the Combination room (1s), along with purchase of lead (1s 1d); repairing 26 feet of "Old Glass" in the Chapel (4s 5d), and purchase of several quantities of new glass; new lead for the Gate (5s 6d); repairs to old glass in the "Room under Mr. Milner"; repairs to 14 feet of "Old Glass" in the Master's Lodge (2s 4d); cleaning and repairs done to the kitchen windows; purchasing glass for the Porter's Lodge (1s); repairing 8 feet of old glass in the "Room under the Library" (2s 9 1/4d); repairing 4 feet of old glass in the "Room Up Library Starecas". The bill also includes charges for labour, and amounts to £8 5s 10 1/4d. Signed by Painter.

Bill mostly of payment for labour and lead, also includes: "8 foot of New Quare Glass" in the Master's Lodge (4s 8d) and various repairs to glass windows in the "Rooms in the first Corte". Amounts to £1 9s 4 1/2d, signed by Robert Painter.

Bill for work done to college, includes: cleaning the windows in the Combination Room (1s); repairing 10 feet of "Old Glass" in the Hall (2s 8d); cleaning the lamps in the Hall (2s); providing 3 "Quares" of glass in the Master's Lodge (3d); new lead for the kitchen boiler (£1 6s 1 1/2d); 9 "Quares" of glass in the kitchen"; paying 2 men for a quarter of a day's work (1s); 18s received in exchange for old lead. Total bill amounts to 15s 9 1/2d, and signed by Robert Painter.

Bill for the cost of nails, glue, lath and lime issued from Mr Hunt to H. W. Wilmott. Total costs of £4 4s 2d and £2 4s 3 1/2d.

Received of the Rev. Dr French, the sum of £7 11s 1d for work done at Jesus College since Michaelmas 1839.

Paid 3s for 2 loads of gravel. Signed by Christopher Cuttchey.

Received of the College. Paid 12s for loads of gravel. Signed by Christopher Cuttchey.

Paid to Christopher Cuttchey £1 17s 6d

Paid £0 16s 4d (possibly) for the steward at Graveley Court (the ink is not legible).
Signed by J. Waller

Payment of £1 6s 8d received from Mr. Darby for keeping their Court at Graveley in the years 1765 and 1766.

Signed by J. Waller.

Payment of 9s 11d received from Mr. Darby by Beaut Prior for 2 bottles of port, 3 empty bottles, a pound of tobacco, 1 bottle of brandy, half a pound of sugar.

Paid 15s 7d for bottles of red wine, pipe tobacco, sizings in Buttery.

Cook's bill. Paid £14 8s for bottles of red wine, pipe tobacco, 1 bottle of Madeira, sizings. Signed by William Norfolk.

Asking Mr. R. F. Cuthbert for the sum of Fifteen Pound six shillings and three pence for one yrs Income Tax' [£15 6s 3d]. Signed. Mr. Goodchild.

Iron work done to the estates.
Ironmongery: gratings, hooks, stapes, nails, paddlocks.
Marked received, j. Shallow.

A bill for ironwork undertaken in the college between January and August 1821, broken down into sections. Work done to the Master's lodge includes: 'feat iron' (1s 6d); new spit and wheel (8s 6d); coal shovel (4s); righting tongs (6d); a pair of kitchen tongs (3s 6d); pot hook (1s 6d); dripping pan stand (3s 6d); wiping out and oiling a Jack (1s); cooks 'holdfast' (3d 6d); 6 skewers (3s); balance skewer (3s); cleaning two brass locks (3s); 'Revit cap staple on brass plate 4 screws' (1s 6d); 6 finger plates (15s); cleaning and repairing three locks to the larder, pantry and water closet (3s); a cradle spit (£2 2s 6d); green wire fender for bedroom (17s 6d); knife steel (2s); meat saw (8s); rake and handle (2s); fire guard (7s 6d); heater 'for Urn' (2s 6d); four best cranks, one ride 'crank on plate' for parlour (10s 6d); one check spring [?] right bolt (1s); 'two cranks, one hole new wire & removd door Bell' (4s); 'mending a tumbler to lock of Bottle place' (9d); three pairs of heaters 'to box irons' (6s 3d); pair of handle heaters to Italian iron (2s); cinder sieve with long[?] handle (4s 6d); polishing steel front of Register[?] stove and 22 new ornaments (£1 8s); key to a bottle jack (2s); mending gate bell (9d); pair of flats (3s); 6 feet of chain for gate (1s 6d); padlock for the gate (1s); key to caddy ['caddee'] (1s); bed winch ['bedwynch'] (2s 6d). Total bill amounted to £12 13s 0d. Attached to the front of the bill with a pin is a receipt for the money signed by Thomas 'Shallon/Shalton'.

Wind guard Griffith
Bar for top of chimney
Register stove Mr King
Wind guard on chimney of Mr King
Bar for chimney
Cleaned & mend lock E staircase
Register stove Gibbs
double locks Mr (?) call (?) Matthews Ha
Slip & ban Gibbs
Back & fix'd woodward
fastened bar to stove of Mr Pickance

Total: £11 15s 0d

Paid 50 pounds 5 pence to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork.
Courts and outside work
Range with ? and boil and steam pipe Porters House
Ironing Stove and 2 bars at do
Pipe on Chimney at do
A wind guard at do
new lock 2 keys to door at do
2 ventilating air bricks
Slip over range
3 gallon oil can
3 bars copper gardeners house
New lock to pantry door Porters
False bottom at Porters
Secured repaired 2 locks in the choristers room
new spindle nobs to do
cup staple 2 screws and fixed
cubpboard lock Porters
latch 2 catches 2 buttons 2 nobs
Mended poker Porters lodge
2 keys to cupboards at do
3 scutcheons at do
1 length pipe to drain
nob and mend poker Porters lodge
Cleaned and oil and joists to gate
closet lock Porter
lock fastened at do
2 keys to gates porters house
new casement W Westmorland
Taking down gutter repaired
Do at porters
5 brackets to do
2 men fixing do 1/4 day
12 screws and fresh fixed latch to knife place
1 check spring ? bell gate
Key to fellows water closet porter
Cleaned and repaired lock to do
Brass pack fixed for
Slip to top of fire place at do
Rake to clean oven at do
Bolt screws fixed water closet
Falso bottom to stove Porters
Mend a shovel do
3 feet pipe fixed to ? tub
Repaired lock to coal place
Laid poker Porters Lodge
Altered stove and padding fire stove back and checks W Fisher
Lock 2 keys fixed porters lodge
4 handles fixed to drawers
Mend latch nails fixed stable yard
x back fixed (?)
Mend lamp Porters Lodge
Double back fixed (Shield)
Laid 29 feet gutter at Gardeners house
8 feet pipe to do
Pipe on chimney at do
1 hook for do
Cleaned ? 2 locks to gates 3 bolds and 2 men fixing
Crate for drain brick
Double back and check to stove ?
Key boat house by Porter
Cleaner=d repaired lock do
Mend a lamp
Blower fixed Porters lodge
0 brass labels engraved for keys
Latch 3 keys fixed school room
Two lock fixed to stable yard
A plate screwes fixed to do
check fixed to range porter
Key to Sedge (?) Place
Back fixed, Dew, Holloway, Hilton
new back and bottom 2 screws and fixed Kindersly
2 checks repaired stove Brooker
A new false back to do
Double back 2 screws and fixed
???
36 prick Elliptic stove (Sharp)
Bar fix do bricklayer
New check fixed back repaired stove and bar to do (Buk[?])
New hob, new back s
Double back dixed Grace and Ingram
2 check repaired stove Ingram
back stove number 2 Pump stove
Double back fixed Hawker
Morgan, Steve Elwell
Lecture room
Spoocily, Wilson
School room
Mullins
Mending a key
Lowe's drain trap
Mend key stable

Combination Room
Taking down lamp pin
Turnbuckle fixed to window

Hall
Pipe on chimney
4 mustard (?)

Signed Thomas Shallow

[Receipt]

Received December 8th 1846 of the Revd. Doctor French, twenty eight pounds fifteen shillings and fourpence for ironwork on college acct. [account] as per bill,

[Signed] Tho. Shallow

[Itemised bill]

Jesus College for Ironwork

To Shallow & Coleman

1846 – Masters Lodge

1st of January –
[?] a copper; £0 9s 6d
New Pipe & Tap to ditto [Master’s Lodge]; £0 10s 6d
Damper; £0 3s 0d
Roighled [Rough led?] 5 bars; £0 2s 6d
Hooping; £0 0s 6d
Mend latch copper door; £0 1s 0d
Set of Ironwork to order; £4 5s 6d
Doorframe for sweeps; £0 2s 0d
5th of March –
Plate & bar over drain, 21 [?]; £0 5s 3d

26th of October –
Oiled & cased crank wire & repaired bells door & gate; £0 3s 0d
[Total=] £6 2s 9d

1845 – Courts

28th of October –
2 Good locks & cap staples drill’d 10 holes & screw bolts 4 revits [rivets?] & fixd [fixed] [?] gates next close;

5th of November –
3 Strong lid grates stable yard 45 - £1 2s 6d
11th of November –
20 ft. gutter coach house; £0 10s 0d
3 ft. 6 in. pipe to gutter coach house;
6 brackets 1 [hour?] & fixed; £0 3s 0d

16th of November –
2 hooks; £0 4s 0d
3 hooks & & rings to hang horses; £0 2s 0d

27th of November –
Fixd. turnbuckle to case in Chapel; £0 1s 0d

1st of December –
Mend gas lamp court; £0 1s 6d

29th of December –
Screws & fixd. turnbuckle to [casement?] Chapel; £0 1s 0d

1846 –

Mend hammer Chapel;’ £0 0s 6d
16th of January –
Drill’d hole in plate & screws
3 fixd. [fixed] bar to gate; £0 1s 6d

17th of January –
Mend hammer; £0 0s 6d

19th of January –
Sharpened 2 ends and 2 handles to Chapel; £0 1s 0d

26th of January –
Fix’d turnbuckle to cas’t [casement] Chapel; £0 0s 6d
27th of January –
Sharp’d crove bar to Chapel; £0 0s 6d
30th January –
Mend [?] shoe place; £0 1s 0d
31st of January –
2 Bushels charcoal Chapel; £0 3s 0d
Mend brass curtain [?] 3 fixd. to Chapel; £0 3s 0d

9th of February –
[?] to Chapel door; £0 1s 6d
Sharp’d [sharpened] 4 points; £0 0s 8d
14th of February –
Open’d lock gate cleaned & repaired to Chapel door; £0 1s 6d

14th of February –
[?] to Gate; £0 1s 2d
Strong plate screws & fixed; £0 1s 0d
16th of February –
Sharpened 3 weed hooks 1 men, handle to gate; £0 0s 9d
20th of February –
Taking bar out, mend[ed] and fixed, gate next close; £0 4s 0d
Square to door cell & screws fix’d in cinder place; £0 2s 0d
21st of February –
2 [?] land fence next close 36; £0 18s 0d
Taking out 5 land & lengthen’d fence next close; £0 5s 0d
12 ft lead; £0 2s 6d
2 mend 1 day firing 12 ft. lead; £0 8s 0d
Cleaned and repaired lock, Porters; £0 1s 6d
4th of April –
Laid 2 points; £0 3s 0d
9th of April –
Sharpen’d 4 weld hooks; £0 0s 8d
13th of April –
Laid 1 point; £0 1s 6d
Sharpened 2 weld hooks; £0 0s 4d
23rd of April –
Sharpen’d 2 weld hooks; £0 0s 4d
Ground [?]; £0 0s 9d
27th of April;
Laid 2 points; £0 3s 0d
Sharpen’d 2 weld hooks; £0 0s 4d
29th of April –
Glass to Porters’ Lamp; £0 1s 6d
6th of June –
Laid 2 points; £0 3s 0d
11th of June –
Padlock hasp & loops fix’d Chapel door; £0 2s 0d
11th of August –
Fixed pump, locker and key to bolt; £0 1s 0d
27th of April –
New lever to clock hammer; £0 2s 6d
22nd of September –
Key to Chapel door; £0 1s 6d
Taking down [?] window; £0 1s 0d
24th of September –
New cheek new stand and plate, and repaired stove cookers room; £0 4s 0d
19th of October –
Charcoal for Chapel; £0 2s 0d
Man ½ day lighting fire; £0 2s 0d
21st of October –
2 men fixing curtain rods; £0 3s 0d
[Total=] £9 19s 10d

Combination Room
1845 –
17th of December –
Mend lamp; £0 1s 0d
14th of March; Hook 4 screws & fix’d; £0 0s 6d
29th of June; Cleaned vivers & fender; £0 2s 6d
3rd of September; Cleaned large lamp; £0 7s 0d
2 men fixing large lamp; £0 2s 0d
[Total=] £0 13s 0d

Buttery
1845 –
13th of November –
Key to cupboard; £0 1s 0d
27th of November –
Plate revits [rivets?] and screws and mend top of boiler; £0 4s 0d
1846 –
10th of April –
Curtain rod 2 hooks fixed; £0 1s 0d
17th of April –
Plate 10 screws fixed to bracket under board; £0 1s 6d
16th of October –
Plate rivets ground fired fixed boiler plate white lead 4 screws bolts & mend, new tap 12 screws mend bars ground taps & repaired range; £1 10s 0d
Steam pipe to Range; £0 3s 0d
Man ½ day fixing; £0 2s 6d
[Total=] £2 3s 10d

Clock
One year winding & oiling; £4 14s 6d

Kitchen
1845 –
11th of November –
Cleaned 2 drip pan stands & shortened legs; £0 4s 0d
2nd of December –
2 Holdfasts & fixed shelf; £0 1s 0d
1846 –
19th of January –
Oiling Jack; £0 5s 6d
20th of February –
Mend handle to pepper-mill; £0 1s 0d
23rd of March –
Bottom to boiler, 23 lb.; £0 5s 9d
9th of April –
Oiling Jack; £0 5s 6d
19th of June –
Oiling Jack; £0 5s 6d
18th of August –
Top to boiler, 32 lb.; £0 8s 0d
19th of August –
2 pumps; £0 8s 0d
1 holdfast; £0 1s 6d
20th of August –
2 new sides to stove, 31 lb.; £0 10s 4d
4 new bars to to stove, 20 lb.;£0 6s 8d
22nd of August –
Cleaned, repaired & oiled jack; £0 15s 0d
3 new chains to stove; £0 12s 0d
11th of September –
Bottom to boiler, 22 lb.; £0 3s 6d
13th of October –
Cleaned & righted drip pan stands; £0 2s 0d
17th of October –
Shovel with a long handle; £0 4s 6d
[Total=] £5 1s 9d

[Grand Totals=]

Masters Lodge = £6 2s 9d
Courts = £9 19s 10d
Combination Room = £0 13s 0d
Buttery = £2 3s 6d
Clock = £4 14s 6d
Kitchen = £5 1s 9d
=£28 15s 4d

[Second paper]

Letter of receipt dated 8th of December 1846. Signed by Thomas

A bill for £30 7s 6d to Coe & Company for Ironwork done in the College.

A Bill for £34 0s 10d for Thomas Shalton for Ironwork in the College.

Bill for £5 12s 9d for ironwork on Jesus College estates including easing sluice gates mending gutter and pipes.

Bill for ironwork to students' rooms, from Shallow and Coleman. Total payment of £1 6s 6d, and includes payment for: work to stove in Duncan's room; double back fixed in Corfield's room; square to partition, cleaning two locks, new pair of knobs and spindle, cap stables, brass head screws, all for Swainson's room; back to stove in Mayland's room; latch in Corfe's room. Received the 28th November 1865 and signed by Thomas Shallow.

This bill is from John Burder to the Master for the amount of £1 2s 6d

A Bill for £26 1s 6d to be paid to T Goode and Son for reparations to the Lodge and College.

Bill to the sum of £0 12s 0d for 6 lamp burners and altering of hall lamp.

A Bill for £ 26 2s 7 1/2d for J. Turner, Bricklayer.

Bill for £15 14s 10d for J. Winter, relating to a legacy of £6000 left to the College by Mr. Jones, which the College planned to invest and for which J. Winter undertook the business.

Bill of £39 13s 11d for Jesus College Insurances including: 2 houses on Malcolm Street, farm at Great Shelford, farm at Tempsford, farm at Graveley, farm at Willbraham, farm at Hendon, farm at Over, 8 houses in Jesus Lane, house & farm in St Giles, college buildings and contents, farm on Hills Road.

Bill to the sum of £1 0s 0d for Jo James Tibbit for New Gate, post and oake spur, nails.

Bill and receipt for £83 2s 6d for John Turner received from the Rev. Dr. French. for college maintenance.

A bill for joinery work done in the college between November 1768 and October 1769. The bill includes: 2 doors in 'Lodge' (2s 6d); oak (1s 1d); nails (4d); 'Mending the Landing of gateway stair' (1s 6d); deal (10d); 'dying damask Curtains' for the chapel (£1 4s); undoing and remaking the chapel curtains (7s 6d); 28 yards of 'best silk lace' (9s 4d); silk thread tape and 13 rings (1s 9d); 2 door springs (18s); lifting handles (2s); making board (2s); 'Altering door' (1s 3d); 'Leather for box & mending pump in Lodge' (1s 9d); 'putting Irons on hall doors' (1s); altering rails in the chapel (2s); hanging a sash in the Lodge (1s 8d); 'Repairing large Wooden gates next Close' (£1 12s 6d); 'findland deal' (3s 9d); making a door and a frame for the Master's garden along with a fence in the Close (18s 9d); brass doorknobs and nails (6s 9d); lining the ceiling in the parlour and repairing the cornices (£1 2s 6d); 2 brass buttons for shutters (3s 11d); mending the fence next to the pond ['pound'] (1s 9d); new leathering pump and a new bucket for the Lodge (3s 6d); making a door for the chapel (£1 18s 1/2d); glue (1s). Also includes references to labour costs. Total bill amounts to £15 4s and was signed by Smith.

Paid to E. Barnes & Son. 3s 6d for key cutting for 60 Aldermanbury.

Bill for 11s 7d, includes: mending a pair of bellows; mending "tin Slices"; mending a ewer; "tinning 3 Stewpans 1 Potsaucepan"; tinning a large "Posnett"; "the use of 30 plates". Signed by John Apsey.

A bill for oil purchased by Jesus College between October 1767 and March 1769, includes: 'Lamp oil', 'Spermacetic' oil, and cotton. Total bill amounts to £12 16s, signed by Bennet Brown on behalf of John Purchas.

Bill for light repairs, amounting to £1 15s 9d. Includes: repair of two water pots; "a New Lamp for the Closters"; new glass for the chapel lamps; a pound of "Tow"[?] for lamps; half a pound of cotton; a new burner; a new lamp in the Chapel; a lantern "for ye port Vours"; a small lamp; four pounds of cotton. Signed by Jonathan Munn.

Paid by Mr. Muggleton £1 to William Banks.

Paid by Widow Muggleton 15s. Signed by Jonathan Tuson.

A bill for washing the college's linen (18s), signed by Ann Chafer.

A bill for washing the college's linen (18s). Signed by Ann Harper.