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Poor Rate Bill for £1 12s 8d. Signed by E. Littlechild.

Quarterly bill for £55 5s 6d for the second quarterly instalment of the Poor Rate.

Receipt for the payment of £4 10s 4d from Jesus College Chapel to the University Press. Payment for 6 Common Prayer Books, 2 octavo Latin primers, 4 octavo Greek primers, 25 3-page reposts on the State of the Chapel, 400 2-page circulars small post octavo regarding the Chapel Restoration Fund, 200 3-page circulars small post octavo Subscription List and 100 1-page circulars small post octavo regarding the Chapel Restoration. Dated 20th October and signed on behalf of C. J. Clay.

Addressee Hill Esq
Cicero as a prize book

Bill to the sum of £24 18s 6d for Prize Books.

Paid 18 pounds 12 shillings to Macmillan&Co Booksellers publishers and stationers for prizes:
Mr Lillistone 3 pounds 3 shillings
Mr Hall 2 pounds 2 shillings
Mr Hepworth 1 pound
Mr Sharp 3 pounds 3 shillings
Mr Shield 5 pounds
Mr Sharp 2 pounds 2 shillings
Mr Tatterthwaite 2 pounds 2 shillings

Bill for proby money, amount not specified. Addressed to the Master of Jesus College and signed by R. Merry. Written at Guilden Morden.

£1 10s 6d for gigs to Gravely and Croydon.

Bill addressed by Jesus College to Lewis Rootham for sawing a broken branch from a tree on the corner of Emmanuel Road, costing 2s 6d.

Paid by H. Muggleton £4 10s 1/2d to Benjamin Kettle.

Paid by Mrs. Muggleton due to John Martin. Signed by Benjamin Kettle

Paid by H. Muggleton 4s 10 1/2d to Benjamin Kettle.

Short bill 'For the Turnpickes' at Graveley, includes 'Post Chaise & Horse' (19s) and use of the turnpike road (1s 9d). Signed 'Rd Barett'.

Paid 155 pounds 9 shillings and 1 pence in account with George Bullen, for rent of Hugh Bridge allotment, Gotobeels (?) allotment, Haggis's allotment, leasehold rent.

Bill of £14 13s 11d for maintenance repairs on Jesus College properties, including repairing the roof of a water closet, wash house floor and fence and tiling work. Includes charge for materials and labourer's wages. Bill confirmed by R. Renyolds Rows (college surveyor).

Bill for several items of furniture and repairs done to furniture in the hall, including: 7 1/2 yards of "Cocoa Matting" (£1 1s 3d); repairing a dining table (2s); repairing "Study Chair" with new pins (2s 6d); 12 "chugget" studs (4d); repairs to "Matting" (2s 6d).

Bill for repairing Mr. Freeman's house at No. 7, Hobson Street. Addressed to Mr. Rowe, paid to W. Burbage. Totalling £1, dated 4th October 1864 and signed by W. Burbage.

Receipt for the payment of 1s from The Rev. Master and Fellows of Jesus College to the Gas Company for repairing the slide pendants in the Lodge. Dated 29th June 1864 and signed by P. Haslop, on behalf of the Gas Company.

Bill for the "making & repairing" of 14 table cloths, amounting to £4 8s. Paid by Dr Westmorland.

Bill for repairing tiling in the work shop at Mrs Freeman's on Hobson Street. Totalling £7 1s, includes payment for bricklayer and labourer, 95 plane tiles, mortar, 4 pantiles, larth [perhaps lath] and nails. Dated 7th May 1864 and paid to W. Burbage. Bottom of bill is missing, been cut away.

From the Bursar of Jesus College to Messrs Favell and Ellis. Details repairs done to the chancel roof of Shelford Church between 4th and 8th February 1856. Items billed include: labour 4 3/4 days 2 men to repairing all the leadwork and mending 51 places; plumbing solder; nails; coals; carriage of goods and tools. Amount billed totals £3 18s 7d. Signed by Robert Ellis.

Paid 1 pound 18 shillings to T Chapman for Altering of beer stall and blind in buttery. At Mr Frost's fixing catch to latch and casing of windows and new line to blind. New portico and door and fixing in buttery. 28 ft of wire for frames. Signed T Chapman.

Bill for repairs carried out by Lewis Rootham (builder, 32 Clarendon Street, Cambridge) to the house at 1 Park Street, occupied by Mr Joseph Sturton. Total cost of work is £31 13s 1d and includes: new kitchener and cistern (with cover); fitting and fixing the new range; one new cast pan with damper and frame and flue door; new supply pipe for cistern and boiler; bearing bars; fixing new stove and adding to chimney jambs; 25 floor tiles and fire bricks; 23 hods of mortar; repairing attic ceilings; cleaning, stoping, and whitening bedroom ceilings; making a cement chimney piece to front kitchen; taking up and relaying new lead gutter, cutting lead soakers for slaters, and laying on water for kitchen boiler supply; repairing shutters; repairing sash frames; new roof and boarded ceiling to servants' WE; misc. building materials; repairing slating on house and covering sides of dormers with slates.
Signed off by R. Reynolds Rowe, college surveyor and architect.

From the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to the executrix of the late James Rattee. Details repairs done to the floor of the chapel on 7th July 1854. Items billed include: masons labourers time; cleaning steps; repairing floor of chapel as per order. Amount billed totals £1 5s 0d. Signed by George Kett, Jr.

Payment of £46 8s 6d received on 11th December 1815. Signed by W Crowne.
Payment of £60 4s 11d received on 15th March 1816. Signed by W Crowne.
Costs include: taking up old boards and clearing rafters; taking up old wall plates; laying gutters; examining the roof over the Chapel; taking up gutters; fitting new trapdoor in the Belfry; making wedges for bricklayers to scaffold round Chapel; taking up old boarded floor in Chapel; taking down wainscot framing in Chapel; preparing and fixing framing in Chapel; repairing the old oak door in the ante Chapel going to Master's garden; preparing and fixing oak steps to stairs.

A bill for £39 16s 0d for work done at Horne Court, addressed to Robert Vernon.

Bill for £6 14s for a "Large Strong" square grate in the Hall. Signed by Apsey.

The Master's bill to Mr. Raynes, Bursar, for £50 spent in repairing the Lodge. Signed by R. Beadon (Master.)

A bill for £22 3s 6d for expense relating to the barn floor. The bill is crossed through and undated, and there is a calculation on the back.

Paid £2 9s 0d of Rustat Audit for: 2 visitors, 2 fellows, 9 scholars, lecturer.
Signed by W. Matthew.

Payment of £3 14s 0d for 2 visitors, 4 examiners, 4 scholas, lecturer and Rustat Bursar's salary for ½ a year until Lady Day 1766.

Signed by Samuel Berdmore.

Bill from Marsh & Swann (London, Cambridge, Isle of Ely and Norfolk Carriers). 19s.
May 20th 8 scaffold poles
Received by Mr Mordecai.

Paid 5s 6d for setting a fence to Rev. Dr. Beridge, including 'falling a tree'. Signed by William 'Picking' [?].

Paid 2s for "sett[in]g 2 Knives" and burnishing a ladle, signed by Edward York.

A bill for sizings, includes: beef steaks (1s); pot for two tenants (4d); pot and two 'tards' (1s). Total bill amounted to 3s 4d, signed by S. Gurkin.

A bill for sizings, amounts to £2 9s 7d. Signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for sizings, ending at Christmas 1768, amounting to £1 11s 6d. Also includes entries for sedge (£1 7s), 'Lanthorn' candles (4s) and new blades for the cutlery (15s 6d). Total bill amounted to £3 18s, signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for sizings, amounts to £3 6s 5d. Below is a charge for candles (4s) and 3 sacks of coal (6s). Signed 'For Father pr. Jos. Prior'.

A bill for sizings for 13 weeks, amounting to £1 2s 9d. Also includes 'sedge' (£1 10s); candles (4s) and 2 kitchen baskets (3s 3d). Total bill amounts to £3, signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for sizings for 13 weeks, amounting to £1 2s 3d. Also includes 'sedge' (£1 5s); candles (4s). Total bill amounts to £2 11s 3d, signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for sizings for 13 weeks, amounting to £2 15s 10d. Also includes mending a kitchen basket (8d) and blading a knife (1s). Total bill amounts to £3 14s 10d, signed 'received in full for my Father'.

A bill for sizings, amounts to £1 18s 11d. Below is a charge for candles (4s) and 4 sacks of coal (8s). Signed 'For Father pr. Jos. Prior'.

A bill for sizings, amounts to £4 10s 3d. Signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for sizings for 13 weeks, amounting to 11s 3d. Also includes 'sedge' (£1 2s). Total bill amounts to £1 13s 3d, signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for sizings throughout Michaelmas term, amounting to 5s 11d. Also includes an entry for sedge (18s). Signed by Beaumont Prior on behalf of his father.

A bill for sizings throughout Easter term, amounting to 11s 7d. Also includes entries for 2 kitchen baskets (3s 3d), 'Lanthorn' candles (4s) and sedge (£1 10s). Total bill amounted to £2 8s 10d, signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Keeching'), includes: cleaning 2 Jacks (3s 6d); laying 'pooker' [poker?] (1s); hoops to mend a pail (6d); mending the cook's key (1s); mending the Range bars (3s 6d); mending the Jack line (6d). Total bill amounts to 11s, signed by Thomas Coe.