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Statement of income 1913

Statement of money received during 1913, with covering letter from the Vicar to the Bursar.

Wood, Edmund G

Letter to the Ecclesiastical Commission

Copy of letter from the Bursar, offering £1250 from the Proby Fund to augment the living, if the Commissioners will match the amount.

Goodwin, John Henry Herbert

Demolition of church spire

Long letter from the Vicar to the Master, describing the bad state of the spire, the damage done in recent storms, and the necessity of having it pulled down.

Wood, Edmund G

Appointment of Sequestrator

Notification by H.L. Case, Churchwarden, that he has received the Document of Sequestration.

Case, Harry L

Bond

Brian Smith, junior, promises to pay Thomas Bishop £50 if his nominee Thomas Grey be deprived of the living, or if he should resign one month at least before he be mortally sick. With seal and two witnesses

Smith, Brian

Conveyance by Lease and Release

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/3/12/1
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  • 24 October 1682-25 October 1682

    • Part of College Archives

John Smith to Robert Glover of Frostenden, the advowson and a piece of land; for a consideration of £100 and £20 per annum for life.

Smith, John

Letter to the Master

W.W. Hayward to Dr French, he and Mr Jenkins have been collecting necessary papers to obtain an opinion. Mr Castley has some but declines to furnish them without authority from the College. Please ask him to do so. If the opinion is favourable, should proceedings be taken to prevent the operation of the Act of Parliament?

Hayward, William Woodcock

Letter to the Bursar

Official letter from the Tithe Commissioners, inviting the College to attend a meeting at the Half Moon Inn in Clare on 23 November, for the purpose of making an award.

Coates, Henry

Letter to the Master

Summarising information from the Vicar and his solicitor as to the value of the tithes.

Lawrence, John

Letters to the Master

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/3/16/5-10
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  • 9 January 1844-27 July 1844

    • Part of College Archives

Discussion of the agreement of 1690, and whether some or all of Lord Howe's land is subject to tithe. A difficult case that needs Counsel's opinion.

Lawrence, John

Resolution of dispute

Letters dealing with attempts to avoid litigation and to settle the disagreement, mainly from lawyers: John Lawrence, G.M.Andrew of Sudbury, H.J. Perry, Metcalfe & Woodhouse, F. Thynne. There is a report by John Lawrence 15 March 1845 of a Tithe Meeting which examined a map of the lands comprized in the agreement of 1690. By January 1845 Earl Howe was not intending to proceed with his action; and the file ends with a letters from the Rector, Thomas Castley, with details of lands and values.

Letters to the Master

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/4/3/2-5
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  • 25 November 1876-9 December 1876

    • Part of College Archives

Letters from the Vicar, about the refusal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to make a grant towards "this miserably paid benefice". Thanks for the £60 gift from the College.

Tillbrook, W J

Improvement of vicarage

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/4/5/2-5
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  • 3 May 1897-26 April 1898

    • Part of College Archives

Three letters from the Revd Peake Banton, Vicar 1891-1951, to Mr Goodwin (Bursar) asking for £60 from the Proby Fund to construct a staircase up to the attics. With a note (by Goodwin, probably) of the income 1896-7. A further note states that a house plan and elelvation 1897 was removed to the map cabinet

Banton, Peake

Letters 1922

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/4/8/1-4
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  • 22 October 1922-1 December 1922

    • Part of College Archives

The new Vicar, writing from Cheshunt, asks the College to help with the expenses for installing a well and a boiler for hot water.

Davies, A R

Letters 1923

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/4/8/5-12
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  • 20 March 1923-20 July 1923

    • Part of College Archives

Discussion of the possible sale of a dilapidated cottage in the Vicarage grounds: this is urged by the Vicar, and the Diocesan Board of Finance , in a letter from the Archdeacon of Ely, but the College refused. There are two letters from the Ecclesiastical Commission, making a grant to the benefice.

Estimates for electricity

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/4/9/1
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  • 23 February 1939-14 July 1939

    • Part of College Archives

A batch of letters correspondence between the Vicar and the College about the details of where the electic points should be etc.

Terrier and valuation

Includes terrier and valuation of glebe lands in Elmstead Rectory. Valuation of the tithes list names of those connected to the tithes. With accompanying letter from John Simons, tenant.

Simons, John

Tithe Award

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/5/3/3
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  • 21 December 1843-2 January 1844

    • Part of College Archives

Document drawn up by Tithe Commissioner Thomas James Tatham, following a meeting of landowners and tithe owners in the parish. Confirmation by Tithe Commissioners 2 January 1844. Copy without the seal

Tithe Commission

Letters from the Vicar

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/5/9/1-13
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  • circa 1893-circa 1897

    • Part of College Archives

Letters from Osmond Cookson, Vicar 1893-1904, most of them with no date of year, about dilapidations relating to the church, and ways of raising the money, including negotiating a loan from Queen Anne's Bounty. One letter is dated 1895 and one has a note of income and expenditure for 1896.

Vicar's allotments

Letter from T. Norfolk, surveyor, to the vicar, listing the lands and values. Note that a plan has been removed to the cabinet.

Ely and Newmarket Railway

Schedule of land required for the construction of the railway, and its value, drawn up by Edward Long, Surveyor and Valuer, with covering letter to the College.

Letter to the Master

Urging the purchase of the estate as soon as possible, Mr Mayes is getting impatient

Waller, John

Draft lease

Agreement between Charles Wing and Joseph Rushbrook of Graveley, William Rushbrook of Lavenham, and George Wing of Mildenhall, farmers,on the one part, and F [orT] Jackson of Middleton, on the other, for the lease of the Rectory farm, for 11 years, with covenants for good husbandry. The tenant undertakes the outside repair of the parsonage house.

Letter to William Hustler

Letter between College officials on the grievances of Gravely parish: the Rector, William Coppard, has claimed non-residence on the ground of ill-health, but has let his house fo nearly 18 years and is living in Kent. Letter has no date of year, perhaps 1820s.

Hibgame, Edward

Bond of Indemnity

Deed of John Warren, relating to his lease of the Rectorial farm to William Alexander Peppercorn, setting out obligations of both parties etc.

Warren, John

Mortgage agreement

Official agreement between John Parker Birkett, Rector of Gravely, and the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, for a mortgage of £1616.8.0, for building new farm buildings and enlarging existing ones. The document has been stamped with notes of extensions of the mortgage, and with a final discharge in December 1904.

Letter about Dr Cleave's estate

Letter from Messrs Wade-Gery and Brackwenbury, (solicitors?): Dr Cleave's creditors can only expect a small dividend; this is largely due to the dilapidations, assessed at £566.

Letter to the Bursar

Reporting a letter fom Queen Bounty, about money still owing. He has used his own money on improvements to the house, andwas responsible for a new cesspool at a fairly sanitary distance from the drinking water, which necessitated an entirely new system of drains.

Fisher, Osmond Philip

Letter to the Bursar

Queen Anne's Bounty has increased the amount of the loan, to cover the dilabpidations

Fisher, Osmond Philip

Fire insurance policy

Ecclesiastical Insurance Office, Ltd.: particulars of fire insurance policy no. 169422. A 3-page list of all the buildings and equipment on the property (37 items).

Letter from Land Agents

Messrs Looker & Theakston to O,P, Fisher, setting out the terms for employing Mr Herbert as tenant farmer.

Letters to the Bursar

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/7/19/3-6
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  • 14 January 1921-18 March 1921

    • Part of College Archives

Further details of suggested improvements and costs, thanks to the college for its help. The letter of 15 March discusses the suggested union of the parishes of Papworth St Agnes and Papworth Everard, in case this affects Graveley.

Fisher, Osmond Philip

Letter to the Bursar

Reasons for doing the work now: the tenant is a churchman, 'one of the first essentials in this Cromwellian neighbourhood' and it is good time to get rid of the dour results of the "Landlord - Tenant", "Church - Non-Conformist" quarrel between Canon Birkett and Pentelow, which has done so much to strangle Recotr after Rector of Graveley.

Fisher, Osmond Philip

Letter to the Bursar

Letter setting out his financial situation and debts, accompanied by a detailed table of expenditure over the years 1905-1921 (i.e. during his incumbency)

Fisher, Osmond Philip

Letter from the Master to the Bursar

Comments on finances of J.H. George, who is the only definite applicant - it is unlikely that any Jesus man will take it, 'I could not induce any of them to look at it'. Encl;oses not of income from Mr George

Gray, Arthur (Master 1912-1940)

Letters to the Bursar

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/7/20/17-20
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  • 2 February 1926-8 October 1926

    • Part of College Archives

Letters from the Rector J.H. [or F.H.] George, abou the financial problems of the living. The final letter. 8 October [1926?] regrets his departure and hopes some one else will soon be found.

George, J H

Letter from the Bishop

Letter to the Master, announcing commencement of the process for the union of the parishes of Gravely and Yelling.

White-Thomson, Leonard

Appointment of a commission

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/7/21/2-3
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  • 13 February 1928-24 February 1928

    • Part of College Archives

Letters to the Master inviting the College to appoint a representative to the Commission to discuss the union of parishes. The Graveley Church Council is not in favour.

Currington, F

Letter to the Master

Letter from the Vicar, asking for a grant from the Proby Fund to build a new vicarage, the present one was described by the surveyor as 'only a cottage of a very ordinary description'.

Wilson, Rev. John R.

Transfer of money

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/8/2/4-8
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  • 20 December 1872-19 March 1873

    • Part of College Archives

Notes and receipts relating to money (£824.1.5) transferred from the College to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

Exchange of land

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/2/LIV/8/3/1-8
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  • 24 December 1900-12 July 1901

    • Part of College Archives

Correspondence with the Vicar, A. Lukyn Williams, and Mr Walter A Sandeman of Morden House, Guilden Morden, about a proposed transfer of land, agreed by both parties. There are references ot plans, which are not on the file, also to a draft deed of exchange, in July 1901.

Confirmation of grant

Confirmation of the grant by Richard Duport of the advowson to the College. In Latin. Witnessed by S. Hanson and John Scott, notary. With a seal.

Duport, Richard

Estimate for repairs

Survey my Charles Humfrey, of the repairs necessary to the parsonage house, the barn, stable etc., and to the church, amounting to £380.19.8.

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