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Supplemental abstract of the title of Mrs Sarah Ann Bennett to a freehold messuage and premises No. 3 Fair Street

Official search of the register in respect of 2 Fair Street listed the owner as Albert Horspool of 40 Maids Causeway, baker and confectioner.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr George Frederick Hearn.

Quarterly rent: £8.

Parties: (1) Mr Albert Horspool, (2) Jesus College.

Conveyance of the freehold messuage and premises No. 2 Fair Street.

Parties: (1) Mr Edward Preston, (2) Mr William Collin

The lease describes Edward Preston as a publican and William Collin as a merchant. The land which is the subject of the lease is described as a piece or parcel of freehold ground situate and being in the Parish of St Andrew the Less...being part and parcel of a piece of ground which was allotted to the said Edward Preston by the Commissioners for inclosing Barnwell in their award dated 20 April 1811

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Pickfords Limited.

Duplicate agreement as to lights in warehouse at 37 Hills Road.

Map showing Fair Street and part of New Square. Vic Davis's premises on the east side of Fair Street are coloured green. Premises on the corner of Fair Street and Willow Walk and Nos. 36 (onwards) in New Square are coloured in blue. No. 35 New Square and premises behind fronting on to Fair Street are shaded orange. The latter premises are labelled "proposed new premises". Scale: 32 feet to 1 inch

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr V. G. Davis.

Counterpart agreement for monthly tenancy of premises in Fair Street. Monthly rent: £1.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr George Laurie.

Licence to demise to Laurie & McConnal Limited premises in the rear of No. 35 New Square comprised in lease dated 31 October 1890.

Receipt from J. Goode and Son of £15 2s 7 1/2 d for repair of various rooms in Chapel staircase, low lane staircase, hall staircase

Receipt of Henry Winter's payment of the insurance £9 s9 at the Porters

The purchase of 50 tonnes of Blythe coal (after a £7, 10s debit totaling £33, 15s, 0d), and 100 tonnes of Ducks coal (after a debit of £15 totaling £70), paid together by cheque (all in one glued bundle).

Further, the payment of £30, 0s, 0d to Edward Mason to freight the coal, and £15, 0s, 0d to William Barton to haul and portage it to the coal house.

A series of bills and payments to do with Hundon, mostly with the repair of the chancel following lightning damage.

1. Norwich Union Fire Assurance Society payment
2. Work done at Hundon Parsonage commissioned by Cuthbert: repairing tiles (£1, 0s, 8d), repairing 'underpinion' (£0, 17s, 0d), cleaning fences (£2, 1s, 0d), repairing walls on house (£2, 9s, 0d), whitewashing the barn (£0, 6s, 6d), repairing tiles 'on jobs' (£0, 3s, 6d), repairing drains (£0, 2s, 6d), cleaning gutters (£0, 1s, 6d), repairing walls (£0, 7s, 3d)
3. Thatching repairs by George Rogers at Hundon for the wheat barn (sic 'weat') £4, 16s, 4d
4. works done by the smith George Eldred for Hundon rectory: 3 chains and spikes (£0, 3s, 0d), dials, staples, and a lock and key (£0, 4s, 6d), an oven door (£0, 7s, 0d), a pound of nails (£0, 2s, 0d)
5. Repairs by the Carpenter Thomas Knock at Hundon Rectory: boarding, gate repair, cleaning and painting, frame lashing, totaling £4, 17s, 6d.
6. work on the garden of Mr Cuthbert by James Hall, purchase of bricks and pavement work totaling ˀ£7, 0s, 3d.
7. purchase of 50 bushels of lime, £1, 0s, 10d.
8. rent receipt collected by Thomas Robinson
9. income and property tax of Hundon for one year, collected by William Goodchild, totaling £15, 6s, 3d.
10. Mason and bricklaying work on the chancel of Hundon after lightning damage, £26, 0s, 0d.
11. Thank you letter from R.W. Stoddart for repairs to the chancel after the lightning damage.
    12 & 13. sums attributed to Cuthbert and Stoddart, not described.
    14 & 15. two cheques for John Mortlock to the credit of J. Graham (£46, 15s, 3d) and R. Merry (£110, 13s, 6d).

A letter from Mr Goodwin to the bursar asking for his support in the foundation of a new 'industrial school' to offer trades training to boys in Cambridge. Followed by a list of current subscribers, and a description of the school and its aims.

Only Goodwin signed, but the others are all named as the school committee.

purchase and payment of coal, including a cheque, all totaling £113 5s 0d, for 250 tonnes of ducks coals and blyth coals over three purchases.

A letter from Hutchinson to the 'gentlemen', requesting a ditch to be dug nearby as part of ongoing construction on Mount Pleasant in St Giles Parish, between 'Bandy Leg Walk' and Madingley Road.

Also enclosed is an extract from the enclosure award to the parish, with a map of the area and proposed ditch.

Letter to the Dean (of Jesus? Ely?) asking him to bring forward a candidate for Storey's Almshouse: the old widow Sarah Cliff.

Possibly the same Mrs Wallis of the 'Eccles Case'.

Letter noting the omission of £19 3s from receipts, making the total receipts for the deanery £443 12s 6d.

Three letters asking for admission of women to Storey's Almshouse. Two deal with the 'Eccles story' about a Mrs Wallis in Eccles, a bankrupt widow. One to do with a Mrs Marsh, who knew of the Eccles case. All from the same Mr Frere.

A letter describing the background of a new resident at Jesus, James Wallace, and advocating for him to be looked after by Dr French. George Thoughson vouched for his character and his family (grandson of a 'well known London clergyman', W.L. Sharpe).

A letter from Jane Toakely (of Christ's Pieces) applying to be considered for Storey's Almshouse.

suggestion of a Mrs Key as candidate for Rastat widow pension. Description of her family. From the provost of King's College to Dr French.

receipt of 4p rent due from Jesus College to Trinity College

certification of Rustat pension to Mrs. Furness, widow of Rev Furness

Certification of Rustat pension to Mrs Webb, widow of Rev'd Webb

Three letters giving thanks to Dr French for provision of pensions

Letter asking the Master for permission to live at Storey's Alms House, and explaining her situation. Sarah lives at 10 Manor Street.

Invoice for R Ellis from Jesus College for altering and painting the rain water pipe; making two elbows over the new roof and soldering them; filling old pipe; taking up lead gutters and assisting a Carpenter with relaying "Bearers and Boards"; relaying lead gutters; mending gutters; taking up lead over chain; bearers and boards lead work; relaying lead over chain;taking off lead and grazing glass ; mending more lead work; relaying lead on the roof; fixing lead pipes; using jack pump and pipe;repairing old windows; glass work; cleaning large windows; cleaning all the hall windows; taking out windows; cleaning out stone work; soldering windows; cleaning windows in the kitchen; relaying lead in kitchen.

Receipt from Dr French Master of Jesus College to Robert Ellis paying £20 11s 2d

Invoice Jan 23rd 1847-Sept 29th 1847. Invoice from the master and the fellows of Jesus College to J Turner for cleaning drains; repairing walls; pulling glass;laying bricks; stopping holes in walls; Loading carts with sand; plastering whitening and colouring; taking down and building ?; Painting hallways.

Invoice August 28th. Invoice from Masters and Fellows of Jesus College for taking down and rebuilding back parts of the house.

Invoice June 10th. Dr French and The Fellows of Jesus College for repairing the hearth; fixing tin and fixing earthen pot; mending out office and plaster and tiling; kitchen fire place; repairing study fire place; stopping holes; repairing drawing room ceiling; hall staircase repainted; whitening kitchen back staircase and entrance to garden whitening and painting.

Receipt from Reverend Dr French Master of Jesus College for work done to Jesus College for £63 12s 9d signed by John Turner

Paid £36 9s 11 1/2d to J Goode and Sons. 3 wheelbarrows of lead and painting and decorating the Masters Bedroom and dressing room; changed the chimney piece colour; decorating dining room; Front gates painted; Hall doors painted; door to the garden tinted; Buttery colour touched up; Staircase varnish redone; Part of doors painted then grained; chapel staircase painted; Bow lane staircase painted; Cleaning near the servants quarters; Shutters repainted; shifting and moving things.

Received by the Rev Dr French

Paid £3 14s to R Press. Includes details about chimney sweeping done around the college.

Paid £15 7s 0d to Webster and Son for maintenance work. Includes taking new seats to the Fellows;taking down 2 trees in the Grove and casting the trees to the saw pit; moving furniture; repairing fences; making wheelbarrows; mending the newel on the staircase next to the porters lodge; nailing on Laths to the Priory; carting timber; purchase of knife board; fencing round the yard and paddock; making hole for chimney piece for the Smiths; repair of the coal bins in the Porters lodge; making new table area; repairing old dresser in the college kitchen.

Recieved if the Master and Fellows of Jesus College total of 15 pounds 7 shillings signed by J webster and sons

Paid £18 1s 9d to Webster and Son for maintenance work. Includes mending a fence in the close; putting in Mortice latch and repairing door (1 dozen screws 1/2 nails); mending trough and fence in the close and door to the stable; Sawing for ports and rails; taking down tree; coating gravel from the garden to the lodge and road; repairing gate doors in the masters stable yard and sharpening saw; fencing round the close and the garden.

Paid 11s 6d to Thomas Chapman for carpentry work. Includes unpacking and packing carved work; taking carved work of seat for Mr Rattee; taking down and putting up altar piece; putting three new ledges on shelf in Buttery; mending door in cellar; new lath covered with red baize on Combination room door and new line to picture and brass nail in Combination room.

Paid £29 18s 2d to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork in College. Includes payments for:

Hall - lined coal scoop, mend poker, new standards two bars and spikes, cleaned stove, cleaned two fenders, two men for taking down stove, taking stove to pieces, new cheeks to stove, two new inner backs, part new outer back, new set front bars, new rivets to other bars, two sets of furnace bars, sheet new and mend cases, 16 pins and nuts, 8 screws and nuts and repairs, three men each for fixing and cleaning stove, taking down cleaning and fixing 6 lamps, shovel.

Masters Lodge - Righted rack and fixed cheek to range, mortice catch on cloister door, key to front gate, cleaned and repaired locks, taking up hot plate and taking off rim righted hot plate six rivets and fixed, a plate 3 rivets and fixed, plate to end of hot plate, righted furnace bars to hot plate, cap staple and fix, four bars to chimney, screw belt and plate to beam bedroom, three square head bolts, man sawing off bolt and cutting nut, hook fastened another and fitting spit racks, straps and nails.

Courts - Taking off Gate, pair of joints, porters bell, wire and repaired bell to outer gate, mend Dutch hoe, mend shovel, repair lock to shoe place, key to stable by groom, laid raker porter, repaired gutter in stable yard, spring cleaned and repaired lock to cloister, cleaned and repaired lock to front gate, made cap staple secure and fixed to front gate, double back and fixed to stove Baddelys room, four screw bolts, two braces and eight screws to barrow, double backed and fixed Kidays Room, plates and clasps for snow shovel, gudgeons to barrow, rivets to standards in the stable, latch screw to Master's stables, fixed tumbler to case to stiarcase, 1lb of holdfasts to stables, hooks, bolts and screws to stables, sharpening weed hooks, bolts to ladder, mend lock to wicket gate, tree hooks for ivy, puce spiking and two bearings, drilled hole in spiking, sheet iron partitions to coal bins, chimney bar.

Buttery - new tap to range, laid poker, opened padlock to cellar, mending bottle poker, iron fixed for roller for towel, new lock two tumblers, 4 keys and fixed door.

Combination Room - screw to lamp, tumbler and repaired mortice lock, lay and mend poker, opened door, inner back to stove, cleaned stove and fender, mend curtain pin, taking down lamp and cleaned, paid two men for fixing lamp.

Chapel - cleaned candle sockets

Clock - for winding and attending

Kitchen - oiling jack, laid and lengthen poker, right and straighten spit, bottom to stove, eye to casement, altered jack chains, mend lock to door, collars and raised doors, bars to stove, holdfasts, righted bars to copper, nails and fixed door, screws and fixed stove in larder, thumb screw to trough of gridiron.

Receipt from Thomas Clayton for 16s 8d for 20 feet of tooled york.

Receipt from H. A. Woodham, librarian for the payment of £10.

Receipt and sums from Richard Rowl, collector noting property and income taxes paid by the college for 1847. £36 10s 7.5d and £33 18s 1.5d.

Receipt from T. Ashlen for land taxes paid in the parish of St. Andrew the Great for the half year ending at Lady Day 1847. £13 15s.

Receipt from T. Ashlen for land taxes paid in the parish of St. Andrew the Great for the half year ending at Michaelmas 1847. £13 15s.

Gas company receipt from G Gifford for £12 13s for gas rental for the Porters' Lodge, Mr. Diver, and Mr. Roe for the half year ending Sept. 1847.

Gas company receipt from G Gifford for £14 2s 6d for gas rental for the Porters' Lodge, Mr. Diver, and Mr. Roe.

Receipt from Robert Emson for £5 18s 6d for managing labour and payment done on College properties

Receipt from W Winter for £8 15s for work done in Malcolm street and to a house in Jesus Lane.

Receipt from R Schley for the University Press for the sum of £12 18s 6d for printing examination papers. Printed 25 copies each of Euclid, arthimetics and algebra, algebra and logarithms, extracts from Clarendon, extracts from Milton, Thucydides Book IV, the Hippolition of Euripides, Herodotus Book IX, Roman history, Livy Book XXVII, Virgil's Georgics Book IV, problems, problems 2nd year, mechanics, and conic sections.

Receipt from Metcalfe and Palmer, printers for 30 invitation cards saying "Master & Fellows of Jesus College", ordered in 1842 and 1843. 13s.

Receipt from G Meddelin for £1 18s 10d for the payment of the vicar of All Saints for the year 1847.

Receipt from H Freeman of Trinity College noting receipt of 4d for Lent rent.