Miscellaneous documents about the fund for the repair or rebuilding of the parsonage house, see also material in file 9/8. A letter from the College to 'My Dear Lord' (apparently not the Bishop) 25 April 1809 (item 9/11/1), summarises the situation from 1784, and is linked to a Trust Deed (9/11/2) of 1791, but endorsed 1809, about the investment of money for dilapidations, with a rough assessment of the valuation of the benefice (9/11/3), undated. There is a receipt from Richard and William Dale, 25 September 1819 (9/11/4) for £14.6.9, for repairs to the Chancel 1808-1810, and a printed form for 'Consolidated £3 per cent. Annuites. Acceptance anmd Dividends', filled in and dated 1831 (9/11/5).
a) John T. Tyrell 1816
b) John Morton
c) Edward M'Govan
16¼ x 11¾. From the original by G. Stuart. Drawn by W. Evans.
Bartolozzi, Francesco
Letter from the Paving Commissioners issuing an order that the frontage of the building to be erected in Jesus Lane should be in line with Mrs XXX's house and the cottage occupied by Mrs Webb
29th September 1814. A bill to Jesus College for 1 year's sweeping the kitchen chimneys, the coronation chimney, the Hall chimney and the Porters' chimney.
Total bill 15s, signed by William Press.
12¼ x 10⅛. Published for R. Ackerman's History of Cambridge. Original by F.MacKenzie.
Bluck, J.
10¼ x 12. After William Westall. Published by Ackerman.
Stadler, Joseph Constantine
4¾ x 5⅞. Published for the Gentleman's Magazine.
Basire, J.
25th June 1814, carriage of 2 mats; 10th July 1814 carriage of 3 cases. Total costs: £1 6s 6d.
Signed by J. Salmon.
Printed text on reverse:
Thomas Newsam & Co.'s (late J. Henson & Co.) London, Cambridge and Ely wagons.
Set out from the Bricklayer's Arms Inn, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge, every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday noon; arrive at the Catharine Wheel Inn, Bishopsgate Street, London, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday mornings, and return the same days at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; also a wagon arrives at the Four Swans Inn, Bishopsgate Street, on Wednesday, and returns the same day. The wagons arrive at Cambridge on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
The Yorkshire wagons arrive at Cambridge every Tuesday and Saturday morning, and return the same days.
Wagons to Ely Wednesday and Saturday, and return to Cambridge Monday and Thursday.
N.B. The Proprietors will not be accountable for Plate, Watches, jewels, Writings, China or Glass above the value of £.10 unless entered as such and paid for accordingly.
32 Ludgate Hill, London, 24th January 1815. Seal on reverse.
Two dozen French fiddle 4-pronged table forks; 2 fashion; engraving College Arms and inscription on the same; packing box.
Total £40 9s 4d (including a 5% discount).
13th February 1815: remitted a bill at 21 days for £40 9s 4d. Initialled W.H.
Note: "8th February 1815. Sir, We have the honour of sending you above an account for the silver forks and as you mentioned your kind intention of remitting us we beg to say in that event there will be a discount of 5 per cent for prompt payment. We remain, Sir, with great respect your obliges servants, Rundell, Bridge & Rundell".
Rundell, Bridge & Rundell
Paid 15s to William Press for sweeping: kitchen chimneys, hall chimney, combination chimney, porters lodge chimney
Press, William
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.
Total of 15s received for one year of sweeping the kitchen chimneys, the Hall chimney, the coronation chimney and the Porters' chimney.
Signed by William Press.
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.
Bill from Thomas Kennedy to Rev. Dr. Turner for £4 19s 9d for 52 weeks of the Evening Mail.
Kennedy, Thomas
View of the College from Jesus Lane
Mason, W.
GAME.
Qualified Persons are requested not to sport upon the manor of gravely, in the county of Cambridge:
And notice is hereby given , that all unqualified persons found trespassing thereon will be proceeded against according to law.
By order of the Lord of the Manor, James Ford. Keeper.
Hatfield, Printer, Gazette Office, Huntingdon.
Paid to Cockett & Nash for Oak, Ash & Elm Timber of large dimensions. A catalogue of 15 oak, 4 ash & 34 elm trees of large dimensions now standing blazed and numbered on Mr John Strickland's Farm at Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, which will be sold by auction by Cockett & Nash.
On the premises, with the top, lop and bark, on Thursday, March 1st, 1821, at eleven o'clock.
In Neat Grove: 12 oak trees with the top, lop and bark as marked with white paint.
In Off-Field Grove: An oak tree, four large elm trees standing near Abington field, one large ask tree in Abington field close.
Flax-lane Farm Yard: five elm trees (one in the orchard), two ash trees in the orchard.
In Hog-yard Grove: eleven large elm trees.
In Calves Pightle: one ash tree, one oak tree, two elm trees.
In Great Pasture Close: six large elm trees.
In the Orchard: three elm trees.
To be viewed till the sale by applying at Mr John Strickland's Farmhouse.
A deposit of £10. per cent. to be paid at the sale, and Four Months' Credit will be allowed for the remainder of the purchase money, on approved security.
Catalogues to be had at the inns in the neighbourhood; and of Cockett & Nash, Architectural Surveyors, Appraisers, and Auctioneers, at Royston, Herts.
Hodson Printer, Cambridge.
6½ x 4⅜. Published by G. Keating and R. Brown.
Paid to W Press and Son for one year surveying the college chimneys. This includes kitchen chimney, hall chimney, servants hall chimney, combination room chimney and porters chimney.
Press, William
Jesus College. Bought of Rundell, Bridge & Rundell. Jewellers and Goldsmiths to his majesty His Royal Highness the Duke of York and all The Royal Family. 32 Ludgate Hill, London.
For Order of the Reverend William Hustler. 19th Feb 1822.
Paid to R. Press for sweeping the kitchen chimneys, the servants hall chimney, the Hall chimney, the SCR chimney, the porters chimney and for cleaning 17 new chimneys. Signed by R Press
Press, Robert
The Master and Fellows of Jesus College to Robert Press for one year sweeping the college kitchen chimneys, hall chimneys combination room chimney, servants hall chimney and porters lodge chimney, for the total of £1 9s. Signed by Robert Press on 31st October 1823.
Press, Robert
Mr. Hustler Jesus College Cambridge.
Bought of J. Y. Oliver - Jeweller Silversmith. Watchmaker, Seal Engraving neatly Executed, Superior Fine Cutlery, Mourning Rings with Dispatch, Old Gold & Silver Bought in Exchange.
Receipt image reads: Circulating library. Bookbinding in all its branches executed on the lowest terms. Bookseller. Bookbinder. And Stationer. Periodically words regularly served.
To John Hatt
For 500 Wafers to Eden £0.18.0
Received the above October 17th 1823
Signed John Hatt
Hatt, John
10¼ x 7¾. After original by Gerbicus Flicciis. Published by Harding, Mavor & Lepard
Picart, C.
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
Received on the 17th Day of March 1823 of Mr the sum of twelve shillings for one year's eau-brink tax, due the first day of January 1823 on 6 acres of land, belonging to Jesus College at two shillings per acre per annum.
Signed by W Marshall.
London May 6th 1824
Bought of Francis Lambert & Co
Goldsmith and Jeweller
No 12 Coventry Street corner of Panton Square
Dealer in second-hand plate for ready money only
4 handsome shell silver candlesticks - £31.16
2 Ditto - £15
Engraving long inscription crest and motto on each £1.10
£48.16
Letter 1:
12 Coventry Street, London
May 7th 1824
To Calvert Esquire
Sir,
Agreeable to your inscription claims we this day forwarded to the Reverend Dr French at Jesus College Cambridge a box containing the six silver candlesticks, which we hope will arrive safe and get your approval on the other side. We beg to have your account of them. The payment of which can be made through any banker in town. We beg to solicit your further favours.
Sir, your respectful servants,
Lambert and Rawlings
Letter 2:
12 Coventry Street London
May 14th 1824
Dr French,
Sir,
We are this day in receipt of your favour of yesterday, we beg to inform you that we shall feel obliged by your desiring the amount of our dependent to be paid into the house of Bankers Charing Cross London and placed to the account of Lambert and Co.
Your respectful servants,
Lambert and Co.
White Horse Inn, Cripplegate
Cambridge, Ely, Lynn Caravan & Waggon
Daily
Norwich, Thetford, Yarmouth Van and Waggon, Daily
DEACON, MACK and CO
Respectfully inform their Friends and the Public, they are not enabled (through their liberal support) to offer them a DAILY Conveyance, both by Caravan and Waggon, to the above places, and request the continuance of their kind patronage.
DEACON, HARRISON & CO.
Fly Vans, Waggons & Boats, Daily
TO ALL PARTS OF THE KINGDOM
Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, and North Britain
DEACON, MACK and COs Vans and Waggons to Norwich, and all parts of Norfolk.
DEACON and Co's VANS and WAGGONS to Cambridge, Ely, Lynn &c
HARGREAVE'S Boats and Waggons to Wigan, Carlisle and Cockermouth.
POWERS'S Waggons to Oxford, Chipping Norton, &c.
1 Load of Trees £0.3.0
Dr French
April 30th
Signed John Hincliffe
WM Tomkins
J Sharly
James Hibbert
10s 6d paid for corn rentals.
Shield, Mr. W.
Lists amounts received at Rustat Audit including £1 for 2 examiners, £1 for 4 fellows, £2 for the bursar and 8s for 8 scholars. Additional balance by Chick for £12 2s. Bill total £16 10s
Paid £11 6d for Audit dinner. Includes payments for bread, cheese, butter, Audit Ale, Mild Ale, cup, eight bottles sherry in Hall, one bottle of port, two bottles sherry and eleven bottles port in Combination Room, tea, coffee, eight packs of cards.
Also paid £2 17s 6d for 18 at Audit supper. Includes payments for bread, butter, cheese, Audit Ale, Mild Ale, one bottle of port, one bottle of sherry, one bottle of brandy, lemons, biscuits, sugar, cup, candles, scullion, laundress.
Brett, Robert