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Receipt for work done to the exterior and fabric of 5 Park Terrace, occupied by the late Prof Willis, by John Vail and Son (General Smiths, Bell Hangers, and Gas Fitters). Work includes: taking off old lime [?] and recovering the veranda with new stout lime [?] fitting the same with clips, wire, and solder, making and fixing fancy edging and fixing the same with stays and new lime [?] pipe to the door, incl. pipe and time; repairing the guttering on stable, outplaces, and back of house with 12ft new 2 inch pipe, 1 length of 2 inch cast down pipe, 1 shoe and [?] the veranda over back door, incl. solder and time; to new kitchens and fixing the same; repairing and rehanging doorbell and the gate bell with new wire, time etc.; repair the iron gate, refixing new lock to the same, incl. time.
Total cost of work £20-18-10. Signed off by R. Reynolds Rowe, college architect.

Emmanuel College Lodge, received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £9-9-0 being the amount of the stipend of the Rede Lecturer for 1876 due from Jesus College to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholsrs of the University of Cambridge. Signed off by Samuel George Phear, Vice Chancellor.

F. Blyth - to prepare and fix a sash and frame in bedroom.
B staircase - repair wall framing etc
C staircase - ease casements
D staircase - ease door and fix catch on same
F and G staircases - paint round windows
Room A1 - repair plastering
Room L12 - take out and refix stove
Kirkpatrick's rooms - make and fix a sash forming a double window in sitting room; rehang sashes and fix new beads, and ease door (incl. materials: lime, sash bead, nails)
A, B, E and F staircases - paint round all windows, also hire of bricklayer, labourer, and use of plaster and cement.
Room K1 - new latch on bedroom door; ease casement and fix fastener
Room K3 - prepare a new 4 panel door; alter door jambs; rehang sashes and fix new beads; repair coal bin on the landing; one new casemen and frame in gyp room.
Room K4 - rehang sashes in bedroom and fix new lock to gyp room and fix new fastening on sashes.
Room K5 - rehang sashes and new beads; new casement and frame in gyproom and one on the landing.
Room L6 - rehang sashes and fix new beads and casement frames in bedroom; repair coal bin on landing. Includes parting beads, sash beads, line, lock and latch, sash fastenings, nails, deal, brass butts, glue, wainscots, screws, buckets, men's time.

• F1 - new stone chimney piece, make good to wall, new sash beads.
• F2 - repair floor, new beads, new lock to door.
• F3 - new beads, new stops and sash fasteners; rehang sash and new door etc.
• F4 - new beads and pulleys, new casements and frames; rehang sashes, stops and lead weights etc.
• F5 - new beads and pulleys; rehang sashes and mend doors.
• F6 - new beads and pulleys; rehang sashes, new door and one casement frame on landing. Includes sash beads, run parting, cord, nails, pulleys, sash fastener, lock, deal, floorboards, butts, glue, screw pulley, brass nails, run, oak, brass butts, brass turn-buckles
• G staircase - similar repairs to those carried out in F staircase, including replacing/repairing beading, sashes, casements, doorframes, pulleys, turn-buckles. Includes materials and men's time.
• L staircase - similar repairs to those carried out in F and G staircases, including replacing/repairing sashes, beading, casements, door jambs, coal bins, skirting, rehanging doors; preparing and fixing circular molding to gyp room, refixing cupboard in room 11. Fix fastenings on casement, refix lamp, and fix block on floor to stop door. Includes materials and men's time.
• Similar repairs carried out in A, B, C, D, and E staircases, including materials and men's time. Shutters rehung in B3; new panel door hung in C2; cabin hooks needed to repair window boards and install new casement and frame on landing in C staircase; door jambs altered in E staircase and 3 new panel doors installed.
• Old floor taken up in E staircase and sound boarding fitted to receive pegging, new floor and skirting fitted, fit out joists and alter water tap in Mr Morgan's gyp room. Includes materials and time.
  Total cost £103 1d. Received and signed off in a different hand by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Receipt for various repairs to college property on Fitzroy Street carried out by Bradwell & Son around Michaelmas 1876: alterations and additions to house occupied by Mr Wood, costing £79 15s, and alterations and additions to house occupied by Mr Hills, costing £67. Total amount £146 15s.

Fire insurance receipt for £11 19s 3d, being a premium on an insurance of £3700 for the farms and mill at Over. Signed off by J. Carter Jonas, agent.

Fire insurance receipt for £1 5s 4d, being a premium on an insurance of £1085 for college-owned property in the parish of St Giles. Signed off by J. Carter Jonas, agent.

Letter from Edmund Lord to Dr Corrie, explaining that he had not known until visiting the bank the day before that he had been given £194 from the Proby Fund. The letter confirms receipt of the payment as well as Lord's thanks. Dated 16th December at Whittlesford.

Received of Jesus College the sum of £30 2s, in respect of the poor rate of the parish of Hundon. Rate made 10th April 1876 on £602 assessment at 1s in the pound [7 1/4d for poor rate, 4d for school board rate, 3/4d for sanitary rate]. Signed by Robert Gibbons.

Receipt for repairs carried out by James Bareham, drawn up by Robert F. Cuthbert. Includes:

• Jobs to house, outbuildings, and barns (incl lime, sand, hair, nails)
• Repairing walls to inside and outside of house and repairing walls and tiling and foundations of outbuildings (incl lath, hair, nails, lime, sand).
• Repairing and tiling walls to chance (incl materials).
  Signed off by James Bareham.

Received of Mr Mudd on the 13th January the sum of 6 shillings for income tax and inhabited house duty for the year 1875 ending 5th April 1876. Signed by Tempest Leete, collector.

Receipt for work done at Hundon Parsonage by C. Knock, carpenter, by the order of R. F. Cuthbert.

• For hewing and sawing out stuff
• For piggery and battery [sic] fences, incl. 450 ft of sawing
• Misc fence repairs, incl. labour and nails.
• For hewing and sawing out gate-stuff, rails and rates for fences about the yard.
• Putting down gate-posts, repairing and rehanging gates about the fields and farm yards.
• Repairing fences around the stack, horse, and cow yards.
• Repairing stable doors and little jobs about the yards.
  Total cost £5 15s 9d. Signed by C. Knock.

Received of the Master of Jesus College the sum of £113 1s, being the amount due to the vicar of Guilden Morden (less income tax) for the year 1876.

Receipt for Mr. C Deeks from W. L. Miller of Nicholl and Co. Slate Merchants for materials, paid £11 15s 7d for: cutting, slate, among others. Has various names including Joe Levi, on the backside of the receipt in faded pencil with costs. Noted as being for Hundon.

Bill for work done by James Ling. For Mr. Deeks. Work was done create gate hurdles at a per day rate, with bunches of long shingles, bunches of short, and bunches of binding rods, paid £7 8d 4s. Signed by James Ling

Bill three bunches of lathe (larth) between March 22nd and May 26th by Charles Knock, a carpenter for Mr. Deeks. Paid £1 8d 0s. Signed by Charles Knock. Mr C. Deeks written on the back.

Letter from H G Filch, signed by Arthur Westmoreland about difficulties finding tenants this Michaelmas for the farms, with two still left with no prospects of tenants. He was offered 17s per acre last Friday for land at Hundon, did not feel it was enough, hopes the bidder could be induced to give 20s per acre and could be satisfied with the receiver expecting £5. Buyer would take a twelve year lease. Asks for a response to know what do to.

Letter of thanks to all the men for their support and cheques for W Cuthbert, sent and signed by Charles Deeks.

Receipt for Free Rent for Michaelmas paid by Jesus College to Right Honourable W. H. Smith MP collected and signed by Bennett Lenney for 3s 5d.

Tithe receipt of Mr Colchester for Steeple Morden of £3 15s 1d for half a year's Tithe Rent Charge to the scholars and Warden of New College Oxford. Signed by the bursar, name unclear.

Receipt of Mr S Hurrell if £1 3s 6d for the income tax of Great Shelford. Signed by Stephen Hagger.

Receipt from Mr Hurrell to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, for a number of charges including nails, a new bath, hooks for 4s 8d.

A letter from Haines to Dr Westmorland detailing the charges covered by the enclosed £214 0s 0d cheque, including for Land Tax, Income Tax, County Fire Office, Horne Schools. The Letter notes that according to the arrangement other charges will be settled when Horne is visited. Is noted as being Horne of Sussex rather than Surrey as an earlier receipt had it. A postscript noting that no changes are allowed for this year.

Signed by Westmorland.

Land tax, income tax, and inhabited house duty for 1879, for land in Willingham, received of Mr J Osborn of Jesus College. Total sum £1 4s 7d, signed off by William Howlett, collector.

Cambridge Bank Cheque dated 18th October 1879 for £17 2s 9d paid to Rev J G Howard by John Mortlock and Co. Signed by W. Looker.

Fire Insurance Receipt from Sun Fire Office, received of Jesus College the 25th December 1878 for the year to 25th December 1879, for a year's insurance with a premium of £2000 at the total of £2 15s 6d. Signed by J Carter Jonas, agent.

Receipt for chimney-sweeping work carried out in college between December 1878 and September 1879, in the Porter's Lodge, Buttery, Servants Hall, Chapel, Hall, Lecture Rooms and Combination. Totally £2. Signed by W. Kirkup.

Eighteen pinned pages of receipts to Reverend, Master and Fellows of Jesus College for work done by Seymour and Sons (?formerly D. Bradwell and Sons) at Jesus College on the Masters Lodge, the College, the Buttery, Staircases F, K, D, M, B ,the Dining Room, the Students and Servants W.C., urinals, Dr. Westmoreland's Rooms, the Kitchen, the Precincts, the Chapel, the New Building and The College Estates (39, 41, 45 Jesus Lane, West Grove Cottage, Mr Balls House, no. 67 and 68 Kings Street, Belmont Place, no 10 Little Manor Street, Park Terrace no. 1, 4, 5, 6) totalling £121 14s 11d. Signed W. Seymour and Sons.

Mostly bricklaying, labour and carpentry but includes many materials such as putty, plaster, cement, sand, bricks, mortar, cement, screws, bundles of lath, buttons, beads, holdfasts, knobs, glue, whitening, tiles, scaffolding, paint, etc.

Specific tasks include: easing and repairing the Garden Gates and Trestle, rehanging casement, preparing and fitting new pump in scullery, fixing new brackets to window board, carting away rubbish, removing old stoves, putting in new stoves, assisting bell hanger fireing bells, opening and cleaning drains, cut away brickwork in preparation for plumbers, attending the plumbers and making good the drains after their work, rehang doors, rehang the lift, repairing door frames, repair paving, refine fireplace tiles, removing stoves for Smiths to repair, laying new floor, easing windows, prepare and repair coal bins, rehanging sashes in windows, raising ladders, clearing gutters, repairing chimneys and sideboards, clearing cesspools, cleaning flues and hotplates, lime washing kitchen wall, bricking up old flue, repairing chimneys, repairing ovens, attending the sweeps, building scaffold, cleaning walls, ceilings and beams, repairing plaster, rebuilding oven, refining gate latches, fastening door, easing greenhouse door, repairing walls, refining wood, making good new slating for skylight, taking up floors, taking down cupboards, painting lead flashings after plumbers on the roof, preparing wedges for plumbers, repairing seats, preparing staircase moulding, repairing roof tiling and chimney pots, repairing walls, whitening the celiings, painting woodwork, refining skirting and shelves, repairing brick floor, cleaning the drain, carting materials

Small note scribbled on a torn letter attached by a second pin reads Ellis 13/8. Calculation on the back totalling £127.

To The Master's Lodge: to ease and repair the Garden Gates and Trestle; take off ease and rehang casement; to prepare and fire new pump standard and casings in scullery; fixing new brackets to window board and fillets round window; Bricklayer cart away two load of rubbish from the yard, take out old stove in bedroom, and fire new with stove slips and Encaustic tiles; put in new fire bricks to back of stove, fire bricks, easing the stone sill of the large gates, including: labour and materials include: nails, labour (carpenter's, bricklayer's), bundle of lath, brass butts and screws, spikes, holdfasts, beads, iron buttons, knob, iron brackets, stone slips, bricks, hods of mortar, cement.

To College: cut away for and assist Bell Hanger firing bells from the lecture room and W. Morgan's Rooms to the Buttery; to Staircase F open and clean out the drain from Gyp Room and make good the same; to Staircase K cut away the Brickwork for plumbers to repair the pipes and make good the same; Staircase F attend plumbers repairing; to Student's W.C. make good the pans and drains after the plumbers cutting away and attending plumbers in eval cellar; Staircase M open and clean out drain and assist plumbers; Staircase D cut away and make good wall to water to water pipes; to Dining Hall rehang the door to bell rope, work to cupboard; Rehang the Lift; to the Servants W. C. prepare and dire new seat, to pointing the lead flashing on the Roofs after plumbers; Staircase C The Lecture Room prepare and hang new head and flush door and repair the door frame, mortice lock and keys, to open and clean out drain to Rainwater pipe near the Buttery and make good; take up the york paving near the W.C. and relay the same to a proper Fall and relay the Pebble pacing at the sides, to the Reverend E. H. Morgans rooms, to refire the tiles in the fire place; Staircase B open and clean out the drains from the water cupboard and make the same; Staircase D to unstopping Rainwater pipe and make good to drain; to K14 take out the stove for Smiths to repair and refire the same; L5 & L6 take out the stoves for Smiths to repair and refire the same; B3 take out the stove for smiths to repair and refire the same; Staircase C prepare and fire 2 new Coal Bins on landing and lay new floor under the same; Staircase K repair coal bin and ease windows; Staircase B Mr Moses open window in sitting Room and fire stops; Staircase K Mr Streets Rooms rehang the Sitting Room door, reblack the jambs; Staircase L Mr Greaves Room rehang the sashes in two windows with new Weights and lines; Rain Ladders to clean out the gutters over Servants Hall. Including: labour costs (carpenters, labourers, bricklayers), peks or bushels of cement, hods of hair mortar, brick mortar, bricks, sharp sand, screws, stout sash lines, nails, deal, floorboards, sash weights, sash line

To Kitchen: take off and ease door in Kitchen; take up the flood, take down cupboard Front and make good the same after bricklayers repairing the Chimney of the Kitchen Range and repair the sideboard; clean out the cesspools; take off the hot plates clean out the flues, rebuild the flues, refire the hotplates and lime wash the wall round the same; empty the Cesspools, repair the Range and Chimney brick up the old copper flue and take down the old panel work and cement the outside of the Chimney in the store room; repair the bottom of sink and point the front of the oven. Including labour costs (carpenters, bricklayers, labourers, mans,) screws, nails, deal, firebricks, tiles, hods of mortar, peks of cement, ring stone, york stone, bricks, bushels of sand.

To Attend the Sweeps: take off the hot plates and rebed the same, to empty the Cesspool and clean out the traps, to open and clean out the Cesspool, take off the Hot Plates and the boiler attend the Sweeps, repair the brickwork in the Flues and reset the plates and clean out the cesspool. Including material and labour costs (bricklayers, labourers and mans), hods of mortar, bushels/peks of lime, furnace bricks.

To Build Scaffold: clean the walls and ceiling and two beams, twice whiten the walls and ceiling, paint the beams, black in the Kitchen and Larder and repair the plastering, carting loads, scaffolding . Including materials and labour costs: bushel of cement, labour costs (plasterer and labourer), glue, stone whitening, peks of plaster, paint.

To take down the oven, rebuild the same, lay new Floor, new crown, and new furnace lumps as per estimate; to take down and refire copper. Including labour costs of bricklayer and labourer, and materials including furnace bricks, tiles, fire tiles.

The Precincts: refire the latch on the Gates leading to close, fasten up the old door looking on the College Grounds from carpenters shop Mr Adams Premises; making good the brick floor in the Old Stables after the Plumbers. Including costs of: screws, carpenters time, bricks and bushel of sand.

To the Fellows' Garden: to the greenhouse fire drip over doorway and ease door; to the gates leading to the Close refire the cap staple and repair the gat, to repair the wall near the Masters Gates Jesus Lane, including material and labour costs for screws, nails, labour costs (Carpenters, Bricklayers and Labourers) Bricks, hods of mortar.

The Chapel: to clean out the Gutters; to the Chapel furnace open and clean out the flues and attend the smitsh and make good the Brickwork, to making frame for marker. Costs include: fire bricks, hods of mortar, bricklayers, carpenters, labourers and mens time, canvas and tacks.

The New Building: Mr Hoppe, refire wood, chimney piece, to fire new stove in shoe Blacks place. Includes costs for nails, holdfasts, deal, carpenters, bricklayers, and labourers time, hods mortar, cement and bricks.

Staircase P: Open and clean out the drains from Gyp Room and make good the same, 1 pek cement and mens time.

To the Servants urinal: make good the slating to new skylight and repair the slating and make good the plastering. Includes slates, nails, hod of hair mortar and mens time.

To Dr Westmorland Rooms: take out the stove butt, in new Fire Bricks back and refire the same. Including costs for bricks, hods of mortar, fire lump, and bricklayers and labourers time.

Alteration in Urinal: take up the flood, dig out and alter the drain, fire new trap; build up brickwork, fire new trap, build up brickwork, fire new Iron grating, and make good the flood. Including bricks, bush and pek of cement, bushel of sharp sand, and bricklayers and labourers time. Work continued with further materials required.

Staircase O Mr Macleod Rooms: Take down cupboard and skirting, take up floor and plaster behind to prevent the smoke from coming through, take down and refire the work, to point all the lead flashings after the plumbers on the roof; prepare wedges for Plumbers, fire lead flashing. Including materials and labour costs: nails, peks of cement, bricklayers, labourers, plasters and carpenters time, bushels of cement and sand.

Further alteration on Urinal: prepare and fire new skylight and frame, prepare for the plmubers in urinal, case the rainwater pipe and fire bottom in urinal, to repair seats and risers in Student W.C. and fire new bearers. Including costs of carpenters time, screws, beads.

Staircase O: cutaway and make good for plumbers, including carpenters time.
Mr. Grey's Rooms: prepare and fire surbase moulding in sitting room, Carpenters time.
The Students W. C.: prepare and fire casing to pipes after the plumbers, screws and carpenters time costs.

The College Estates: raise ladders and repairs times on roof; Mr. Holdens 39 Jesus Lane raise ladders and refire chimney pots, raise ladders take off old chimney pot, repair the top of chimney and fire new wind guard; repair the tiling on roof and refire chimney pot; Mr Spademans Jesus Lane prepare and fire new ceiling to Summer House and repair the Roof; repair the roof and clean out the gutters of the Five Houses; Mrs Hinson 41 Jesus Lane open and clean out the old brick, drain and make good to sink with glazed pipes, open and clean out the main drain acorss the bottom of three Gardens and make good the same; 45 Jesus Lane prepare and fire new sashes and frame to back bedroom, repair the rafters and oak sill, sash bead and moulding, repair the tiling on roof plaster, the dormer cheeks (?), make good to new window frame, clean out the gutters and repair the tiling on nº 41-42-40. Costs including materials and labour for: tiles, hods of blue mortar, bricklayers, carpenters, and labourers time, pek of cement, hods of mortar, bricks, hods of mortar, match brand, bushel of cement, sand, screws and nails, laths, plain tiles.

Continued: West Grove Cottage: Mr Robinson, provide and fire two new backs to stove and repair the slattering on roof, take off the old wind guard, cut away the brickwork and alter the flue and fire new wind guard, to cure smokey chimney, repair slating on roof; Mr Balls House repair the washhouse roof, strip and retile the roof, cut in brick corbels under the gutter; Mr Robinson, take off the old wind guard and fix new guard; no 67 and 68 Kings Street prepare and fire two door sills and repair door jambs; no 68 King Street to repair the walls whiten the ceilings paper the Bedroom and Sitting and paint the wood work as per estimate; Belmont Place, Mrs Pettit House open and clean out the W. C. drain and fire new trap and pan, and make good the drain; no. 10 Little Manor Street repair the tiling at the back, repair the plastering in W. C., prepare and fix new door and frame rehang the washhouse door, repair the branding, make new gate and fence next street, on the wall in back room, repair the plastering on stairs, repair the brick floor and repair bedroom window; Park Terrace Nº 1-4-5-6 take down and refire skirting, plate rack sideboard and shelves, stopping rats runs, take up the brick work from old drains and wells, from soil pipe of W. C. take down the area wall, enlarge the area and lowe the floor, lay in new glazed pipe drain, cutting out the old soil pipe, brick up and make good the plastering, carting, open and clean the drain from rain water pipe and make good the same. Costs include material and labour: bricks, slate cement, bricklayers, carpenters, labourers, and men's time, hods of mortar, slates and nails, holdfasts, lath, pantiles, peks of cement, drain pipe, hods of mortar, closet pan, screws, load of sand, bell trap, hod of putty, pek of plaster.

Receipt for bricklayer's work done to Valley Farm paid to Jonathan Casbok and Son by both Mr John Symonds and the Executors of the Late John Symonds for £2 8s 3d and 5s respectively.

Work includes: labour of man and lad repairing stone walls; labour of men repairing litening (?); pavements for oven and bricks and bushels of lime, signed as settled by John Casbok 28th November 1879. From the executors payment for labour of man and lad at different jobs.

A bundle of 32 cheques addressed to Jesus College (sometimes Dr. Westmorland, Bursar is named), dated between January and November 1879. Amounts vary between £2 19s 9d and £240, with most between £10-£60. The cheques are signed by W. Looker, R A Broom; A Amale (?); George Page.

Handwritten receipt to the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College in lieu of land tax for £14 15s 6d. Signed by James Hunt.

Has a number of sums on the back of the piece of paper, adding the sum to a number of other to reach a otal of £233 13s 9d.

Receipt for land tax and income tax for St. Andrews the Less (Public House and Cottage, Askham), Cambridge, received of F Bailey Esq. 12th February 1879, totalling 16s 4d. Collected by S Fulcher.

Paid £200 from Dr. Westmoreland for works of restoration of Jesus College.

Cheque for £9 4d 9d from John Mortlock & Co. to the Vice Chancellor. Signed by M. Looker.

Receipt for payment of £62 15s from Dr Westmorland for the construction of buildings. Signed by Grant Sovy.

Receipt for payment of £10 3s 6d to John Read for quicking, ditching and fencing the College field.

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.

Receipt for two orders of tiles and two orders of bricks, amounting to £4 14s

Receipt for three orders of pipes purchased from George Chessum amounting to £2 5s

Receipt for payment of 8s 3d in rent to Trinity Hall, signed by H. O. Wan, Bursar

Cheque for £5 paid to Reverend A. C. Jennings, signed by W. Looker

Receipt for payment of 4s, 2 1/2d by Mr Rowe to the Parish of St Clement. Collected by Cambridge Union. Signed by the collector G Noone.

A bundle of 32 cheques addressed to Jesus College, dated between January and November 1884. Amounts vary between £7 and £160, with most between £50-£60. The cheques are signed by W. Looker, D. Bantam, George Green Rayner, Robert Mann and William Charles Mann.

Receipt for payment of £2 2s by Jesus college as a subscription to Horne School.

Account for work done on 12 January for the maintenance of trees, fences and ditches, including: trimming trees on Christ's Piece, 14s, felling trees, £2, moving timber to the stable yard, 15s, and repairing the fence and ditch, £1 5s. At the bottom is noted money paid to Joseph Parkham and Mr Hudson (partially obscured by a stamp).

Receipt for the rental of land at Willingham by Jesus College from the Vicar of Swavesey, amounting to £10. Signed by H L Sharp, vicar of Swaverly.