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Received of the Bursar. Paid 10s to the porter for winding up the clock in the quarter ending at Lady Day 1766.

Signed by Richard Brett.

Payment received from the Bursar of 2s 6p for the Bachelor's Commencement.

Signed by Thomas Goodall.

Payment of 1s 4d received from Dr. Caryl for one year's quit rent for the use of Corpus Christi College due and ended at St. Michael last past.

Signed by Goode and Bayliff.

Payment of £1 5s 4d to the Butler for 2 bottles of Madeira, 2 bottles of Port, 1 bottle of Mountain, sizings, tea and coffee for 7, pipes tobacco, cleaning the room at Mr. Rustat's Audit.

Signed by Beaut Prior.

Payment of £3 4s 6d to the Cook for hot salmon and smells, ragu veal, orange pudding, salad egg and oil, sirloin beef, fricase fowls, lobsters, jellies and sullibubs, pig, tanvey [?] at Mr. Rustat's Audit.

Signed by Bartholomew Fuller.

Payment of £2 7s 6d to the smith for, lock fellows garden, bolt and ring dig, staple in buttress, lock and key leghorne, mending lock and key in cook's garden, new cole to the master's gate, crank the platter rod, hanging bell, mending cairement (?) in Tyrstts staircase. Mending lock gates, mending lock bag, mending chapel lock, laying more sythe, large dogs of pan nails staples in cole horne, 2 pair of large hinges to hang the door, rivets to hang doors, large harp to fix, mending lock master's garden.

Signed by Thomas Coe.

Payment of £1 6s 5d to the smith for,mending the old harrow, 3 keys for the birdmare and garden Libury hog, mending locks in the chapel, lock hog pump courts, lock garlick gate, keys for the hall and garden at Liburys hog, staple in pump court, locks and keys, harps and staple in the pump court, mending hinges bogdoor lads, mending the lock to fellows bog, mending lock in the garden, mending cole bushell, new locks and keys fellows garden, new plates and serves and fixing them.

Signed by Thomas Coe.

Payment of £0 9s 5d to Coe the smith for mending locks fellows garden, lock back gate, mending lock fellows bag, mattock for porter, lock chapel clark, leng o pen standard, nails, serve fixing the lamp ladder, large hooks, serves fixing the same ladder, mernding hinges porters lodge harbour shop, mattock for parlour.

Payment of £13 17s 11d to the bricklayer for work done in the cooks garden, workmen and labourers a day, bushell of lime, loads of sand, carrying loads of bricks, to workforce to coole house, plain tils, lorth and nails, pan tils, hods of brick mortar, cleaning hall, a workman and labourer a day to stove in the kitchen, to work done in the hall room, work to seschool [?] in the court, to work done in the cloisters, work done in the kitchen, stone of whiting, pound of glue, hods of hore mortar, nails to caffling to a pound of candles, mending two fire places.

Signed by Will Arber [?]. At the top of the page it says that the work was done by Margaret Forster.

Payment of 18s received from the Master of the College Dr Caryl by Ann Chafer for washing the college linnen for the quarter ending at Lady Day

Payment of £1 14s 3d received from Dr. Caryl by Thomas Smith for large ladder and lamps, easing doors 3 hours job, to mending rales [rails?] in close 3/4 of a day and nails, to 2 whole deals, to mahogany round table for combinations.

Signed by Thomas Smith.

Payment of £16 3s 8d received from Mr. Darby by Thomas Smith to work to coal place roof in 10 days, oak, fir, whole deals, lath hook and nails, beams, baukers, eves board, leaves slitt, alter doorway and making doors up, mending fence round pound close in two days, to fixing pictures in Hall in half a day and one hour, to mending lamp ladder, oak plank for drain in court, plank for dresser board in kitchen.

Signed by Thomas Smith.

Payment of £2 7s 0d to Beaut Prior for 2 bottles of madeira, 3 bottles of mountain, 4 bottles of port, port and madeira for Grace, 1 bottle of port for the cook, pipes tobacco, sizings.

Four receipts paid by Mr. John Preston for land tax. For Jesus College land in Barnwell for the fourth quarterly 8th of April 1767, 3 quarterly payment for the year 1766, 8th of January 1767 of £1 1s 11¾d signed by John Atkins (collector); for Jesus College Estate for the first quarterly payment for the year 1767, 9th of July, and the second quarterly payment 13th of October 1767 of £0 16s 5½d signed by Edmund Palmby (collector).

Payment of £3 19s 2d for one half year's duty on houses and lights due Lady Day last past.

Signed by Jno. Garnham.

Payment of 6s received from Mr Darby [it appears as Derby] by Edward Whyborough for trimming trees.

Signed with a cross.

Payment of £25 3s 1½d from Mr Darby by Margaret Foster the bricklayer for workman and labourer, bushells of lime, load of sand, bricks, hare mortar, brick mortar, lorth and nails, to paving by the pumps and bogs, scuttle of sand, to garden wall, tills, set pool in fellows garden.

Signed with a cross.

Paid £3 5s 10d to Jonathan James for Rustat's Feast. For: dish of cod, smelts and shrimps, lamb boiled and fried, lemon pudding, egg salad, ribs beef, dish of fricasse veal, dish of lobsters, jellies and syllabubs, tansy, asparagus, roasted pigeons.

Paid £2 13s 4d to Beaumont Prior by Mr Darby for the Audit. For: bottles of madeira, mount, port, punch, sizings, coffee for four, pipe's tobacco.

Paid £1 11s 3d to the butler Beaut Prior for college sizings at Michaelmas (weeks one to thirteen), hall bell rope and sedge.

Paid £0 10s 0d to the porter given by the bursar Richard Brett for winding up the clock.
Signed by Richard Brett

Paid £0 2s 6d for one year's quit rent due to the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Clare Hall.
Signed by P. S. Goddard

Paid £1 0s 4d to the Porter by the bursar for: cleaning the courts, cleaning the cloisters, cleaning the quarter angle, a size, cleaning the works (?) the outside.
Signed by Richard Brett

Paid £0 18s 0d to the Laundresses by Mr Darby for washing the college linen.
Signed by Ann Chafer

Paid £0 18s 0d to the Laundresses by Mr Darby for washing the college linen.
Signed by Ann Chafer

Paid £1 18s 11d to the smith Thomas Coe for: laying standard and mending rolpon (?), mending nutt, tapping end to nutt, mending wheel barrow for porter, mending barrow by Harrison's order, long nails to fellows garden, mending aultring to chapel court, hey chapel for porter, mending barrow and large nails for master's garden, lach and bask hey garlick gate by Birdmores order, new plenty pew fellows garden, masters close, mending spard, spends in fellows garden, mending lock, corridor, hoading sythe, handle and loops fellow garden, mending bell, lach and hey master's close, padlock. Work done in the kitchen: clean great jack, clean small jack, laying pooker, mending long pooker, painting four gritts, spitt, oven door.

Paid £24 13s 10 1/2d to Jeffs & Bentley for the following masonry work: 3/4 of a day's labour "Cutting a Door Way" in the Masters Lodge; paving the east-side of the cloister; constructing a "Cube Stone Step" at a door into the court; "plain work"; 10 "hods" of fine mortar; 4 loads of sand; labourers paid for 12 days of work in taking up old paving stones, and altering the paving at the Chapel door; 3/4 of a day's labour in altering the paving in the chapel. Signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

Paid £1 13s 9d between July and August, 1767, for: two locks on the Fellow's Garden; "Lock pon gate; "mend wealarrow[wheelbarrow?]"; "4 spikes"; "mend hole" and the lock in the Chapel; lock "masters Cloore[?]"; clean the "parlow stead"; clean "sett from & frett Fender"; mend "parlow hoe"; cleaning a hoe; 3 "for 3 keys" and "bag" Fellows Garden and Library; for a "chovell"[shovel]; fix a "week College pump"; fixing a "sweepe pin" on the "masters pump"; locking and altering the coal hole; purchase of a scythe; 2 keys for the porters; "laying sythe" and gardening; 3 staples in the "Buttress".

Receipt for one year's fire insurance, amounting to £3 15s. Signed by Bruce Fisher, John Fisher and Tho. Shill.[?].

Receipt for 2s 6d paid by Revd. Derby to Thomas Goodall "for the Batchelors Commencement".

Jesus College to Elliot Smith

Chapel
1822
Dec 21st
3 blinds stringed with Irish
2 stout inch pully
4ft 6inch long each with ball
Nobs at one end
An inch and 23 ft long
In 4 parts with dove tailed
Joints and 5 stout straight pillars
for ditto 24 in high with large
nobs at top and square
Making and fixing large and small
Cutrains lined and headed
Crimson cloth
Silk lace
39 hollowing and ditto other
Communion
Fresh binding
Fringing velvet cushions
Crimson silk lace
Silk fringe

£45.18.7

Combination
1823
Oct 6th
Other nails and put up curtains

Estates
Bradwitch
Cole
Rook
Carter
Heads

In total comes to £54.6.7

Note on the inside says:
£54.6.7
Cambridge December 18th 1823
Received of Jesus College by payment of the Reverend Dr French fifty four pounds six shillings and seven pence for bill trusted to Elliot Smith
Signed John Swan

Dr French to R Sparrow.
March 24th a horse and duty to Wesley.
March 27th settled with herring.

£0.10.6

1820 November 24th
Bill of Thatching work and materials done at Mrs Normans and Mr Witelseys by the order of Mr White by Ebenezer Fiew Thatcher.
To 4 days and half work at 3 shillings and 6 pence a day: 15 shillings, 9 pence
To 6 bunches of spits at 9 a bunch: 4 shillings, 6 pence
To 3 bunches of rope at 6 a bunch: 1 shillings, 6 pence
To straw for the work: 1 pound
To beer allowance for the work: 3 shillings, 9 pence
Ebenezer settle this bill with Mr John White 2.5.6

Cambridge December 18th 1823
Received of the Reverend Dr French, Bursar of Jesus College, the sum of eight pounds seventeen shillings for painting done in the University for Jesus College in the years 1822 and 1823.
£8.17.0
Signed J Smith

The account of D Whittlesey

Account 3 of nails - 1 shilling, 9 pence
Account of hooks, hinges and nails and furnishing and staples - 3 shillings
Account one hundred nails for Radling - 6 pence
£0.5.3

Settled this bill D Whittlesey

Mr White, March 30th 1821
Labour done by John Thoday
For Cay and Labour - 7 shillings
Wood and Nails - 3 shillings
52 of all - 2 shillings, 1 pence
£0.12.1
Done to Mr Whittlesey's house
Settled this bill Mr Bluchner

The Master of Jesus College
1823, April 3rd
Bought of William Pleasance
6 large lignum vitaes for £1.10.0
4 yews £0.6.0
£1.16.0
Received by William Pleasance

Memorandum of the London lease
The Master of Jesus College
Summary: by a letter from Mr Piper, it is revealed he will be here for a day on his way from Yorkshire to London. Requests a church for Wright and says he will give him the money.
Signed by J A Brown

Mr Barker - St John's College

Mr Barker presents his complements to Dr French and in the absence of Mrs Wilson from Cambridge begs leave to acknowledge the receipt of his order

St Johns College

Received of the Reverend the Bursar of Jesus College for rent due to the master and fellows of Caius College at Michaelmas 1823.

William Okes, Bursar
11th November 1823

October 13th 1824

Received of the master and fellows of Jesus College one year rent due Michaelmas last the sum of two shillings and sixpence - 0.2.6

William Webb

Received of the reverend Dr French for killing rats, £1 1s 0d. Signed A Radford

1822 To the Rev'd the Master and fellows of Jesus College Cambridge at Hundon Rectory
By the Order of Mr Cuthbert to Thomas Knock Carpenter

December 19th

To taking down the old fence in the garden moving and putting down the same riving stuff and making good the old fence and topping 2 men 9 days - 1.16.0
To making a low Pitt and cutting out borkers and fencing round the pond in garden 4 days - 0.8.0
To howing and sawing out port rails board and gate - 4.1.7

1823
January 11th
To working up and putting down a new boarded fence below the garden 2 men 4 days - 0.16.0
To building of new found houses moving and refurbishing old ones 2 men 3 days - 0.12.0
To 10 pairs of joints and nails - 0.6.8
To chopping up gate ports and putting down repairing and hanging gates bars and stiles and jobs 2 men 6 days - 1.4.0

May 29th
To help raising the old pump and making a centre for the week 3 days - 0.6.0
Stay used for the centre - 0.2.6
To making a frame for the new pump covering up the well and jobs compliant - 1.2.9
To making a box for the mouth of the pond and shrunk for the cellar and fixing down 3 days - 0.6.0
To repairing the shed making a spout to trough hanging a door and jobs 4 days - 0.8.0

£11.9.6

Brought over
To fencing in the hog yard and hanging a gate and making good the sills and jobs 3 days - 0.6.0
To making a slice and fixing down to and making good the boarding and making a lattice window and jobs in the brewhouse 2 days work - 0.4.0
To hanging a gate and fencing near the granary - 0.4.0
To making a ship to the sinking dairy - 0.1.0
To fencing from the bar to the cow house 2 days - 0.8.0
To repairing gates / fences / boarding and jobs in the yard 2 days - 0.4.0
To riving out 360 hale and 2 bunches of - 0.10

Aug 17th
To removing the stock and fence taking up and putting down the post and rails and paling - 1.0.0
To partitioning the hogs type making good the pound and jobs - 0.18.0
To 5 stone 2 pounds of nails - 1.7.0
To 2"2 of tab nails at 5 - 0.9.2

£17.10.8

Thomas Knock

Reverend Dr French
Bought of C Finch

1822 5th December
106 Mineral Brown Paint - 1.4.3 1/2
1 cask 2/6 and 1 ladle 1/6 - 0.4.0
2 brushes 6 / 1 iron pot - 0.8.0

£1.16.3 1/2

1824 20th November - By cash For C Finch Hon
John Dearsley