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Begun by Dr French as Tutor of Pembroke College, so contains: notes about scholarships at Pembroke; Pembroke College accounts, 1814-20; Jesus College Bursar's accounts, 1821; rents of Jesus College estates and Proby Fund payments; payments to public lecturers, 1821-1847; Harlton accounts; new building accounts (K and L staircases, Jesus College); Bursar's accounts with Steward, 1821-23 and 1820-21; taxes, 1821-1836; Bursar's accounts with Dean (Tempsford property); Webster's (building) account; Bursar's accounts with various Fellows, bankers, etc.; results of college examinations at Pembroke, 1818-19 and Jesus, 1821; more Pembroke College accounts at end of book; and a memorandum about the office of Steward at Jesus.

Bursar's accounts for work done to Jesus college. Including:
The Master's Lodge: including purchase of valves, a water bucket, leathers and valve key for the soft water pump, whitening bedroom ceilings hufboards, bead painting, 1/2 day's labour of 1 plumber and 2 painters, painting of skirting boards and ceilings, hanging of rails and pegs in the top bedroom, hanging of wallpaper and paper, cleaning of woodwork, painting of Venetian blinds, painting of the Entrance Hall and Lobby, staining and varnishing the study floor, purchase of copper nails, costing £44 8s.
Courts and Buildings: Including repairs to students' and servants' WCs, plumbers' labour, thawing and connecting of pipes, installing of taps, purchase of solder, wooden cisterns, Indian rubber joints and lever cranks. Repairs to the chapel roof, maintenance of gas lamps, erecting new railings, repairs to the Cloister roof, repairs to the gutters, costing £171 15s 7d.
Accounts also cover: fitting of new valves in the Buttery, glass and glazing in the Chapel tower, repairing of taps, pumps and cisterns in the Kitchens, repairs to the gutters of the houses opposite college, purchase of lead straps for the cottage in the Grove, repairs to the ceilings in the students and fellows rooms, painting of various staircases around college. Total cost of works amounting to £233 13s 5d, signed by Henry Ellis and dated 1st December 1880.

Bill to Lady Day 1816. £4 19s 4d paid to William Harvey for lamps, courts, cloisters and evergreen for Hall. Signed by W. Harvey.
Breakdown of accounts for total £17 16s 2d: Steward's Account to Lady Day 1816 £10 9s 1d; Bursar's Account £4 19s 4d; Mr Hustler's private account £2 7s 9d.

Bill to Michaelmas 1816. £8 1s 10d paid for lamps, courts, cloisters, grove, lamp outside the gate, window cleaning and Hall. Signed by W Harvey.

11th July 1816. £4 16s 4d paid for lamps, courts and cloisters. Signed by W Harvey.

£4 16 4d paid for lamps, courts and cloisters. Signed by W Harvey.

• Paid to W Harvey for work on the lamps, courts, cloisters, and evergreen for hall. Paid in 1823. Paid £6 4s 4d.
• Paid from the Bursar to W Harvey in Christmas 1822. Paid for lamps, courts, cloisters, and audit at Christmas. Paid £6 11s 4d.
• Paid from the Bursar to W Harvey for lamps, courts and cloisters for £6 1s 4d.
• Paid from the Bursar to W Harvey in Michaelmas 1823. Paid for the lamps, courts, cloisters, grove, lamps outside the gate, cleaning the windows and wall washing. Paid for £27 13s 10d.

Ledger, with alphabetical index.

Accounts arranged as in JCAD/2/2/2/2, in Dr Lynford Caryl's hand.

Begins with an account of rents due to the Dead College, 25 Mar. - 25 Dec. 1760; then arranged as JCAD/2/2/2/1.

£3 8s 10d
Mentions (visiting?) Ludgate Hill

Bursar's expenses for 31 Jan - 18 Dec. Expenses to loading (?) Fellows, Valley, Caxton, Valley. Total of £5 5s 6d.

Paid 5 pounds 2 shillings for Bursar's expenses to Ely.

Paid £1 9s for horses for going to St. Ives and back, £1 6s 6d for horses for going to Linton and back, 13s 6d for going to Over and back.

Journeys
Bursars Expenses
11 Dec 1848 St Ives 5s
Wellingham 17s
25 Mar 1848 Horne Court 14s
18 Jan 1848 London £1 1s 6d
£2 17s 6d

Other side:
Quantity in arable field just beyond road to Station & next the Hills' Road occupied by Mr. Bullen.
Quantity in arable field behind Mr Dixon's & adjoining road to Station including Carriage way to Hills' road, also now occupied by Mr. G. Bullen (but late Mr. Gotobeds)

Paid £5 19s 9d for expenses involved with bursar travelling to St. Ives for the Over Enclosure, Colchester for the Elmstead Tithe, Tewin and Over.

Shows £2 3s was spent on journeys made by the bursar between February and October 1835.

Miscellaneous accounts by Hugh Shield, Bursar.

Fourteen pinned pages of receipts for repair work under the Jesus College Bursar's account with Mr. Favell, Ellis and Sons across college between 1878-1879, including that on The Masters' Lodge, The Courts, Roofs, Buildings, Staircases (B, C, L, F, N, M and P), The College Buttery, Cloister, Chapel, Library, The College Stable, Lecture Rooms, The College Kitchen, the Estates (45 Jesus Lane), and twelve Students and Fellow's Rooms (staircases B, K, L, F and A). The work totalled £62 2s 9d and there is a summary of the places worked on on the final page. Was signed as paid by Henry Ellis (?).

Work in these buildings includes: painting, garden repair, releading window casements, ceiling whitening, glazing and re-glazing, pruning, puttying, adding a pump and skink to the kitchen, soldering, redecorating and colouring, cleaning and varnishing, scrubbing off old whitening, papering, repairing taps, replacing screws and valves, mending doors, cleaning roofs and rain water pipes, cleaning and outfitting new Indian rubber band to basin valves, tending to pipes after frost, thawing and collecting pipe valves, unstopping sinks, repairing fixtures, cleaning and connecting bathrooms (W.C.s), various wood working, repairing taps, replacing glass, mending lead work, painting pneumatic tubes, removing old pipes from the ground, stopping cracks with brown paper and plaster.
Building supplies and labour costs for many of this work also included especially that of painters and plumbers

Most extensive work to the Master's Lodge (3 pages) , with a note that the painting, papering etc. done to Cloister Bedroom and dressing room is charged to Miss Holroyd. Work to the Master's Lodge includes repairing to W.C. in Garden, repairing taps after frost, drilling out old screws, fitting new valours and staunch screws, releading and cemending window casements and puttying and banding new glass and casement of new frame; to pump and sink in kitchen, solder to mend, painting the case, to Cloister bedroom and window: unleading and cememting casement, glazing, puttying, banding casement to trace frame; to Drawing Room: whitening ceiling, moulding to cornices, colouring, cleaning off old writing, papering ceiling and cornice, protecting paper, paining window opposite drawing room, to spare bedroom and ante-room, whitening ceiling, papering, scouring and touching up paint, cleaning off old whiting, preparing ceilings; Small Bedroom (South) whitening ceiling and painting; to Miss Holyrod's Maid's Room: skirting boards, rails and pegs and lights purchased, papering and cleaning old whiting, rubbing down walls and preparing woodwork; Miss Holroyd's dressing room Lobby, whitening ceilings, painting and skirting, mullions of windows, sashes, paper, rubbing down and sizing walls. Includes charges for the wire, labour costs (plumber, painter, men), nails, squares of glass, moulding grey, maifin (?).

To Courts, Roofs, Buildings, Staircases and Rooms, work followed on from New Building Account from last year: taking lead light out of windows on P staircase and reglazing for whitesmith, to M repairing tap, new bran plug, grating and screws, to N mending door and gas lamp, new valve for tap, to B small squares of glass and glazing; regulating (?) pupils and servants W.C. and purchasing and connecting new valve to tap, to WCs (M. E. H. Marjans (?)) work connecting new door lever; cleaning out roofs and rain water pipes of Cloister and chapel; mending lead work on roof over lodge, soldering and cementing; taking up W.C. cleaning, repairing and refitting new India rubber band to basin valve; to B. D. and A, thawing taps and pipes durinng frost; to Porter's Lodge 1 square of glass in ventilator; to B. after frost soldering to joints of new pipe and new screw bases to tap; to Pensioner's W.C. thawing and cleaning out ice, connecting and fitting air vessels after frost; to F mending pipe after frost; 8 w.c.s cleaning out ice, correcting, fixing new basin; flashings to skylight over servants w.c.; Pupil W.C.s thawing and correcting after frost; to F mending pipes after frost 1/2 credit from old pipe; to D mending pipes after frost; servants urinals soldering and fixing; repairing taps in F; unstopping sink to staircases; repairing taps to sink with new valve and new plug; preparing and painting skylight of servants W.C., to Grove painting and wiring to gate next to Common; work done on Roof of Chapel and tower, soldering to mend old lead and over new screws, recovering door; glass in F staircase, painting and varnishing door to Lecture Room C, painting tablet and writing "Lecture Room C3"; taking down, repairing and refixing rain water pipes next to the Grove; to E and F Staircase two new valves, new glass in K Staircase; cleaning and converting two W.C.s in Garden; to Roof over B plumbing work and mends to leadwork; to C painting new coal but; to A Staircase washing off old whiting and colouring from ceiling and walls, rewhitening and recolouring and carbon scouring wood work; to Pupil's W.C. and urinal cutting away cement wall, making joint to pipe and repairing tap; to B Staircase securing pipes to sink, repairing tap, soldering grating to sink; to L new valve; to C new glass; to Porter's Lodge new Glass; to Library Roof mending to lead work. Including labour (plumber and man), arm joints, putty, spirits, charcoal, joints, lead by bricklayers, clout nails, arm joins, new valves, wall hooks, brass washer and waste, taps.

To College Buttery: painting pneumatic tubes for bell, one square of glass; new valve and quarter day's labour for one plumber to taps.

To College Stables: to opening ground, taking out old pipe, laying new made joints, plumber and man's labour, new extra strong pipe, soldering to two joints, coal, credit for old pipe.

To College Kitchen: new bucket to pump, valve and leather, new valve box and valve, labour to fitting up and fixing the above.

To Estates: at 45 Jesus Lane: lead for windows, nails, three hours labour for plumber to fix the above, glass in sash, painting new woodwork, credit by 18th of old lead.

To Students Rooms: to B3 whitening ceiling of Gyp Room, painting skirting and sashes, labour of painter; to B6 preparing and colouring walls, whitening ceiling to entrance; to K Mr South keeping room, whitening ceiling, painting green, to skirting, sashes, chimney piece, pinking in moulding and flats dark green and red, painting bedroom skirting, nails, sashes, rails and pegs, to entrance varnishing o old oak painting and sashes and skirting and rail, whitening ceiling, washing off old whitening from ceiling and stopping cracks, rubbing down walls, mending with paper and plaster, cleaning and scraping off old paint, stopping facing and preparing for painting, labour to reparing walls to entrance, repairing wood work, plumber; pieces of paper (brown, red), labour; to L10 keeping rooms, whitening ceiling, cleaning off old whiting, preparing ceiling; L11 Gyp Room whitening ceiling, colouring walls, labour; L12 Keeping Rooms, whitening ceiling and cornice, painter labour, cleaning off old whiting and stopping cracks; to L4 Keeping room, painting, nails, chimney piece, lights, picking in moulding to doors, cleaning off old paint and preparing work; to L3 Keeping Room, painting, repairing sashes, painting chimney piece marbling and varnishing, varnishing bookcase, whitening ceiling and cornice, labour to washing off old whiting and preparing ceiling and cornice, cleaning off old paint and papering work; L6 Keeping Room whitening ceiling and cornice, staining oak and varnishing, work on sashes, chimney piece painting, marbling and varnish work, labour to cleaning off old whiting and preparing ceiling, cleaning facing and preparing woodwork.; F5 Keeping Room whitening ceiling, labour to working off old, stopping up cracks; to A5 Keeping Room, whitening ceiling, painting skirting, painting stone mullions and lights, sashes, Chimney piece marbling and varnishing, labour to washing off old whiting from ceiling and cleaning and preparing wood; F4 Keeping Room whitening ceiling, labour to washing off old whiting, stopping cracks, painter's labour.

Note designating this bundle as the bursar's receipts for 1784

2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022

Business card with workings written in note form;

Bishop; £6 9s 1/2 0d
Basil [?]; £5 1/2
Pr; £5 1/2
[Total?] £17 0s 0d

£91 11s 11d
£11 17s 8d
£291 1s 8d
£6 6s 6d
£6 10s 0d
[Total=] £335 7s 9d

Handwritten draft titled: "But now, what of you? What sort of person are you?" on music and performance.

Paid 10s 2d to Beaumont Prior for bottles of port and madeira, sizings, and washing the linen.

Paid £1 1s 4d to Beaumont Prior for bottles of madeira, port and punch, sizings, and pipe tobacco.

Mr. Rustat's audit. Paid £1 13s 5d to Beaumont Prior for his father for bottles of Madeira, Mountain and Port, sizings, tea and coffee, pipe tobacco, a servant cleaning the room, and washing the linen.

Paid £5 14s 4d to B. Prior for sizings, sugar and lemons, bottles of madeira and port, and coffee and tea.

Paid £1 11s 1d to Thomas Prior for his father for Mr. Rustat's audit, which includes: bottles of Madeira, Mountain and Port, cakes, coffee and tea, sizings, and a servant cleaning the room and washing the linen.

Paid £1 19s to B. Prior for Mr. Rustat's audit, which includes bottles of madeira, mountain and port, sizings, tea and coffee, cakes, and a servant cleaning his room and washing his linen.

Paid £2 16s 11d to Thomas Prior for his father for college sizings and sedge. Paid £3 12s to Thomas Prior for his father for college sizings, the cutler's bill, a basket for the kitchen, and sedge. Paid £1 13s 7d to Thomas Prior for his father for college sizings and sedge. Paid £2 5s to Thomas Prior for his father for college sizings, sedge and lantern candles. All dated 28th September 1773.

£2 11s 8d paid to Beaumont Prior for college sizings and sedge.

Paid 8s 6 1/2d to Beaumont Prior for court keeping at Graveley, including bottles of port, one pint of brandy, tobacco, sugar, and bottles.

Paid 5s 8d to Joseph Cooper for 'Eatte,' beer and punch. Undated.

An audit, includes: 6 bottles of Madeira (£1 7s); 3 bottles of Lisbon (7s); 13 Bottles of Port (£1 10s 4d); rum and brandy (5s); sugar (1s 6d); lemons (1s 4d); coffee and tea for 12 (12s); almonds, raisins and apples (7s 4d); sizings (18s 9d); pipes and tobacco (1s 1d); candles (2s); charcoal (1s 6d). Total bill amounted to £5 14s 10d, signed 'For Father, pr. Josh. Prior

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.

An audit for alcohol, including: 2 bottles of Madeira (8s); 2 bottles of Mountain (5s); 7 bottles of Port (12s 3d); 1 bottle of punch (1s 6d); sizings (14s 6d); 'Tea for 7' with 6 muffins, bread and butter (4s); pipe tobacco (2s). Total amounted to £2 7s 3d, and was signed by Beaumont Prior.

Paid £1 18s 7d to Beaumont Prior. For: madeira, port, sherry, lemmon, sizings and coffee and tea.

Paid £2 12s 1d to Beaumont Prior. For maderia, port, sugar, coffee and tea and sizings

Paid £1 15s 8d to Beaumont Prior for the Rustats audit, items including: bottles of madeira and port, sizings, coffee and tea, cakes, pipes and tobacco, a servant cleaning the room and washing the linen.

Paid to Beaumont Prior for his father £3 10s 10d, includes payment for bottles of wine, tea, tobacco, muffins and toast, and college sizings (July 1770) and paid to Beaumont Prior for his father 10s 8d, includes payments for bottles of wine, tobacco, sugar, and lemons (July 1770).

Paid £2 13s to Beaumont Prior for bottles of Madeira, Mountain and Port, tea and coffee, pipe tobacco, and sizings.

Paid £2 18s 9d to Beaumont Prior for bottles of madeira, port and punch, sizings, sugra, coffee and muffins, pipes and tobacco, and coffee and tea.

A bill for wine and food served at Mr Rustat's dinner, includes: 3 bottles of Madeira (13s 6d); 4 bottles of Port (9s 4d); coffee and tea (12s); sizings (17s 11d); cakes (1s 6d); dried apples, apples, oranges (5s 6d); for servants cleaning the room (1s); washing the linen (6d). Total bill amounted to £3 1s 3d, signed 'For Father pr. J. Prior'.

Paid £4 8s 4d to Beaumont Prior for bottles of madeira, port, and rum; tea and coffee; pipe tobacco, and sizings.

Paid £1 15s 3d to Beaumont Prior. For: sizings, tea and coffee, port, sugar and madeira.

Headed as 'Mr Rustats Audit', the bill includes: 2 bottles of Madeira (8s); 2 bottles of Mountain (5s); 2 bottles of Port (3s 6d); sizings (9s 5d); tea and coffee for 8 people (8s); "Pipes Tobacco" (6d); washing linen (6d); for a servant to clean the room (1s). The total bill amounted to £1 15s 11d, and was signed by Prior.

Paid £1 12s 7d to Beaumont Prior for bottles of madeira, mountain, and port, coffee and tea, and sizings.

The Butler's bill for supplies to the Audit: four bottles of Madeira, two of Sherry, five of Port, three bowls of punch, rum and brandy, sizings, almonds, raisins, walnuts and apples, coffee and tea for 9, candles, sugar, lemons and charcoal. £4.1.0 received and signed by J(?) Prior, the Butler's son.