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Letter from William Hustler to the Master concerning garden improvements to propety in Botesdale and Thrandeston, Suffolk. Concerns refencing of parts of the property. References to the work being done by individuals employed by the College to do work on the College gardens.

Contains records of decisions of college meetings. Previously they were included in the general register of college business (see COL 1).

Includes an index towards the end of the volume, and a plan of a cesspool and drainage system at the front of the volume.

Minutes of college meetings from the start of Henry Morgan's mastership. Also includes notes on the 3 seals belonging to the College (front of volume) and the form of presentations to a College Living (end of volume).

Menus for lunches 2010-2013, 2018-2019 and 2022-2023. Also a list of attendees and seating plan for the 2023 lunch

Jesus College paid £37 11s 3d for water supplied as under during the quarter ending Michaelmas 1900
74 Separate(?) Room at 3s 3d
8 meters for Fensbury(?)
5 Hydrants
1 WC & Rev. Morgan
1 WC Mr. Welsh 2/9 1 WC Mr. Shield 2s 9d
36 Lib (?) Room @ 3s 3d
Lecture Room
1 Hydrant
1 Hydrant (Clock House)
1 Hydrant (Hall House)
2 Hydrant
3 fire cock Master Lodge
1 fire cock Library Staircase
Master Lodge
Domestic 6 WC Wall Garden
Fellows Garden M
Front Court
Watering Court
Tennis Ground
Lawn Tennis Court
New Court Lawn
6 Man(?)
Urinals WC & Lavatories
In(?) of Meter Michaelmas Midsummer
22 gallons & 4s of (?) of meter

Paid £2 5s 6d to the Cottenham, Rampton and Willingdon Drainage District for drainage of 33 acres 3 roods and 29 perches. Signed by Walter Smith, receiver

5s received from Messrs. J. Carter Jonas and Sons for supplying copy of agreement and tracing of plan. (Bursar of Jesus College to Burton).

The first ever register of college business. It opens with a statement about the reasons for its creation and a table of the fees charged by the compiler, signed by the Master, Roger Andrewes, and fellows.

The contents, in one chronological sequence, include: admissions of fellows, fellow-commoners, commoners and sizars, with the names of their tutors; licences to supplicate for degrees; testimonials; elections of college officers; resolutions of college meetings; grants of leave of absence; notices of property transactions. There is an index in the form of a list of decrees of the college in the hand of Dr Ashton (Master 1701-52).

Volume of accounts relating to the Old Library audited by Fellows and so containing Fellows signatures. Alternate pages left blank for notes and occasional notes of books purchased for the Library. From 1749 in come from the Tempsford estate was paid to the Dean (Librarian) by the bursar. from 1797 the Dean kept the accounts of the Tempsford estate. Near the end of the book is a resolution made 1st December 1804 where Fellows were to desist from giving a supper on their election and instead to give six guineas to the library fund. The money to be applied to repairs to the library. Rent of the Tempsford estate to be used only for the purchase of books. Also includes accounts of Fellows' fees 1806-10 and 1820-38.

Paid 6s 6d to John Archdeacon for printing rent receipts

Paid £8 10s 11d to H. Jerrold for painting work. Includes payments for painting of front iron gates twice over, new boarding to lodge front gates; painting doors in garden stable yard, outbuildings, gates, gutterings, all old work two coats, new work three coats, cleaned and stopped; painting two pairs new gates, four coats of paint, 33 yards; 70 feet of piping and guttering, 5 lb. of sheet lead for gutters at end of coach-house, labour and nails. Signed by H. Jerrold.

Jesus College paid £5 15s 6d for Farm House and Homestead at Great Shelford

Receipt from Macmillan and Co. Booksellers, Publishers, and Stationers for prizes in 1854 and 1855. Prizes to Mr. Lyons, Mr. Kindersley, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Gee in 1854. Prizes to Mr. Slatterthwaite, Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Robertsen, Mr. Luckirk, Mr. Kindersley, Mr. Lillistine, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Gee in 1855. Total amount £41 15s. Signed by R. Brown on behalf of Macmillan and Co.

Letter confirming receipt of half a year's pension (£6. 10s) from the Rustat Charity. Signed Susanna Bull.

Paid £30 12s 6d by Mr C. Deeks to Charles Cuthbert for work done between March and September 1879.

Paid £8 15s to W. Winter

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

Receipt for plumbing works carried out in college between November 1874 and October 1875 by Messrs Favell, Ellis, and Sons. Total cost £117 13s, paid by cheque, signed by T. Ellis.

Works include:

• Master's Lodge: fixing servants' WC in garden; taking up, cleaning, repairing, and refixing WC in lodge; fixing new trap to butler's sink; making and fixing new joints; new valve to kitchen tap; white lead by carpenters; new valves to kitchen pump; new square of glass in WC; new valve to tap in store room; repairing valves to taps in WC; cleaning windows and glass in lights; glazing windows before painting in drawing room, dining room, front landing, bedroom, housekeeper's bedroom, study, bedroom over kitchen, passage, and south bedroom; new windows in servants' bedrooms; unstopping pipes, taking up basin, cleaning and guiding in valve in garden WC. Includes costs of materials (lead pipe, 1 1/2 inch cap and screw; joints; flanch screw, glass) and labour (plumbers, general labourers).
• Courts and staircases: new glass for greenhouse in Fellows' Garden; new glass for windows in servants' hall; unstopping sink in E staircase; new glass for windows in Leigh Bennett's rooms, Hoskyn's rooms, A.B. Willson's rooms, Lawson;s rooms, and various other staircases; filling regulators in various student rooms with oil and repairing their handles; filling filters on roof with charcoal; repairing/replacing glass in lamps; new valves and taps; new lead pipes to replace those damaged by frost; new valve and flanch screws for pipes in Mr Morgan's rooms, and replacement of stop tap; repairing burst pipe in M staircase; new valve box and leather bucket for Pump Court; soldering cracks in library roof; new glass for L, K, and P staircases; small panes of glass for windows in L and M staircases; underground pipes leading to WC (L and M staircase?); unstopping rainwater pipe over library; new screws and repairing brass handle in students' WC; new glass in servants' hall; new lead for roof of chapel north transept; white lead for Carpenter's rooms; 'cleaning and correcting' students' WC; lead casements, cementing, priming, puttying, and banding glass to new frames in school room windows. Includes costs of materials (glass, brass handles, joints, valves, taps, lead, stop taps) and labour (glazers, plumbers, blacksmiths). Credit comes from selling off some of the old pipes being replaced in B staircase, M staircase, Mr Morgan's rooms, and the cloisters.
• All roofs: soldering cracks in lead work; letting in new lead and general repairing. Includes costs of materials (lead, nails) and labour.
• New glass for lamp over gateway, and new glass for ventilator in Porters' Lodge.
• Carpentry work to various windows: repairing old sashes and fitting new wooden casements etc.
• Glazing work in Mr Shields' rooms costing £3 transferred to private account by order of the Dean, after it had previously been debited to the college account.
• In Mr Morgan's gyp room: 1/2 in basin tap, new pipe, joints, guide and thimble, flanch screw, and valve. (Credit for old tap and piping.)
  Chapel: cleaning and fixing ventilators; repairing and fixing lead work to casement; painting bars (21 short, 6 long); glazing new stained window and taking out old; releading and cementing window lights. (Credit from old piping and glass (16s 3d).
  Hall, Combination Room, Buttery: new glass in Combination Room; dusting stone work and cleaning windows in Hall; new glass and tap in buttery.
  College Kitchen: new squares of glass.

Paid to R. W. Harrison £306 2s 4d for £300 worth of consols. Paid from the College account with Hoare's Bank.

Addressed to Dr French.

1. Thomas Bagge for 50 tonnes of Ducks Coal for the cost of £45. Signed by Mr Mason. Dated 2nd September 1845.
2. Thomas Bagge for 46 tonnes of Ducks Coal for £41.8. Signed by Mr Mason. Dated 27th August 1845.
3. We have placed seventy two pounds to the credit of Thomas Bagge by the Reverend Dr French for John Mortlock Esq. & Sons. Dated 9th of September 1845. Signed by H. H. Matthews.

Paid £2 11s to Samuel Hill for 2 cruets to pattern, salting out bruises etc, silver dish, repair of silver castor boat from lodge, repair of 2 silver candlesticks, vegetable dish
Signed Samuel Hill

Paid to Mary Willis, £73 11s 9d as per dividend.

Letter certifying that Lucy Cradock widow of the late Reverend Edmund Cradock is a person of sober life. Witnessed by Jonathan Gibbs, rector of Rickinghall Superior in Suffolk, and H. Freeman and Mabor, churchwardens. Below, a receipt of £8 8s paid to Lucy Cradock as one of Mr. Rustats' pensioners.

Record of students' termly payments

A photograph and list of names as follows:

B.J. Arnold; G.L. Glover; J.A.G. Tindall; V.G.A. Baker; D.J. Morgan; J. Gayer-Anderson; R.G. Bickerton; D.J. Leapman; N.A. Lockington; J.P.C. Russell; M.H. Yeomans; J.W. Stone; D. Lloyd George; H.H. Hirst; J.R. Myhill; K.F. Rooney; J.D.F. Davison; G.D. Craig; R. Stoddart; D. Howorth; P.D.C. Hayes; G.K.V. Clarke; J.S. Mallinson; T.A. Mercer; M.H. Stainer-Hutchins; P.J. Higgins; A.L.W. Jenkins-Jones; W.B. Pennington; E.V. Southam; J.G. Mackie; V.M. Thomas; N.S. Dunthorne; E. Yates; J.L. Harris; R.N. Walters; H. Laing; J.B. [actually C.] Bottoms; E.E. Godfrey and G. [actually Q.] A. Geering.

Valuation of the estate in Jesus Lane leased to and occupied by Mrs Roberts

Copy of the will of Samuel Smith (1799) and an inventory of the fixtures in "Mr Samuel Smith's House Late the Crown in Jesus Lane", 16 June 1812.

Valuation prepared by Joseph Wentworth of the Malting and three tenements and stable.

Valuation of the Star Inn and stables; three houses; Leech's house, eight houses; and the Mansion House.

Valuation of a house in lease to Mrs Sparrow.

Specification of work to be done to make good dilapidations at No. 60 Rhadegund Buildings, Jesus Lane, leased from Jesus College to Mr Robert Felton

Agreement to pay an increased rent as follows:
"In consideration of the College agreeing to enlarge the yard at the back of this House and to grant me a Right of Way, in common with others, from Fitzroy Lane over a gravelled pathway forming a backway, and providing me with a new W. C. I the undersigned [William Gawthrope] hereby agree to undertake to pay an increased rent at the rate of two pounds (£2) per annum as from Christmas next"

Letter from J. Carter Jonas & Sons to the Bursar, Jesus College, informing him that 30 Station Road had been requisitioned by the Local Authority for billeting purposes

Auctioneer's catalogue for the sale of 32, 34, 36 and 38 Station Road on 19th November 1941. The brochure is marked inside in pencil with the price for each property. Also separate hand written notes giving the names of tenants for properties in Station Road, names of tenants and rental values

Letter from the College to George Kett agreeing to extend the lease on premises at the corner of Hills Road and Station Road on payment of a fee of £105. Includes colour plan of the premises.

(1) Letter from Dorothy Spens to Jesus College asking if they would consider letter the Cambridge Shelter for Girls purchase the remainder of the lease. They would then use the house as a hostel for 3 or 4 girls.

(2) Letter from Francis & Co to Bernard Manning (Jesus College) advising that the lease stipulates that the house is only to be used as a private residence. They say that the lease could be granted to Mrs Spens as a private individual but the College could not recognise the purpose which she has in view.

Letters concerning new lease:

1. From Henry John Whitehead (solicitor) to Francis, Francis and Parker (solicitor), dated 17th September 1887. States that Mrs Chapman has instructed him to accept the offer of a new lease of Woodstock Villa and St Mary's Villas (currently held under lease dated 27th March 1874) and setting out the terms for the new lease

2. From Henry John Whitehead to Francis, Francis and Parker, dated 13th February 1888. Returns the draft lease with an alteration allowing lettings of the houses as per the original lease

3. Plan of the properties showing extent of property and the names of the neighbouring leaseholders

Letter from Francis & Co (College solicitors) to Bernard Lord Manning (Bursar) quoting from a letter from Pickfords Ltd in which they respond to the College's view that their rights had been "completely disregarded" during the construction of their building and that they should have found out who owned the neighbouring property [an agreement was reached between the College and Pickfords - see JCAD/3/CAM//1933]

Letter from Mr Preston asking for permission to build the boundary wall higher so that he was not overlooked.

Letter from Philip H. Carter (chartered accountant) to Hugh Shield (Bursar) questioning the terms of the renewal of the lease

(1) Letter from Philip H. Carter of Carter & Co (Chartered Accountants) asking if the College would be prepared to renew the lease and if so on what terms. The current leaseholder was Mrs A. G. Carter who had succeeded to it under the will of the late F. G. Gifford

(2) Letter from Philip H. Carter acknowledging the College's response that they did not renew 40 year leases unless under exceptional circumstances. He points out that he had spend a considerable amount on the property and it had not been a "remunerative investment". He asks if the College would be prepared to make him an offer for the surrender of the lease

Letter from Hugh Shield (Bursar) to Mr J. Carey Mannooch offering him a new lease for 40 years from 25th March 1898 and setting out the conditions for the new lease

Letter from Hugh Shield (Bursar) offering [Mr Robert Barrett] a new lease for Nos. 29 and 30 from 29 September 1890. Also a site plan showing the outline of the properties including dimensions and naming Mrs Emma Wetenhall as the lessee of No. 31.