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Repairs for various college-owned properties between November 1873 and July 1874, including 38, 39, and 45 Jesus Lane, Hansons [?], and 37 Jaden Street. Repair costs include raising ladders, repairing tiling, bricklaying, rehanging sash, fixing fence, cutting away for the plumbers to access the pipe, fixing plasterwork, buying all the building materials (bricks, hods of mortar, tiles, screws). Total amount £7 5s 4d.
Costs brought forward as new repairs carried out August to October 1874 at 41 Jesus Lane (taking up old posts and fixing new ones) and Jesus Lane cottages (repairing tiling and repairing/rehanging sash), including paying labourers' wages and for building materials (nails, laths, hods of mortar, tiles). Final total: £15 10s 11.

Paid £1 16s 7½ to Thomas Robinson for work done on the chancel at Hundon church. Including payments for new leading, crown quarries and lights fixing to windows ('winders'). Signed by Thomas Robinson junior.

Receipt for various works carried out by the University and Town Gas-Light Company between January and March 1876, at a total cost of £108 19s 6d. Work and other expenses include: laying new trunk main and connecting same to the old services as per estimate; lock; burners; copper tube for lamp; repairing fitting in kitchen; iron pipe; bends; connexions; sockets, and time fixing same; columns; union taps; hosepiece; Bray's burners; time for repairing pipes; stopping escape in kitchen lift.

Plan showing the Fellows' and Master's gardens and the chimney. Also shows location of garage in the Master's garden, bicycle shed, summer house and greenhouse in the Fellows' garden. gardeners buildings outside of but adjoining Fellows' garden

Accounts for repairs to the fencing and gate; including £3 12s for 24 yards of 3 rail fencing, £1 2s 6d for labour and nails to repair the old fence, £1 7s 6d for repairing the gate and £1 3s 6d for "port spur" and labour.

Letter from James Webster reporting his visit to Elmstead, and the use of tiles and bricks in various buildings, followed by a statement: "Measurement of rough timber used to sundry repairs on a farm at Elmstead belonging to Jesus College"; the College is only obiged to provide timber.

Invoice for repairs made to farm buildings.

Receipt for a various repairs to college silver, including:

• Repairing silver branch of epergne
• Repairing handle of cruet frame and adding silver
• Repairing and shaping silver table forks
• Removing bruises from silver entree dish cover
• Repairing, polishing, and doing up silver candlestick and refilling bottoms
• Shaping and polishing silver spoons, table forks, dessert forks, gravy spoons, salt spoons
• Auditing college plate, packing it in boxes, and removing it to Mortlocks Bank (incl cost of cart hire)
• Effecting insurance on college plate for £2000 in the Imperial Fire Office from 20/10/1875 until the following October
• Gilding bowls
• Touching up and engraving the 8 dozen table spoons, 16 dozen table forks, and 2 dozen salt spoons
• Fetching plate from Mortlocks Bank (incl cost of cart hire and unpacking etc)
• Removing bruises from oval silver sauce tureen
• Hire of communion service
• Hire of plate
  Total cost £19-14-0.

Receipt for taking down encaustic tiles and clean and fix new ones to jambs of fireplace and hearth - including costs of labour, plaster, a jack, and cement - in Mr Morgan's rooms, M staircase (rooms 1, 3-6), N staircase (rooms 1-4), Lecture Room, Mr Crouch's room, O staircase (rooms 1-4);
For repairing plaster over door in Q staircase (rooms 5 and 6), P staircase (rooms 1, 4-5);
For making a model for stove, and for repairing floor and ease door in Mr Morgan's rooms;
For repairing chimney piece in F staircase, room 4;
For making and hanging a door, preparing jambs to receive the door, repairing two other doors; lining wall with boarding, and punching down the nail heads on the staircase in Mr Fairbairn's rooms (including cost of materials);
For preparing and fixing tiles to side of fire place in Mr Crouch's room;
For repairing and fixing two casements and frames in bedroom and pipe room in B staircase (including cost of materials);
For repairing the plastering in Mr Campion's and Mr Whiteley's rooms;
For painting [?] windows and repairing plastering in C and D staircase;
For taking down, cleaning, and refixing tiles to the fireplace (including cost of labour and materials), making good the walls, fixing the sideboards, and fixing the ventilator in Dr Westmorland's rooms;
For making good the walls in Dr Thompson's room;
For repairing plastering in bedroom and over door in sitting room after putting in new ventilators in L staircase;
For repairing plasterwork and digging out earth for new floor in L[?]'s rooms (including costs of labour (labourers and bricklayers), bricks, mortar, and waster disposal);
Various other similar repairs (windows, plastering, doors etc.) in B3, I2, I5, I9, C2, H1, H9, F1;
Preparing and fixing 3 casements and new door and frame and jamb linings in lecture rooms and repair floor (H1), including costs of material (deal, screws, casement fastenings, and labour time);
Rehanging and repairing shutters in E1;
Work to windows and fixing cabin hooks in C staircase (including brass hooks and screws, and 11 hours labour).
Total cost £33 14s 7d.

Brief notes on necessary repairs in 1931 by Messrs Rattee and Kett: £25 to mend broken Tenons to the Purlins and add iron plates; and by Coulson &Son Lts in 1936: £56.13.6 to re-lathe and re-tile north side of chancel roof.

Letter from Richard Reynolds Rowe (architect and surveyor) to the Master, reporting that repairs to College owned houses on Eden Street were underway. He enclosed a bill for £207 11s 9d to show the improvements he had made to the property and stating that he would send more bills shortly, but in the meantime he requested repayment for the work already carried out to Freeman's and Redfarn's properties

Postscript in a second hand confirms that Rowe was repayed by cheque on 6th March

Invoice for repairs to Claremont, 55 and 59 Hills Road

Bill for repairs to WC cistern at 2 Elm Street. 1s 8d paid to the Cambridge University & Town Water Works Company.

Bill for fitting of new tap at 7 Jesus Terrace. 4s 2d paid to the Cambridge University & Town Water Works Company.

£11 1s 2d for repairs done to chapel, master's lodge etc.

Bill for repairs to WC pipe in yard at 5 Elm Street. 6s 10d paid to the Cambridge University & Town Water Works Company.

Paid £1 11s 10d to J. Webster for work done in the college kitchen including repairing dresser plate racks and other jobs, 3 dozen brass hooks, joints, clasps, holdfasts, wall hooks, repairing door and plate rack, nails etc. Also wood with measurements. Signed by Webster

Series of receipts outlining repair works carried out at the Valley Farm in West Wratting. 1) Authorisation to execute the work (repairing pumps, fixing frame and leaving premises in good order) to Mr Brand from J. Carter Jonas (13th December 1919); 2) Receipt for repairing pumps, fixing frame and work as required (3p) by H.T. Smith, (22nd March 1920). 3) Receipt for oak field gates and oak parts for a total of 21p, work carried out by Apperley, Beard & Co. (29th June 1920).

Receipt for sundry repairs carried out in April and May 1875 by Lewis Rootham of 32 Clarendon Street to the dwelling house and outbuildings of 5 Park Terrace, lately occupied by the late Rev Prof Willis. Total sum £22-15-0. Signed off by R. Reynolds Rowe, college architect.

Correspondence from Morley Horder and George Kett concerning the restoration of the ceiling of the SCR and the floor of the room above in G staircase known as the ghost room. Includes notes on removal of 16th century moulded beams to be used elsewhere in the College.

Paid to Wentwith the sum of: £16 10s 9d for work done in 1839 & 1840:
29 August 1840 = work at Homer's new building preparing bedroom for paper, sizing walls, glue, labour, paper, papering rooms, paste, labour 17s
25 Feb 1841 = repairs in student's Rooms £15 13s 9d

Receipt for repairs and maintenance work carried out around college by Rattee and Kett (carvers, builders, etc.) between November 1874 and November 1875, at a total cost of £35 10s 6d. Works include: fixing and repairing casements (Smith's room), fixing stained glass (west window, south transcept of chapel) and repairing brickwork around the window, cutting out old bars (Smith's room), painting and fitting new bars, fixing pullies and cords to ventilators (3 double cords, 1 single cord, 2 iron hooks), grading window sills (choir window) for condensed air), cutting and setting stone on stove, 92 new chairs for chapel (including arranging the chairs, sawing and preparing splints and fixing chairs to same, and forming pulpit deck), making and fitting new key for chapel door.

Materials include glass, iron bars, Portland cement, mortar, nails, glue, stain, screws. Also includes costs of scaffolding, transportation of materials, and labour (including masons and joiners).

Memorandum: 2 oak seats and 2 Glastonbury chairs on loan.

Includes correspondence, invoices for work done, plans and maps relating to work done around College during and following the departure of the RAF who were stationed at the College during WWII. Particularly A, B and K staircases and East House. Also plans and bills relating to creation of a secure 'armory' for weapons stored in College.

Paid £18 17s 1d by Mr C. Deeks to J H Bareham for work done on Hundon Parsonage between July 15th and September 16th. Work included cleaning and repairing walls, roughcasting and colouring walls of house, replacing the tiling to house and kitchen, cleaning and repairs to the kitchen, whitewashing of kitchen and outhouse, putting in foundation, repairing foundation, laying floor to cow house, stripping, slating, digging and putting in foundations to barn and house, repairing gutters to barn, building wall, repairing walls to horse shed, tiling horse shed, replacing brickwork and roofing to Henhouse, repairing brickwork to gateway, beam filling granary, tiling shed to back of barn, building brick walls to farmyard, repairing foundations to wheat barn. Also includes a list of materials used including roof tiles, Staffordshire tiles, pack of cement, nails, slating, and hair for tiling.

3 bills kept together, all paid to D. Clark, mostly for work on fences.
January 17, 2 pounds, 18 shillings, 7 pence, fencing, 4 pounds of gun powder to sharping saw (sharpening?)
April 16, 2 pounds, 13 shillings, 1 pence, to Post in Malcolm (spelled Malcomb) Street. Fencing next common. Wax, nails, tanter hooks (tenterhooks), hooping, 3 gallons of tar.
July 9, paid 1 pound 9 pence, repairing pig stys, wood labour and nails
repairing fence on new square, new rails and painting

Paid to Shallow and Coleman 12s for repair of gutter and brackets and two men to fix them

Letter to the Jesus College Bursar (B. L. Manning) by Robert Dent (general smith and hot water engineer) outlining estimate of the costs of taking down broken W.C. cistern, supplying new one and connecting up pipes in the Master's Garden (3p; 14s; 0d)

5 very descriptive receipts on repairs done to Borough High Street properties including Half Moon Inn (Hotel).

Draft of College's consent to reapairs and allaterations being made to the Parsonage House, the incumbent is allowed to borrow the money, and appointment of a solicitor to receive the money.

Appeal for help from the College towards the repair of three broken windows in the chancel. The College was approached by Professor L.P. Pugh, of the Old Rectory, Harlton. The College contributed £10.

Item 1: Work dated to the 22nd May 1901. Bill for repairs, painting and carpenting, amounting to £161, 0S, 0D. Cheque received 18th December 1901.
Item 2: Work dated 14th June 1901. Bill for fitting new drains, amounting to £29, 0S, 0D. Cheque received 18th December 1901.
Item 3: Work dated 22nd May 1901. Bill for ‘sanitary requirements’ and fitting of new drain, amounting to £54, 0S, 0D. Cheque received 18th December 1901.
Item 4: Work bill dated 14th June 1901. Bill for sanitary work, amounting to £23, 0S, 0D. Cheque received on the 18th December 1901.

A bill detailing work done on a fence in college. Fence reframed and fixed. Bill amounts to £4, 18S, 9D. Bill paid by cheque by Jesus College.

Bill for repairs done on the house on Jesus Lane by G Burbage, by order of Dr Adams. Signed by G Burbage. Items billed include: repairing slating, cleaning out gutters, labour, slate, and cement. Total amount 4s 6d.

Bill for repairs and painting done to Hundon parsonage by A. Robinson by order of Mr. R. F. Cuthbert totaling £4 10s 9d. Signed by A. Robinson.

File of letters concerning the painting of rooms and cleaning of pictures:

(1) 17th June 1930 - Letter from Samuel Hood asking for his room to be repainted cream (currently brown)
(2) Estimate from B. McLean Leach & Sons to carry out the work for £25
(3) Reply from Samuel Hood that the price was too high as he would only be there for 32 years
(4) Letter from B. McLean Leach & Sons explaining the reason for the cost and saying it would be cheaper to keep it brown although the original colour would have been cream
(5) Letter from B. McLean Leach & Sons to the Bursar informing him that Lord Duncannon had asked for his sitting room to be redecorated and asking for permission to clean and varnish the painting above the mantlepiece
(6) Letter from B. McLean Leach & Sons to the Bursar saying that they were waiting for a reply from Lord Duncannon about redecorating his room
(7) Letter from Mrs Bell to the Bursar to say that they would be leaving in March (1932) but asked him to visit to see the painting in the the back room in contrast to the newly cleaned and varnished one in Lord Duncannon's room

Letter written by Charles Marriott containing a breakdown of tenants renting land at Ossett from Jesus College. Mariott apologises that to total amount of £9 4s 7d has been delayed due to late payment by a tenant. Includes a list of tenants and rent paid by them: William Broadhead (£8 4s 6d), William Wood Wiseman (£1 4s 7d) and Henry Castile Scott (6s).

Rents paid by the college, totalling £18 13s, to William Broadhead, Dr Wiseman, and Henry Castile Scott on 11th November 1873, and to the same on the same date in 1874. Cheque remitted to Dr Coisie on 26th November 1874. Second sheet is blank.

Late Mr. Haggentane [?], All Saints Parish
Land for the Year;
Rentals;

17. House; £3 8s 0d

18. Garden; £2 12s 0d

19. Tenements; £1 8s 0d
    [Total=] £6 8s 0d

20. Bannett [?] warehouse; £7 8s 0d

Handwritten receipt for £2 5s paid by Dr Westmorland to E. Benton, paid as 8 months rent for 'sokage'

Accounts for rent paid for the year ending Michaelmas 1875 by Joseph Smith (in two installents), Mr Hawksworth (1 installment), and E.C. Middleton (1 installment). Also accounts for tax on salary and stamps, balancing out to £25 5s. Signed by W. Edward Woolley.

Includes card filing system detailing rents paid by individuals on a weekly basis for the property they leased from the College, 1945-47; 14 ledgers, 1966-88.

The volume is indexed by tenants' names. The corn rent is calculated as in the preceding vols, but by tenant not by property. For houses, tenants are listed under names of streets. After 1856 there is nothing to show what arrangement is used, except for the London rents. There is a separate list of hosues and gardens let at rack rent.

Chronological listing of payments made by tenants for leases on College property.

Accounts written by John Harries covering rent, fire insurance, land tax, income tax and various repairs to the farm, amounting to £215. Includes a note in which Harries begs Dr Westmorland to 'take into consideration the very bad times I have had' working Clay Farm in Sussex.

Contains half-yearly rentals, with: name of tenant, reserved rent in money, wheat, malt, total rent in money, and college commons. Then follow: Cambridge rents in money only, total of London rents, pensions (Foljambe's, Lady Bennet's, Marshall's Exhibition). A second column, in the Michaelmas accounts only, has: quit rents received, out rents including payments to the University waits, the London rent collector, the University beadles, for sermons, the Steward of Graveley, the Shelford poor, and the University Marshal. At the foot of the account are tables of current prices of wheat and malt. After the rental for 1745 is: the Dividend Paper, 1685-1745, consisting of a list of receipts, chamber rents, receipts from degrees fees, and payments to various servants, the library, the garden, etc.; the last to be deducted from the sum of the first three. In a second column, to be added, are fines received; to be deducted "corn money owed to Commons" and "capon money owed to Commons". This calculation establishes the dividend, which is divided in 18 parts, two of which go to the Master and one to each Fellow. From 1709 there is "a charge for Exceedings at Christmas" and from 1712 "a charge for Commencement Supper".

Contains accounts as in JCAD/2/2/3/1, except that the rental of London estates is given in full after the Michaelmas account. At the front are notes about average prices of a quarter of wheat, by Benjamin Newton (1738) and Lynford Caryl (1765).

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