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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).

Ledger

Contains accounts as in JCAD/2/2/3/1-2, with these variations: from 1798 there is a separate entry for rents which go partly to the Chest and partly to Dividend; from 1799 only the Corn Rent properties are listed; after 1806 the Cambridge house properties appear on a separate page. For 1805 there is an account in the hand of Dr Pearce of the sale to Downing of land and a sheepwalk in St Thomas's Leys. From 1815 there are no tenants at will, but instead tenants of the "new houses in Jesus Lane". At the end of the book is a note by Dr Pearce about deductions by tenants on account of the duty on malt.

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Paid to St. Quintin and Son. £311 6s 6d for rents.

For rent due at Michaelmas for land in the parishes of Loughborough and Shepshed [Sheepehed]. Total of £25 paid to Ward and Middleton, Joseph Smith, and William Hawkesworth. Another £25 paid for: property tax, postage and receipts stamps, charges for letting the garden in Ashby Place to E.C. Middleton, lately occupied by Ward, and a cheque to balance account send to the Rev Dr Coerie. Signed by Edward Woolley in Loughborough.

A list of people who pay Quit Rent to Pinnow Hall, wiuth the land and the amount paid.

Notes on rents for 1847 audit.

(1) 5th December 1941 - letter from J. Carter Jonas & Sons to Major Guy Dale proposing that the rent be reduced from £145 to £132 per annum due to buildings at the bottom of the garden having been destroyed. They point out that this would be a temporary arrangement until either the end of the war or until a settlement with the War Damage Commission had been agreed

6 receipts of quit rent received annually from the Reverend Dr. Banks for the period 1857 to 1862. Payments for 3s, or 2s 11d or 2s 10 1/2 d with tax deducted. All signed by Richard Rowe, agent for Jesus College. Memorandum attached written by Rowe explaining that he has paid these rents to Jesus, because Banks has refused to pay, and reminding the college that they now owe him the 17s 6 1/2 d. Another sheet of paper attached with scribbled notes, including the names of two of the tenants of Great Saint Mary's parish, Rev. Mr Banks and Mrs Sanderson, and on the reverse addresses in London written in pencil and scribbled out.

Rent receipt for land in Willingham, totaling £8 10s 0d, due to the Vicar of Swanesey, dated 19 December 1882.

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.

This is a receipt of the rent payments for home land and Hall's Road made by Mr. Haggis and land tax of St Giles and income tax payments made by Rev. Dr. French for the total amount of £117.15.6 1/2

Receipt for payment of Mr. Robson's rent due Michaelmas 1847 totaling to £10. Signed Dr. French, bursar.

Jesus College paid £13 6s 8d rent to Alexander Thomas Crisford, Vicar of Great Shelfod

Received of Jesus College the sum of 1s 4d for one year's rent due to Corpus Christi College at St Michael's last.
Signed John Ashby.

Receipt of rent collected by W. J. Wooley on behalf of Jesus College. Includes half a years' rent from Mr J. Smith and from Mr Ward due lady day, with tax deducted; one year's interest from Mr Hawksworth due Michaelmas 1864; rent from Mr Joseph Smith and from Mr Ward half a years' rent due Michaelmas last, with tax deducted. With Woolley's commission retained. Total cost £24 2s 2d. Undated and unsigned.

Receipt recording rent payment by Jesus College to Trinity College via Francis V Co.

Received of the Master & Fellows of Jesus College the sum of 2s and 6d for one year (?) remt due at Michaelmas last to the Master & Fellows of Clare Hall. Signed by William Webb.

A receipt for the payment of 16s 16d, paid by Jesus College to Caius College as one year's rent for lands 'in the Manor of Mortimer'.

Paid £0 16s 6d by the bursar of Jesus College to Gonville and Caius College for a full year's rent for lands belonging to the manor of Mortimers.
Signed by James Hicks

Letter from Mr Hack to B. L. Manning, Bursar of Jesus College, asking to accept cheque in payment of rent due 10th November 1921 and confirming attendance of dinner on Saturday. Enclosed, Land Tax Receipt for the Jesus College farm in Great Wilbraham levied from Mr Hack on 5th February 1921 (£4 3s 9d)