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Receipt for £0 16s 1d of property and income tax, Parish of All Saints. Paid in cash to collector, Mr. Wiseman.

There is a bright red sticker with word "Enclosure" centered in white letters. "Dear Sir, We have the pleasure to enclose herewith our receipt for cheque value , £4 4s in settlement of the account for professional services at the Masters' Lodge, for which we thank you. Yours truly, Handcock & Dykes"

Letter from Edmund Lord to Dr Corrie, explaining that he had not known until visiting the bank the day before that he had been given £194 from the Proby Fund. The letter confirms receipt of the payment as well as Lord's thanks. Dated 16th December at Whittlesford.

Receipt for printing examination papers. Subjects include: the General Paper, Algebra, Differential Calculus, Algebra (Logarithms), Mechanics, Civic Sections, Euclid, Trigonometry, A. H. Woodham, Caesaris de Bello Civili, Virgil's Georgics, Herodotus Book, St. Luke's Gospel, Euripides Medea. Cost - £15, 10s, 6d.

Receipt for printing the following items: 100 "Notice Order from Tutor for Dinners" (6s); List of "Freshmen" for the year 1879 (13s); 11 cards to admit students into "intercollegiate Lectures" (6s 6d); 100 lists of residents (10s); 18 "Chapel Marking Sheets" (19s); 10 books with 20 pages with residents for 1879 listed (£1 6s 6d); 100 "MA & BA Supplicate" and 50 Certificates of Terms (11s); 200 "Open Scholarships" (12s); 100 blank forms "Required before admission" (4s 6d); 80 lists of residents for the Lent term (£1 4s); 2 books with 150 pages for "Exeat" (£1 1s); 75 lists of residents for Easter term (13s); 500 blank forms for Chapel services (12s); 1000 "Gate Bills" (£1); 500 "Notice- Cooks' bills exceeding £8" (10s); 60 "Suggestions for Answers to Questions on Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice'" (£3 10s); 200 Chapel notices (11s); 250 notices on "Alteration of Hours of Dining in Hall" (6s); 100 "Instructions to Freshman" to be posted (10s 6d); 200 notices that "Lodgings have been taken" (7s). Total bill of £18, signed by H. Mason

Receipt for the printing of two Latin Graces titled 'before dinner' and 'after dinner'. Sum of 15s. Also includes note of acknowledgement from Pitt Press on 22 December 1842 for the payment of the Latin Graces on behalf of W.W. Parker and signed by John Harvey.

Received of Jesus College the sum of £30 2s, in respect of the poor rate of the parish of Hundon. Rate made 10th April 1876 on £602 assessment at 1s in the pound [7 1/4d for poor rate, 4d for school board rate, 3/4d for sanitary rate]. Signed by Robert Gibbons.

Receipt from the Ridbridge Union, Parish of Hundon. £26 8s 1 1/2 d to be paid by the college in respect of the Hundon parish poor rate, on £633 15s assessment, at 10d in the pound. Signed by Robert Gibbons.

Receipt from the Ridbridge Union, Parish of Hundon. £26 8s 1 1/2d to be paid by the college in respect of the Hundon parish poor rate, on £633 15s assessment, at 10d in the pound. Signed by Robert Gibbons.

Receipt from the Ridbridge Union, Parish of Hundon. £35 10s 6d to be paid by the college in respect of the Hundon parish poor rate, on £609 assessment, at 1s 2d in the pound. Signed by Robert Gibbons.

Receipt from the Ridbridge Union, Parish of Hundon. £21 2s 6d to be paid by the college in respect of the Hundon parish poor rate, on £633 15s assessment, at 8d in the pound. Signed by Robert Gibbons.

Received of Jesus College the sum of £25 17s 3 1/2d, in respect of the poor rate of the parish of Hundon. Rate made 10th January 1876 on £620 15s assessment at 10d in the pound [5d for poor rate, 5d for highway rate]. Signed by Robert Gibbons.

Paid to City of London Union, Parish of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury. £20 16s for Poor and Equalization Rate.

Receipt of the payment of Poor Law taxes to the Parish of All Saints from the Master of Jesus College, amounting to £5 5s. Signed by Churchwardens John Fuller Junior and John Bentley

Bundle of receipts of poor and general district rates paid by Mr Jonas (Jesus College) and Mr Robinson (Bursar of Jesus College) and Jesus College to the Parish and Borough of Cambridge. Includes handwritten note with calculations of total sums for the poor rate (£233 0s 1d) and the general rate (£131 8s 6d)

Receipt for plumbing work undertaken by H. Jerrold, Plumber. Sum of £0 9s 6d

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.

1845 – Jesus Collage [College] Cambridge due to Robert Burrows, done by the order of Mr. R. F. Cuthburt [Cuthbert]

Reppring [repairing] of the barn used at Hundon, witting [whiting?] of it and making good the plastering [plastering];

9th of May –

Pinking [plastering term] of it and making good the plastering; £ 0 9s 0d

No 7 Pinking Round the Windlery [?]; £0 5s 0d

27 – Making good the tilleng [tiling?]; £0 7s 0d
Lime and glew [glue?] and wave [?]; £0 2s 0d

[Total=] £1 9s 0d

Lettered 1846. Signed by Robert Burrows.

Receipt for the purchasing of pipes from R. Mustill, brick and tile merchant. Including 360 4-inch pipes (19s 6d), 2400 3-inch [?] pipes (£4 4s) and 800 2-inch pipes (17s), amounting to £6 6d. Signed by R. Mustill.

1 receipt for piping, amount £1 2s 6d. Paid by Mr Whittlesey at Willingham to William Hard, of the Needingworth White Brick and Ornamental Tile Works.

Receipt for 2 bushels of peat (6s); 1lb of Sulphur and 2lb soap (1s 6d); 1 "Oxford Pruning Gloves" (2s).

Receipt for the payment of £1 1s from the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his consent during the vacancy of the See of Ely, for the postponement of the election for Jesus College Fellows. Signed by Burder and Dunning, at 27 Parliament Street, Westminster, and dated the 13th February 1864.

Receipt for the payment of £1 8s 6d paid to Messers Favell, Ellis & Sons (plumbers, glaziers, painters and decorator) for repairing pump, new bucket, smith work repairing and altering iron work. 1½ days wages for 1 plumber and man to do fittings and fixings. On behalf of Jesus College by the order of Mr R. Rowe.

A short note with sums to the amount of £1,552.12. Writing not legible.

Receipt for payment of 6s 9d by Jesus College for 3 months' water supply.

Receipt for payment of 6s 9d by Jesus College for 3 months' water supply.

Receipt for payment of 6s 9d by Jesus College for 3 months' water supply. "Little Manor Street" written across the top of the receipt in a different hand.

Receipt for payment of 6s 9d made by Jesus College for 3 months' water supply.

Receipt of payment for one year's bunk[?] tax and one year's land tax. Sum of £1 10s 6d. Signed by William Barker, Collector.

Receipt of payment for one year's tax. Sum of £0 3s 0d. Signed by William Marshall & Son, South-Level Drainage.

Receipt of payment for one year's tax. Sum of £0 3s 1d. Signed by William Marshall & Son, South-Level Drainage.

Receipt for the payment of surveying and work done on boundary lines by the Parish of Hundon, including laying boundary posts and paths. Addressed to Master and Fellows of Jesus College. Sum of £3 15s 9d. Signed by L. J. D[?]

Receipt for the payment of one year's rent to the Manor of Hundon. Sum of £0 2s 2d. Signed by Thomas Robinson

Receipt for payment of 4s, 2 1/2d by Mr Rowe to the Parish of St Clement. Collected by Cambridge Union. Signed by the collector G Noone.

Receipt for payment of 3s 9d by Mr Rowe to the Parish of St Clement. Collected by Cambridge Union, signed by the collector G Noone.

Receipt for payment of 4s, 2 1/2d by Mr Rowe to the Parish of St Clement. Collected by Cambridge Union. Signed by the collector G Noone.

Receipt for payment of 3s 9d by Mr Rowe to the Parish of St Clement. Collected by Cambridge Union, signed by the collector G Noone. Original totals of sums owed have been deleted in red ink and signed "G.N"

Receipt for payment of Land Tax at the Parish of saint Andrew the Less. Addressed to Mr Henry Haggis. Sum of £1 11s 3d. Signed by W. Palmers

Receipt for payment of Land Tax at St Giles Parish. Addressed to Mr Henry Haggis. Sum of £2 5s 6d. Signed by R. Peters.

Receipt for payment of Land Tax at St Giles Parish. Addressed to Mr Henry Haggis. Sum of £2 5s 6d. Signed by R. Peters.

Receipt for payment of Land Tax at the Parish of saint Andrew the Less. Addressed to Mr Henry Haggis. Sum of £1 10s 0d. Signed by W. Palmers, Collector

Receipt for the payment of £4 11s 0d for work on College estates including wages for 4 men for 6 days, horse cart. Receipt for the payment of £10 2s 6d for nails, boards, pulling old nails.

Receipt for the payment of £3 to Walter Flack Senior (plumber and painter) for work executed at Butler's House including:
washing and whitening the ceiling, painting, marbling and varnishing chimney piece, painting new windows twice outside.

Receipt for the payment of £1 13s 5d paid to J. Cooke (upholsterer) for paper, hanging 19 pieces of paper.

Receipt for the payment of £13 by Charles Deeks for one "2r pay". Signed by Robert French Cuthbert.

A receipt for Paul Pattison's salary, 2s. Signed by 'Paul Pattison Coyer'.

Receipt from the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College to Clement Francis, for parliamentary agents' costs incurred in the matter of the Cambridge award bill between 22nd February 1856 and 9th May 1856. Items billed include: Instructions to oppose bill; instructions for petition; drawing petition folios 13; engrossing; parchment; attending presenting petition at the private bill office; making copy to keep for use and reference folios 15; attending Messrs Walmsley & Co. in long conference when they said they would produce the rating books etc. and would render us any assistance with the view of saving expense; coach hire to Westminster; attending you in long conference on your arrival in town and taking instructions to oppose petition; instructions for brief; drawing same 25 brief sheets; four copy; writing Mr Heath on several matters connected with the petition; writing again to Mr Heath relative to proceedings; attending Messrs Walmesley relative to opposition and advising thereon; drawing Admissions and 3 fair copies to sign; the like notice to produce and 3 copies; relative to Mr Calvert (attending him; fee with brief and clerk; attending him; the like on consultation); attending conference at Mr Calvert; chambers upwards of 2 hours; afterwards attending the several parties arranging as to tomorrow's proceedings; attending in Dover Street Piccadilly requesting Dr Corrie's attendance; paid cab hire for expediture [?]; attending committee all day same adjourned till 12 o'clock tomorrow; fee to Mr Calvert and clerk; attending to appoint conference for tomorrow; attending Messrs Gurney bespeaking short handwriters notes; paid cab (they were to be ready by 9 tomorrow morning); attending all the parties in long conference; attending consultation at Mr Calvert's house in St James Place; attending committee all day same adjourned till tomorrow; consultation fee to Mr Calvert for tomorrow; attending bespeaking copy short hand writers notes for Mr Calvert tonight; attending committee all day same again adjourned; attending committee when they decided that preamble was gone through and proved likewise clauses; paid coachhire expenses of the several parties during 4 days; attending at Mr Calvert's residence with minutes of evidence; paid proportion for short hand writers notes; attending to pay same; paid house fees; ditto before committee; to general attendances at the private bill office on the parliamentary agents solicitors for the bill and other parties; letters messengers cab hire etc.; attending you in long conference and taking your instructions to see Mr Heath and get cause prepared on behalf of Jesus College ready for the committee; attending Mr Heath and fully discussing how the matter stood and the instructions we had received from you; drawing clause folios 4; 3 copies for use; writing informing the Master of Jesus College that bill would be in committee on Friday next; attending Mr Heath in long conference and going through the bill with him as amended in committee; attending at private bill office and found that bill had been read today and committee fixed for tomorrow; writing Mr Heath and informing him thereof and appointing to meet the Master tomorrow morning; attending the Master of Jesus College and Bursar of Trinity Hall in long conference reading over and discussing proposed clause; afterward attending Lord Redesdale in committee on the bill but he refused to introduce the clause; paid cab hire to the House of Lords with the Master and back; letters etc.. Total amount: £187 1s 10d, paid by cash in College account. Signed by Clement Francis.

Receipt to f Jesus College from Benjamin Diver for payment for various paints, signed J Chaler (?)