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Statement by a defendent, claiming that he has been unfairly pursued for years by a claimant, and asking for the case to be dismissed. It seems to relate to tithes. With marginal notes, perhaps by counsel. The document is badly damaged, and has no visible date.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Joshua Noble.
Messuage and ground in Walls Lane [King Street] lying between the wall of the late Grey Fryers on the west and a house of Bennett College on the east, abutting on the common highway on the south and a close belonging to Jesus College on the north, for a term of 40 years from Michaelmas 1692.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Love. Two tenements between a tenement occupied by Robert Lee on the east and that occupied by John Bennet on the west [lease endorsed "Lease of Denny House and tenement adjacent"]. Term: 40 years. Rent: 8s.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Adam Newling (carpenter) four tenements.Term: 40 years. Rent: 18s plus 2 capons or 3s.
Covenants: lessee not to turn any part of the premises into an ale house or victualling house

Agreement for repair of Chapel Organ between Jesus College Cambridge and Renatus Harris, organmaker of London.

Includes articles of agreement that:

1. Harris will well and sufficiently repair, amend, maintain and cleanse the Organ at his own propoer costs and charges and keep it tuned.

2. Harris himself shall come to Cambridge annually to inspect the organ

3. The executors of Harris shall put the organ in good order within one month after the death of Harris

4. The College undertakes to pay Harris an annual salary of £3.

   Signed by Harris (with red wax seal) and sealed and delivered in the presence of Edward Wilkinson and Thomas Hussey.

Also includes photograph of organ in situ at Little Bardfield Church.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Michael Greene (bricklayer). Lease of the house next the King's Ditch. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 0s 0d and 4s for capons

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Ann Ray. A messuage or tenement formerly in the tenure of Peter Dent, now in the occupation of John Layton and Mickill Greene between a messuage late of Nicholas Cotes on the west and the fellows garden on the east.
Term: 40 years. Rent: 13s 4d

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mary Crane. Lease of the tenement now or late in the occupation of William Kirbyshire and now or late in the occupation of Mary Fuglebright (widow) lying between tenements of Jesus College in the occupation of John Dennis (cook) on the east and Anthony Digby on the west. Term: 40 years. Rent: 10s.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) John Harwood (woollen draper). Lease of the mansion house formerly known as Knowles' Tenement adjoining on the east a College house in the occupation of William Kirbyshire and on the west a piece of land formerly in the tenure of Anthony Digby for which he paid the College 10d p.a. quit rent. Term: 40 years from Michaelmas 1698. Rent: £1 10s 0d and 6s 8d

Isabella Hutchinson limits the advowson after her death to her son Julius

Conveyance by lease and release, from Isabella and Julius Hutchinson and others, to William Hussey, Bursar, for the use of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College. Consideration £460. With a Fine upon the above (2 documents) and abill of charges for the conveyance.

Mostly copies of deeds

Adam Buddle (the nephew) covenants to convey the advowson to James Harrison, for a consideration of £400. With counterpart. (13 April 1700). Also:

Exemplification of the above Recovery. (Letters Patent, William III) Latin, seal missing. 13 April 1700

Also:

Release: Balthasar Martin, Lord of the Manor of Burrards, releases his rights in the advowson of Whatfield to James Harrison. 29 May 1700

The first of two preliminary folios has been mostly cut out. The second bears some Latin notes, including a transcript of Bishop John Alcock's declaration of 17 March 1489 concerning doubts raised at the college of Saint Peter, Cambridge (about the making of decrees by the Master and Dean of that college). A contents list of statute headings follows, verso.

The Statutes (of Bishop Nicholas West) are written in an italic hand with a few later annotations and markings; they are followed by the Statute added by the Royal Visitors of 1559-60, substantially erased and rewritten because of the wish to start a new page.

At the back of the book are: the oath to be taken by a Fellow-commoner; the oath required on admission of a Fellow, the oath required on the admission of a Commoner; and a note in Dr French's hand (in English) about a new statute removing the restrictions imposed by the old statute "De numero sociorum" ["Of the number of fellows"], made on 7 January 1828 and to come into force within 5 years.

The volume begins with "Regula Seneschali", a collection of rules for charging and accounting, concluding with a decree about payment of "detriments" by undergraduates. There follow monthly accounts with the Master, Fellows, B.A.s and undergraduates. At the end of the book (reversed) are receipts for bread and beer.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Elizabeth Martin (widow). Term: 21 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d

"De Libro Nigro Pergamen": a draft for a history of the University, commencing with a discussion of authorities, the Black Parchment Book and Hare's Collection. In the hand of Dr Charles Ashton, and a companion volume to JCGB/5/1/1.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Fox, the elder. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1

Surrender of the Croft called the Yieldhall by the executors of Joseph Grastocke, to the use of John Paris and Sarah his wife, daughter of J. Grastocke. Latin

Engraving by G. Vertue; Gardiner was Shelford Fellow in 1700.

A terrier made by the minister and churchwardens of the parish, of the glebe land, minister's dues, tithes etc. Subscribed by Chrles Stock, Rector, Richard Clatterbook [Clutterbuck] and Samuel Heaven, Churchwardens, and two others. Apparently a copy, addressed to the Revd Mr Bradshaw, Fellow of Jesus College, in London.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Feoffees of Trinity Parish. Four tenements [25, 27, 29 and 31 King Street] and grounds situate lying and being in Walls Lane [King Street]

Contains accounts of the Rustat Bursar.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) John Dennis (cook). Two tenements with a garden and a new tenement lately built where a stable formerly stood, and which is occupied by William Randall, carpenter. Term: 40 years. Rent: 8s. Also Llicence of Alienation

A list of all the tithes due to Cavendish, over the signature of Henry Grey, Rector. The total is £267.13.11, with a deduction of £5.00 owed to Queen's College, which Grey does not acknowledge.

The Revd Henry Grey, son of Thomas Grey, to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, one rood of ground and the advowson, for £657.10.0

£50 of the purchase money is to remain in the hands of Gilbert Hook, Fellow of the College, pending the outcome of a suit between Grey and Queen's College. Bonds by Henry Grey and the College

Conveyance by James Grey, of the Middle Temple, London, Esq., grandson of Thomas Grey, decd., to the college, one rood and the advowson, for £100

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Joshua Noble.
Messuage and ground in Walls Lane [King Street] lying between the wall of the late Grey Fryers on the west and a house of Bennett College on the east, abutting on the common highway on the south and a close belonging to Jesus College on the north, for a term of 40 years.

Contains annual accounts, as before. If the expenses exceed the receipts in any year, the difference is paid to the Bursar out of the Dead College Fund. The flyleaf has a note: "Price of this book 5s. 6d. Guglielmus Lewis." and a memorandum in the hand of Dr Saywell, 1684, about the cost of "wainscotting the East end of the Chapel", paid for by Saywell as Master and by the President, Dr Cooke. Hundon [trust] accounts for 1698-1708 are at the end of the book, worked from the back. Half calf binding, 12+ x 8+ in. 1676-1709

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Alexander Norfolk (butler). A messuage or tenement formerly in the tenure of Peter Dent, now in the occupation of John Layton and Mickill Greene between a messuage late of Nicholas Cotes on the west and the fellows garden on the east.
Term: 40 years. Rent: 13s 4d

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Elizabeth Martin (widow). Term: 21 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Michael Greene (bricklayer). Lease of the house next the King's Ditch. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 0s 0d and 4s for capons

Bond for £30 in respect of a lease of 16 Jesus Lane signed by Michael Greene (bricklayer)

Henry Grey relates the decision of the Court of Exchequer, that he should pay £20 to Queen's College in a tithe dispute, and £60.10.0 taxed costs, and empowers Gilbert Hook to pay to Queen's the £50 withheld from the purchase price of the living.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) John Harwood (woollen draper). Lease of the mansion house formerly known as Knowles' Tenement adjoining on the east a College house in the occupation of William Kirbyshire and on the west a piece of land formerly in the tenure of Anthony Digby for which he paid the College 10d p.a. quit rent. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d and 6s 8d

Valuation of Mrs Crane's lease.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Adam Newling (carpenter) four tenements.Term: 40 years. Rent: 18s plus 3s.
Covenants: lessee not to turn any part of the premises into an ale house or victualling house

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Elizabeth Martin (widow). Term: 21 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d

Letter to John Norfolk, Vicar of Hundon, listing "all those lands with the homage at a court which I held at Pinnow Hall in Hundon about fifteen years since.,for Mr George Berk the Lord of the Mannor."

Extract of Will dated 1716, bequeathing the advowson to his son Thomas. The will was proved 22 December 1721.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Rowland Fox. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1

Contains copies of: John Sherman's history of the college, 'Aborigines Jesuani', in a late 17th century mixed hand, the latest date in this original hand being 1681, but the lists of personnel being carried on in other hands up to 1717; the statutes of Bishop West, in a late 17th or 18th century hand, with underlining and annotations including some restoring clauses omitted or recast by the Visitors of 1549-50; the statute added by the Visitors; Charles I's interpretation of the statute 'De Numero Sociorum' (at p. 161), 1635; the statute 'De Preceptore Gram. Et ejus Hostiario' (at p. 163); papers concerning the election of Charles Proby to a fellowship, July 1692; the preamble to Bishop West's statutes (p. 173) with marginal notes correcting the text to agree with that of STA 1/1; the statutes of Bishop James Stanley (1514), with similar marginal notes; account of receipts for the year 1556 (at p. 203, copied from STA 1/1); an account of the lapse of two fellowships to L. Andrews, then Bishop of Ely, with his interpretation of some doubts in the college statutes (1614); an interpretation of the statute 'De Numero Sociorum', 1634; an interpretation 'De Senioritate, et majore parte Sociorum', 3 Jan 1637/8; a case heard before the Bishop's Vicar-General on 11 June 1638; and Dr Boldero's letter to Bishop [Matthew] Wren about John North's election to a fellowship, 1 Feb. 1666/7 (p. 238).

Printed facsimiles entitled 'The Earliest Statutes of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1514-1515' are of Bishop Stanley's statutes [edited by Arthur Gray], printed for the Master and Fellows by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge. The volumes also include an English translation of the statutes, a note on Bishop Stanley's statutes and other codes of the 16th century, notes on particular statutes and a transcription (in Latin) of the first part of the Royal Licence for the foundation of Jesus College. The only difference between the two volumes lies in the binding.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) the Feoffees of Trinity Parish (Matthew Lancaster, James Whiskin, John Wardall, William Raymond, Andrew Hunt and William Morgan). Four tenements or dwelling houses [25, 27, 29 and 31 King Street] with a garden ground in Walls Lane [King Street]