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Letter from William Bagge, Thomas Bagge and Joseph Greene to Rev Dr French, dated 11th March 1832, King's Lynn. Apologises to French for allowing his note to go unanswered as it had gottten mislaid. Reports that the coal of nearly the whole of last year was not so good as they could have wished, owing to the extra demand occasionedb taking off the Duty, and to this intention by the stoppage of work amongst the pitmen nearly twelve months ago, the coal owners could hardly get them fast enough and did not pay their usual attention to quality. Bagge/Greene notes they did all in their power to have this remedied, but could not. Now the coals are much better. Signed William Bagge, Thomas Baggge and Joseph Greene.

Received of Dr French, o William & Thomas Bagge, dated 26th September 1832. For 23 chaldrons of ducks coals and 5 chaldrons of blyth coals. Total of £34 19s. Additional rough work at bottom of receipt, one of the total of £68 5s and the other £16 8s.

Invoice noted for Combination (Room?), dated 2 June 1832, 1 new ly(?), 5 new carters, new hem (?), Dining table. Rough work including 25/1 - Estates £2 8s, Combination 14s. Total of £3 2s. Noted as paid December 14.

Addressed to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College. Receipt for 15 shillings to be paid to James Tibbit for carpentry work done on the college estate occupied by John Tew. Work carried out included a new gate, two posts, and two wing rales [sic].

Invoice addressed to the Reverend Master & Fellows of Jesus College, to Thomas Prince, gas filler, noting work done from 21st September 1829 until 27th December 1832.

Includes repairing gas pipes, grinding up the cocks, repairing the gas lights in Cloister Court, thawing the condensation loose in gas pipe in courts, repairing a broken join next to main cock in porter's lodge, taking water out of lamp in New Court, searching for an escape of gas and repairing, and two men opening ground for lamp in New Court to find out the place where the water is in pipe, cutting pipe in two, letting water and connecting pipe again. Total of £6 16s.

Bill for ironwork addressed to the Fellows of Jesus College Cambridge, directed to John Angel by the order of Mr Robert Cuthbert. Work drom 21 March to 14th August 1832, includes the purchasse of nails, stapling, screwing nails to the door, one eye mended, mending of a latch. Total of 7s 8d. Settled by John Angel on 31st December 1832.

Letter from E. Lockwood to Rev Dr French, dated 26th July 1832. Notes that Mr Perry of Great James Street has informed him through his son, a member of Jesus College, that the next Presentation to Hundon is to be disposed of. He state that he should be inclined to purchase it and inquires to the offering price. Lockwood states that he is acquainted with the place and its uncommonly great disadvantages and he should not be disposed to give the full value at which the living might be estimated as an annuity. Signed E. Lockwood.

Postscript notes that by the advice of Mr Perry Lockwood went to Jesus College on Saturday last where he had the mortification to learn that French was in Cromer.

Receipt dated 22nd February 1832, received of Masters Stockdale & Son for the total of £80 10s to account for one demand. For E. &. C. F. Foster, Bankers, Cambridge. Signed George Eden Foster.

College coal invoice from Mr Graham, Steward to Dr French for Coals. Dated Michaelmas 1832. For the rooms of Mr Dickes, Mr Skinner, Mr Greenwood, Mr Perry, Mr Graham, Mr Gaskin, Mr Fendall, Mr Heathfield, Mr Venables. Also for the the Combination Room, the Hall, the Servant's Hall, the Lecture Room, the Butler's room and the Porter's lodge. Noted at 2s 1d per sack for purpils. Total of 234 coals for £24 7s 6d.

Letter addressed to the Rev Dr French, bond of John Stockdale & Sons. For 1st and 18th September for 35 chaldrons of ducks coals and 35 chaldrons of clyth coals. For Edward Mason. Total of £84. Letter satates they beg to answer invoice of the coal order forwarded for Edward Mason's boats and hope that it arrives safely and proves to satisfaction. Signed John Stockdale & Son, dated 18th September 1832.

Received of Jeus College by payment of Mrs Poulter the sum of 18s for half years land tac due Mick day last. Paid by cash settled. Signed Mrs Poulter, John Price collector.

Dated October 12th 1832, received of the master of Jesus College, 4d for one years rent due to Trinity College in Cambridge at St Michaelmas last past. Signed William Cattey.

Letter from W. Dyer to the Master, written from Kedington, Suffolk. He thanks the Master and Fellows of Jesus College for the first offer of Hundon, but since he already received the living of Ketton [?], Hundon ceases to be an object for his son William, as he will have at his father's death the vicarage and tithes of Little Waldingfield.

Bill from H. Cuthbert to John Howes for work done to Parsand's Farm for the use [?] of the landred for days June 20, July 3 and July 5 1832. Includes allowance for beer, bars of lime, bars of hair, bricks of earth, ails. Total of £1 5s 10d. Settled Februar 26 1833, signed by John Howes.

Reverse of letter concerning the disposal of the next presentation to Hundon. Lockwood's name noted, as well as the date 2nd of August. Note of carry forward / this removed only ground to determine [?] apl[?] values and age of [?].

Receipt dated 23 March 1833 from John Mortlock & Sons, who have placed £30 15s to the credit of Mes. Everard and Sons. Signed J. Baton.

List of students due to receive their BAs and MAs, and the costs attached to (presumably) their degree certificates. Those due to graduate with a BA are Bishop, Fisher, Roots, Stoddart, Tuck, Williamson, Hurt, Barlow, Thomson, Fawssett, Casse, Cheetham, Wallace, Dawson, Mitton, Edwards, and Norris, and the attached cost is £3 1s. Those due to graduate with an MA are Coates, Rowe, Ingram, and Lake, and the attached cost is £6 2s. Total cost £24 8s.

Certification that Elizabeth Collett, widow of the late Peter Collett, rector of Denton in the County of Sussex, the orthodox clergyman of the Church of England is now living in Bromley College in the county of Kent of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromley College, 25th March 1833.

This is to certify that Ann Holgate, widow of the late Revd George Holgate, Rector of Stowting in the County of Kent, a vicar of Theydon Bois in the County of Essex, an orthodox clergymen of the Church of England, is still widow of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromlet College, Kent, March 25th 1833.

Quitrent receipt from Caius College, dated April 12 1833. Received of Jesus College, 16s 6d for quitrent to Michaelmas 1832. Signed A Thurtell, bursar.

Cheque placing three guineas to the credit of the clergy joint [?] for John Mortlock Esq. and Sons. Signed off by J. Patrick [?]

Eustace Reveley Mitford Esq's receipt for James Johnson, Booksellers and Stationer, Sidney Street, Cambridge.

1 August 1833, Platonis Opera 10 Vols. £2 17s
Livy Drakenborch 4 Vols. 16s

Oct 25 1833, Or(?) by Case 3/0/=, £3 13s
Samuel Johnson, £3

Received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College Cambridge by payment of Mr Samuel Amey the sum of £2 15s being the amount of the second rate and interest under the Cacton Inclosure (?). Signed William Gill, clerk to the comm (?).

Bookseller's receipt, dated March 5 1833, 7 Fleet Street, London. Received of Chapman Eve (?) the sum of £10 as per bill annexed on act of Henry Butterworth, law bookseller & publisher. Signed Henry Butterworth.

Receipt addressed to the Revd Master & Fellows of Jesus College to H. Rowe, dated Sept 7 for 8 (?) candles by Mr Dicks at 5s 4d. Noted as received through Mr Dicks.

Invoice from University Press to Jesus College dated May 1833, to printing examination papers for the Revd. G. Skinner and J. Gaskin. Esquire.

25 copies of Oedipus Tyrannus, 2 pages (19s)
25 copies of Oedipus Tyrannus, a sheet (£1 13s)
25 copies of Philoctetes, a sheet (£1 13s)
25 copies of Apology of Socrates, a sheet (£1 13s)
25 copies of the Gospel of Matthew, 2 pages (18s)
100 copies of Euclid, 1 page (12s)
100 copies of Mathematics, 1 page (12s)
100 copies of Algebra, 1 page (12s)
60 copies of Comic Sections, 1 page (11s)
100 copies of Algebra & Logarithims, 1 page (12s)
100 copies of Differential Calculus, 2 pages (£1 3s)
100 copies of Trigonometry, 2 pages ( £1 1s)
100 copies of Mechanics, 2 pages (£1 1s)

Total of £13.

Attached is a receipt for the above invoice, dated 7th of December 1833, received of the Revd Dr French, Master of Jesus College the sum of £13 for examination papers printing for the print press for the College in 1833. Signed J. Smith.

Receipt for the Bursar to Joseph Langram dated April 1st 1833 for 1 day cutting trees, 1/2 day mending quick. Received by cash and settled by Joseph Langram on April 1st 183. Total of 11s 3d.

Porter's bill from the Bursar to William Harvey for Midsummer 1833, for lamps, courts, cloisters, and windows cleaning. Total of £6 7s 10d. Signed by William Harvey.

Invoice from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to Thomas Clayton for work done round the college from January 3 1832 to January 15 1833. Includes a mason for mending window sill in Mr Case's room and painting window in Mr Godfrey's room, a mason for taking up the floor in Mr Lodge's room and relaying it, as well as paving and labour.

Porter's Bill for Lady Day 1833, from the Bursar to William Harvey for lamps, courts, cloisters and evergreens. Total of £4 19s 4d. Signed by William Harvey.

Reverse of the bill from the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for work done in the Master's Lodge, dated from August 24th to September 14th 1833. Includes purchase of nails and the making and hanging of a new door, as well as installing a new lock. Carried on from obverse calculations, total of £13 3s.

Bill from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for work done in the Master's Lodge from August 24th to September 14th 1833. Includes putting up of stud work door jambs(?), skirting, work altering staircases. Total of £11 8s 7d.

Second page of bill for ironwork from Jesus College to Shallow and Coleman. Continued Courts ironwork, including cutting 2 steps out of stone lead fixing, screw bolt and fixing the (?) gate, cutting bars out of windows, new ends of bars for windows etc. Total of £6 11s 3d.

Combination Room ironwork from April 13th until 7th Ocotober 1833 includes cleaned and repairing lamp and jagged cotton(?) holders, new bench for the stove, cleaned bar to the stove, bleached stove, cleaned irons and sender(?). Total of 11s.

Hall ironwork on 21st November 1832 and 13th April 1833, cleaned stove and cleaned lamp. Total of 4s.

Clock ironwork on 2nd February 1833, mended spindle to minute hand, mended wire to sticking(?), one year winding. Total of £4 19s 6d (winding is £4 19s 6d).

Received of the Rev Dr French, the sum of £37 5s 3d for work done at Jesus College to (?) 1833. Signed by John Goode, John Goode and Son.

Painting bill from Jesus College to John Goode & Son dated November 7th 1832 to August 19th 1833. Work on the Porter's Lodge includes varnishing tables, rubbing down of rooms, light sashes and frames painted, staircase painted, walls painted. Total of £10 4s 3d.

Reverse of glazing and printing bill, continued courts and rooms work on 21 September and 10 Ocotber 1833 - including pounds of solder to the leads, installation of crown glass to staircase lamps.

Work on the Master's Lodge between 5 November 1832 and 22 October 1833 - Incldes installation of crown glass in the pantry, the hall, doors and windows, repairing water closet, new bucket & leathers to water closet pump, sheet lead for sink, crown glass, new bucket box and leathers to pump, repairing the pump. Total of £4 5s.

Total of the bill (chapel, hall & comination rooms, kitch, courts, Master's lodge) is £15 8s 2d.

Invoice for the transport of coals to the Rev Dr French from John Daniels. For work done 26th August to 24th September 1833. For the carting of coals. Also porters paid for loading and trumming the coals. Total of £17 10s. Signed Mr John Daniels.

Receipt dated February 12 1833 from John Mortlock Esq. & Sons, noting they have placed £17 5s to the credit of Masters Bagge. Signed J. Baton.

Letter to the Master from Elizabeth Collett, thanking him for the favour he sent her and her neighbours the previous morning.

Dated 5th November 1833, received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College the sum of 2s and 6d for one year, land rent due to the Master and Fellows of Clare Hall at Michaelmas last. Signed William Webb.

Receied of Jesus College, 8s 3d, dated October 1833, signed J Hancork Hall, Bursar of Trinity Hall.

Received of the Rev. Dr French the sum of £13 6s 8d due to the vicarage of Great Shelford, Michaelmas 1833. Signed by Rev Finch [?], incumbent.

Received of Thomas Few the sum of 3s for one year's tax on 6 acres of fenland belonging to the Stachs, at 6d per acre per annum. Signed by W. Marshall, collector.

Receipt dated December 11, Cambridge. Received of the Master of Jesus College the sum of £2 2s for taking out the corn rental for the year 1833. Signed Richard Rowe.

Covering letter addressed to Dr French, forwarding on a corrected [?] and a statement of receipt and payments on account of the late Mr Thomas Cuthbert and as there is now 25/- only in arrear for couporation [sic] in lieu of tithes, the writer it not advisable to keep his account open any longer - he yesterday added [?] the payment of £175 6s 3d to the credit of your [?] at Master Matlock's as Bursar of the college, which will be paid through Barclays & co.

Also forwarded is a seasonal voucher.

The writer thanks Dr French for the confidence he has shown in him, and offers his services for the future if they are needed.

Received of Dr French to G Lawrence, dated 30 August 1832, for painting 2 nurserys, the (?) sleeping rooms and underservants' sleeping room. Total of £1 4s. Signed by G Lawrence.

Invoice from the Rev Master & Fellows of Jesus College to T. Chapman for work done around the college from 20th November 1833, includes repairing porter's ladder, a nife(?) board for the porter's lodge, a new panel to the pupils'(?) out office foor. Total of 6s 6d. On 7th December received of Dr French, signed by John Winter.

Invoice from the Rev Master & Fellows of Jesus College to T. Chapman, lodge account, for work done around the college from January 10 to July 18 1833. Includes new sash light and fusing(?) in the butler's pantry, wainscotting in the entrance hall, new pair of shutters, repairing window seat, 2 new latches and doors in the farden, 2 new sells to doors in laundr, new floor in butler's pantry, easing front gates, mending windows in butler's pantry. Total of £2 17s 9d. December 7th, received of Dr French from John Winter.

Invoice from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for work done in the courts, dated 17 November 1832 to 7 September 1833. Includes a new side for a wheelbarrow, putting in fence next to the Common, making of a rafter for the lodge house, repairing the door, wall hooks to butterings in the cloisters. Total of £2 19s 10 1/2 d.

Receipt dated 7th December 1833 of the Master and Fellows of Jesus college the sum of £13 5s 9d. Signed J. Webster.

Third page of bill for ironwork in Jesus College to Shallow and Coleman.

Kitchen ironwork from 29th Ocotober 1832 to 2nd Ocotber 1833, includes 2 bars for the stove, mending and sharpening the beef hook, foot of salamander, straightening the bar to the range, oiling (?), new centre to worn spindle, mending dripping pan, plate under oven, mend latch on the repaired oven. In additional hand noted "deduct for Salamander", signed M. Willis. Total of £6 8s 2d.

Overall calcuations for all ironwork around the college comes to £19 4s 5d.