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Materials relating to Brittain, particularly with regard to the parish of St. Giles, South Mimms, Hertfordshire. Collected by Ralph Frederick Bootman (1927-2020), organist of St. Giles' and Secretary to the Parochial Church Council. The file includes:

Two photographs of Brittain's room in College, one with a Christmas greeting inscirbed on the reverse.
Newspaper cutting regarding Brittain's wedding.
Promotional flyer for St. Giles' Church Christmas fare, 1952.
Magazine cutting 'At the top of Ridge Hill' by F. Brittain.
'Allen Hay, 1866-1954 - a Memorial Address given in South Mymms Parish Church on Sunday, May 16th, 1954' by F. Brittain.
'South Mymms Church History - Mr. F. Brittain's Interesting Address' reprinted from the Barnet Press, Saturday 12 August 1933.
'The Procession' by F. Brittain.
Menu for the 2nd Annual Dinner of the 'St. Giles', South Mymms to Cambridge' Pilgrims, 1 January 1954.
Menu for a dinner at College, 22 July 1950 (including label taken fomr a bottle of Jesus College Ale).
Menu from dinner at College, 7 May 1955.
'The Parish Church of St. Giles, South Mymms - A Little Guide' printed December 1962.
'St. Giles Parish Church, South Mymms - Restoration Fund' booklet (undated, post-1962).
Article 'The "Patriarch" of South Mimms - A vivid personality described by Dr. Frederick Brittain', 22 May 1954.

Includes menus for events attended by Brittain including The Old Elizabethans 34th annual dinner at Holborn Restaurant 1st November 1923; Jesus College St. Maglorious' Day 1938; Jesus College F. M. G. S., 14th May 1935; Unidentified Jesus College menu, 15th June 1935; Unidentified Jesus College menu, 6th December 1929; 'Nameless' menu, no date; The Jesus College XIX Club annual dinner 1932; C. G. S. Annual Dinner, 3rd June 1927; C. G. S. dinner, 2nd January 1928; Invitation to Brittain and guest to attend Cambridge Premiere of 'Bachelor of Hearts' at the Regal Cinema, Cambridge, Monday 19th January 1959; F. M. G. S. dinner 14th May 1935; Unidentified menu 16th February 1935; Cambridge Graduates' Medical Club 28th June 1929; Sydney Church of England Grammar School Old Boys Union, Reunion dinner of the United Kingdom Branch, 22nd October 1938;

Handwritten piece of paper entitled 'English Hymnal, 151'. Undated

Card with black boarder to look like a frame dated 10th October 1927 stating:

"To Mr Frederick Brittain

Master of Arts

This is to certify that your nomination to the office of Fen Reeve in the Manor of Chesterton has been approved by the Lords of the said Manor.

Signed: R. H. Wdleston, Baron de Montalbo, one of the said Lords"

Black and white printed drawing of a house with a typed written poem underneath. It has brown tape around the edges to make it look like a frame. It has hanging fixtures on the back. Also on the back is handwritten "Lants 1922. In the Great Bumping Hall"

Certificate for Wounds and Hurts. Humourous certificate issued to 'ffreddy Brittain, Naval Cockswain' giving details of a wound received and the circumstances in which it was sustained. Also covering letter

Bundle of handwritten research notes entitled Medieval Latin Literature

Annotated copy of 'Cambridge University College Histories. Jesus' by Arthur Gray. On the title page handwritten is Revised and continued by Frederick Brittain. Fellow of the College. Each page contains handwritten annotations

List of parties giving the date, list of guests invited and those who attended. Started by F.B. and continued by Muriel Brittain. Includes a list of guests present at F.B.'s centenary lunch

Handwritten notes for a lecture given by F.B. to the Annual General Meeting of the Alcium Club, Church House, Westminster on 6th July 1967. The lecture was entitled The Church and it's services today: one layman's view

Handwritten notes by F.B. including songs contained in an envelope on which is writtenLecture: 'English history of the late Victorian and Edwardian Periods as portrayed in popular song with vocal translations delivered to the Huntingdonshire branch of the Historical Association, October 1965"

Handwritten notes entitled The Troubadours. Either research notes or possibly notes for a lecture

Kitchen and Buttery Bill for the Academic Year 1952-1953. Lists amounts owed by The Master, The President and, presumably, the Fellows. F.B. owed the most at £390

This production was held at the Parish Hall, South Mymms on 8th, 9th and 10th January 1953. Items are:

Programme for the performance listing F.B. as Mrs Twankey

Review from 'The Herts Advertiser', 16th January 1953 which said "Dr. Brittain made an astonishing success in his part"

7 other newspaper cuttings of reviews of the performance including a photos of all the cast and one of F.B. in costume as Widow Twankey

Mathematical conic sculpture designed by David Parr and made by an unknown woodworker from American walnut and padauk. Several sections are attached via brass pins and can be removed to form an ellipse, a parabola and two 'leaves' of a hyperbola. Also includes a laminated paper and plastic container, and information sheet.

Programme and committee members' sash; May Ball committee dinner menu and May Ball supper menu; May Ball ticket and invitation given to Irené A. Clarke

Menus from various years including annual dinners, annual lunches and breakfast at lunchtime.
Poster for Bizarre Bazaar in aid of Ely Cathedral Restoration Fund, in Jesus College Party Room, 1981.
Tape recording of the 1023rd Roost, Sunday 5 February 1961
Invitation for Breakfast at Lunchtime, Sunday 12th June 1960

Posters, guides and portfolio brochure with order form for 'Art for Tomorrow - a new portfolio of prints for the College', 20 May - 14 June 2017.

Ledger, with reports on Eltisley (1884), Rectory Farm, Harston (1884-89), Tempsford and Everton (1887-89).

Jesus College Station Building Estate, showing Ordnance Survey mapping of Jesus development of Coleridge area marked in red

Records are of properties in Manor Street before the street was moved to the west as part of the Manor Place development [JCAD/3/CAM/MAN]. Resultantly these properties no longer exist

Parties: (1) Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society, (2) the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Cambridge. With reference to the erection of a ventialation shaft in Manor Street

Parties: (1) Emily Wood, (2) the Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Emily Wood. Licence to assign by way of mortgage unto the Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society the premises [11a Manor Street] comprised in lease to the Executors of the Will of William Ekin deceased dated 9th April 1878 [JCAD/3/CAM/MANST/1/1/1878]

Parties: (1) Mary Ekin and others, (2) Emily Wood. 84 King Street [11a Manor Street]

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) the Executors of the will of William Ekin deceased. Licence to assign unto Emily Wood the premises [11a Manor Street] comprised in lease dated 9th April 1878 [JCAD/3/CAM/MANST/1/1/1878]

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) the executors of the will of William Ekin deceased. Number 84 King Street [11a Manor Street], formerly known as the Harp Tavern, but as soon as the licence can be transferred to other premises to be used as a private dwelling house. Includes surrender by Trustees of the Cambridge Premanent Building Society to Jesus College in 1904. Includes plan

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) the Executrix and Executors of the will of William Ekin deceased. 'The Harp Tavern' [11a Manor Street] in King Street. Includes plan

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Ekin. A messuage and premises in King Street [11a Malcolm Street] described and shown on the plan as 'The Harp Tavern'. Site plan in greater detail

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Ekin. A newly erected messuage or tenement in King Street [11a Manor Street].

In 1843 the land and property of the earlier lease is divided between two new leases: what becomes 11a Manor Street; and what becomes 12-14 Manor Street with 67-69 King Street [JCAD/3/CAM/MANST/2/1]

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Frederick Press. Certain messuages or tenements and premises situate in Walls Lane [King Street]

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Frederick Press. Two cottages and a wash-house late in the occupation of Thomas Hazlewood, William Butteriss, Ann Kent and Frederick Press

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Press. Two cottages and a wash-house in Walls Lane [King Street] on part of Butt Close abutting on Walls Lane [King Street} to the south. Includes plan. The land corresponds with numbers 11a and 12-14 Manor Street and 67 and 69 King street, before they were demolished as part of the Manor Place development

A register of copies of College leases, begun c. 1580 but including copies of earlier documents from 1543 onwards; the latest comes from 1618. The first section is a contents list, in a contemporary hand but with a single leaf added later (said to be in the hand of Charles Ashton, Master 1701-52). This list refers to an original foliation in which the transcriptions begin at f. 20. The first item transcribed is "an Acte for the mayntenanceof the Colledges in both the Universities ...", 18 Eliz. cap. 6; the rest are all property deeds, mostly leases. On the front flyleaf are some rough notes and a signed statement that this book was produced in a court case in 1682. At the end of the book are: "A note of the greivances done by Mr Dalton to the Colledge" (f. 330); a single-page account of the College's benefactors [post 1619] (f. 335v); a list of benefices in the College's gift (f. 336); a list of evidences compiled c. 1600, in effect the earliest known catalogue of College deeds, "in the great redd Box" and 42 other boxes (ff. 337-344); accounts of "Cignetts and broodes" and swans marked, for 1614, 1615, 1616 and 1618 (f. 345r,v); lists of "Rentes in provision", rents "not yet in provision", rents "charged beside provision upon statute", and London rents (ff. 346-348r; a memorandum of the receipt of the manorial records of Graveley (f. 348v); a list of medieval deeds of the nunnery, in several 17C hands (ff. 349-351v); and inside the back cover some notes headed "Fundatores".

Account book containing: account for the erection of the Waterhouse Building; provision for meeting the expenditure, 1869-71; plan for repayment of the Rustat Bursar; details of rebuilding of the chimnies by M. Rickman, with raising of plinth; accounts for funding alterations to the Hall ("etc."), 1875; details of purchase and installation of organ at the West end of the Chapel, 1887-90, with later note by Arthur Gray; accounts for the Waterhouse Building and Building Fund; details of the erection of two houses [North House and East House] and the formation of Chapel Court, 1882-85; details of new windows and repairs to "Old Wing", and connection to Cloister Court; alterations to offices and W.C. block; accounts for repair and decoration of the Master's Lodge, 1885.

Contains a printed report on the rating of colleges, and ms. letters and notes on the subject of Jesus College boundaries and Radegund parish.

Notebook containing "Examination, Keller's Prizemen, Previous examination".