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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.

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 [?].

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.

Certificates of Rustat Widows.

Certifying that Susanna Basely of Bromley, in the county of Kent, widow of the late Revd. Henry Basely, curate of Kibworth Beauchamp, in the county of Leicester, an orthodox clergyman of the Church of England, is still living, a widow of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromley College, Kent, March 25th 1833.

Certifying that Grace Murgatroyd of Bromley College in the county of Kent, widow of late Revd. William Murgatroyd, vicar of West Thurrock in Essex, an orthodox clergyman of the Church of England, is still living a widow of good life and conversation. Signed Thomas Scott, chaplain of Bromlet College, Kent, March 25th 1833.

Received February 4th 1833 of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, the sum of £3 19s 6d in discharge of the annexed and for repairs at Hundon. Signed Thomas Knock.

Bill to the Rev Master & Fellows of Jesus College Cambride for work done at Hundon Rectory by the order of Mr R. Cuthbert, to Thomas Knock, carpenter, for work done on 25th February, 8th March, 17th July, 24th July, 27th August 1832. Includes repairing boarding to barn and stable door, repairing and rehanging gates, stripping and taking down old rafters, putting up new rafters, repairing gates in the yard and repairing barn floor. Total of £3 19s 9d.

William Harvey's porter's bill for Christmas 1832. Includes looking after the lamps, the courts, the cloisters and audit. Total of £5 6s 4d. Signed by William Harvey.

Reverse of William Harvey's porter's bill for Christmas 1832. Rough claculations coming to £21 13s 10d. Possibly calcuations for porter's bills for the year.

Received of Dr French, bursar, the sum of £7 13s for the amount of bill against Jesus College. Dated 11th October 1833 and signed by William Wiseman.

Bill from Jesus College to William Wiseman, for dates December 17th 1832, April 11th 1833 and July 2nd 1833 for Audit day, Rustat Fruit, and Midsummer. Total of £7 13s.

Received of the Revd Dr French on 7 December 1833 the sum of £15 8s 2d as per college bill for plumbing and glazing work. Signed Robert Ellis.

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.

Plumbing and Glazing bill from Jesus College to Robert Ellis and Son.

Chapel work on 19th April and 12th June 1833 - includes milled lead to east window, 1 1/2 day work, 3 sq crown glass, 10 small sq at 2 1/2. Total of £1 7s 11d.

The Hall and Combination work on 23 February, 4 April, 7 June, 26 September 1833 - includes cleaning windows of combination room, 3 ft of glass repaired, cleaning windows in the hall, 2 sq crown glass. Total of £1 8s 6d.

Kitchen work on 5 & 26 September 1833 - includes 2 sq of crown glass and cleaning the windows. Total of 9s.

The Courts and Rooms work from 25 November 1832 to 4 September 1833 - includes installation of crown glass on staircases and lamps, solder and work repairing pipes, installation of common glass in the stables, crown glass in the porter's lodge, repairing stable yard pump, installation of glass new leaded at the Rev Mr Graham's rooms. Total (carried over) £3 13s 3d.

Contined painting work on courts, including great iron gates in entrance to college, scraped, cleared and painted over lead colour 31 yards at 6d, 2 lamps in great court, 9 sash squares in each & posts 2 & 3 times best Green, 20 bars and 10 (?) to windows looking into Lodge garden 2 over white. Total of £9 4s 7d.

Sundries, including pensioners privy cleared, scraped, painted and (?) 2 over green inside & out 35 yards at 9d, pack(?) case in lodge garden painted three times, stove 6 yards at 10 1/2d, chimney piece in porter's lodge. Total of £1 13s.

Total of painting bill (lodge, staircase, courts and sundries) is £37 5s 3d.

Continued painting bill for College staircases, including painting the staircase by the Porter's Lodge, painting of light sashes, window seat grained and varnished, H Staircase in clositers installation of skirting, H staircase 2 over white 49ft skirting 2 over Chocolate at 1 1/2d. Total of £4 2s 1 1/2d.

Courts work includes estimate fror scraping, clearing and puttying and painting 2 over the whole of the sashes frames bans(?) casemets and comices(?) in Cloister Court, great encrance gates to the Lodge Garden scraped, cleared, puttyed and painted 2 over best N. Green both sides 23 yards at 9d. Total of £8 7d carried over.

Continuation of painting bill in Lodge, including painting the bannister, new moulding round parlour door, passage to garden ceiling whitened, doors repaired and varnished, new woodwork in lobby, scraping and painting front door. Garden door & ease 2 over best erby Green 3 yardds at 9d. Total (carried over) £22 5s 6 1/2d.

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.

Received 7th December 1833 of the Revd Dr French £19 4s 5d for ironwork as per bill. Signed Thomas Shallow.

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.

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).

First page of bill from Jesus College to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork from 31st Ocotober 1832 to 13th June 1833.

Ironwork done to the Master's Lodge includes a "good" padlock, putting 2 staples to cellar door, and laye(?) lock to outer door. Total of 10s 6d.

Ironwork done to Courts includes bar to window (?) Master's garden, lead fixings, mending barrows, purchase of screws, lock fixed on stable gate, mending of ladder, fixed gate of Close, 6 men for putting up the front gate, new eye to the top hinge of the front gate, as well as more modifications to the front gate. Total of £3 18s 8d.

Received 7th day of December 1833 of the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £13 3s as per the amount of bill annexed. Signed J. Webster.

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.

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

Bill from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster, for work done to staircases and laundry, dated from August 24th 1833 to October 5th 1833. Includes skirting the staircases and laundry, putting up angle beads, mending the floor, purchase of nails, new handrail, repair of window frame. Total of £13 5s 9d.

Reverse of bill for work done to the college courts from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster. Includes repairing a fence, mending a gate. Total of £4 8s 5d (including the obverse). Received the amount for the bill, december 7th 1833, signed J. Webster.

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 December 7th 1833, received of the Rev Dr French the sum of £29 12s 5d for work done at Jesus College. Signed John Turner and Son.

Totals of lodge work, kitchen work, buttery work, courts work, stables work, felling trees, Manor(?) street. Total of £29 12s 5d.

Lodge accounts from January 15th 1833 to July 13th 1833, inlcudes fireing the chimney pot, bricklaying, emptying cesspools, raising chimney and plastering the bottom, whitewashing the kitchn and pantry, new furnace to oven, finishing plastering on staircase, running beeds(?)/ Total of £8 12s 9d.

Also noted July 13th falling trees & clearing away, part of them about 20 in number. Total of 7s.

Brought over from previous page on courts work, dated October 26th 1833, for paving and bricklaying. Total court work is £13 14s 1 1/2d.

Next section is on work done to kitchens from December 6th 1832 to September 14th 1833. Includes cleaning, repairing the furnace, bricklaying, repairing copper stoves and repairing plasterning and whitewashing. Total kitchen work £4 15s 1/2d.

Next section is on work done to buttery from June 29th 1833 to September 31st 1833. Includes repairing and plastering wine bring(?), bricklaying, limewashing cellar and fixing stove and whitewashing. Total buttery work £1 11s 3d.

Next section is on stables work on July 12th 1833. Includes repairing, paiting and plastering. Total 11s 9d.

Bill from Master and Fellows of Jesus College to John Turner & Son for work done to Courts, obverse of first page from dates Dec 8 1832 to Oct 12 1833. Includes repaving, glazing, bricklaying, repairing plastering, whitewashing, emptying bault to servant's out offices, whitewashing and colouring 4 staircases & entrance to the porter's lodge. Total of £12 19s 5 1/2d.

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 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.