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Copy of deed dated 28 December 1675, which recites that Lady Margaret Boswell of Bradbourn, Sevenoaks, Kent, settles on trust Halliwell Farm, Burnham, Essex, containing 106 acres with 60 acres of salt marsh, to pay two scholars each £12 p. a. until the expiration of one year after they have taken the degree of M. A. The scholars are to be chosen from Sevenoaks School, or, if there are none fit, from Tunbridge School, with those born at Sevenoaks having the preference. No taxes are to be deducted from the amount. Scholars are to be examined by one or two examiners sent by Jesus College, who are to be paid £3 for expenses plus £5 if there be one examiner, £6 if there be two, to buy a piece of plate in memory of Sir William Boswell.

Records relating to College administration and administrative departments

Photograph taken by Chapel Court gateway entrance under Eric Gill sculpture. Names on board read Dr. Q. Federle, Professor, I. Patterson, Mr. A. Bowen, Professor J. B. Thompson, Dr. S. T. C. Siklos, Mr. N. J. Ray, Professor H. L. Moore, Dr. R. Mengham, Rev Dr. T. D. Jenkins, Dr. J. P. T. Clackson, Dr. D. I. Wilson, Dr. T. D. Wilkinson, Professor J. M. Bacon, Dr. M. J. Edwards, Dr. M. R. Laven, Dr. C. E. Chambers, Dr. K. S. Lilley, Professor H. le B. Skaer, Dr. F. W. Bursa, Dr. S. Clarke, Dr. C. M. Burlinson, Mr. R. J. P. Dennis, Mr S. Tor, Dr. F. Green, Professor A. H. Brand, Dr. R. D. Bowers, Dr. M. F. Gill, Professor S. A. T. Redfern, Professor P. D. A. Garnsey, Dr. D. J. Kelly, Professor I. H. White, Dr. S. B. Hladky, Dr. B. Walton, Dr. M. L. S. Sorensen, Professor M. M. Arnot, Dr. J. W. Ajioka, Dr. O. Carmello, Mr. M. T. Williams, Dr. N. G. Berloff, Professor J. J. Baumberg, Professor J. M. Soskice, Dr. B. M. B. Post, Dr. D. E. Hanke, Dr. R. M. A. Alberts, Dr. R. J. Weir, Dr. C. Mascolo, Professor J. A. Dowdeswell, Dr. M. A. Moram, Dr. J. E. Roseblade, Dr. C. J. Adkins, Professor R. Freeman, Dr. S Evans, Professor K. L. Johnson, Sir Alan Cottrell, Professor R. J. Mair, Dr. M. R. Minden, Dr. G. T. Parks, Dr. O. A. Scherman, Professor S. C. Heath, Professor D. A. S. Compston, Dr. G. N. Wells.

Includes accounts and trusts

A receipt for 4d paid by Jesus College to Trinity College, as one year's quit rent. Signed by W. Hall, bailiff.

A receipt for the payment of 'Bedel's stipend' (4s) and two sermons (1s 4d). Signed by W. Mathew.

A receipt for the payment of 16s to Sarah Holliday, for attending the college clock during one quarter.

A receipt for the payment of 16s to Sarah Holliday, for attending the college clock during one quarter.

A receipt for the payment of 16s to Sarah Holliday, for attending the college clock during one quarter.

A bill for sizings, includes: beef steaks (1s); pot for two tenants (4d); pot and two 'tards' (1s). Total bill amounted to 3s 4d, signed by S. Gurkin.

A bill for smith's work, includes: 'strevit' in the kitchen (4s 6d); mending and fixing hinges (1s 3d); laying two pokers (2s 6d); a double skewer (3s); a spit wheel (1s); half a year looking after the jack (5s). Total bill amounted to 17s 3d, signed by S. Gurking and Thomas Coe.

An audit, includes: 6 bottles of Madeira (£1 7s); 3 bottles of Lisbon (7s); 13 Bottles of Port (£1 10s 4d); rum and brandy (5s); sugar (1s 6d); lemons (1s 4d); coffee and tea for 12 (12s); almonds, raisins and apples (7s 4d); sizings (18s 9d); pipes and tobacco (1s 1d); candles (2s); charcoal (1s 6d). Total bill amounted to £5 14s 10d, signed 'For Father, pr. Josh. Prior

A bill for sizings, amounts to £2 9s 7d. Signed by Beaumont Prior.

A bill for food, includes: a dish of salmon and a '10 d[ozen]' lobsters (10s); calves' head hash (5s); hunting pudding (3s 6d); apple pie (3s); fricasseed rabbits (3s 6d); a leg of mutton (4s 6d); turkey sausages (8s); 'Greens Butt &c' (1s); 2 chickens (3s 6d); cold beef (2s 6d); brawn (2s); herrings (9d); tongue (2s); mince pies and tarts (2s 4d). Total bill amounted to £2 1d, signed by S. Gurkin.

A receipt for 'Rustat's Visitors', includes: 2 visitors (£1); 6 Fellows (£1 10s); 10 scholars (10s); one lecturer (10s). Total bill amounted to £3 10s, signed by W. Mathew.

A bill for food served at Rustat's dinner, includes: 'salmon 20 d[ozen?] Lobsters' (12s); pigeon pie (2s 6d); 'Ragu'd Veal' (2s); collared pork (3s); tongue (3s); plum pudding (2s 6d); patties (1s 6d); round beef (9s); 3 chickens (5s 6d); pickled salmon (1s 6d); trifle (2s 6d); 'Gemonge' (3s); tartlets (1s 6d); cheesecakes (2s 4d); asparagus (3s); green salad (1s 6d). Total bill amounted to £2 14s 10d, signed by S. Gurkin.

A bill for a chaise 'courtkeeping' at Gravely (15s) and for duty (3s). Total bill amounted to 18s, signed by Wm. Cowling.

A bill for washing the College linen (18s), signed by Ann Harper.

A bill 'to the Porters for the Cleang the Courts', includes: cleaning the courts (6s 8d); cleaning the cloisters (6s 8d); cleaning the outside courts (2s); lighting the lamps (10s); 'sticking' the Hall (3s); washing the hall (4s); mops and brooms (2s). Total bill amounted to £1 14s 4d, and was signed by Rd. Brett.

A bill for masonry work, includes: sawing old stone and laying the old stone to cover the chimney in the Butterys (4s 6d); labour costs (various sums); repairing the chimney in the Fellow's parlour (11d); 3 hours labour, plaster and mortar (1s); 2 feet of stone by the iron gate in the court (2s 6d); two masons cutting staircase window 'for sashes' in Mr Raynes staircase (6s); one hod of mortar and fine mortar (1s); one mason for cutting a window 'for Sashes' over the front gate (5s 7 1/2d); 'pointing in' sashes (1s 6d); one mason for cutting the sides of 'Door Jambs[?]' in the staircase from the hall to Mr Bonny's room (6s 9d); cube stone in the arches and steps in the cloister (£21 1s 5 1/2d); 'superficial plain work' (£9 15s 6 1/2d); 'circular plain work' (£4 18s 5 1/2d); 'circular moulded work' (£6 1s 4 1/2d); paving (£5 17s). The total bill amounted to £73 14s 2d. A receipt is fixed beneath with wax, signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

Mr Mathew to J. Harwood, 23rd July 1790.
2 silver salt ladles and engraving, 7s 6d. Received old silver value 3s 9d. Total 3s 9d.

16th November 1790 received the contents. Signed by J Harwood.

17th April 1814.
"Sir, I received the draft for thirty-three pounds, on Saturday, due last Lady Day 1814, to me, Elizabeth Collett and Elizabeth Browne from the Rusted Foundation & should have answered it by return of post, but we have none that day. I am Sir, with many thanks for your trouble, your most obedient humble servant, Mary Gilder.
N.B. I was desired by Dr Pearce to send no other receipt, but an acknowledgement by letter, as above".

This is to certify that Mary Gilder of the Parish of Bromley in the county of Kent , widow of the Revd Jonathan Gilder, Rector of Aspeden in the county of Hertford, an orthodox clergyman of the Church of England, is still a widow alive, of good life and conversation.
As witness our hands this 9th April 1814. Signed by J J Talman, Chaplain of Bromley College, John Isaacs [...], Joseph Green overseer.

This is to certify that Elizabeth Browne of the Parish of Bromley in the county of Kent, widow of the late Revd Tobias Browne, Rector of Benington in the county of Lincoln, an orthodox clergyman of the Church of England is still a widow alive and of good life and conversation.
As witness our hands 9 April 1814. Signed by J J Talman, Chaplain of Bromley College, John Isaacs [...], Joseph Green overseer.

This is to certify that Elizabeth Collett of the Parish of Bromley in the county of Kent, widow of the late Revd Peter Collett, Rector of Denton in the county of Sussex, an orthodox clergyman of the Church of England is still a widow, alive, of good life and conversation.
As witness our hands, 9 April 1814. Signed by J J Talman, Chaplain of Bromley College, John Isaacs [...], Joseph Green overseer.

Black wax seal on reverse.

4th April 1814.
"Received of Mr William Hustler the sum of eleven pounds allowed me from Mr Rustat's charity".
Signed by Sarah Roberts.

1814 24th day of March received of Bursar of Jesus College Cambridge the sum of five pounds (10s added in different hand) due Lady Day being a half year's pension as one of Mr Rustat's widows.
Signed by Mary Gilly; amended to £5 10s by J Wood.

21st September 1813 received of the Bursar of Jesus College Cambridge the sum of five pounds ten shillings at St Michaelmas 1813 being half a year's pension as one of Mr Rustat's widows.
Signed by Mary Gilly.

Work done at Eltisley in 1812. Costs include: spikes, screw bolts and nuts, cotterel, new hooks and nails.
Bill settled 13th November 1813, signed by William Hinder(?).

18th July 1813: for 3 days work underpinning the barns and line.
Signed by William Hains.

4th April 1813: For 1 day's work and spits - 5s 3d.
Signed by R Cook.

5th February 1814, received of George Broadrick Esq £9 6s the amount of the bill delivered on account of Jesus College Cambridge.
Signed by Rashleigh & Lee.

In the Common Pleas - Jesus College Cambridge to the Vicar of Whittlesford.
Michaelmas Term 1813. Costs include: instructions to inroll bargain and sale; paid for the Judges fiat; attending for the purpose; additional stamp; attending at the Stamp Office for the purpose; engrossing on the roles and paid at the Inrollment Office for inrolling the deed; paid expedition; docked; attending to carry in the roll; portages.

Same to the Vicar of Swavesey: the like charges herein.
Total of £9 6s.

Oxford, 13th January 1815.
Revd Sir, I have the honour to ac[knowledge] the receipt of your draft for the £2 2[...] on Messrs Esdailes and Co. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant.
Signed by J D Macbride.

N.B. Address given as Magdalen Hall, Oxford. Wax seal on reverse. Jesus College and letter R written repeatedly on reverse.

1813. Costs include: repairing Master's garden wall and job; cleaning and mending plastering to ceiling at same; to measuring and levelling out the ground for buildings at King's Street and attending at different times.

1814. Costs include: repairing tops of chimneys; repairing Porters' fireplace and work to chimney tops; repairing walls by Porters and front gate and other jobs about College; bricklayer and labourer 3 1/2 days; hods of mortar, bricks, tiles; making good wall to irons and bell wire; repairing a drain and paving in walk by bogs; fixing stoves and cleaning and repairing furnaces to hot plate in College kitchen; bricklayer and labourer 2 days; hods of brick mortar, hods of hair; bricks and lime; mending kitchen floor, work to chimney and jobs at Master's Lodge; bricklayer and labourer 6 days; hods of brick mortar and hods of putty; pavements and paving bricks; scraping, washing and repairing walls and ceilings at Master's lodge; plasterer, labourers 7 1/2 days each; mortar and plaster; plasterers and labourers 6 1/2 days each; hair mortar and hods of fine stuff; plaster, bundle of fir lasts and nails; bricklayer and labourer 4 1/2 days; hods of brick mortar and hods of hair; bricks, fire bricks and tiles; bricklayer and labourer 5 1/2 days; hods of brick mortar, hods of hair and fire bricks; plasterers and labourers 6 days each; hods of hair mortar and hods of fine stuff; bundles of fire lath and nails; yards of whitewashing two and three times over to walls and ceilings; yards of blue and yellow colour twice in size; yards of lathing and plastering in bed room; opening, cleaning, emptying and washing [...] and drain from the kitchen to the pond and mending dung hill and paving coal place floor and jobs; bricklayer and labourer 7 days; labourer 4 days each; hods of mortar, bricks and load of land; bricklayer and labourer 4 days; hods of hair mortar and hod of fine stuff; bundle of fir lath and nails; contracting chimney in Combination Room; bricklayer and labourer 3 days; hods of mortar and hods of hair; bricks and large slates; finishing work at the Lodge, bricklayer and labourer 3 days; hods of brick mortar and hods of hair; large pavements and slates; mending and whitewashing College bogs; mending and whitewashing College Buttery bogs; plasterer and labourer 1 day, mortar and plaster; yards of whitewashing twice in size; dusting ante chapel; bricklayers and labourers 2 days each; mending and whitewashing staircases; bricklayer and labourer 4 days; hods of hair mortar and rods of fine stuff; bundle of fir lath and nails; whitening and size.

Total: £ 82 2s 2d (work to College buildings £29 11s 1d; work at Master's Lodge £51 7s 6d; work at College Kitchen £1 3s 7d).
Initialled WP.

14th January 1815. Received of the Revd Mr Hustler £82 2s 2d as per accounts. Signed by David Bradwell.

Dated 26th February 1815. Costs (April-October 1814) include: irons in walk 2 over lead colour; gilding and emblazoning arms in front gate; mending gate lead colour; 1 man 1 1/2 days scarping ceiling in Combination; whitening and sloping ceiling and walls in passage; wainscot 2 and 3 time over lead Nottingham white in spirits; pair of large 12 light sashes and frames 2 over; ornamental chimney cap 2 men 2 days rubbing down and cleaning; fire screens 2 over varnish green; painting buttery; desks and frames 2 casements and frames, 4 bars both sides (buttery); chimney piece jobs 2 over (buttery); 1 man 2 days cleaning and washing wainscot (buttery); letter A staircase doors; skirting board and handrail; 15 light sash and frame, 12 light sash and frame; 10 light sash and window seat; jobs 2 over in staircase; letter C doors; skirting board plinth; 15 light sash and frame, 10 light and 4 light; jobs 2 over in staircase; gate and fence in close 3 times invisible green.
Total £21 17s 11d paid 13th May 1815.

Jesus College bill for Sunday £21 17 11d.

Lodge bill delivered £80 2s 1 1/2d.
Paid by Martin (?) £1 3s, total £78 19s 1 1/2d.

Received on the 12th May £39 9s 6d, balance £39 9s 5 1/2d.

Total £61 7s 5 1/2d, total received 12th May.

Paper watermarked 1811.

Received 24th October 1814 of the Bursar of Jesus College 8s 3d for one year's Quit Rent due to Trinity Hall at Michaelmas last.
Signed by R C Haselfoot, Bursar.

Policy 870757, receipt number 8010. Received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £6 for one year's insurance in the Sun Fire Office, London and £7 10s for one year's duty, according to Acts of Parliament, on £6000, insured from Midsummer 1814 to Midsummer 1815. Dated 24th June 1814.
Signed by witness Richard Cornings. Printed signatures for J. Hearne and E. Antrobus.

The Bursar, 1813, to W. Harvey to Christmas. Lamps £3 15s 8d; Courts 14s; Cloisters 6s 8d. Total £4 16s 4d.
Signed as paid by W Harvey.

Mr Hustler, Bursar, to William Harvey midsummer 1814. Lamps £3 15s; Courts 14s 8d; Cloisters 6s 8d. Total £4 16s 4d.
24th June 1814 signed as received Wm Harvey.

Received 20th October 1814 of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College 16s 6d being the amount of one year's quit rent due at Michaelmas 1814 to the Master and Fellows of Caius College.
Received by me, (signed) Jeremy Day, Bursar of Caius College.

(1) Cambridge 21st December 1814. Received of Hustler Esq the sum of £2 19s 6d for work done in the Combination Room. Signed Thomas Sharpe, upholsterer.

2d stamp.

(2) Jesus College to Thomas Sharpe. January-November 1814, costs include: Repairing a firescreen stand; job to a firescreen stand; same to a screen poll; putting line to slides over fireplace in Combination Room; repairing a 1/2 round table; same to fire screen and standment pillar beads; covering five fire screens; new catch and putting same to a round stand; eight yards green baize; marking up same for Combination Room. Total £2 19s 6d.