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Paid 2s 6d for A.B. commencement 7th January 1815.
Paid 2s 6d for A.M. commencement July 1815.

On 12 August 1815 for the Ground Room in Cow Lane: 3 3/4 feet of Crown glass (at 2s 6d per foot). Total 9s 4d.

Paid by Revd Wilson to Anne Jiggins £7 6d:
One year's bedmaking £6
Chapel quarter 10s
Chapel linnen 10s
Signed with her mark.

Bill from Marsh & Swann (London, Cambridge, Isle of Ely and Norfolk Carriers). 19s.
May 20th 8 scaffold poles
Received by Mr Mordecai.

Received from George Broadrick £57 9s 6d for a survey valuation and report of the Hundon Rectory Estate containing rectorial tithes.
Signed by John Wiggins.

Received from William Hustler, Bursar, £47 19s 6d. Costs include:
Survey of farm at Eltisley in the occupation of Mr Wills; vellum for the fair plan; survey of farm at Harston on lease to Bridge Little Esq; 1 day journey to Eltisley to make the necessary enquiries respecting the tenant and to request him to execute the lease prepared; making two plans of Mrs Evans' leasehold property; 1 day's journey to Willingham for the purpose of valuing estate; 1 day at Over; hire of gig and expenses for the 2 days; 1 day making out fair valuations and reports of said estates; 2 days journey to Gravely to look over the Rectory Estate; horse hire and expenses; 1 day making out report for Gravely.
Signed by Alex Watford.

Bill for assessed taxes to mid 1816 - £475 11s 9d.
Note on reverse: "Dear Huntley. Thank you for your note on Saturday. I am this instant off for town and in a few days I shall be able I hope finally to give an answer to Bayly. Yours sincerely, Townley Clarkson".

Bill from John Wentworth November 1815-March 1816 for:

• a journey to Harlton with the Bursar
• examining Safferds and other bills, and for measuring Bradwells work to the new room for the servants, stucco to the chapel and the pebble paving
• valuing an estate in Jesus Lane on lease to the late Edward Ind
• valuing an estate on lease to Mr Haggerston
• valuing an estate on lease to widow Sipons in Clement Parish
• valuing an estate in Barnwell on lease to Mr Himmington
  £10 10s received 22 April 1817 from William Hustler, signed by John Wentworth

£5 5s received as the amount of the annual donation to Lady Day.
Signed by Mr Thomas Leech, Church Warden All Saints Parish.

Bill of £4 for a design for the East window, signed by R.B. Harraden.

• 19th June 1815 Two large straining frames , bordering and repairing.
• October For yellow stained glass and border with ground glass; leading and painting up two pieces, chapel window.

Bill of £3 13s 6d for printing and advertising signed by James Hodson.
Costs include: printing blank orders for ale, blank receipts for rent, advertising land at West Wratting to be let, printing blank letters for rent, notes of invitation.

2s 6d received for the A.B. Commencement 1816. Signed by John Marshall.
2s 6d received for the A.M. Commencement 1816. Signed by John Marshall.

12th July 1816, £5 10s 3d.
2nd July 1816, £2 14s 6d received for dessert for Commons.
25th April 1816, £1 16s 6d received for Audit Day dessert. Paid 25th May 1816.
December 1815, £2 13s 9d received for Audit Day. Paid January 31st 1815. Costs include raisins, oranges, fig, apples, pears, brandy cherries, nuts.

6s 2d received for 4 hods of bricks and mortar, 26 bricks, 12 days labour bricklayer and labourer.

£13 6d received for work to College chimneys. Signed by Thomas Street.

Signed by Richard Brett.
Christmas lowance bill of £6 6s 9d (including deductions). Costs include: 401 pints; paid to Bennett's College 2 years quit rent; College tennants' ale; Catley 1 quarter for cards.
Bill for £2 5s 10d, received 11th April 1816. Costs include: 155 pints; tennant.
Bill for Mids and Michaelmas £8 0s 2d (minus deductions), received 11th December 1816. 311 pints; paid Green; men as witness; Leach 3 bottles of port; man for rat; man from Gravely; Preston; 2 tenants.

Total bill £104 9s 7d: £47 6s 1d received as the balance for the College account for work done to 18th October 1815. Signed by Thomas Safford.
Work done in College Kitchen includes: cleaning out jack and oiling; hooks and fixing; mending bars and spits; ship[...] grinding cleaver; mend jack line; bars for range; wrought iron standard; holdfasts for range; chimney bar; hook for chimney; damper and frame; new smoke jack with outside movements; bars to chimney; screwed bolts; old bars new iron; small bars for chimney flue; fixing bars to flue; bars and holdfasts; man's time 1/2 day; bars and holdfasts for range; cart back; pieces of hoop iron; holdfasts for back of range; altering and fixing holdfasts and backs, time 1/2 day; altering spit racks and fitting range; handle to damper; chimney bars for stoves; screwed dogs and plates for chimney; one man 1/2 day in kitchen; pins to spit rack; holdfast to furnice door; new frame to oven; circular bars for top of oven; altering and making old bars for holdfasts; cast plate to oven; band for stoves; making bars of old iron; bars of copper; bars for stoves; new oven; frame; bars for hot plates; double brackets for shelf; double bracket; bar to chimney in servant's room; lengthening of spits; stout jack chain.
Work done in Chapel: new brass nosells and new ; lacquering and fixing up of candlesticks; twelve months looking after the clock and cleaning.

£1 8s 6d paid for work done in garden on 27th July 1816. Costs include labour.
Settled 26th November 1816, mark of John Ward.

Received of the Bursar of Jesus College 16s 6d due to Caius College at Michaelmas 1816.
Signed by Robert Woodhouse, Bursar.

Received of the Bursar of Jesus College 4d for a year's rent due to the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College in Cambridge for last Michaelmas.
Signed by Tom Cattey.

Bill for total of £9 19s 5 1/2d for Simeon Robinson. Costs include: small splines and brad; butts and screws; walker and labour; nails; spline and dark line; for a large chest with double bottom hook hinges and handles [...].
Received 12th August 1816 payment of £9 19s 5 1/2d for the bill delivered on 6th August 1816. Signed by Simeon Robinson.

Bill to Lady Day 1816. £4 19s 4d paid to William Harvey for lamps, courts, cloisters and evergreen for Hall. Signed by W. Harvey.
Breakdown of accounts for total £17 16s 2d: Steward's Account to Lady Day 1816 £10 9s 1d; Bursar's Account £4 19s 4d; Mr Hustler's private account £2 7s 9d.

Bill to Michaelmas 1816. £8 1s 10d paid for lamps, courts, cloisters, grove, lamp outside the gate, window cleaning and Hall. Signed by W Harvey.

11th July 1816. £4 16s 4d paid for lamps, courts and cloisters. Signed by W Harvey.

£4 16 4d paid for lamps, courts and cloisters. Signed by W Harvey.

13th April 1816 received of the Bursar of Jesus College the sum of £2 10s for half a year's contribution money since Lady Day 1816. Signed by J Taylor.

13th March 1816 received of the Bursar of Jesus College the sum of £2 19s 2d for half a year's contribution money and Marshall's wages due Michaelmas 1816. Total sum £2 19s 4d (including stamp). Signed by J Taylor.

Paid to John Turner for work done in the kitchen, back kitchen and back yard. Includes payments for

Paid to John Willis (cook) for Audit dinner, Rustat dinner, Commencement dinner, College tenants dinner and dinner celebrating coronation of George IV. Payment also made to Mrs. Jiggins for cleaning and chopping. Also money allowed for coals, brazing, fees for degrees and amount deducted for garden.

Paid to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing work.
Includes work done to the masters lodge (including servants lodgings, staircase, bedroom, scullery), the chapel, the kitchen and the courts.
Works include crown glass in porters lodge, crown glass in the kitchen, new box and leather to pump, combination room, crown glass lamp, new leading, painted glass, new bucket leather to pump, new leather to valve.

Paid to Haselgrove for cutting away old stone works, reworking old stone, fixing new stone, stone for door heads, doorways, . Work done in the first court, the masters lodge, and hall.

Paid to W. Harvey (Porter) for work done on lamps, courts and cloisters. Work includes grove, lamp outside of gate, cleaning windows and washing hall.

Paid to Alexander Watford for surveying work. Work includes journey with the bursar to Graveley and Tempsford (Temsford) to look at the college estates, horse hire for two days (not getting home until the Sunday morning and expenses paid), paid for search at the Pembertons Office for the quantities from the Graveley ward, 1 day employed in making out valuations in the office, 1 day journey to Harston to value the Rectory Estate, horse hire and man for opening the gates, to making a fair plan on parchment of the gravely property, 1/2 day searching amongst papers for the disputed point with the Bullen of Barnwell which I found.

Paid to J Hodson for printing for cards with blank orders 'for her', advertising house Jesus Lane to be sold, cards with blank orders 'for he', letters about caution money, rent receipts for graveley, letters with blank account of rent, and blank receipts for rent.

Paid to Mr Deighton for the five guineas he was "so kind as to send" for the use of the poor on the day of the Coronation of George the IV in 1821. Trinity Street.

Paid to William Bright for the administrative work. Work includes postage of letter from Crompton Newton & Co inclosing draft from £100 (1 year of estate at Allenborough) and writing to them to acknowledge the receipt thereof. Also for drawing notice to quit and two copies to serve on for Mrs Foster and Edward Walker.

Paid to J West by Benjamin Wyatt for time employed in calculations and examinations of paper and on your direction connected with Mr Bernasconi's claim for plasterer's work done at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Paid by Mrs Susan Halls to Jesus College the sum of two shillings and two pence for a year's free or quit rent, due to Sir Robert Harland, Lord of the Manor of Hundon, with its members, to wit, Stradishall, Farley, and Chillbourn, due at Michaelmas Last Day. Signed by James Mills.

Paid to W. Harvey for lamps, courts, cloisters and audit.

Paid to Jesus College Cambridge for 16s 6d by William Okes, the bursar of Caius College.

Paid to G. Ware for 19s for esquire bedell stipends, including 3s for morning sermons.

Letter from Benjamin Wyatt to Mr Hustler. From London 25rd July 1821.
He says that having not examined his bankers book for some days past, he was aware until today that any money had been paid in on his account on behalf of Jesus College. However, he now encloses these acknowledgements, from himself, Mr. West and Mr. Bernasconi, respectively, and shall be glad to hear that they reach him safely.

Paid £788 10s for consols bought for the College by R. W. Harrison. Signed by Henry Hoare

Paid £1 11s 6d. Signed W. Shield

Paid £46 12s 1d to John Turner. Signed by John Turner

Paid to John Turner for work done in College. Signed by John Turner.

Paid to John Turner for work done in College, including payments for stripping of tiling and taking down coal place and cleaning of bricks, ale, bricklayers, labourers, making float barrel drain and making good the pavement, mortar, sand, taking down shoe place, cinder place and Willis' coal place, for stripping of tiling and taking down stable, sedge place and coach house, cleaning of privy, taking down Mr. Beaver's chimney and contracting of it into the new and stopping up beam holes and cleaning bricks, for digging foundations for coal places and out offices and laying floors and plastering and lime washing out offices, lime, taking down the old stack of chimneys and cleaning bricks and contracting of them and making good parapet wall, pantiling coalhouse, digging of foundations to the new buildings, extra brickwork to the foundations, extra flus to the chimney adjoining the old building and stopping up window, for laying a brick floor in the out offices.