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Papers relating to the domestic side of College life, including housekeeping, kitchens, buttery, cleaning, paintings and silver.

Surrender by Andrew Maddey and Thomas his son, of the messuage called the Yieldhall, to the use of Eden Grastocke. Latin

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Toby Watson (labourer)

Lease of the tenement formerly let to Elizabeth Haylocke, between two tenements let to Reuben Fitches.

Term: 40 years from Michaelmas 1641. Rent: 10s

Covenants:
Lessee to repair buildings and pave the street
Lessee covenants that there shall be only one family dwelling in the house
No gate or stile shall be made into the close

The arrangement of the accounts follows the pattern of those in ACC 1/2. At the foot of the account for 1644 is a statement explaining a deficit made up by a payment from the dividends of the Master and Fellows. In 1651 Arabic numerals were used throughout the account for the first time. At the end of the book are accounts for: Dr Sherman's benefaction for paving the Chapel with black and white marble, £100; Mr Charles Gibson's for adorning the Chapel, £100; additional new seats in the Chapel, and painting them; paving the outer Chapel with freestone, and setting up seats at the West end; London rents with the names of tenants, 1686; charges about Mr Somervile's legacy to the College decreed by the Court of Chancery; receipts from Loughborough, 1695, and Hundon, 1691-2; Mr Somervile's Act.

Indenture made on the marriage of Brian Smith, junior, and Anne Glover. Brian Smith, senior, settles the lands and Cavendish Place on his son and wife. (See typescript lists, there was also a Royal License of Charles I of the same date, allowing Brian Smith to convey to his son the glebe lands and advowson of Cavendish.)

Licence to Brian Smith to convey to his son Brian, on his marriage with Ann Glover, daughter of William Glover, dec'd., the glebe lands and advowson of Cavendish. Latin, with the Great Seal of Charles I, red wax. [In the steel press, shelf 10].

General quitclaim of Walter Parker and his wife to Thomas Dodd, referring to either Wichford or Witlesford. There are letters from Major C.F.C. Letts of Oakley Hall, Cirencester, offering the document, and notes from the British Museum about it, all March 1942. Apparently refers to Witchford, Isle of Ely, see archive description.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Reuben Fitches (cook and servant of the said College). The messuage late in the occupation of Robert Little and now of Reuben Fitches, between a messuage house late occupied by Peter Lion in the west, and that now garden of the Fellows of the College. Term: 40 years. Rent: 13s 4d

In three sections: receipts from tradesmen for basic supplies (bread, beer), 1648-54; accounts with the Butler, 1648-61; accounts with Fellows, Fellow-Commoners, Scholars and Pensioners, 1648-61, at the end of the volume (reversed)

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Brian Kitchingman (Alderman)

Lease of a mansion house with yard, barn and appurtenances called Knowles tenement

Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d and 4 capons or 6s 8d.

Covenants:
Lessee to repair etc
Not to lodge any persons of bad behaviour etc

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Tifford (Alderman of Cambridge). Term: 21 years from Michaelmas 1649. Rent: £1 10s 0d

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Reuben Fitches (cook). Two tenements with a garden between tenements occupied by Robert Clemence on the east and Parnell Merriell (widow) on the west. Term: 40 years. Rent: 8s

Covenants: Lessee to do repairs and to pave the street. Not to alien or to underlet. Lessee to appear in the Manor Court of the Master and fellows to do such suit and services as assigned to him

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Joshua Sedgwick. A messuage and ground in Walls Lane [King Street] next the wall of the late Grey Friars on the west and a house belonging to Bennet College in the east, abutting on the highway to the south and the close belonging to Jesus College on the north. For a term of 40 years from Michaelmas 1648

Mostly copies of deeds

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) John Jenkinson. Four dwelling houses heretofore one house and garden, ground thereto belonging in Walls Lane [King Street] between the tenement of Joshua Sedgwick to the east and the Blue Bell in the occupation of Robert Muns to the west, on Walls Lane [King Street] to the south and on a close of Jesus College to the North. For a term of 40 years from Michaelmas 1649

Joan Montfort, widow, and others, agree to convey the advowson to fulke Tedder and John Montfort, to be for the use of Joan Montfort, and after her to Elizabeth Franklyn.

Parties: Jesus College, (2) William Pickering (gentleman). Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 0s 0d

Grant and feoffment: Joan Montford and Elizabeth Franklyn to Edward Boteler, the rectory and advowson, for £1,850

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Robert Richardson (cook). Term: 3 years. Rent: 6d.

Condition: If the Master and Fellows pay Richardson the sum of 12d the term is to cease and determine.

Endorsement: This lease was delivered by Nicholas Coates, Attorney for the Master, Fellows and Scholars within named to the within Robert Richardson the 13th April 1653

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Robert Richardson (cook). Term: 3 years.

Condition: If the Master and Fellows pay Richardson the sum of 12d the term is to cease and determine.

Grant by Brian Smith, junior, to Thomas Bishop of Thornden, of the next presentation to the living, for a consideration of £50. With four witnesses.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Marie Fitches (spinster). The tenement late in the tenure of Reuben Fitches, father of Marie. Term: 36 years. Rent: 13s 4d.

Covenants: Lessee covenants that the tenement shall not be used as a common ale house or victualling house, and no one shall sell there in ale or beer

bond for £200 by Brian Smith, junior, to Thomas Bishop, that he will perform the covenants. With four witnesses.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Tifford (Alderman of Cambridge). Term: 21 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d

Parties: Jesus College, (2) Thomas Docwra. Lease of the house late in the tenure of William Pickering (gentleman). Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 0s 0d

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Richard Pettit, the elder. Three tenements [40-44] with the yards and backhouses situate lying and being in Walls Lane [Hobson Street] for 40 years from Michaelmas 1657

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mary Conway (widow) and William Watson (cordwainer)

Lease of the tenement, yard and garden plot with buildings, shops, chambers, now in their occupation, between tenements belonging to Jesus College, that on the east let to Reuben Fitches, cook, and that on the west let to Brian Kitchingman (gentleman).

Term: 40 years from Michaelmas 1658. Rent: 10s

Covenants:
Lessee to repair buildings and pave the street
Lessee covenants that there shall be only one family dwelling in the house
No gate or stile shall be made into the close

Mary Conway makes her mark as Mary Watson

Gascoyne (Gascoigne) was a student at Jesus, 1594-99, and on his death c. 1662 bequeathed a collection of printed books (at least one heavily annotated) to the College Library.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Robert Sharpe (carpenter). Lease of three tenements now in occupation of Nicholas Coates, Robert Sharpe, John Perce, Robert Parke and Benjamin Dod. Term: 40 years. Rent: 18s plus 2 capons or 3s.

Covenants: Lessee to deliver to the College a true and perfect terrar every 7 years

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Bryan Kitchingman. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d and 4 capons or 6s 8d

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Watson (cordwainer). Two tenements with a garden in Jesus Lane. Term: 40 years. Rent: 8s.

Speech delivered upon the restoration of King Charles II, by Geoffrey Watts (Fellow).

Two notices, from the Bishop of Ely (Matthew Wren), of the avoidance of the living by (1) the resignation of Richard Sterne, and (2) the death of Stephen Hall, who was instituted but not inducted. In Latin.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) John Anthill. Term: 35 years. Rent: £1

Letter sent by the Master and Fellows to Fanshawe as a former member of the college, asking for a contribution towards the cost of redecorating the Chapel, after damage in the Civil War.

Contains lists of Fellows, their meals, prices of courses, and weekly notes of prices of separate items such as butter, sea-coal, charcoal and sugar; also some bills for special occasions and wine.

Worked from both ends. The front has departures and returns of fellows from Michaelmas 1663 to 1702 (6 ff.); the back has departures and returns "inchoati" from Michaelmas 1632 to 1659 (6 ff.), presumably transcribed from a poorly-kept list elsewhere, exeats for scholars from 4 Feb. 1663 to 11 Nov. 1706 (6 ff.), and departures and returns of students, 1694-1712 (3 ff., upside-down).

In the middle, upside-down, is "A register of the Certificates produced by such members of this College as have taken and subscribed the oaths appointed by the Act of the first of King George intituled 'An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and government ... and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors'", with oaths of the Master and Fellows, 2 Dec. 1715 - 10 Apr. 1725.

Title added by Arthur Gray: "Historia Collegii Jesu / Statutes of the Rustat Foundation". Title on the back cover: "Statutorum Coll. Jesu".

The contents are written in a 17th century mixed hand, almost certainly that of Edmund Boldero, in black ink with headings in red. They consist of: Bishop West's statutes; the statute added by the Visitors of 1559-60; Charles I's interpretation of the statute "De Numero Sociorum" ["Of the number of fellows"]; statutes of the Rustat Foundation, 1671, a copy of an Indenture relating to the Foundation's endowments, and the confirmation of the Rustat statutes by Charles II, 1672; and a copy of Sherman's History of the college, out of order in such a way that notes about several members of the Beaumont family, a list of masters to 3 Apr. 1666 and their biographical details, precede the rest of the contents.

An unused page contains various signatures and scribblings of a later date (some apparently 1690s).

At the back of the book are an incomplete copy of "The King's graunt for the foundation of the Free schole at Macclesfeild" [the King being Edward VI], in Latin, in the same 17th century hand [Edmund Boldero], and a 2p. draft of a Latin oration, in a clumsier [juvenile?] hand.

Brian Smith, junior, promises to pay Thomas Bishop £50 if his nominee Thomas Grey be deprived of the living, or if he should resign one month at least before he be mortally sick. With seal and two witnesses

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Nicholas Coates on surrender of the lease to Robert Sharpe, four messuages or tenements in the occupation of Nicholas Coates, John Perce, Henry Crosse and Thomas Basset. Term: 40 years. Rent: 18s plus 2 fat capons or 3s.
Covenants: lessee not to turn any part of the premises into an ale house or victualling house

Includes burial register with burials listed for 1678-1714

The first college history, with the full title: "Aborigines Jesuani sive Historia Collegii Jesu Adornata Studio Joannis Sherman Collegii Presidentis, Coll. Regin. Alumni." Includes a coloured frontispiece, the college arms, and text in an elaborate italic hand, gradually degenerating into a mixed hand. The last date in the original hand is 1666, except for Sherman's epitaph of 1671. Some of the lists of Fellows are brought down to 1746 by other hands.

Copy of Sherman's college history, transcribed in several hands. The title page bears a Latin dedication to John North, Fellow and teacher of Greek, by "J. M.". The last date in the text is 1666, but thre are many marginal notes added by Dr Charles Ashton (Master 1701-52).

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Tifford (Alderman of Cambridge). Term: 21 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d