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

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Watson (cordwainer). Lease of the house lying between the King's Ditch and a College house occupied by Richard Hill, abutting Jesus Lane and the great close. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 0s 0d and 2 capons or 4s

Begins 2 Feb. 1668/9, when the Master appears to have made up a deficit from his own pocket. The account was audited by the resident Fellows on 2 Feb. each year. Under the date 26 Jan. 1679 is a list of "Orders agreed upon as a means of reducing the debt of the College to the Bursar, Mr Lewis", involving sealing money, feasts commuted for payments (to the Dead College and to the library), and rents raised. There follow Library accounts, 1681-1743/4, giving prices of books and of binding, and a debt to the library fund created in 1716, with arrangements for paying it off; also an account of offerings in Chapel, 1681, and how they were spent. At the end of the book are: a record of borrowings from the treasury, 1667/8-1747 (of documents, money and plate to be sold or exchanged); sums withdrawn from the Rustat Chest; an audit of plate (no lists given); notes of the use and return of the college seal, with a note about the surrender and exchange of "broad gold" from the college bags, 25 April 1733.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Samuel Pettit. Four tenements [40-44] being in Walls Lane [Hobson Street] for 40 years

Contains: Rustat statutes, 1671 (17 pp.); interpretation of the statutes by King Charles II, 1672 (4 pp.); register of admissions of Rustat Scholars, 1671-1819. At the end of the book is a register of leaves of absence granted from 4 June 1715 to 22 December 1744.

Contains accounts with other records. At f. 1 is an order for the book to be in the custody of the Senior Rustat Scholar, with instructions on including lists of admissions and accounts. At f. 3 is a copy of the Rustat Statutes. At f. 18 is a list of the Rustat Scholars in order of succession from their first institution onwards, 1671-1788 At f. 31 is a list of elections, 1729-1788, with a list of those present - the Master, the Visitor, the Benefactors, the Scholars, and new admissions. Resolutions noted include one about a punishment for not making up the accounts (1745).

The volume begins with "Regula Seneschali", a collection of rules for charging and accounting, concluding with a decree about payment of "detriments" by undergraduates. There follow monthly accounts with the Master, Fellows, B.A.s and undergraduates. At the end of the book (reversed) are receipts for bread and beer.

Contains accounts of the Rustat Bursar.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Fox, the younger (gentleman). Term: 40 years. Rent: £1

Copy of the Rustat Statutes in a 17C italic hand with an English translation appended. The amendment to the Statutes by Charles II follows in another hand, attested by John Cooke, 1 July 1672. There is a memorandum on the case of John Harvey, who was elected a Rustat Scholar in error, while his father was still living, and consequently deprived of his scholarship on 7 October 1672.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Edmund Jeffery (woollen draper), James Alders (chandler), Thomas Ward (innholder) and Francis Challis (chandler).

Four dwelling houses [25, 27, 29 and 31 King Street] heretofore one house and the garden ground belonging thereto between a tenement late Joshua Sedwick's towards the east, and the Bluebell now in the occupation of Robert Barber towards the west, abuting south on to Walls Lane [King Street]

Sets out the King's interpretation of the Rustat Statutes, with Rustat scholars allowed to be admitted as pensioners or otherwise (i.e. as sizars), as they choose.

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

Contains half-yearly rentals, with: name of tenant, reserved rent in money, wheat, malt, total rent in money, and college commons. Then follow: Cambridge rents in money only, total of London rents, pensions (Foljambe's, Lady Bennet's, Marshall's Exhibition). A second column, in the Michaelmas accounts only, has: quit rents received, out rents including payments to the University waits, the London rent collector, the University beadles, for sermons, the Steward of Graveley, the Shelford poor, and the University Marshal. At the foot of the account are tables of current prices of wheat and malt. After the rental for 1745 is: the Dividend Paper, 1685-1745, consisting of a list of receipts, chamber rents, receipts from degrees fees, and payments to various servants, the library, the garden, etc.; the last to be deducted from the sum of the first three. In a second column, to be added, are fines received; to be deducted "corn money owed to Commons" and "capon money owed to Commons". This calculation establishes the dividend, which is divided in 18 parts, two of which go to the Master and one to each Fellow. From 1709 there is "a charge for Exceedings at Christmas" and from 1712 "a charge for Commencement Supper".

Contains annual accounts, as before. If the expenses exceed the receipts in any year, the difference is paid to the Bursar out of the Dead College Fund. The flyleaf has a note: "Price of this book 5s. 6d. Guglielmus Lewis." and a memorandum in the hand of Dr Saywell, 1684, about the cost of "wainscotting the East end of the Chapel", paid for by Saywell as Master and by the President, Dr Cooke. Hundon [trust] accounts for 1698-1708 are at the end of the book, worked from the back. Half calf binding, 12+ x 8+ in. 1676-1709

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Henry Turkington, and Margaret, his wife.
Messuage and ground in Walls Lane [King Street] lying between the wall of the late Grey Fryers on the west and a house of Bennett College on the east, abutting on the common highway on the south and a close belonging to Jesus College on the north, for a term of 40 years.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Watson. A messuage or tenement formerly in the tenure of Peter Dent, now in the occupation of John Layton and Mickill Greene between a messuage late of Nicholas Cotes on the west and the fellows garden on the east.
Term: 40 years. Rent: 13s 4d

Contains copies of: John Sherman's history of the college, 'Aborigines Jesuani', in a late 17th century mixed hand, the latest date in this original hand being 1681, but the lists of personnel being carried on in other hands up to 1717; the statutes of Bishop West, in a late 17th or 18th century hand, with underlining and annotations including some restoring clauses omitted or recast by the Visitors of 1549-50; the statute added by the Visitors; Charles I's interpretation of the statute 'De Numero Sociorum' (at p. 161), 1635; the statute 'De Preceptore Gram. Et ejus Hostiario' (at p. 163); papers concerning the election of Charles Proby to a fellowship, July 1692; the preamble to Bishop West's statutes (p. 173) with marginal notes correcting the text to agree with that of STA 1/1; the statutes of Bishop James Stanley (1514), with similar marginal notes; account of receipts for the year 1556 (at p. 203, copied from STA 1/1); an account of the lapse of two fellowships to L. Andrews, then Bishop of Ely, with his interpretation of some doubts in the college statutes (1614); an interpretation of the statute 'De Numero Sociorum', 1634; an interpretation 'De Senioritate, et majore parte Sociorum', 3 Jan 1637/8; a case heard before the Bishop's Vicar-General on 11 June 1638; and Dr Boldero's letter to Bishop [Matthew] Wren about John North's election to a fellowship, 1 Feb. 1666/7 (p. 238).

Printed facsimiles entitled 'The Earliest Statutes of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1514-1515' are of Bishop Stanley's statutes [edited by Arthur Gray], printed for the Master and Fellows by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge. The volumes also include an English translation of the statutes, a note on Bishop Stanley's statutes and other codes of the 16th century, notes on particular statutes and a transcription (in Latin) of the first part of the Royal Licence for the foundation of Jesus College. The only difference between the two volumes lies in the binding.

Parties: Jesus College, (2) Michael Greene (bricklayer). Lease of the house next the King's Ditch. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 0s 0d and 2 capons or 4s

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Chamber (tailor) in consideration of the surrender of a lease by John Edward (clerk) and Edward law, four tenements in the occupation of Nicholas Coates, John Perce, Henry Crosse and Thomas Basset. Term: 40 years. Rent: 18s plus 2 capons or 3s.
Covenants: lessee not to turn any part of the premises into an ale house or victualling house

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Robert Tifford, Curtice Clarke and Thomas Wood. Term: 21 years from Lady Day 1681. Rent: £1 10s 0d

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

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Stewkes (draper). Two tenements between a tenement occupied by Robert Lee on the east and that occupied by John Bennet on the west. Term: 39 years. Rent: 8s.

Mrs Elizabeth Parker, widow of Alexander Parker, to Anthony Digby, clothier, and Martha his wife a freehold piece of ground together with part of a malt house thereupon situate and a garden and orchard lying between tenements of Jesus College, upon which piece of ground was heretofore situate a house sometimes Kymbold's afterwards Reuben Fitches', lately Bryan Kitchingman's, now deceased, who pulled down the house, and made and planted the said garden and orchard. He bequeathed the land to his son the Rev'd Robert Kitchingman of Kingsbury, Middlesex, who sold it to Alexander Parker to hold of Jesus College at a yearly rent of 10d.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Edward Richardson. Four tenements [40-44] with the yards and backhouses in Walls Lane [Hobson Street] for 40 years

Fine upon the conveyance from Smith to Glover (in Latin)

John Smith to Robert Glover of Frostenden, the advowson and a piece of land; for a consideration of £100 and £20 per annum for life.

Various conveyances, fines, receipts etc., of land and the advowson from John Smith to Robert Glover and from Glover to Thomas Grey

Goddall to Thomas Brooke, R. Glover's solicitor, with a copy of the Recovery of 10 June 1603 (item 3/1), showing that it does include the advowson.

Receipt for the first £100 of the purchase price

Robert Glover to Thomas Grey

Receipt by John Glover of Great Yarmouth, merchant, for £500 from Thomas Grey of Cavendish, Clerk. With seal and signatures of witnesses.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Nicholas Settle (currier). Lease of the tenement formerly occupied by Toby Watson. Term: 40 years. Rent: 10s

Contains calculations of the Fellows dividend from all sources: credits from corn rents, fines on leases, rents and pensions earnarked for this purpose, degree fees; debits to land tax, fees paid to college, fees to servants, and commencement suppers. The early entries include details of terms of leases and their renewal.

Abstrracts of title, for deeds of 1618-1684.

Bequeaths the advowson and lands in Tewin to his daughter Isabella Hutchinson.

The advowson of the Rectory of Whatfield was bought for the College by the Proby Trust in 1736.

The benefice was united with Semer in 1929.

Copy of the will of Adam Buddle of Hadleigh, Suffolk. He bequeaths the perpetual advowson of the Church of Whatfield to his nephews Adam, Richard, George, and John Buddle and their issues and successors.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Martin (carrier). Term: 21 years from Lady Day 1681. Rent: £1 10s 0d

Particulars of land and rents

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Fox, the elder (gentleman). Term: 40 years. Rent: £1

Particulars of the glebe land belonging to Hundon parsonage: list of 13 items, with acreage of each. Information from Sir Wm Soames' former Steward.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Anthony Digby (clothier). Lease of the house called Knowles' Tenement. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d and 4 capons or 6s 8d

Asking for a testimonial from the College for Mr Henchman [probably Humphry] , who is pursueing a small living. On the back are rough notes relating partly to Hundon.

Continues from COL 1/1, with similar contents except that from 1753 decisions of college meetings were not recorded here but in a separate 'Conclusions book' (COL 4/1).

Up to 1707 and from 1715 the contents are arranged in a single chronological sequence, but for 1707-15 they are classified under the following headings: Admissions; Elections of Scholars, Testimonials; Sealings; Leaves of absence; Elections of Fellows; Elections of Officers; Presentations to Livings; and Licences to supplicate for Degrees.

At the front of the volume are transcribed forms of various documents: a presentation, a testimonial for a fellow, submission of candidates for election by the Bishop of Ely, and a testimonial for a member of the college; also a copy of a mandate of the Bishop of Ely to induct the Rev. Philip Yonge into the mastership and a form of notification to the Bishop of Ely of the vacancy of the mastership.

Contains foundational records of the Rustat Widows' Trust, including: certificate for a widow (p. 1); oath of allegiance to William III and Queen Mary, with oath of abjuration of papal authority (p. 2), with (p. 4) signatures of Fellows subscribing to this and the following declaration, 1689; declaration denying papist doctrines (p. 5); qualifying conditions for widows (p. 6), with names and particulars of recipients, 1702-70 (pp. 7-15). There follow "Decreta collegii Collecta e Registro" (decrees of the college collected from the Register), concerning fees for degrees, Fellows' seniority, rules for "Problemata", entrance fees for B.A. commoners, B.A. disputations, status of the Custos Sacelli (chapel custodian), M.A. exercises, duties of junior Fellow , and a decree against Magister Spence, 31 May 1685. At pp. 21-24 are names and particulars of widows, 1775-1809; at pp. 24-27 names of candidates for Rustat pensions. At the end of the book are: a printed oath of allegiance to Queen Anne (flyleaf); a certificate for a widow (p. 1); oath of commoners and scholars (p. 4); penalties set for corruption in the election of Fellows, 31 Eliz. c. 6 (pp. 6-9); memorandum about the Declaration of Conformity (p. 11); oaths of Fellow, Scholar and Rustat Scholar (pp. 12-18); notices of vacancy of a fellowship (pp. 19-20); and oaths of Ley Fellows, 1840-41.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) John Pepys (gentleman), Charles Chambers (gentleman), Edward Boyden (innholder), Thomas Peak (innholder), Richard Huske (waggoner), John Young (barber). Certain tenements [25, 27, 29 and 31 King Street] and the grounds adjoining and being in Walls Lane [King Street]

Release and Quitclaim and agreement for a composition of tithes.