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Caius College Quit Rent

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

Woodhouse, Robert

Bill to the Smith (Coe)

Paid £0 17s 0d to the smith Thomas Coe given by B. Fuller for work done in the kitchen: new great jack (?), laying pooker, lock and hoy, mending the spitts (?), meat hooks, mending and laying rang and bair, lach and a crying (?) outdoor.
Signed by B. Fuller.

Coe, Thomas

Ironmonger's bill

Ironmonger's bill addressed to Mrs Feilding's account, from R. Underwood, 'General Ironmongery Establishment', on the High Street, Huntingdon. Total payment of 6s for two stone nails. Signed by O. Baines on behalf of R. Underwood. Year not given, presumably 1863 or 1864.

Baines, O.

Royal Charter Permitting College Foundation

Licence granted by Henry VII to John [Alcock], Bishop of Ely, to expel the prioress and nuns from the convent of St Radegund . . . and to found a college for a Master, six Fellows and a certain number of scholars . . . To be called the College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St John the Evangelist and the Glorius Virgin St Radegund, and to hold in free alms all the lands and possessions of the former priory; with incomplete Great Seal

College Archives

  • JCCA
  • Collection
  • 12 June 1496-2022 (The date is that of the letters patent giving Bishop Alcock permission to close the nunnery and found the college. The actual foundation cannot currently be assigned a precise date, but the College had an administrative existence by 1497.)

Legal and administrative records.

Lease

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Maryon Neyll, wife of Cornelius Williamson, shoemaker.
A house with a garden, lying next to Grey Friars' wall on the east (sic) and the ground of the same college on the west (sic) now held by Walter Strype. It abuts to the south on Walls Lane [King Street] and to the north on land of Jesus College held by John Dale. Covenants: Lessee to repair and to rebuild the house if it is destroyed by fire or tempest. Term: for life.

Counterpart Lease

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/CAM/JESL/GEN/1/1502
  • Item
  • 10 December 1502
  • Part of College Archives

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Richard Coole (cordwainer). Lease of a tenement with a garden in Jesus Lane, abutting on the west on a tenement of the same college now held by Joan Kensham (widow), and on the east on a tenement of Thomas Wareyn, to the south on Jesus Lane and to the north on a croft called Greencroft.

Dimensions: from east to west - 84 ft
from north to south - 92 ft

Term: 99 years. Rent: 8s.

Covenants - lessee covenants not to underlet to a religious house, hospital or college. Lessee not to have a gate or entry into Greencroft without special licence form the College. For any assignment of lease to another lessee to pay a gersoma not exceeding 3s 4d. If it should be necessary for the Master and Fellows in future to change their seal they will be obliged to seal a new pair of indentures with their new seal free of charge.

Lease

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Malphas, fishmonger. House and garden plot between the grounds of John Erlych of King's College to the east and south, abutting on the lane to the north and on the house of Dyryk Coole to the west. For a term of 99 years from Lady Day, 1516

"Old Statutes of Jesus College" containing: "Recepta omnium denariorum ... 1556", "Statuta Collegij Jesu Cantabrig.", and "Statuta Collegii Jesu Cantabrig. autoritate sedis apostolicae confirmata"

  • JCCA/JCGB/4/3/1
  • Item
  • 1517-1570 (These dates are those of original composition of the contents; the copies cannot be exactly dated. An earlier cataloguer very plausibly suggests that these three mss were bound together for submission to the Royal Visitors of Queen Mary in 1557.)
  • Part of College Archives

Three manuscripts bound together:

1) Accounts of receipts for 1556, ending with receipts for Fleet Street property (London), in English, in the same hand and arrangement as the start of ACC 1/1 (3 ff).

2) Statutes of Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely (1516-32), in Latin, in their original form [of 1517] with exequies for the Founder and principal benefactors, but with alterations made in 1549 and 1570 marked in at least two hands (15 ff).

3) Statutes of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely (1506-15), in a 16th century hand but with marginal notes in several hands of 16th and possibly 17th century dates (7 ff.). The last leaf has two Latin phrases, a list of four names with tallies against them, and the phrase "farewell farewell".

Counterpart Lease

Parties: (1) Jesus College (2) John Lyne (butcher). Lease of their close at the west end of the Schole House as it is enclosed, abutting south on Jesus Lane, north on the great close belonging to Jesus College, west on the great close, east on the Schole House end of the College and wall.
Term: 40 years from Michaelmas 1539. Rent: 6s.

Covenants - lessee to erect mud walls along the west side and the north end of the said close of the same breadth and height as the east wall of the College untry [for entry] tower is, and the same walls erected and made to cowner in reed and clay after the best and surest manner that can be devised and to find all manner of reparations at his own proper cost and charges except only the walls of the east side and the stone wall at the south end of the said close and mud walls. Lessee licensed to make a gate in the stone wall on Jesus Lane at the house end abutting on the close, at his own proper cost and charges

Counterpart Lease

Parties: (1) Corpus Christi College, (2) Thomas Thorpe. Lease of a house in Jesus parish, abutting on the highway and on Jesus Close, lying between a tenement of Jesus College and a tenement of Corpus Christi College, length 86ft breadth 65ft.

Term: 40 years. Rent: 8s.

Counterpart Lease of area now 19-22 Jesus Lane

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Kymbold (Burgess) and Margerye his wife.

Lease of a mansion house with yard, barn and appurtenances called Knolles [Knowles] tenement in Jesus Lane with a yard and barn.

Term: Joint lives in survivorship and one year afterwards. Rent: £1 10s 0d.

Covenants:
Lessees not to sell or underlet without consent of the College; not to take lodgers; "not to apply the said tenement to noysomeness of their neighbours by filthyness of hogges or other unreasonable cattle".
They covenant to make no back gates into the close except for one door through their barn which shall be only used in harvest time; not to come into the close

Bond is £20 to keep covenants

Feoffment

[Latin] Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Alexander Kaye. A messuage and a garden formerly in the tenure of John Langmeade, situate in Walls Lane [King Street], between a tenement of Christopher Francke to the west and one of Alexander Kaye to the east, abutting on the lane to the north and on a farm of Alexander Kaye to the south. In perpetuity

Lease

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Alexander Kaye, Alderman of Cambridge.
A messuage situate and built in Walls Lane with ground belonging to it between the walls of the late Grey Friars on the west and a messuage in the tenure of Antony Cage on the east one head abutting on the on the Kings Highway [King Street] on the south and on the north on the close belonging to the college. For a term of 40 years from Lady Day 1558. Covenants: Lessee to repair the house and walls except the wall at the end of the ground.

Audit book - Fundationes Collegii Jesu Cantabrigiae

One volume made up of three mss bound together: College accounts for 1556-57; Steward's accounts for 1556-57; College accounts for 1558-59. [See JCGB/4/3/1 for accounts for 1556.]

1st part contains 6 items: first, a list of charters and donations, beginning with the gift by Malcolm, King of Scots, to the nuns and the licence of Henry VII to Bishop Alcock to found the college. Other donors enumerated are: Bishop James Stanley, Roger Thorne, Robert Rede, John Batemanson, John Andrewe and John Royston; in a later hand, John Fuller, Thomas Roberts, Richard Pigott and John Risley. Other lists follow: "Rentes and revenues" of the college; costs of maintaining the the Master, Fellows and pupils, in stipends and victuals; stipends of college officers and servants; outgoing rents and expenses; cost of repairs in preceding and present year. There is a note that the college would be in serious debt if it did not add more fellows and students. There is also a note on the dorse of the penultimate folio, in a contemporary hand: "Concerninge Jesus College in Cambridge"; and, in an 18th century hand "Fundationes Collegii Jesu. A. D. 1556". Note by Freda Jones (former archivist): "I take this to be the statement the College submitted to the Royal Visitors in 1556 (See Lamb, Documents). They would have had also to submit the annual audit account. As there are no account rolls after that of 1548-9, it may be that the Royal Visitors of Edward VI in that year ordered that the accounts be kept in a book instead of a roll, and that this first account book, which covered the years 1550-55, is missing because the Marian Visitors did not return it. 1556. 8 folios

2nd part [in Dr Caryl's hand] contains: firstly, 12 fols in the hand that wrote STA 1.1, probably that of John Johnson, receiver, presenting a rental of the college properties [except most of London] for the year ending Michaelmas 1557, receipts of money owed to the college and paid to it by the Steward (Henry Worley), room rents, money taken out of the Chest by the Steward, and expenses under the usual various headings, including stipends for the Master and seven Fellows; secondly, two folios of Steward's accounts, in the hand of Henry Worley, rendered monthly with amounts stated weekly for the different kinds of table, and with an account of expenditure at feasts. 14 folios. 1557;

3rd part contains accounts by the receiver and the steward, in the same two hands as the 2nd part; includes stipends for the Master and 12 Fellows, 15 folios. 1558-9

Treasury Book

Contains notes of moneys, bonds, deeds, etc., put into or withdrawn from the treasury. A full account is given of what remains in the treasury after the audit at Michaelmas each year, including, after 1566, a list of the College plate. Later entries were made on blank spaces in the book between 1620 and 1667.

"Old statutes of Jesus College"

  • JCCA/JCGB/4/3/2
  • Item
  • 1559-1635 (The copy in STA 1/3 dates the Elizabethan added statute 1559.)
  • Part of College Archives

Contains: a table of contents; a copy of Bishop West's Statutes [of 1517], as revised by the Royal Visitors of 1549-50, with a new statute added by the Visitors of 1559-60 (at fol. 14 verso, with Visitors' signatures); and the interpretation of the Statute "De Numero Sociorum" by King Charles I, 1635.

West's statutes are written in a 16th century hand, with an elaborate capital at fol. 1. There are a few marginal notes in a 17th century hand.

The added statute is signed at the foot by five of the Visitors: William Byll., Walter Haddon, William Mey, Robert Horn and Ja. Pilkinton. It is followed (fol. 15 recto) by the notarial mark and statement of Anthony Harison certifying the document as a true copy.

The copied royal letter of 1635 is similarly marked by John Scott, notary and registrar of the University.

Counterpart Lease

Parties: Jesus College, (2) John Baker (cook)

Lease of a house with a garden ground in Jesus Lane between the house of Thomas Kymbolde on the east and a garden ground in the tenure of Widow Nele on the west abutting upon Queen's highway to the south.
Term: 21 years from Christmas 1559. Rent: 18s

Covenants:
College to have the right to enter and distrain if rest is unpaid for 6 weeks.
That the Master, Fellows, and students have the right of way through the premises to the College grounds from Jesus Lane by the Lane or highway and that the lessee shall gravel the said passage.

Audit book

Contains the accounts of Henry Worley, Receiver, at Michaelmas 1560: receipts, then payments, then a separate Steward's account. Contents in detail are: receipts - Cambridge rent by parishes, rents of college rooms, rents from outside Cambridge, recepta forinseca (including interest on arrears of rent and loans, and receipts for wood, coal and fish); payments - for chapel, buttery, kitchen, stipends (paid quarterly), outgoing rents, fees to rent collectors and Steward, pensions to the University Bedells, the Vicar of All Hallows, the poor of Shelford at Christmas, and the Rede lecturers, "expensae necessariae", repairs outside college, and repairs inside college; Steward - separate weekly totals for the Master and Fellows' table and the undergraduates' table, with the account rendered monthly. After the auditing of the account there is a calculation of annual funds and costs.

Livings

Administrative records of church livings owned by Jesus College. Most material runs to about the 1940s, there is some later correspondence about the history of various livings, e.g. by the church recordeers NADFAS (National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies).

Cavendish

The advowson was bought by the Proby Trust in 1708. Five earlier deeds are listed, going back to 1570, but only four can be found (2012: LIV 3/5 is mislaid). They are housed in the steel press, shelf 10.

Conveyance by bargain and sale

Edmond Felton of Little Coznard, Suffolk, to George Smyth of Cavendish, conveyance of the Rectory, the parsonage and the Church of Cavendish with the advowson.

Felton, Edmond

Fine

Final concord between (1) John Felton and William Howe, and (2) Sir Edward Clere [or Cleere], concerning the Rectory and a rood of ground. In Latin with the great seal of Elizabeth I, in white wax and fragmentary.

Lease Book A (spine title)

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/1/1/1
  • 1580-1618 (One of the minor additions dates from after 1619 and some others undated may do so.)
  • Part of College Archives

A register of copies of College leases, begun c. 1580 but including copies of earlier documents from 1543 onwards; the latest comes from 1618. The first section is a contents list, in a contemporary hand but with a single leaf added later (said to be in the hand of Charles Ashton, Master 1701-52). This list refers to an original foliation in which the transcriptions begin at f. 20. The first item transcribed is "an Acte for the mayntenanceof the Colledges in both the Universities ...", 18 Eliz. cap. 6; the rest are all property deeds, mostly leases. On the front flyleaf are some rough notes and a signed statement that this book was produced in a court case in 1682. At the end of the book are: "A note of the greivances done by Mr Dalton to the Colledge" (f. 330); a single-page account of the College's benefactors [post 1619] (f. 335v); a list of benefices in the College's gift (f. 336); a list of evidences compiled c. 1600, in effect the earliest known catalogue of College deeds, "in the great redd Box" and 42 other boxes (ff. 337-344); accounts of "Cignetts and broodes" and swans marked, for 1614, 1615, 1616 and 1618 (f. 345r,v); lists of "Rentes in provision", rents "not yet in provision", rents "charged beside provision upon statute", and London rents (ff. 346-348r; a memorandum of the receipt of the manorial records of Graveley (f. 348v); a list of medieval deeds of the nunnery, in several 17C hands (ff. 349-351v); and inside the back cover some notes headed "Fundatores".

Counterpart Lease [13-15 Jesus Lane]

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Edward Bonde (Freemason)

Lease of the newly erected tenement with a plot of ground adjoining with buildings and appurtances, in the parish of All Saints, abutting south upon Jesus Lane and north upon the College great close, between the King's Ditch on the west and a College tenement demised unto John Harvey on the east. Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 0s 0d.

Covenants:
Bonde to repair the pavement of the street adjoining his tenement
There shall not dwell there at any time more than one tenant with his or her own family. Lessee not to thatch the roof but to cover with tiles
Lessee not to have any access to the close

Bond

Parties: (1) William Hedley to (2) Jesus College

Condition: If the Master and Fellows sustain any expense or charges at law in taking up bridges leading from the Close to Jesus Lane Green, their lessee, William Hedley, is liable

Counterpart Lease

Parties: Jesus College, (2) Thomas Hodiloe (beer brewer and tenant of the Brewhouse in Magdalene Street)

Lease of a house with a garden and buildings in the occupation of John Wallys, in the parish of All Hallows in Jesus Lane adjoining the great close of the College on the north, between a house lately built belonging to the College on the west and a plot of ground belonging to Alderman Thomas Kimball on the east.

Term: 35 years from Christmas 1584. Rent: £1 0s 0d

Covenants:
Lessee to repair etc
Premises shall be occupied by one tenant only and his family. Lessee covenants not to thatch any building with straw, but to cover with tiles

Counterpart Lease [23 and 24 Jesus Lane]

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/CAM/JESL/14/1/1585
  • Item
  • 29th January 1585
  • Part of College Archives

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Rolf Watson (labourer).

Lease of tenement late in the occupation of William Durbusher, now occupied by Watson, abutting south on Jesus Lane and north on Jesus College Close, west on the tenement of Alderman Thomas Kymbolde and east on a tenement in the occupation of Marten, the basketmaker.

Term: 31 years. Rent: 10s.

Covenants:
Lessee to repair buildings and pave the street
Lessee covenants that there shall be only one family dwelling in the house

Cambridge, All Saints

The advowson of All Saints (also called All Saints in the Jewry) was given to the nunnery of St Radegund, in 1180 or earlier, by Sturmi of Cambridge. For this and other early deeds, see Nuns/Gray 79-99. The church was very croded by the 1850s, and was demolished in favour of a new one in Jesus Lane. A draft history of the parish by A.C. Bouquet is kept in the Old Library, in the modern MSS collection.

Counterpart Lease [27-31 Jesus Lane]

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/CAM/JESL/18/1/1586
  • Item
  • 14th January 1586
  • Part of College Archives

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Peter Lyon and Agnes his wife (cook). Lease of three messuages or tenements with yards and buildings now in the tenure and occupation of Peter Lyon, abutting south upon Jesus Lane and north upon the great close of the College, west upon a College tenement now in the tenure of Hugh Watson, east on a College tenement in the tenure of Robert Killingbacke.
Term: 31 years from Lady Day 1586. Rent: 18s.
Covenant: Lessee to repair premises to pave the street, and not to alien. Not more than one tenant with his family is to occupy the premises. There is to be no back gate into the close.

Counterpart Lease

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/CAM/JESL/23/1/1586
  • Item
  • 19th January 1586
  • Part of College Archives

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) John Barcrofte of Chesterton (barber). A messuage or tenement and a yard adjoining, late in the tenure of one Mother Pearson and now in the occupation of John Barcrofte abutting on Jesus Lane to the south, and on the great close to the north, lying between a messuage in the tenure of Peter Lyon to the west and a close, now in the occupation of Dr Hatcher on the east. Term: 31 years.

Condition: that Barcrofte shall sweepe the Hall, Cloisters, and Chapel every year in the manner following viz.
The Hall every week three times i.e. Sunday, Wednesday and Friday morning, and during the twelve days of Christmas every day
The Cloisters once a week
The Chapel once a month
In lewe of the said Hall, Cloisters and Chapel receiving for and towards the buying of beasomes or brooms out of the College buttery every quarter 4d worth of bread or beer at his choice.
Or else to pay the College an annual rent of 8s. the choice to be with the Master and Fellows etc

Covenants: Lessee to maintain and repair building and pavement. Not to underlet or alien. There shall not dwell thereon more than one tenant with his family

Lease

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Isaac Fleminge, haberdasher. A garden ground enclosed with mud walls, whereon some times stood a tenement or house in Walls Lane [Hobson Street] late in the tenure of Alexander Kaye, abuts east on a tenement of Diricke Cole formerly of Christopher Francke, west upon the highway and also upon the bridge in Walls Lane [King Street], north upon the town ground of Cambridge and south upon a tenement formerly of Barnwell Abbey, now of Steven Rooke. For a term of 40 years from Christmas 1585. Covenants: Lessee to maintain the mud walls and do other repairs as required. Lessee to gravel the street or lane against the said garden ground

Counterpart Lease

Lease by the College to nine named parishioners of a shop adjoining the north side of the steeple of the church and of a piece of waste land adjoining the south side of the church. Term 40 years, to be renewed every 40 years for 200 years; rent 4d per annum. The parishioners are to erect a shop on the waste ground, and to sublet the two shops, so that the rents will provide for an annual distribution of 13s 4d to the poor of the parish, the bequest of William Ridscall. The distribution is to be made at Christmas (5s) Easter (5s) and St Luke's Day (18 Oct.).

Treasury Book, 1588-1632

Similar to JCAD/2/2/5/1, but with fuller lists of plate. At the end of the book are notes by John Sherman of documents he borrowed.

Title Deeds of Tewin Rectory: grant

James Monford of Tewing, Herts, grants the right of next presentation, which he was granted by deed dated 19.12.1582 by the patron, Robert Wrothe, Esq., to Richard Hale, citizen and grocer of London. Latin, with seal of J. Monford

Covenant to levy a fine

George Smith and others covenant to levy a fine of the advowson and other premises, including the newly built house called Cavendish Place, lately occupied by William Howe, and Cavendish Mill and fisheries to the use of John Gardiner and his wife Agnes, sister of George Smith, and their issue, and in default to George Smith for life, then to Thomas Smith for life, then to Bryan his son, and his sons and their respective issue male, in default to the right heirs of Agnes, with power to Agnes to sell the next presentation to the living.

Smith, George

Counterpart Lease of area now 19-22 Jesus Lane

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Thomas Kymbold (Alderman)

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

Dimensions:
South on Jesus Lane - 110ft
North on Jesus Close - 150ft
East, next "The Pound of Candles" in the tenure of Robert Heylock - 78ft
West adjoining a piece of ground of the said Thomas Kymbold which he rents by the year from the College - 90ft

Term: 40 years. Rent: £1 10s 0d.

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

Audit book

The arrangement of the accounts follows the pattern of those in the preceding volume. The Steward's account for 1632-3 is in Arabic numerals, but for the next year it is kept in Roman figures as usual. There is a note at the back about estates.

Counterpart Lease [25 and 26 Jesus Lane]

  • JCCA/JCAD/3/CAM/JESL/16/1/1599
  • Item
  • 3rd February 1599
  • Part of College Archives

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) William Ogden (yeoman). Two tenements with a garden in Jesus Lane between a tenement of Agnes Lion on the east and the tenement now held by Robert Hillocke on the west.

Dimensions: East to west along the garden wall 68ft and north to south 92 ft
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

Bishop West's Statutes

  • JCCA/JCGB/4/3/4
  • Item
  • 1600-1700 (The dating of the original statutes to 1517 derives from West's episcopal register of October 1517, which for the first time records an admission of Fellows of Jesus College with an assumption that this is in)
  • Part of College Archives

The first of two preliminary folios has been mostly cut out. The second bears some Latin notes, including a transcript of Bishop John Alcock's declaration of 17 March 1489 concerning doubts raised at the college of Saint Peter, Cambridge (about the making of decrees by the Master and Dean of that college). A contents list of statute headings follows, verso.

The Statutes (of Bishop Nicholas West) are written in an italic hand with a few later annotations and markings; they are followed by the Statute added by the Royal Visitors of 1559-60, substantially erased and rewritten because of the wish to start a new page.

At the back of the book are: the oath to be taken by a Fellow-commoner; the oath required on admission of a Fellow, the oath required on the admission of a Commoner; and a note in Dr French's hand (in English) about a new statute removing the restrictions imposed by the old statute "De numero sociorum" ["Of the number of fellows"], made on 7 January 1828 and to come into force within 5 years.

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