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Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr John Adams. Lease of two messuages and premises in Jesus Lane for 40 years from 25 March 1857. Includes a plan.

Payment of 8s 9d to Robert Hymn for bookbinding services. Includes payments for binding and repairing five volumes of royal music books in cloth for the chapel. Signed by Robert Hymn.

Note detailing the receipt of the payment of £2 from Jesus college to the Quy Parochial Schools as part of an annual subscription. Signed by Edward Ventris [?].

Payment of £1 4s 3d to John P. Gray for bookbinding done for the college chapel. Includes payments for binding four music books in rough calf, one almanac, and one almanac on board. Signed by J. P. Gray.

Note detailing the receipt of the payment of £5 5s from Jesus college to the Old Schools of Cambridge as part of an annual subscription. Signed by J. Hawkins.

(1) Extract from the will of the late Mr James Webster and other documents relating to premises in Jesus Lane
(2) Lease plan showing Nos. 35 and 36 Jesus Lane

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr John Death. Lease of cottage, coach house, stables and premises for 40 years from 29 September 1865

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr John Adams. Lease of three messuages and site of malthouse and premises in Jesus Lane for 40 years from 29th September 1868. Includes plan

A plan of the stalls.The name 'J Rattee' is present at the bottom of the plan, not Pugin's. The sheet is beautifully drawn but badly creased and torn in half from top to bottom.

Elevations of the pew ends, sections of wooden mouldings and elevation of screen.

No names given.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr William Mead. Lease of 5 cottages, 3 warehouses and premises. Term: 40 years from 29th September 1870. Includes a plan

Hand drawn and painted design for the south west window of the College Chapel.

Receipt for repairs and minor works carried out by Edward Beales & Co between April and August 1874. Work includes repairing knife machine (Emery to do), 1 bottle rack, wrought iron frame and doors for wine bin as per estimate, and 2 padlocks for the same. Total cost £25 4s, invoiced to the college's buttery account. Signed off by Edward Beale.

By order of Mr Newberry to Owen Rowe, Plumber, Glazier, and Gas Fitter (22 Sussex Street, Cambridge). Receipt for repairing pump in August 1874, costing £2. Signed by Joseph Rowe.

Receipt for printing exam papers for Lent and Easter terms, costing £20 18s in total. Topics include Latin, Greek, and English prose translation, Cicero, Herodotus, algebra, mathematics, trigonometry, natural philosophy, Newton and dynamics, statistics, rigid dynamics, hydrostatics, and optics. Some exams are intercollegiate. Signed by A Mason on behalf of C.J. Clay.

Bill for cost of time of man examining and testing 5 hydrants, and of raising the hydrant, including materials. Total cost £1 8s 6d. Bill for water in lodge, 2 WCs, garden, and arrears, costing £2 12s 10d. Separate bill for water in 74 sets of rooms, 4 WCs, and 5 hydrants, costing £13 16s 6d.
Tucked inside, two bills for water supply in the quarter ending on 6th Oct 1874, one for the amount of £12 14s, the other for £12 11s 6d, with less charged for the cost of the hydrant carried forward. Also a receipt for £1 8s 6d for repairs [to the hydrant] as per statement. All signed off by W.L. Dickson, collector.

Receipt for donation of £20 from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to the Cambridge Home and Training School for Nurses. Signed by Elizabeth Pulling, treasurer.

Bill for shaving wallpaper in Hughes Keeping Room; preparing, sizing, and papering walls of bedrooms in L3 and B4; preparing and sizing walls of Mr Morgan's WC with own paper; stripping walls in sitting room and bedroom of L5 and lining them with new paper. Total cost £8 7s.

£1 3s 6d paid to John Gray for binding - in 1872 - the Statuta Collegii Jesus (quarto), calf half extra, and 11 Psalms and Hymns, cloth letters. Receipt written out in 1873, and paid on 9th February 1874,

By order of Mr R. Reynolds Rowe, architect and surveyor, for building works to be carried out in August 1874 by William Burbage, Bricklayer, Plasterer and Slater (104 King Street, Cambridge). Mr Pratt to build kitchen and bedroom and repair closet, fixing trap and pan. Also for repairing tiling and plastering at Belmont Place, including 1 day's pay for bricklayer and labourer, and costs for mortar, tiles, and bricks. Total cost £14 11s. Signed off by Mr Burbage and Mr Rowe.

Bill from Edward Beales & Co., wholesalers, retailers, ironmongers, iron and brass founders, iron merchants, whitesmiths, and bell hangers, for 1 weighing machine and 2 weights, costing £3 4d. Signed by E. Beales.

Letter from R. Reynolds Rowe, college surveyor, to the Master, enclosing a receipt (not present) relating to Mrs Whelton the bedmaker, who has been married 5 years and has no family. Reynolds Rowe has let Grove Cottage to her with the understanding that a month's notice to quit will suffice. Maths workings scribbled on back of letter.

Licence from inland revenue for Dr Corrie to wear or use armorial bearings anywhere other than on a carriage, with agreement from college. Total cost £7 10s. Signed by W. Bradley in Cambridge.

Names on board read:
J. Phelips, G. M. Edmonds, F. Weller, G. Fairbairn, T. E. Hockin, C. Gurdon, E. A. Phillips, P. W. Brancker.

Receipt from Robert Jones, art metal worker, for four new copper lamps, and for altering brackets on packing case. Total cost £5-8-0. Signed by Robert Jones, and confirmed as correct by Mr Tuft and Mr Waterhouse.

Lease plan for 37 Jesus Lane. Gives the dimensions of the property and the names of the neighbouring lessees/tenants - Susan Webster (lessee of No. 36) and William Walker (tenant of No. 38)

Receipt for building works carried out by John Loveday, builder, joiner, cabinet maker, etc.
Work includes: fixing cradles round trees; circle posts; poles; nails; oak posts; ficxing posts to iron gate; gallows; deal; headleys for ironwork; stones; cement; time for labourer and carpenter. Total cost £12-0-5.
Received by Dr Morgan, and signed by John Loveday.

Bill for stripping, preparing, and sizing walls in sitting room and gyp room for papering, and cloisters for Fairbairn
3 pieces of lining paper and glass paper;
10 pieces of paper for sitting room, and 4 for gyp room, and hanging, pasting, and sizing these.
Total cost £7 9s. Paid by cheque. Signed by C.S. Bulstrode.

1) Receipt for various repairs around college, costing £2 19s 11d. Details of repairs covered in fifth item. Signed by W.L. Dickson, collector, on 10th February.

2) Receipt for water bill as per meter for the quarter ending 6th January 1876, covering 74 sets/rooms, 5 hydrants, and 4 WCs. Total £13 16s 6d, received of Jesus College and signed off by W.L. Dickson, 10th February.

3) Receipt for water bill covering the 2 WCs in the Master's Lodge and the garden, for the quarter ending 6th January. Total £1 6s 5d, received of Dr Corrie and signed off by W.L, Dickson, 10th February.

4) Receipt for water bill as per meter for the quarter ending 6th January 1876. Total £17 2s 6d, received of Jesus College and signed off by W.L. Dickson, 10th February.

5) Detailed list of the repairs carried out by the Waterworks Company between April 1875 and January 1876, costing £2 19s 11d, billed to the college in item 1. Items on receipt include: 12 1/2'' leather collars for India rubber hose; opening out ground at the cottages on Jesus Grove, repairing stop tap and fixing new bib tap in kitchen; lead pipe, bib tap, joints, hooks, India rubber collar, men's time; by the old tap, cutting off service and soldering over end of pipe and reconnecting service in another position in kitchen; lowering hydrants; screw-neck fends, hydrant fend; gaskin and lead for joints.

Receipt for printing work carried out for Jesus College chapel by Jonathan Palmer (23 Jesus Lane) on behalf of Rev E.H. Morgan. Includes 200 copies of 'Subscription List of Window Fund', 4pp, L post, cream laid, including corrections (Nov 1875). 200 copies reprinted in March 1876 with corrections, and again in May with additions. Total cost £2 10s.

Receipt for preparing and sizing rooms for wallpaper, and for the papering and canvasing of walls, including the costs of wallpaper and lining paper. Work carried out in bedroom of K1 and K2, sitting room of H4, lobby and sitting room of F1. Total cost £7 4s, paid by cheque.

Coloured design for a possible window, probably for the Chapel. Indistinctly signed

Lease plan for 55 Jesus Lane. Gives the dimensions of the property and the names of the neighbouring lessees - Mrs Henry Mutton (No. 54) and Rev'd M. Gibbs (No. 56)

Plan showing possible seating plan in chapel extending into area to the east of the south transept and south of the choir.

Design showing one end of brass fender for Senior Combination Room

Three sections showing the detailed interior elevations of the chapel looking east, south and north and one elevation of the screen; showing the decorative features in detail. Hand-drawn in black ink.

Measured drawing of the chapel screen in elevation in black ink; showing the decorative features in detail. Two brown stain marks on the drawing.

Plan showing possible seating plan in chapel extending seating along length of nave.

Elevation showing design of stalls and how they can be opened.

Paid to Morris and Company for work done in the SCR, including payments for supplying an Axminster carpet, supplying two pairs of stamped velvet curtains with frings on centre and bottom edges, two pairs of silk and worsted loops, mahognay pole with rings, supplying a standard grate, design for fireplace and instructions, lustre sunflorren tiles, red hearth, four sets of finger plates pierced and engraved, two sets of oval door handles, two single door handles, six roses for the door handles, four key hole plates, plated screws, red merino, a second visit to Cambridge and expenses

Paid to F. R. Leach for work done in the SCR, including payments for picture stretching, cleaning and varnishing, gilding of picture frames, cleaning all the frames of any other pictures hanging in the room. Signed by Leach

Paid to F. R. Leach for work done in SCR, including payments for working on old ceiling, preparing and repainting woodwork, whitening ceilings, repainting new woodwork in the lobby, recanvassing and repapering the side room, reglazing two windows with best British plate glass and painting the exterior of the sashes in white, mosaic glazing and fixing door in side room, fixing new curtain pole, taking down, replaiting and rehanging curtains. Signed by Leach.

Paid to Howell, James and Co for work done in SCR, including payments for small vases, one Lambeth faience jug and a pair of Lambeth faience vases.

Paid to A. Lasenby Liberty and Co for work done in the SCR, including payment for pre coloured silk