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Contains lists of Fellows, officers and servants, with receipts for their stipends or wages, signed by the Steward or the Butler. There is also a list of receipts from Dr Gatford's Scholars and Brunsel's Exhibitioners.

Contains rental, 1623-33 (incomplete), listing by tenant the reserved money rent, wheat, malt, total money rent and college commons; there follow lists of stipends, 1623-1723, for which Fellows sign receipts to 1665. From 1666 the Steward signs for all the Fellows and the Cook for all the servants.

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a record of borrowings from the treasury, 1667/8-1747 (of documents, money and plate to be sold or exchanged); sums withdrawn from the Rustat Chest; an audit of plate (no lists given); notes of the use and return of the college seal, with a note about the surrender and exchange of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.

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.

Contains notes of moneys, bonds, deeds, etc., put into or withdrawn from the treasury.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.

Includes notes of sealings and receipts for documents taken out.

The volume is indexed by tenants' names. The corn rent is calculated as in the preceding vols, but by tenant not by property. For houses, tenants are listed under names of streets. After 1856 there is nothing to show what arrangement is used, except for the London rents. There is a separate list of hosues and gardens let at rack rent.

Contains accounts as in JCAD/2/2/3/1-2, with these variations: from 1798 there is a separate entry for rents which go partly to the Chest and partly to Dividend; from 1799 only the Corn Rent properties are listed; after 1806 the Cambridge house properties appear on a separate page. For 1805 there is an account in the hand of Dr Pearce of the sale to Downing of land and a sheepwalk in St Thomas's Leys. From 1815 there are no tenants at will, but instead tenants of the "new houses in Jesus Lane". At the end of the book is a note by Dr Pearce about deductions by tenants on account of the duty on malt.

Contains accounts as in JCAD/2/2/3/1, except that the rental of London estates is given in full after the Michaelmas account. At the front are notes about average prices of a quarter of wheat, by Benjamin Newton (1738) and Lynford Caryl (1765).

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".

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

Summarises financial transactions concerning College accounts

Begins with an account of rents due to the Dead College, 25 Mar. - 25 Dec. 1760; then arranged as JCAD/2/2/2/1.

Ledger, with alphabetical index.

Miscellaneous accounts by Hugh Shield, Bursar.

Begun by Dr French as Tutor of Pembroke College, so contains: notes about scholarships at Pembroke; Pembroke College accounts, 1814-20; Jesus College Bursar's accounts, 1821; rents of Jesus College estates and Proby Fund payments; payments to public lecturers, 1821-1847; Harlton accounts; new building accounts (K and L staircases, Jesus College); Bursar's accounts with Steward, 1821-23 and 1820-21; taxes, 1821-1836; Bursar's accounts with Dean (Tempsford property); Webster's (building) account; Bursar's accounts with various Fellows, bankers, etc.; results of college examinations at Pembroke, 1818-19 and Jesus, 1821; more Pembroke College accounts at end of book; and a memorandum about the office of Steward at Jesus.

Accounts arranged as in JCAD/2/2/2/2, in Dr Lynford Caryl's hand.

Contains accounts of various kinds; begun by E. H. Morgan, then continued by Hugh Shield, Bursar. Headings include: Hoare's account; Mortlock's account; The Building Fund; Day book 1876; Schedule A, income tax; notes (Dr Westmorland's Catalogue of the Muniments, Dr Westmorland's accounts, A. J. Gray's Tenements on the Weigh House Allotment); Coprolites; Settlement with Kett, Christmas 1886; Sutton Trust; Dividend accounts; Expenditure 1872-1886 compared; Returns to the University, 1886; Tithe averages, 1881-87; Rents and fines on Cambridge properties (calculated according to the Peterhouse plan and the Jesus College plan); Rustat and Harston accounts; List of consols; General accounts, 1886-87; Scholarship Fund, Dead College; Dividend account, 1888-92.

Contains accounts, preceded by notes on the origins of the various funds: (1920) Willingham, Over, Steeple Morden, Quy; (1874-1921) Graveley Enfranchisement, Elmstead Tithe Redemption; (1921) Eltisley, King St; (1922) stable site, Jesus Lane.

Cantains accounts of tax paid.

Contains individual Fellows' accounts with the Bursar. .

Contains accounts [what?]. At the end of the book are notes of business to be put before college meetings, 1868-81, in the hand of Dr Corrie (Master).

Contains accounts of: the Deposit Fund, 1836-60 (pp. 5-16); Ley Fellowships, 1840-41 (pp. 27-28); the Proby Fund, 1832-77 (pp. 75-128); the Repairing Rooms Fund, 1833-49 (pp. 273-82); the Rhadegund Manor Fund, 1830-42 (pp. 195-204); the Valley Fund, 1836-76 (pp. 129-148); the Harlton Parsonage Fund, 1821-39 (pp. 263-68); and Graveley fire Account, 1848 (pp. 331-32). Rm 1, F5 Vellum binding, 8 x 6 in.

Ledger.

Ledger

Ledger

Contains accounts of loan repayments, 1921-25 (pp. 2-30). At the beginning is an alphabetical index of elections to Fellowships and college offices,

Contains accounts for calculating dividends. The dividend on the corn money (etc.) is calculated at the Audit; the dividend on fines is calculated at Commencement, at the Audit and at the Second Audit.

Contains calculations of the Fellows dividend on the fines paid on renewal of leases, and on degree fees. The account was made up in December and June, and at odd times when new leases were drawn up. At the end of the book is a brief list of dues in kind to the Master, commuted to a money payment of £5. 2s. 0d., which was increased to £10. 2s. 0d. in 1759.

The Bronowski Collection contains papers, photographs, audio recordings and films, mainly originating from work carried out by Bronowski after he moved to La Jolla, California, in 1964. Most series are from Bronowski's office at the Salk Institute and were organised by his secretaries. Earlier material can be found in Bronowski 1 "Old Files".

Entries under each year giving: surname, forenames, [type of funding, scholarship or exhibition etc.], father's (or sometimes mother's) name, birth date, place of birth, place of education, and home address.

The belfry is approx. 7.7m x 7.7m. The estimated height of the belfry space is around 5 metres.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr George Benfield.

Licence to assign unto Mr Alfred Fromant the messuage and premises 12 Park Street being part of the premises comprised in lease dated 2 November 1872.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr Alfred Fromant.

Term: 40 years from 29 September 1886. Includes a plan showing the outline of the property and the names of the neighbouring lessees.

History of Little Trinity

The history of the site can be traced back to grants of land made to the nunnery of St Radegund in the 13th century and the first evidence of a building on the site dates to 1392 when a cottage was left by Roger Mason to his executors to be sold to discharge his debts. Further evidence of a house on the site comes from a reversionary lease granted in 1579 to John Harvey (burgess and draper). The lease was for 40 years indicating it was for a house rather than just land. Harvey assigned the remainder of his term four years later in 1583 to Thomas Hodiloe, a beer brewer and the tenant of the Brewhouse belonging to the College in Magdalene Street. There are then stated to be buildings on the site.

There were frequent changes of lessee during the Commonwealth which was typical of the period including to Thomas Docwra in 1657 (he was a Quaker and owned the site of the present meeting house of the Society of Friends in Jesus Lane).

In 1672 the Fox family acquired the house and held the lease until 1754 when Mrs Fox sold it to Charles Beridge LL.D who build the present house. It has been described by the Royal Commission in City of Cambridge. A Survey and Inventory by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments who date it to c. 1725 based on its domestic architecture. However, Freda Jones (Archivist and wife of a former Fellow who did extensive research into the College’s property) dates it to c. 1755. Her evidence is the amount paid in fines in subsequent leases (see detailed notes for her explanation).

In 1782 the remainder of Dr Beridge’s lease was alienated to Lettice King (niece of Dr Caryl, Master 1758-1781) on her marriage to William Roberts.

The Roberts family held the lease until 1876 when the Reverend Robert Roberts died. It was leased to John Charles Pearce in 1877 and in 1899 to Mrs Mary Elizabeth Taylor (his daughter). In 1926 the lease was surrendered by Mrs Mary Ethel Emery.

In 1927 it was converted into a Lodging House with 5 sets of rooms for students (not exclusively Jesus College students, for example we have a letter from B. McLean Leach & Sons to the Bursar informing him that Lord Duncannon, a student at Trinity, had asked for his sitting room to be redecorated and asking for permission to clean and varnish the painting above the mantlepiece) and accommodation for a tenant or caretaker. There was no electric lighting in the house at this time.

In 1957 it was converted into a hostel for graduate students.
In 1974 central heating was put in and there was a refurbishment in 1990.

Timeline
1392 Roger Mason left a cottage on this site to his executors to be sold to discharge his debts
1478 It was a garden let to William Warde
1502 Leased to Richard Coole or Cole for 99 years at a rent of 8s per annum
???? Leased to Derek Cole (son of Richard)
???? Leased to Robert Twyn
???? Leased to John Wylkynson
1559 New lease John Baker (cook) for 21 years at a rent of 18s 0d
1579 Lease to John Harvey (burgess and draper). By this time a house must have been built for the lease was for 40 years. The
rent was raised to £1 at which it remained until 1805.
1583 Leased to Thomas Hodiloe (beer brewer, the tenant of the Brewhouse belonging to the College in Magdalene Street) but
occupied by John Wallys
1631 Leased to Rose and William Conaway
1633 Leased to Mary Hammond
1652 Mrs Hammond assigned her lease to William Pickering (gentleman)
1657 He assigned it to Thomas Docwra (Quaker and owner of the site of the Society of Friends House)
1662 New lease was granted to Christopher Anthill. It is endorsed “Mr Anthill’s Brick House” which is the only suggestion of a
rebuilding in this period.
1672 The Fox family acquired the house from Anthill’s widow
1754 Mrs Fox sold the lease to Charles Beridge LL.D. who built the present house
1782 Remainder of Dr Beridge’s lease was alienated to Lettice King (niece of Dr Caryl) on her marriage to William Roberts
1819 The Robertses were still living there
1834 Valuation says leased to Rev’d R. Roberts and occupied by Alderman Abbott
1864 Leased to Reverend Robert Roberts (died 1876)
1877 Leased to John Charles Pearce
1899 Leased to Mrs Mary Elizabeth Taylor
1926 Lease surrendered by Mrs Mary Ethel Emery
1927 Converted into a Lodging House with 5 sets of rooms for students and accommodation for a Tenant or caretaker. There
was no electric lighting in the house at this time
1957 Converted to a hostel for graduate students

Name ‘Little Trinity’

It has not been possible to find evidence of exactly why it is called Little Trinity.

It was first described as Little Trinity in a lease of 1877 made to John Charles Pearce.

Pearce’s daughter had married James Taylor in 1869 and they had come to live in Cambridge in 1874 where Taylor worked as a Tutor (having previously been an undergraduate of Trinity College).

They moved into Little Trinity somewhere between 1877, when the lease was taken, and 1881 when they are listed as occupants in the 1881 census which also refers to No. 16 as ‘Little Trinity’ (it doesn’t in the 1871 census). Taylor continued to work as a tutor for Trinity students up until his death in 1914. His funeral was held in the Chapel at Trinity College where the flag flew at half mast.

James Hebert TAYLOR
Approx. lifespan: 1840–1914

31 Jan 1840 Born in Bristol, eldest son of Rev. James Taylor
School Wakefield
1859 Matriculated Queen’s College, Oxford
1864 Admitted as an undergraduate at Trinity College
1866 Gained a scholarship and the Browne Medal for a Greek Ode
1868 1st Class in the Classical Tripos and the first Chancellor’s Medal with a Senior Optime’s place in the Mathematical
Tripos
1869-72 Assistant Master at Mill Hill School, London
1869 Married Mary Elizabeth Pearce (daughter of John Charles Pearce)
1872-74 Headmaster of Brewood School Brewood, Staffordshire
1874 Came to live in Cambridge and worked as a private tutor
1877 John Charles Pearce (his father in law) took a lease of 16 Jesus Lane and it was first called Little Trinity
1899 Lease assigned to Mrs Mary Elizabeth Taylor (his wife)
5 Apt 1914 He died at his residence Little Trinity (funeral in Trinity College Chapel and flag flew at half mast)

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Letter to the Bursar on behalf of the tenant, Mr Pointer, requesting installation of an indoor W.C. in the bathroom.

Specification of work required to be carried out at Nos. 5 and 6 Park Street to improve the drains and prevent flooding.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr William Britton.

Term: 40 years from 29 September 1886.

Surrender from (1) The Personal Representative of Mr William Britton, deceased to (2) Jesus College. Includes a plan showing the outline of the property and the neighbouring lessees.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mrs Sarah Miller.

Licence to assign unto Mr William Britton part of the premises comprised in lease dated 25 July 1877.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr James Miller.

Term: 40 years from 29 September 1872. Includes a plan showing the outline of the properties and the names of the neighbouring lessees.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mrs Emma Adcock.

Licence to assign unto Mr James Miller the premises comprised in lease to the executors of the will of Justinian Adcock deceased dated 7 March 1859.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) The Executors of the will of Justinian Adcock, deceased.

Term: 40 years from 29 September 1858.