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Includes volume for Jesus College Chapel Restoration Fund which includes lists and summaries of work done to the Chapel by various tradesmen including Rattee and Kett, Morris and Co, Bodley and Favill and Ellis. Volume also contains list of books held in the Chapel at the time of the 1860s renovations.

The History of 19 - 22 Jesus Lane

In 1443 this site was leased for 80 years to Edmund Lavenham. At the time there was a garden with no buildings except a thatched barn.

In 1502 the College leased it to Peter Cayle for 99 years. The sites of the houses on the street frontage were not included in the lease. Cayle’s children died and the land came back to the College.

In 1539 the site was in the hands of Lambton Luke (joiner) but by 1540/1 it was taken on a 40 year lease by Knolles (or Knoles).

In 1548/9 Knoles assigned his lease to another.

By 1553 there was a large house on the site known as Knowles’ Tenement and the site was acquired by Alderman Thomas Kymbold to whom the College granted a new lease for the joint lives of himself and his wife Margery. The ‘Mansion House’ fronted the street and still had the thatched barn behind.

In 1595 when his parents had died a new lease was granted to Thomas Kymbold the younger.

In 1609 it was renewed to his widow Grace Baker, who was living there with her second husband.

In 1634 a new lease was granted to Reuben Fitches (cook). In 1649 Bryan Kitchingham (gentleman), who had bought the freehold house next door from Mrs Baker, bought the lease of Knowles’ tenement and came to live in the 'Mansion House'.

He pulled down the house on the freehold site and laid out a garden and orchard and built a malting house partly on his ground and partly on College land (without the College realising possibly due to the upheavals of the Commonwealth).

He bequeathed his freehold land to his son Robert (clergyman) who sold it to Alexander Parker.

The College leasehold was bought by Anthony Digby (clothier) who also bought the freehold portion of the site from Parker’s widow a few years later.

In 1698 Anthony Digby, who had built a small house on his freehold site, sold his leasehold interest to John Harwood (woollen draper).

The lease was renewed in 1712 and by the next renewal in 1727 the big house had been divided into three. The property was acquired by Elizabeth Cawthorne who allowed the premises to become much decayed before she applied to renew the lease in 1769. In addition there were 5 stables and a chaise house (the former malt house).

In 1796 John Haggerston (tenant of the Manor House) had acquired the lease. One of the houses had become a public house called the Air Balloon (the name commemorating the experiment performed by one of its Fellows, Edward Daniel Clarke).

The stables had been converted into a malting occupied by Haggerston himself.

Shortly after this Haggerston alienated his lease to Richard Foster (brewer) under whose care the malting increased in value.

The public house was now known as the Hare and Hounds and was let to an undertenant.

Not until 1860s that any rebuilding took place.

This was demolished as part of King Street shops development and is roughly where number 1 King Street now stands. Also contains records for number 23 King Street from after 1924 and records for numbers One and Two King's Court from 1967, when the properties are found on the same deeds

Correspondence concerning the purchase of 19 King Street and 15b Malcolm Street in 1967 is found with 10, 11 and 12 New Court [JCAD/3/CAM/NEW/1/3/1]

Known as 'Lynfield'

Leased to Charles Armstrong for 99 years from 25th March 1895 along with Nos. 13, 15 and 17

Incomplete series: begins with Lent Term 1921, and has nothing for the years 1921-22 and 1926-27.

Incomplete, but has something for every year

Nothing for the year 1943-44. Only one sheet for the years 1940-46, perhaps because of a wartime shortage of paper.

Easter only for 1953-54, and Michaelmas and Easter only for 1955-56, otherwise complete.

Complete except for the year 1963-64, which lacks Easter term. A cover with a woodcut design is used from 1967.

Complete,the woodcut design continues until 1972, thereafter other designs and sizes are used, notably from the mid-1970s onwards. (Tied up in two bundles).

Includes photographs showing reunion of 1976 boat crew rowing at Henley Regatta in 2016.

There are two copies of most items, and a change of format at Michaelmas 1986. Lent 1988 has the printed booklet, plus a typescript calendar of the services, also listing the music. There is nothing for Easter 1988, nor for Michaelmas, not Easter 1989.

Lacking Lent and Easter 1990, Easter 1991, and Lent 1998. From the Lent Term 1991 the service booklets are nearly all accompanied by a separate calendar, a typescript giving a full list of the services and the music. These lists are printed from Michaelmas 1993 onwards. From 1995 the summer list is called 'Easter and Long Vacation terms'. (Tied up in two bundles).

Bought by the College in 1933 and sold in 1977

Subject of compulsory purchase by Cambridge City Council in 1962 as part of a road widening scheme when the Park Street car park was built

In the 1790's Cambridge Corporation sold 999 year building leases of the waste on the south side of Walls Lane [King Street]. Number 96 King Street and 2 Pikes Walk were built on part of waste that included a large pond. Jesus College aquired the lease in 1931.

Most of the early records deal with these two properties together or as one house and are catalogued under 96 King Street [JCAD/3/CAM/KING/22]. A report on the possible conversion of numbers 1 and 2 Pikes Walk and 96 King Street into graduate accomodation is catalogued with 96 King Street [JCAD/3/CAM/KING/22/4/1]. The transfer of this property to Megahart Limited is found with the records of 96 King Street [JCAD/3/CAM/KING/22/1/1997]

Known as 'Craftholme'

The History of 19-22 Jesus Lane

In 1443 this site was leased for 80 years to Edmund Lavenham. At the time there was a garden with no buildings except a thatched barn.

In 1502 the College leased it to Peter Cayle for 99 years. The sites of the houses on the street frontage were not included in the lease. Cayle’s children died and the land came back to the College.

In 1539 the site was in the hands of Lambton Luke (joiner) but by 1540/1 it was taken on a 40 year lease by Knolles (or Knoles).

In 1548/9 Knoles assigned his lease to another.

By 1553 there was a large house on the site known as Knowles’ Tenement and the site was acquired by Alderman Thomas Kymbold to whom the College granted a new lease for the joint lives of himself and his wife Margery. The ‘Mansion House’ fronted the street and still had the thatched barn behind.

In 1595 when his parents had died a new lease was granted to Thomas Kymbold the younger.

In 1609 it was renewed to his widow Grace Baker, who was living there with her second husband.

In 1634 a new lease was granted to Reuben Fitches (cook). In 1649 Bryan Kitchingham (gentleman), who had bought the freehold house next door from Mrs Baker, bought the lease of Knowles’ tenement and came to live in the 'Mansion House'.

He pulled down the house on the freehold site and laid out a garden and orchard and built a malting house partly on his ground and partly on College land (without the College realising possibly due to the upheavals of the Commonwealth).

He bequeathed his freehold land to his son Robert (clergyman) who sold it to Alexander Parker.

The College leasehold was bought by Anthony Digby (clothier) who also bought the freehold portion of the site from Parker’s widow a few years later.

In 1698 Anthony Digby, who had built a small house on his freehold site, sold his leasehold interest to John Harwood (woollen draper).

The lease was renewed in 1712 and by the next renewal in 1727 the big house had been divided into three. The property was acquired by Elizabeth Cawthorne who allowed the premises to become much decayed before she applied to renew the lease in 1769. In addition there were 5 stables and a chaise house (the former malt house).

In 1796 John Haggerston (tenant of the Manor House) had acquired the lease. One of the houses had become a public house called the Air Balloon (the name commemorating the experiment performed by one of its Fellows, Edward Daniel Clarke).

The stables had been converted into a malting occupied by Haggerston himself.

Shortly after this Haggerston alienated his lease to Richard Foster (brewer) under whose care the malting increased in value.

The public house was now known as the Hare and Hounds and was let to an undertenant.

Not until 1860s that any rebuilding took place.

(1) Indenture made 16 November 1882 between Emma Low (widow) and Thomas Walter Bebee (confectioner) for the amount of £171 at an interest of £4 per cent per annum,

(2) Site plan of No. 20 showing the outline of the property including dimensions, undated [William Male is names as lessee of No. 19. He held the lease from 1873-1892],

(3) Site plan of No. 20 showing the outline of the property including dimensions, 1894 is written in pencil at the top of the paper [Mr W. B. Westley is named as the lessee of No. 19.

Concerning a schedule of dilapidations March 1943 and the amount it would cost.

Letter from Hugh Shield (Bursar) to the Executors of Henry Chapman offering them a new lease of Gordon and Cleveland Villas for 40 years from 25th September 1889 on payment of a fine of £205 6s 3d (to include solicitor's and surveyor's charges, stamps and all expenses). New rent to be set at £26 8s pa for the first 26 years and £31 5s pa for the last 14 years. Attached is a plan showing the size of the properties and the names of the neighbouring leaseholders

Consists of 2 letters to the Bursar: (1) from J. Carter Jonas & Sons (Land Agents) about renewing the lease to the Ministry of Works for a rent of £85 pa (2) concerning failed attempts to trace the lessee Mrs Websdale in order to get dilapidations at the end of the lease on 25th December. They had traced the guarantor Mrs Paues

Letter dated 8th January 1947 from the Bursar C. H. Wilson to the Director of Lands & Accommodation expressing concern that the tenancy of the property was still with the Ministry of Works and asking when it would be returned to College ownership as the agreement for occupation was for the war years only and the college needed the property for accommodation and rent revenue. Letter dated 14th January 1947 from the Ministry of Works, Eastern Region stating that they had taken a tenancy of the property from the College's tenant Miss Paues's in 1936 and then agreed another tenancy in 1943 when Miss Paues's tenancy ended. He also states that the Ministry had no vacant space in Cambridge and so needed this property and would be unable to return it to the College