3 - Jesus College, Old Plate Book and Bills for Plate

Contains: Fellows' receipts for plate, documents and other items taken out of the treasury; accounts of money and documents put into the treasury; an inventory of plate sent to Charles I, 29 July 1642, with a list of plate kept back; a list of chimneys in the college (67); a memorandum by the intruded Fellows as to what they found in the treasury in 1644; accounts of the college debt, 1655-60 and 1662-63; a list of the plate found buried in the Master's orchard, 1652; a list of old communion plate exchanged for new, 1664. At the end of the book: starting from 25 June 1666, a weekly allowance, in lieu of commons, to Fellows given leave to be absent until November because of the plague; receipts for Hearth Tax, Marshall's Exhibtion, and other payments; loose receipts pasted in, for sale of old plate in 1744; list of plate sold in 1744; list of plate in a late-17th-century hand; another list of plate in the treasury, in the Master's hands, in the hands of various Fellows, and old plate exchanged for new; an earlier account of an exchange of plate, in a 17th-century hand.