Brewhouse accounts and baker's accounts, 1711 - 1792

File

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/S/71

Scope and Contents

Tipped in at the front of the volume are transcripts from the Entry Book of the Excise Office in Cambridge from 3 Oct. 1719 to 12 Sept. 1775.
The brewhouse end of the book opens with an account of the money disbursed in setting up the brewhouse [1711] and then carries annual accounts to Michaelmas from 1714 to 1792 showing stock, quantities brewed (strong ale, ale and small ale), charges to the butler, master and others, sums spent on equipment and consumables, etc. The accounts are then examinjed and approved by the master and fellows in January or February of the next year.
The baker's accounts run from the other end of the book and run from the year to Michaelmas 1750 to Michaelmas 1791.

Dates

Creation: 1711 - 1792

Biographical / Historical

The college decreed on 9 Feb. 1710/1 that the bursar was to fit up a brewhouse by the following Michaelmas, and on 22 Nov. 1711 it was decided to take £150 from the Spencer chest for defraying the charges of the brewhouse and to call in £100 from the brewer.