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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

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Lease to Thomas Barrett, bookseller, of two tenements (as in 26) for 40 years from Michaelmas 1812 at an annual rent of 40s and one very good fat rabbit at audit time., 1813-02-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/12/30
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Boxed after XIII 24 are items relating to a single property transferred from box XX (Chatteris) viz. nos 1, 12, 17-18, 21-22, 24, 26, 28-31. XIII 16 has been re-classified as XVI A 13.b

Dates: 1813-02-10
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Lease to Thomas Tolly, tailor, of a tenement for 21 years at an annual rent of 33s 4d., 1557-08-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/08/238
Scope and Contents

The tenement lies between a tenement once Margaret Falcon's, now in the tenure of Richard Collinson (S) and a tenement of the college leased to Peter Sheres, stationer, (N) and abuts (E) on 'le highe strete' and (W) on a foundation lately William Dalling's, now John Raye's.

Dates: 1557-08-02
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Letter to Archbishop Parker concerning leases to be granted for the buildings on the south and north sides of University Street., 1574-11-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/08/285D
Scope and Contents

The would-be lessors are: the stationers Cuthbert, Scarlet, and Sheres, Warren, a shearman, Steward, a furrier and Johnnes a needle-woman.
Annotations at the foot list later leases, including one to John Porter, stationer, in 1591 and one to John Crane on 14 Oct. 1616.
On the second folio is Parker's reply (not in his hand) dated 25 November 1574.

Dates: 1574-11-23
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Letters of attorney for John Hardy, stationer of Cambridge university, to deliver seisin of the alternate presentation to Landbeach to the parties in 44., 1355-04-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/45
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Witnesses: Henry Tangemere; Daniel de Felsted; John Wyth of Cambridge; John Knight; John Watte; John Letice of Landbeach; Thomas Freeman of Waterbeach.

Dates: 1355-04-23
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Notes on preachers on the Norfolk course, 1572 to 1574, 1574

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/44/24
Scope and Contents

On dorse, among other memoranda, a list of rents from the new houses, including those from Cuthbert, Sheres, Scarlet and Bradshaw, stationers

Dates: 1574
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Receipt for £1 82 6d for nos. 10-13 of Fleury's Ecclesiastical History and volumes of the Acta Eruditorum Lipsiensis, 1728-09-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/50A/50
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A few earlier and a few undated items also found among what were four separate rolls.

Dates: 1728-09-24
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Receipt for 6s 6d for Mr Kennicott's Dissertations on the Hebrew Text, bound and lettered, 1753-02-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/57/53
Scope and Contents From the Series: These include vouchers both to the main account, as entered in the Audit Books, and to subsidiary accounts, such as the Spencer account. They also include some vouchers for college estates, notably Willingham. In many cases the vouchers were rolled or bundled together some time after the accounting year in question, resulting in discrepancies of chronology (as, for example in 72 to 74. In most cases vouchers for the brewhouse and the bakehouse, forming bundles within bundles, have been...
Dates: 1753-02-10
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Receipt for 18s for 'Kempheri Amen: Exoti: 4to', 1727-12-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/50A/49
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A few earlier and a few undated items also found among what were four separate rolls.

Dates: 1727-12-20
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Receipt for payment for copies of Eusebius, Preparatio Evangelica, Demosthenes and Athanasius., 1750-02-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/78-18
Scope and Contents From the File:

All but the last five relate to the Elmington estate; the last five were also paid from the Spencer chest.

Dates: 1750-02-11
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Receipt for payment for copies of Vergil, Valerius Flaccus, Manilius and Buchanan., 1749-12-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/78-17
Scope and Contents

Calculations on dorse of total receipts and disbursements from Spencer chest.

Dates: 1749-12-14
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Receipted bill for Acta Eruditorum with Supplement and Index, 1751-09-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/55/62
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Including bills for work on the Master's lodge in 1748

Dates: 1751-09-27
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Receipted bill for binding, 1754-02-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/58/54
Scope and Contents From the Series: These include vouchers both to the main account, as entered in the Audit Books, and to subsidiary accounts, such as the Spencer account. They also include some vouchers for college estates, notably Willingham. In many cases the vouchers were rolled or bundled together some time after the accounting year in question, resulting in discrepancies of chronology (as, for example in 72 to 74. In most cases vouchers for the brewhouse and the bakehouse, forming bundles within bundles, have been...
Dates: 1754-02-05
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Receipted bill for books and binding, 1755-01-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/58/55
Scope and Contents From the Series: These include vouchers both to the main account, as entered in the Audit Books, and to subsidiary accounts, such as the Spencer account. They also include some vouchers for college estates, notably Willingham. In many cases the vouchers were rolled or bundled together some time after the accounting year in question, resulting in discrepancies of chronology (as, for example in 72 to 74. In most cases vouchers for the brewhouse and the bakehouse, forming bundles within bundles, have been...
Dates: 1755-01-07
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Receipted bill for Chambers Royal Dictionary (2 vols) and the Addenda put in the last edition, 1738-12-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/51/16
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Provisions, commencement feasts, repairs to buildings. Dates given are those of receipt where relevant.
It is clear from these, and other sets of similar vouchers, that what were labelled bills or receipts to a given Michaelmas, actually run to January, or even February of the following year, when the accounts were audited and the Audit Book signed.

Dates: 1738-12-27
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Receipted bill for 'Common Prayer in Ruff' and 'Additions to Universal History', 1751-02-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/55/61
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Including bills for work on the Master's lodge in 1748

Dates: 1751-02-05
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Receipted bill for Hook's Roman History, vol. 3, and the Cambridge folio Book of Common Prayer, 1764-09-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/68/47
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Several stray vouchers for earlier years mixed in with those for 1764

Dates: 1764-09-14
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Receipted bill for named books and for binding and postage, 1765-01-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/68/48
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Several stray vouchers for earlier years mixed in with those for 1764

Dates: 1765-01-24
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Receipted bill for purchase of named books, 1756-06-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/60/54
Scope and Contents

Of the total sum of £11 9s, £6 4s was offset by the sale of duplicates from the library to Mr Merrill8 June

Dates: 1756-06-08
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Receipted bill for supply of journals and for cleaning the library, etc., 1829-03-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/76
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These generally exclude stewards' (domestic and estate) accounts, kitchen accounts, tutors' accounts.In the early years the Master and Bursar were sometimes one and the same person. Note also that the term 'steward' could apply to the present office of Bursar as well as to the steward of an estate, or a steward in charge of, for example, the arrangements for commencement feasts.Account books entered under 'Library and plate' (07/14, etc.) also include other college...
Dates: 1829-03-04
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Receipted bill for supply of Weston's Greek Testament, vol. 2; Hanway's Travels, 4 vols, sewed; [Samuel] Haynes' State Papers in boards and The Ruins of Palmyra in boards, 1754-01-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/57/52
Scope and Contents From the Series: These include vouchers both to the main account, as entered in the Audit Books, and to subsidiary accounts, such as the Spencer account. They also include some vouchers for college estates, notably Willingham. In many cases the vouchers were rolled or bundled together some time after the accounting year in question, resulting in discrepancies of chronology (as, for example in 72 to 74. In most cases vouchers for the brewhouse and the bakehouse, forming bundles within bundles, have been...
Dates: 1754-01-14
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Receipted bills for library supplies and stationery, 1761

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/65/43-47
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This is a more than usually incomplete set.

Dates: 1761
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Receipted bills for library supplies, etc., 1762

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/66/70-73
Scope and Contents From the Series: These include vouchers both to the main account, as entered in the Audit Books, and to subsidiary accounts, such as the Spencer account. They also include some vouchers for college estates, notably Willingham. In many cases the vouchers were rolled or bundled together some time after the accounting year in question, resulting in discrepancies of chronology (as, for example in 72 to 74. In most cases vouchers for the brewhouse and the bakehouse, forming bundles within bundles, have been...
Dates: 1762
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Receipts, etc., relating to the Library, 1759

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/63/56-62
Scope and Contents From the Series: These include vouchers both to the main account, as entered in the Audit Books, and to subsidiary accounts, such as the Spencer account. They also include some vouchers for college estates, notably Willingham. In many cases the vouchers were rolled or bundled together some time after the accounting year in question, resulting in discrepancies of chronology (as, for example in 72 to 74. In most cases vouchers for the brewhouse and the bakehouse, forming bundles within bundles, have been...
Dates: 1759
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Sale to Walter Camerarius of two and a half acres of land which Warin had by gift of William de Sarners for 3 marks and the remission of a yearly payment of 1d., 1230 - 1250

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/24A/A 14
Scope and Contents

One acre lies in Buerestokking between land of Roger le Grey and land of William de Sarners; one and a half lie in Longestokking between land of Walter Camerarius and land of Hugh Wyth.
Witnesses: Roger le Grey; William son of Peter; Geoffrey de Sarners; Henry de Wancy; Peter Sonke; Robert le Grey; Hugh Wyth; Ansell le Gray; Robert Pagan (who wrote this deed).

Dates: 1230 - 1250
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