Skip to main content

Cambridge University Libraries are providing a blend of online and controlled in-person services. Please see our website for more details.

acquittance

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1894 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Receipt fo 2s 8d rent due for a messuage in the quarter of the great bridge opposite St Clement's church, 1355-09-30

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/15/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The principal property owned by the college in this parish was the riverside one called the Sedge Hall (earlier Segge Halle), which came as part of the endowment to the college by Sir John of Cambridge. It descended from Sabina Hubard (previously Gogging) to Joan Dunning, Sir John's wife. See the Deed Book of John of Cambridge.A card prefacing the later deeds (post 1586) records that in the 1748 catalogue item 11 is reported as, and is still, missing (not so, see 29.A) ; that in the...
Dates: 1355-09-30
 Item

Receipt for £1 2s 8d paid by Richard Rayment, 1823-01-10

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/19a/7h
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Eleven and a half acres of stint, or marsh land in Lode Moor

Dates: 1823-01-10
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s due on land at Willingham., 1824-11-03

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/2e
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased at Lady Day 1757 from Alderman Marshall for £888 on condition that the college should receive the rents from that time and pay 4% interest for the purchase money till the whole should be paid to Mr Marshall. £400 were advanced at Midsummer in part of the purchase, and the remaining £488 were paid at Christmas 1757. At the same time were paid £8 17s 6d, a quarter of year's interest of the whole sum, and £9 15s, half a year's interest on £488. Of the purchase money...
Dates: 1824-11-03
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s for half a year's tax on Willingham., 1822-10-30

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/1j
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased at Lady Day 1757 from Alderman Marshall for £888 on condition that the college should receive the rents from that time and pay 4% interest for the purchase money till the whole should be paid to Mr Marshall. £400 were advanced at Midsummer in part of the purchase, and the remaining £488 were paid at Christmas 1757. At the same time were paid £8 17s 6d, a quarter of year's interest of the whole sum, and £9 15s, half a year's interest on £488. Of the purchase money...
Dates: 1822-10-30
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s for half a year's tax on Willingham., 1824-04-27

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/2a
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased at Lady Day 1757 from Alderman Marshall for £888 on condition that the college should receive the rents from that time and pay 4% interest for the purchase money till the whole should be paid to Mr Marshall. £400 were advanced at Midsummer in part of the purchase, and the remaining £488 were paid at Christmas 1757. At the same time were paid £8 17s 6d, a quarter of year's interest of the whole sum, and £9 15s, half a year's interest on £488. Of the purchase money...
Dates: 1824-04-27
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s for half-year's Land Tax, 1828-05-01

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/95
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: 1828-05-01
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s for half-year's Land Tax, 1828-11-29

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/96
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: 1828-11-29
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s from John Gleaves for Land Tax., 1822-04-24

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/1b
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased at Lady Day 1757 from Alderman Marshall for £888 on condition that the college should receive the rents from that time and pay 4% interest for the purchase money till the whole should be paid to Mr Marshall. £400 were advanced at Midsummer in part of the purchase, and the remaining £488 were paid at Christmas 1757. At the same time were paid £8 17s 6d, a quarter of year's interest of the whole sum, and £9 15s, half a year's interest on £488. Of the purchase money...
Dates: 1822-04-24
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s Land Tax due on Willingham., 1827-05-02

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/4c
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased at Lady Day 1757 from Alderman Marshall for £888 on condition that the college should receive the rents from that time and pay 4% interest for the purchase money till the whole should be paid to Mr Marshall. £400 were advanced at Midsummer in part of the purchase, and the remaining £488 were paid at Christmas 1757. At the same time were paid £8 17s 6d, a quarter of year's interest of the whole sum, and £9 15s, half a year's interest on £488. Of the purchase money...
Dates: 1827-05-02
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s Land Tax due on Willingham., 1827-11-30

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/4h
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased at Lady Day 1757 from Alderman Marshall for £888 on condition that the college should receive the rents from that time and pay 4% interest for the purchase money till the whole should be paid to Mr Marshall. £400 were advanced at Midsummer in part of the purchase, and the remaining £488 were paid at Christmas 1757. At the same time were paid £8 17s 6d, a quarter of year's interest of the whole sum, and £9 15s, half a year's interest on £488. Of the purchase money...
Dates: 1827-11-30
 Item

Receipt for £1 3s paid by Thomas Crane, 1822-03-05

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/19a/7b
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Eleven and a half acres of stint, or marsh land in Lode Moor

Dates: 1822-03-05
 Item

Receipt for £1 4s 9d and 1s, 1712-08-16

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/46/201
Scope and Contents

The £1 4s 9d is for 'money charged on the college lands .. . towards the payment of part of money of a robbery committed in the hundred of Polebrooke in 1710', and the 1s is for the warrant of distress

Dates: 1712-08-16
 Item

Receipt for £1 5s Land Tax., 1725-03-26

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/13
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: For the acquisition of the site by the college see the introductory note to nos 45 following.Numbers 2 and 3 Central Buildings were sold to Christ's Hospital on 31 December 1938; the last of the property, 4 Central Buldings, was sold in 1982.Nos. 14 to 18, comprising valuations, bills for repairs, correspondence, solicitors' bills, rental accounts, etc., 1795-1862, not found, July 2007.No. 26 not used.Some of the later items listed are no longer held by the...
Dates: 1725-03-26
 Item

Receipt for £1 6s 11d from Robert Masters for his induction to Landbeach., 1757-05-27

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/207/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

No. 1 not used. No. 116 relates to Swaffham; No. 178 is now 207A
Also included are holdings in the nearby parishes of Milton (Middleton), Cottenham (Cotenham), Impington (Impiton or Empiton), and elsewhere

Dates: 1757-05-27
 Item

Receipt for £1 8s 1½ for Waddell [scholar], 1704-10-21

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/46A/22
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: 1704-10-21