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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1894 Collections and/or Records:

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Receipt for £1 10s 4d for supply of newspapers for two quarters to Midsummer1828, 1828-07-08

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/68
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: 1828-07-08
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Receipt for £1 12 4d for thatching., 1824-05-18

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/2c
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: 1824-05-18
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Receipt for £1 12s 6d for 'a Larum now in the porter's lodge'., 1751-10-21

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/55/60
Scope and Contents

Kidd promises to keep the Larum clean and in good repair for the use of the college . .so long as the Master and Fellows . . . shall think proper that he has use of it.

Dates: 1751-10-21
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Receipt for £1 16s for taxes due on land at Landbeach, 1661-01-01

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/82/9
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: 1661-01-01
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Receipt for £1 16s for taxes due on land at Landbeach, 1661-02-04

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/82/10
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: 1661-02-04
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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

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 £1 152 3d for carpentry., 1827-05-29

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/4f
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: 1827-05-29
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Receipt for £1 for preaching the Norfolk course, 1754-06-03

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/58/36
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: 1754-06-03
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Receipt for £1 for taking care of the Norfolk course, 1759-05-29

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/63/31
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: 1759-05-29
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Receipt for £1 for taking care of the Norfolk course, 1760-05-17

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/64/31
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Found with these vouchers was a small bundle of vouchers relating to the college estate at Willingham; these now stand at CCCC09/N4/51-70 (IV 51-70). See also 02B/66/60-61

Dates: 1760-05-17
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Receipt for 1 guinea., 1726-04-05

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/31
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: 1726-04-05
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Receipt for 1 guinea as his fee in relation to the sale of Landbeach Fee Farm rent., 1918-02-20

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/258/3
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: 1918-02-20
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Receipt for 1 guinea for a copy of Borlase's Natural History of Cornwall, 1757-08-05

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/61/64
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: 1757-08-05
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Receipt for 1 guinea for drawing up a terrier of 20 acres of arable, etc., for the Willingham estate, 1762-06-15

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/66/30
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: 1762-06-15
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Receipt for 1 guinea for preparing a terrier, 1762-05-10

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/69/17
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This roll was apparently made up of strays from adjacent years, including sets of Willingham accounts labelled 'Pyke's Bills to Lady [Day] 1762' and '1763'

Dates: 1762-05-10
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Receipt for £1 rent, 1840-10-07

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/87/43
Scope and Contents From the File:

Also including other bursarial matter.

Dates: 1840-10-07
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Receipt for 1s 6d paid for wax and wafers, 1766-06-26

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/71/56
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Like others, this roll contains vouchers from other accounts (Spencer, Herring, etc.).

Dates: 1766-06-26
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Receipt for 1s 8d due to the Archdeacon of Ely for procurations, 1728

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/50A/3
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
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Receipt for 1s 9d for carriage of candles for the chapel, 1753-09-24

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/57/41
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: 1753-09-24
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Receipt for 1s for eight wafers, 1762-02-09

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/66/33
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: 1762-02-09
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Receipt for 1s for five wafers, 1764-02-21

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/68/32
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1764-02-21
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Receipt for £2 0s 8d for insuring £300 on a brick house for seven years., 1718-07-07

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/H 18a
Scope and Contents From the Series: The rectory of St Mary Abchurch was procured by Archbishop Parker from the Queen, in exchange for the rectory of Penshurst, Kent. After the fire of London in 1666, when both churches were destroyed, the curacy of St Lawrence Pountney was annexed to it. Prior to the dissolution both were in the hands of the Master and Chaplains of the College of Jesus and Corpus Christi near the church of St Lawrence Pountney.For a brief account of St Mary Abchurch church, see...
Dates: 1718-07-07
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Receipt for £2 3s 6d for repairing slating at Elmington, 1818-11-17

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/81-8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The estate was purchased by Dr John Spencer, Master 1667-93, in 1687 for £3600, with an annual value of £200, and settled by Deed of Gift on the College for the augmentation of the Mastership, Fellowships, Scholarships and various other purposes.(see Masters, Appendix no. LIII (pp. 79-80).It was sold in 1929 for £3425 (Bury, p. 165).The two items under 43 have been reclassified as 39a and 40c.No. 60, which relates to St Bene't's parish has been reassigned to XVIII 237.41. Nos 68...
Dates: 1818-11-17