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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1892 Collections and/or Records:

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Receipt for £1 for taking care of the Norfolk course, 1759-05-29

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 2s for his opinion 'on a case relating to a devise in a paper of the late Revd Mr Lowe of £50 to Bennet College', 1751-11-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/55/58
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1751-11-22
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Receipt for £2 3s 6d for repairing slating at Elmington, 1818-11-17

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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
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Receipt for £2 5s 2d paid by Mr Cook for work done at Rogers Cottage., 1861-03-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/61/14
Scope and Contents From the File:

It appears that this cottage was purchased by the Master on his own account (but see 73 below). It sometimes occurs under the name of 'Rogers cottage', Rogers being the sitting tenant, and sometimes under the name of Mayhew's Farm.

Dates: 1861-03-06
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Receipt for £2 6s 9d for insurance for one year from 24 September 1794., 1784-09-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/31a 4d
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Matthias Mawson, Master 1724-44, Bishop of Llandaff (1739-40), then of Chichester (1740-54) and finally of Ely (1754-70), by his will dated 17 September 1770 'gave to the master and fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the sum of six thousand pounds in the New South-Sea Annuities, and three thousand pounds capital stock in the South Sea Stock for the purchase of an estate in freehold land; but to be continued in the said stock until it will amount to a sum sufficient to purchase a...
Dates: 1784-09-24
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Receipt for £2 12s 6d, 1765-05-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/70/43
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: 1765-05-25
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Receipt for £2 12s 6d for 'Dr Burney's Lect[ure]' and 6d for its carriage., 1782-09-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/74/40
Scope and Contents

Probably the first volume or volumes of Charles Burney's 'General history of music' still in the college library

Dates: 1782-09-06
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Receipt for £2 17s insurance on new houses in Trumopington St., 1827-03-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/18/240A/24
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

XVIII 77 has been re-classified as XII 56A (CCCC09/aa/56A). Nos. 198, 228, 232-234, 248 not used.

Dates: 1827-03-14
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Receipt for £2 annuity as Vicar of Grantchester, 1762-10-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/66/1
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: 1762-10-23
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Receipt for £2 as a year's pension to the Vicar of Grantchester, 1764-02-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/67/1
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: 1764-02-11
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Receipt for £2 as a year's pension to the Vicar of Grantchester, 1765-01-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/68/1
Scope and Contents

Endorsed: For the Revd Mr Hooke at Pembroke Hall.

Dates: 1765-01-30