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Subject Source: Local sources

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Receipt for £3 10s for looking over the estate and repairs., 1808-09-13

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/87b
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: 1808-09-13
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Receipt for £3 12s for vols 97-100 of the Delphin Classics., 1827-02-12

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/94.14
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: 1827-02-12
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Receipt for £3 12s for vols 101-104 of the Delphin Classics., 1827-05-16

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/94.15
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: 1827-05-16
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Receipt for £3 14s 6d for bricklayer's work in Whites Alley., 1727-03-06

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/25
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: 1727-03-06
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Receipt for £3 14s 6d for bricklayer's work in Whites Alley., 1727-05-05

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/26
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: 1727-05-05
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Receipt for £3 16s for repairs to portrait of Matthew Parker and other portraits, 1820-03-20

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/81-10
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: 1820-03-20
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Receipt for £3 42 3d for slates, 1648-08-25

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/85/4
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: 1648-08-25
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Receipt for £3 due to him as minister of St Bene't's as his year's wages to Christmas 1598, 1599-01-21

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/125
Scope and Contents From the File:

These voucher, up to no. 170, were found in two separate bundles both designated by Masters as 'Aquittances of various dates'. A few discrete groups found amongst them are listed separately elsewhere. Nos 12 to 20 are held together by a linen thread.

Dates: 1599-01-21
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Receipt for £3 due to him as minister of St Bene't's paid in four instalments, 1587-10-12

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/21
Scope and Contents From the File:

These voucher, up to no. 170, were found in two separate bundles both designated by Masters as 'Aquittances of various dates'. A few discrete groups found amongst them are listed separately elsewhere. Nos 12 to 20 are held together by a linen thread.

Dates: 1587-10-12
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Receipt for £3 for 3 brewings, 1764-10-09

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/S/17/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The stewards' accounts are the internal accounts of the funds administered by the 'Senescallus' who was chosen annually from among the Fellows. The accounting year ran from the Friday preceding the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (8 September) and may have been the traditional date inherited from the Gild of St Mary. At the Audit the outgoing steward assessed and accounted for stock in hand as well as for cash held by the various college officers before handing over to his successor. The...
Dates: 1764-10-09
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Receipt for £3 for 'a parcel of old stone from the Schools and the charge of carriage', 1758-07-31

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/62/30
Scope and Contents

The old stone was made available by the destruction of the old east front of the Old Schools for the construction of the new east front.

Dates: 1758-07-31
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Receipt for £3 for undertaking the Norfolk course, 1763-05-04

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/67/29
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: 1763-05-04
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Receipt for 3 guineas for undertaking the Norfolk course, 1761-05-13

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/65/25
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This is a more than usually incomplete set.

Dates: 1761-05-13
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Receipt for 3s 4d received annually from CCCC in respect of their appropriation of Grantchester., 1543-04-08

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/114b1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

No. 59 not used (now 94.1); also nos 81-87.
For three early deeds (one of 1273, the other two undated) see XXXVI 99, where they are transcribed.

Dates: 1543-04-08
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Receipt for 3s 4d received annually from CCCC in respect of their appropriation of Grantchester., 1545-04-10

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/114b2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

No. 59 not used (now 94.1); also nos 81-87.
For three early deeds (one of 1273, the other two undated) see XXXVI 99, where they are transcribed.

Dates: 1545-04-10
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Receipt for 3s 4d received annually from CCCC in respect of their appropriation of Grantchester., 1546-04-20

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/114b3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

No. 59 not used (now 94.1); also nos 81-87.
For three early deeds (one of 1273, the other two undated) see XXXVI 99, where they are transcribed.

Dates: 1546-04-20
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Receipt for 3s 4d received annually from CCCC in respect of their appropriation of Grantchester., 1547-04-17

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/114b4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

No. 59 not used (now 94.1); also nos 81-87.
For three early deeds (one of 1273, the other two undated) see XXXVI 99, where they are transcribed.

Dates: 1547-04-17
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Receipt for 3s 4d received annually from CCCC in respect of their appropriation of Grantchester., 1548-04-09

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/36/114b5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

No. 59 not used (now 94.1); also nos 81-87.
For three early deeds (one of 1273, the other two undated) see XXXVI 99, where they are transcribed.

Dates: 1548-04-09
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Receipt for 3s 4d received of the sequestrator for a procuration (Landbeach) due to the archdeacon on his visitation held at Cambridge., 1756-06-29

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/207/1
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: 1756-06-29
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Receipt for 3s 4d sheriff yield, 1703-10-27

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/46A/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: 1703-10-27
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Receipt for 3s 4d towards his wages as a university wait, 1588-02-06

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/27
Scope and Contents From the File:

These voucher, up to no. 170, were found in two separate bundles both designated by Masters as 'Aquittances of various dates'. A few discrete groups found amongst them are listed separately elsewhere. Nos 12 to 20 are held together by a linen thread.

Dates: 1588-02-06
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Receipt for 3s 6d for one lb of wax candles, 1766-01-25

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/71/57
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1766-01-25
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Receipt for 3s 7½d due to the Dean and Chapter of Ely, 1632-10

Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/142
Scope and Contents From the File:

These voucher, up to no. 170, were found in two separate bundles both designated by Masters as 'Aquittances of various dates'. A few discrete groups found amongst them are listed separately elsewhere. Nos 12 to 20 are held together by a linen thread.

Dates: 1632-10