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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1892 Collections and/or Records:

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Receipt for 3s due to the Bishop of Ely for a lease in Chatteris, 1639-12-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/148
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: 1639-12-18
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Receipt for 3s for a bell-rope, 1781-04-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/73/52
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: 1781-04-05
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Receipt for 3s for an iron dog, 6 brads and a staple, 1648-08-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/85/37
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: 1648-08-26
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Receipt for 3s for mending a college tankard, 1752-05-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/56/36
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: 1752-05-08
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Receipt for 3s from William Blench for 18 months for the manor of Chatteris, 1680-01-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/162
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: 1680-01-20
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Receipt for £4 1s 6d for four quarterly payment of a tax [for the quit-rents of Little Wilbraham], 1691-12-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/168
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: 1691-12-21
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Receipt for £4 (£3 for Mr Norgate and £1 for himself), 1583-11-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/8
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: 1583-11-13
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Receipt for £4 6s 8d for taxes on the college's estate at Stow-cum-Quy, 1692-02-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/170
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: 1692-02-01
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Receipt for £4 8s 10d for contribution money and marshal's wages due Michaelmas 1811., 1811-11-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/87e
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: 1811-11-04
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Receipt for £4 9s Land Tax., 1726-11-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/17
Scope and Contents

Eighteen householders listed on dorse.

Dates: 1726-11-19
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Receipt for £4 10s for work at Elmington, 1820-09-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/81-11
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: 1820-09-25
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Receipt for £4 11s 8d for the redemption of a pension of 3s 8d issuing from Church Farm, Ratley, belonging to Andrew Richard Motion of Upton House., 1900-03-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/51/38
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Uplands Farm, Manor Farm and Church Farm, Ratley, were acquired from the executors of A. R. Motion on 23 October 1936 and sold to the Sheepshanks Coal and Iron Company on 19 October 1944.Nos, 1-13, 25-27 and 42-44 were in a packet entitled 'Purchase from A. R. Motion's executors. Schedule of deeds and documents relating to a close of land situate at Ratley, Warwicks, Field no. 78 on Contract Plan'.. Nos 14-16, 18-24, 29, 37-38, 57 and 61 were in a packet entitled 'Purchase from A. R....
Dates: 1900-03-06
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Receipt for £4 11s for coal for Mr Wilkinson and for the college., 1653-01-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/34C/34b
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

Entries in Lease Book 1 are noted as copies, or, where the originals are no longer held, are intercalated, Note that this lease book has many marginal notes, mostly by Matthew Parker, seldom entered here, giving cross-references to later leases of the same proprty, and indications of the 'present' tenant.

Dates: 1653-01-14
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Receipt for £4 17s 6d for newspapers sent to the college, 1840-10-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/87/44
Scope and Contents

Endorsed: Times paper

Dates: 1840-10-13
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Receipt for £4 17s 6d for the funeral expenses of the late Robert Flyn., 1810-05-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/87c
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: 1810-05-23
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Receipt for £4 for part 1of the 'Antiquities of Athens', 1763-11-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/67/45
Scope and Contents

Presumably the celebrated work of Stuart and Revell published in 1762,

Dates: 1763-11-28
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Receipt for £4 for prize books delivered to Messrs [John] Pemberton and Verene [George Varenne], 1783-01-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/74/42
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This packet was found within 02/B/73 and consists of a selection only of vouchers for the year. Being so incomplete, arrangement to fit the Audit Book is only approximate.

Dates: 1783-01-16
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Receipt for 4 guineas for his services in recovering Lord Rockford's arrears, 1763-06-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/67/35
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: 1763-06-19
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Receipt for £4 paid to John Parker out of the improvements of the Landbeach lease., 1587-10-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/34C/29/2
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

Entries in Lease Book 1 are noted as copies, or, where the originals are no longer held, are intercalated, Note that this lease book has many marginal notes, mostly by Matthew Parker, seldom entered here, giving cross-references to later leases of the same proprty, and indications of the 'present' tenant.

Dates: 1587-10-11
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Receipt for £4 paid to John Parker out of the improvements of the Lordship of Landbeach., 1583-01-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/34C/29/1
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

Entries in Lease Book 1 are noted as copies, or, where the originals are no longer held, are intercalated, Note that this lease book has many marginal notes, mostly by Matthew Parker, seldom entered here, giving cross-references to later leases of the same proprty, and indications of the 'present' tenant.

Dates: 1583-01-29
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Receipt for 4s 4d due to the parish, 1585-04-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/16
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: 1585-04-16
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Receipt for 4s 7½d for Cambridge rents and 4s due out of the rectory of Grantchester for two years', all due to the Dean and Chapter of Ely, 1600

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/131
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: 1600
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Receipt for 4s 8d due to the Archdeacon of Ely for synods and proxies for the rectory of St Bene't's for 1592 and 1593, 1593 - 1594

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/75
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: 1593 - 1594
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Receipt for 4s for Bedell's dinner and 4s for his stipend, 1749-01-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/53/8
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: 1749-01-17