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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1892 Collections and/or Records:

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Receipt for 5s 7½d, 1594-10-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/83
Scope and Contents

2s for the rector of Grantchester and 3s 7½d for rents in Cambridge all due to the cathedral church of Ely

Dates: 1594-10-07
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Receipt for 5s 7½d, 1596-10-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/95
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2s for the rector of Grantchester and 3s 7½d for rents in Cambridge all due to the cathedral church of Ely

Dates: 1596-10-01
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Receipt for 5s 7½d, 1597

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/111
Scope and Contents

2s for the rector of Grantchester and 3s 7½d for rents in Cambridge all due to the cathedral church of Ely

Dates: 1597
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Receipt for 5s 9d in part payment of 12s 6d annual rent due on messuage once of Richard Fowk alias Fauch, etc., 1398-05-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC01/P/57A 1
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The cut-off date is fairly arbitrary, but most of these deeds, many of them concerning the acquisition of the college site and its environs, are related to properties first acquired by the gilds.

Dates: 1398-05-06
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Receipt for 5s 9d rent due for Michaelmas term last past on messuage once of Richard Fowk alias Fauch, etc., 1413-11-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC01/P/57A 3
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The cut-off date is fairly arbitrary, but most of these deeds, many of them concerning the acquisition of the college site and its environs, are related to properties first acquired by the gilds.

Dates: 1413-11-01
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Receipt for 5s 11½d rent due to the Dean and Chapter of Ely, 1828-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/21
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: 1828-10
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Receipt for 5s for mending the chapel lantern, 1727-11-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/50A/8
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A few earlier and a few undated items also found among what were four separate rolls.

Dates: 1727-11-30
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Receipt for 5s paid for wafers, 1782-09-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/74/34
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: 1782-09-28
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Receipt for £6 0s 2d for newspapers, 1841-10-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/87/80
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These all relate to the bursarship of John Tinkler

Dates: 1841-10-16
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Receipt for £6 10s, for candles for the chapel, 1754-01-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/57/40
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: 1754-01-16
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Receipt for £6 12s 6d for tea and coffee, and 6 breakfasts between 12 Dec. 1823 and 6 July 1824., 1824-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/92.4
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: 1824-07
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Receipt for £6 13s 6d., 1814-02-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/87g
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: 1814-02-18
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Receipt for £6 for the Biographia Britannica, 1759-02-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/63/57
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: 1759-02-01
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Receipt for 6 guineas for the funeral expenses of his aunt, Mary Trevor, of Grantchester., 1748-04-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/78-19
Scope and Contents

Mary Trevor, previously Mary Caiton had been in receipt of an annuity of (usually) ten guineas from the college since 1694.

Dates: 1748-04-10
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Receipt for £6 paid to Liddiard, 1781-07-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/73/51a
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: 1781-07-03
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Receipt for £6 premium and £9 duty., 1827-10-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/94.18
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: 1827-10-06
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Receipt for 6s, 1598-01-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/112
Scope and Contents

3s 4d for the bailiff's work at Barton and 2s 8d for the poor of Barton

Dates: 1598-01-13
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Receipt for 6s 6d for Mr Kennicott's Dissertations on the Hebrew Text, bound and lettered, 1753-02-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/57/53
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: 1753-02-10
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Receipt for 6s 6d on behalf of Henry Patman, bricklayer, for repairs to the chancel at Grantchester ('stopping out birds with mortar and tiles'), 1828-06-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/24
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: 1828-06-19
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Receipt for 6s 8d due to him as Rector of Coton, 1840-12-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/87/53
Scope and Contents From the File:

Also including other bursarial matter.

Dates: 1840-12-05
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Receipt for 6s 8d due to him as rector of Coton, 1540-10-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/1
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: 1540-10-27
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Receipt for 6s 8d due to him as rector of Coton, 1583-12-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/9
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: 1583-12-02
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Receipt for 6s 8d due to him as rector of Coton, 1586-10-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/12
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: 1586-10-20