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Subject Source: Local sources

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Receipt for 2s for half a year's tax on Longstanton., 1824-04-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/2b
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: 1824-04-27
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Receipt for 2s for half-year's Land Tax at Longstanton, 1828-04-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/94
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: 1828-04-21
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Receipt for 2s for his year's salary as cryer and 2s 6d for the prisoners in the town gaol, 1765-09-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/71/34
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1765-09-24
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Receipt for 2s from Thomas Cosin, Master of CCCC, of an annual rent due half-yearly for a messuage in St Bene't's parish., 1503-12-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/34B/22
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The messuage, formerly of John Reyson, lies opposite the Black Bull between two tenements belonging to the college.

Dates: 1503-12-06
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Receipt for 2s Land Tax due on Longstanton., 1827-05-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/4d
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: 1827-05-03
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Receipt for 2s Land Tax due on Longstanton., 1827-11-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/4g
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: 1827-11-01
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Receipt for 2s tax due on Longstanton., 1824-11-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/2g
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: 1824-11-08
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Receipt for 2s towards his salary as cryer and 2s 6d for the prisoners at the town gaol, 1764-09-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/70/35
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: 1764-09-24
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Receipt for 2s towards his stipend, 1754-09-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/58/35
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: 1754-09-29
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Receipt for £3 2s for suing out a fine of college lands at Quy, 1589-05-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/45
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The Audit book shows this sum as paid to Mr Justice Shuit [Shoote?] and to Mr Harrison his servant.
A note of payment of 3s 6d to Mr Webb for his advice on how to deal about the demesne land in Landbeach at foot.

Dates: 1589-05-11
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Receipt for £3 3s for undertaking the Norfolk course, 1764-06-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/68/28
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1764-06-01
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Receipt for £3 5s Land Tax for Whites Alley., 1727-05-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/27
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: 1727-05-18
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Receipt for £3 8s Land Tax for 15 houses in Whites Alley., 1726-06-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/15
Scope and Contents

Householders listed on dorse.

Dates: 1726-06-24
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Receipt for £3 9 0s from Robert Masters, bursar, for travel and legal services., 1748-05-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/78-9
Scope and Contents From the File:

All but the last five relate to the Elmington estate; the last five were also paid from the Spencer chest.

Dates: 1748-05-24
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Receipt for £3 9s 6d for taxes paid for Grantchester from Lady Day to Michaelmas 1653, 1653

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/82/8
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: 1653
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Receipt for £3 10s for looking over the estate and repairs., 1808-09-13

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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