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acquittance

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1892 Collections and/or Records:

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Receipt for 11s 6d rent due at Easter term last past on messuage once of Richard Fowk alias Fauch, etc., 1416-05-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC01/P/57A 4
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: 1416-05-19
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Receipt for 11s 6d rent due for Michaelmas and Easter terms on messuage once of Richard Fowk alias Fauch, etc., 1413-04-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC01/P/57A 2
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: 1413-04-25
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Receipt for £12 5s for painting the rails, the gatehouse and gate, the side next the walk and the side next the churchyard, 1636-07-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/147
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: 1636-07-27
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Receipt for £12 7s 2d from Samuel Sharp for his share of the Militia Hospital, 1717-01-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/46/202
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: 1717-01-26
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Receipt for £12 7s 2d paid by Mr Cook for work done at Rogers Cottage and for materials., 1861-03-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/61/15
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: 1861-03-05
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Receipt for £12 16s 10½d for six months' tax (24 June to 25 Dec. 1652) for the army, 1652-10-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/82/3
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: 1652-10-14
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Receipt for 12s 9d from Messrs Bungay and Tabor, stewards for the lesser commencement feast, 1596

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/90
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: 1596
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Receipt for 12s 10d from John Gleaves for thatching., 1822-09-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N4/19/1e
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: 1822-09-26
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Receipt for 12s for a year's wages as barber, 1589-10-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/49
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: 1589-10-02
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Receipt for 12s Land Tax for 2 houses in Trumpeters Alley., 1726-07-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/38/12A/16
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: 1726-07-25
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Receipt for 12s premium (less 1s 6d) and 15s duty., 1825-07-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/92.15
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: 1825-07-27
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Receipt for £13 9s 6d for work at Elmington, 1799-08-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/81-2
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: 1799-08-31
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Receipt for £13 [Master's salary contribution] from Mr Sandiford., 1794-12-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/31c (2)
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: 1794-12-12
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Receipt for 13s 4d for two years' pension due for the tithes of Coton, 1600-11-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/81/134
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: 1600-11-22
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Receipt for 13s 7½d quit-rent due to the Lady of the Manor of Willingham, 1828-05-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/99
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: 1828-05-27
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Receipt for £14 16s 3d for two quarters for the King's tax from Samuel Sharp., 1749-03-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/78-8
Scope and Contents

Further items of expenditure noted on dorse.

Dates: 1749-03-24
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Receipt for £14 16s 3d for two quarters for the King's tax plus 13s 6d window tax from Samuel Sharp., 1748-10-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/78-7
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: 1748-10-06
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Receipt for £15 for unspecified work at Elmington., 1805-04-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N5/88.12
Scope and Contents From the File:

Dates given are those of receipts.

Dates: 1805-04-06
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Receipt for £15: his expenses in visiting the college estate at East Chinock, 1754-11-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/58/43
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: 1754-11-09
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Receipt for £15 towards the repairing of the Great Bridge at Cambridge, 1755-03-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/58/66
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: 1755-03-07
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Receipt for £15 under the will of John Coles senior., 1797-11-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/51/1b
Scope and Contents From the File:

He leaves his lands in Prior's Marston and Ratley to his wife Ann for her life and then to his grandson Joseph who is to make cash payments to John's children.

Dates: 1797-11-25