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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1892 Collections and/or Records:

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Receipted bill for binding named Parker MSS on 2 Aug. 1749, 1749-09-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/53/50
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: 1749-09-11
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Receipted bill for bindings for the library, 1756-01-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/59/52
Scope and Contents

Class-marks of individual volumes given, with sum per volume

Dates: 1756-01-07
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Receipted bill for Blackiston, vol. 2; Locke and Clark's Synopsis, and Addenda to Burn, 1767-01-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/71/62
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1767-01-20
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Receipted bill for blacksmith's work done at the college estate at Willingham, 1763-02-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/67/43
Scope and Contents

The work was initially paid for by the college's tenant, Thomas Pike.

Dates: 1763-02-08
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Receipted bill for books, 1760-11-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/64/54
Scope and Contents

Blackstone's Charters, volume 5 of the Biographica Brittanica, volumes 4 to 7 of Modern History and vol. 2 of Jortin's Life of Erasmus

Dates: 1760-11-27
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Receipted bill for books and binding, 1755-01-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/58/55
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: 1755-01-07
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Receipted bill for books and stationery for the library, 1756-01-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/59/51
Scope and Contents

Note at foot on payment by Masters for Prayer books and binding (see 41above)

Dates: 1756-01-07
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Receipted bill for bottle-washing, 1828-11-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/86/37
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: 1828-11-13
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Receipted bill for brazier's work, 1753-01-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/56/14
Scope and Contents

Separate entry for soup plates and plates for the Combination

Dates: 1753-01-26
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Receipted bill for braziery for the kitchen, 1782-12-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/72/30
Scope and Contents From the File:

The accounts examined by James Essex below and in 02/B/73 presumably relate to the entry in the Chapter Book for 30 May 1781: Agreed to repair the roof and re-lay the slates on the east side of the college and to take down the bow window in the hall and build it in a manner similar to the opposite window.

Dates: 1782-12-14
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Receipted bill for brick, dated 6 Nov. 1794., 1795-12-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/31a 5Ac
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: 1795-12-31
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Receipted bill for bricklayer's work and material, 1751-02-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/55/14
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Including bills for work on the Master's lodge in 1748

Dates: 1751-02-09
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Receipted bill for bricklayer's work from 8 October 1737 to 30 September 1738, 1739-01-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/51/17
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Provisions, commencement feasts, repairs to buildings. Dates given are those of receipt where relevant.
It is clear from these, and other sets of similar vouchers, that what were labelled bills or receipts to a given Michaelmas, actually run to January, or even February of the following year, when the accounts were audited and the Audit Book signed.

Dates: 1739-01-09
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Receipted bill for bricklaying, 1780-08-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/73/82
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: 1780-08-02
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Receipted bill for bricklaying and materials, 1750-11-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/54/18
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: 1750-11-08
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Receipted bill for bricklaying and materials, Dec. 1825 to Sept. 1826., 1826-10-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/213c 21
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: 1826-10-07
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Receipted bill for bricklaying and materials, Dec. 1826 to Aug. 1827., 1827-11-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/213c 35
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: 1827-11-03
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Receipted bill for bricklaying at Willingham., 1826-09-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/35/213c 24
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: 1826-09-29
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Receipted bill for bricklaying, etc., 1759-12-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/B/63/15
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: 1759-12-21