Item 1 - College Bills, 1670-1713

1 item, paper

On the first page is written the name Gabriel Quadring [Master, 1690-1713]

At the front and back (reversed) of the volume are quarterly bills for each undergraduate. They are arranged by admission of student and then all the quarterly bills for that students time at the College are listed.

Items include stewards bill, buttery bill, books, barber, bedmaker, tuition, shoemaker, apothecary, laundress.

On blank pages and in gaps at the bottom of pages are notes about receipts, payments by Dr Quadring, and amounts lent by Dr Quadring with promises to repay. These usually don’t list what the payments are for and are not arranged strictly chronologically.

The front cover has almost come detached.

1st entry on receipts and payments page – “eye bright, rosemary flowers, lily of the valley, bittany – an equal quantity dried and prepared for powder".