Autograph invitation, signed, to an unidentified military general.
Transcription: “My dear General, Pray, command a place in my box on Monday evening. Lord Mountjoy is at Worthing – He has not a Box this year. Ever your faithful servant”.
Inventory and valuation of the brewery plant, fixtures, gas fittings, and effects at the 'Pickerel Hotel' to be taken by the purchasers of the estate at the sale by auction on 26 March 1879.
Framed coloured engraving of the interior of the Chapel by Ackermann, 1815 showing how it looked before the 1847-1851 restoration. The scrolls and central rosette on the ceiling and the paster arch spanning the east end can be seen. [Same as MCPH/1/4/7].
Fire insurance policy taken out by Frank Waters and Francis Parsons with the Royal Fire and Life Insurance Company [printed certificate] for the Nurses Hostel on Thompson's Lane.
Fire policy taken out for £500 with Scottish Alliance Insurance Company by Arnold Ernest Flitton on 29 Magdalene Street [printed header].
[printed form completed by hand]
From the Office of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange
Assurance of buildings, goods, and ships from loss or damage by fire and also for the assurance of lives.
No. 105733
The 10th Day of March 1796
Received of "Magdalen College" the sum of seven pounds 14s 6d being the payment for assurance of £4,900 from the 3rd Day of March 1796, to the 25th day of March 1797, by the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance aforesaid;
And also the Government Duty of one shilling and six pence per cent according to the Act of the Twenty-Second of George the Third, for the same time, being
£7 14s 6d
£3 15s
Total = £11 9s 6d
No. 326
N.B. Persons making their payments, are desired to bring the number of the policy; and to prevent trouble and hazard to the assured, any person may pay for several years before-hand, in which case a discount of £5 per cent is allowed for every year except the first.
Thomas Paris Agent
[Printed form completed by hand].
From the office of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance of houses and goods from loss or damage by fire, on the Royal Exchange, London.
No. 23819
The second day of March 1778 received of the Bursar of Magdalene College the sum of £3 15s 6d.
Payment of assurance of £3000 from 2 March 1778 to 2 March 1779 by the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance aforesaid.
Thomas Paris
Cambridge Agent
Inspection and detailed report on the state of 32-35 Thompson's Lane and 21-24 Bridge Street prepared by Gray, Son & Cook (surveyors).
Inspection report on 25, 26 and 27 Bridge Street carried out by G.W. Haslop & Co.
Inquisition taken at Louth confirming the will of John Spendluffe who devised certain lands to certain uses with ultimate remainder to the Governors of Alford School.
Inland Revenue Account relating to a freehold house and garden on the Chesterton Road [Wentworth House] inherited on the death of Frances Ann Davies.
Print out of a drawing of Jacob Mountain (1776) and photograph of a portrait of William Heath (Fellow) 1777 by Thomas Kerrich. Also two pages giving information about the paintings.
13 black and white photographs that used to hang in the student library in the Pepys building.
Indentures of fine - John Smith (plaintiff) and Simon Prance and Ann his wife (deforciants) of one messuage with appurtances (the Half Moon Inn).
Indentures of fine - John Stokes (plaintiff) and Robert Rogers and Agnes his wife (deforciant) of a messuage and the appurtances [Half Moon Inn].
Indentures of fine - Thomas Fountain Cuff (plaintiff) and John Andrews and his wife (deforciant) of a messuage and garden (later The Half Moon Inn).
Parties: (1) Daniel Brace (plaintiff) (2) John Stearn and his wife and Robert Lawrence and his wife (deforciants)
Indenture of fine of 40 acres of land in Quy.
Parties: (1) George Pickering (plaintiff) (2) Edward Breese and Etheldred his wife (deforciant)
Indentures of fine of a messuage, cottage garden, orchard and land in Longstanton.
Parties: (1) Edmund Breese [in other documents it is given as Edward] (plaintiff) (2) Henry Hargrave and Elizabeth his wife (deforciants)
Indentures of fine levied on messuages, cottages, gardens, and land at Longstanton.
Indentures of fine - Margaret Prance and Simon Prance (plaintiffs) and Thomas Prance and his wife (deforciant) of a messuage with the appurtances in Cambridge [connected to land that later became The Half Moon Inn].
Parties: (1)
Indentures of fine - Dr Barnaby Goche (plaintiff) and John Cranne and his wife, Robert Wallis and his wife (deforciant). Feoffment of two messuages with appurtanances in St Clement's parish.