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Bond for the performance of the covenants in the absolute surrender by Samuel Potter and Thomas Watson [in relation to two messuages called Copped Hall].

Parties: (1) John Nutter and Robert Nutter (merchants), to Henry Marsh (sadler)

Bond for securing £500 and interest.

Bond given by Simon Prance for levying a fine for use of John Smith. In connection with The Half Moon.

Book containing poems written by Sylvia Thompson.

"Magdalen Coll" to J. Jackson

Jan 1778 – a new stewards book = £0 10s 0d
[Jan] 29 – a medium book 6d strong with writing paper before and behind lettered three times & mended = £0 12s 0d

1 medium book 6d and mended with paper before and behind = £0 10s 0d

Rec'd the contents on all demands by me J. Jackson

"Magdalen College" to John Deighton
1796

Nov 25 - 2 Macknights Harmony = £2 2s 0d
1 Gilpin on the New Testament = £1 1s 0d
1 Parkhursts Greek Lexicon = £1 16s 6d
1 Lockes Essay 2 vol = £0 11s 6d
A Long Royal folio paper book = £1 1s 0d
1796 Blaney on Jeremiah = £1 1s 0d

Mar - 6 forms of Prayer for Chapel = £0 3s 0d
A paper book = £0 3s 0d

Total = £7 19s 0d

Nov 1 1796 Received
John Deighton

[initialled R.B. – Richard Buck, Bursar]

File about Mallory's book Boswell the Biographer including letters from John Murray (publishers), Smith, Elder & Co [who published the book]; an account showing sales; Mallory's account showing he had ordered six copies to be sent to Charterhouse (3 copies), G. Sayle, G. L. Keynes, and St John's Vicarage [his parents]; and press cuttings of reviews.

Also a copy of the book text published by Amazon 2016 (Create Space Independent Publishing Platform), printed in Poland.

Offprints and articles concerning Pepys and the Pepys Library bound into albums. Formerly known as the 'Miscellaneous Pamphlets' volumes.

List of contents:

1. Bailey, J.E. (1876). 'On the Cipher of Pepys’s Diary', Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, 2.

2. Tanner, J.R. (1892). 'Pepys and the Popish Plot', English Historical Review, pp. 281-290.

3. Power, D.A. (1895). 'An Address on the Medical History of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pepys', The Lancet.

4. Power, D.A. (1904). Who performed lithotomy on Mr. Samuel Pepys? London: Printed at The Lancet Office. [Paper read at the second meeting of the Samuel Pepys Club, 26 March 1904].

5. Lee, S. (1906). 'Pepys and Shakespeare'. Privately Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Samuel Pepys Club.

6. Power, D.A. (1911). 'Why Samuel Pepys Discontinued his Diary', The Lancet, 177(4582).

7. Hodges. G. (1913). 'Pepys at Church', Atlantic Monthly, pp. 74-81.

8. Abbott, W.C. (1914). 'The Serious Pepys', Yale Review, pp. 551-575.

9. Stevenson, R.L. (n.d.). Samuel Pepys, in R.L. Stevenson (ed.) Familiar studies of men and books, pp. 202-228.

10. Jones, E.A. (1920). 'Pepys as an Art Collector and Critic', National Review, 453, pp. 365-376.

11. Whitear, W.H. (1923). 'Samuel Pepys and his Birthplace', Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society.

12. Gaselee, S. (1923). 'Pepys' Library: Its Mysteries and Fascination', The Empire Review, pp. 132-140.

13. MacLaurin, C. (1923). 'Mr. and Mrs. Pepys', in C. MacLaurin, Post mortem: essays, historical and medical, London: J. Cape, pp. 157-179.

14. Shipley, A.E. (1925). 'Mr Pepys as a Man of Science and President of the Royal Society', The Quarterly Review, 486, pp. 219-237.

15. Morshead, O.F. (1926). 'Introduction', in O.F. Morshead (ed.) Everybody's Pepys: the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669, London: G. Bell and Sons, pp. ix-xx.

Offprints and articles concerning Pepys and the Pepys Library bound into albums. Formerly known as the 'Miscellaneous Pamphlets' volumes.

List of contents:

1. Matthews, A.G. (1930). 'Mr Pepys and Nonconformity', Congregational Historical Society Transactions, 11(2), pp. 67-78.

2. Foster, J. (1951). 'John Birchensha, Fifth Monarchy Man', The London Quarterly and Holborn Review, pp. 311-318.

3. Wilson, E.M. (1954). 'Félix Persio Bertiso's "La Harpa de Belén"', Atlante, 2(3), pp. 126-136. [With letter from the author to "dick"].

4. Heal, A. (1955). 'Old London Bridge Tradesman's Cards and Tokens', in G. Home, Old London Bridge, London: John Lane, pp. 308-331.

5. Wilson, E.M. (1955). 'Quevedo for the Masses', Atlante, 3(4), pp. 126-136.

6. Heawood, E. (1924). 'Use of Watermarks in Dating Old Maps and Documents', The Geographical Journal, pp. 392-412.

7. Chappel, E. (1931). Catalogue of Pepysiana belonging to Mr. Edwin Chappell, exhibited at the Annual General Meeting of the Society for Nautical Research, held at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 8th July 1931. [Includes MS addenda].

8. Lightbown, J. (1952). 'A Shorter Metrical Version of "The Gast of Gy"', The Modern Language Review, 47(3), pp. 323-329. [Includes MS note from the author to "Dr. Ladborough"].

9. Dummer, E. (1890). 'A Brief Journall of the Western Rebellion', Proceedings, Royal Artillery Institution, 4(18). [Includes letters to "Sir" from Maurice Page, dated June 1925].

10. Richards, R.D. (1933). 'Mr. Pepys and the Goldsmith Bankers', Economic History, 2(8), pp. 500-520. [Includes letter to "Mr Turner" from the author].

11. Wilson, E.M. (1954). '"La Harpa de Belén", de Félix Persio Bertiso', Archivo Hispalense, 67-68.

12. (1952). The Caxtonian: The House Journal of Mardon, Son & Hall, Ltd., 2(9).

13. Powell, L.C. (1950). 'From Private Institution to Public Institution: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library', The Library Quarterly, 20(2), pp. 101-108.

14. Ranft, B. McL. (1952). 'The Significance of the Political Career of Samuel Pepys', 14(4), The Journal of Modern History, pp. 368-375.

15. Jackson, W.A. (1951). 'Tunc et Nunc: or the Pepys and Taylor Collections of Early Books on Navigation', pp. 195-201.

16. Ehrman, J.P.W. (1948). 'The Official Papers Transferred by Pepys to the Admiralty by 12 July 1689', The Mariner's Mirror, 34(4), pp. 255-270.

17. Wilson, E.M. (1955). 'Some Poems from Samuel Pepys Spanish Chap-Books', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 32(4), pp. 187-193.

18. Rollins, H.E. (1921). 'Notes on Some English Accounts of Miraculous Fasts', The Journal of American Folk-Lore, 34(134), pp. 361-376.

19. Blagden, C. (1953-5). 'Notes on the Ballad Market in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century', Studies in Bibliography, 6, pp. 161-80.

20. Baldridge, H.A. (1938). 'Ship Models - The Collections of Rogers, Sergison and Pepys', United States Naval Institute Proceedings, 64(11), pp. 1553-1566.

21. Munby, A.N.L. (1952). 'The Distribution of he First Edition of Newton's Principia', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 10, pp. 28-39.

Offprints and articles concerning Pepys and the Pepys Library bound into albums. Formerly known as the 'Miscellaneous Pamphlets' volumes.

List of contents:

1. Radcliffe-Cooke, C.W. (1866). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq. While an Undergraduate at Cambridge, Cambridge: Johnathan Palmer.

2. Deane, A.C. (n.d.). 'Sir Anthony Deane', The National Review.

3. [Unused number].

4. Pepys, S. (1945). A Pepysian Pastoral, Los Angeles: Richard Hoffman.

5. Chappell, E. (1933). Bibliographia Pepysiana, London: Edwin Chappell.

6. Sayle, C. (1913). Cambridge Fragments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

7. A.B.F. (1955). 'Pepys Hebraeus', Desiderata, 8(42), pp. 3-4.

8. The Society for Theatre Research. [Booklet]

9. Speaight, G. (1954). 'Notes and Queries', Theatre Notebook, 9(1), p. 26.

10. (1954). Theatre Notebook, 8(4).

11. Farquhar, H. (1925). 'Additional Notes of Silver Counters of the Seventeenth Century', Numismatic Chronicle, 5, pp. 78-120. [With letter to Mr Morshead from the author].

12. Fitzwilliam Museum (1933). Tercentenary exhibition of Books from the Library of Samuel Pepys lent by the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College Cambridge.

13. Herford, C.H. (1925). 'Appendix IV: Books in Jonson's Library', in C.H. Herford and P. Simpson, Ben Jonson. Oxford, pp. 250-271.

14. Crosby Brown, A. (1939). Twin Ships: Notes on the Chronological History of the Use of Multiple Hulled Vessels. Virginia: The Mariners' Museum Newport News.

15. Sturdy, P. (1939). Monmouth Rebellion 1685: Extracts from Weston Zoyland Church Registers and Notes Thereon, 10th ed. Sherborne: Sawtells of Sherborne, Ltd.

16. Keller, W. (1932). Shakespeare-Jahrburch. Band 68. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz.

17. Ottewill, W.T. (1932). 'Introduction', in E.B. Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes etc. of the East India Company 1671-1673. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

18. Rollins, H.E. (1923). 'Ballads from Additional MS. 38, 599', The Modern Language Association of America, 38(1), pp. 133-52.

19. Rollins, H.E. (1923). 'The Commonwealth Drama: Miscellaneous Notes', Studies in Philology, 20(1), pp. 52-69.

20. Rollins, H.E. (1921). 'A Contribution To The History Of The English Commonwealth Drama', Studies in Philology, 18(3), pp. 52-69.

21. Rollins, H.E. (1924). 'The Drinking Academy or The Cheater's Holiday', Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 49(4), pp. 837-71.

Offprints and articles concerning Pepys and the Pepys Library bound into albums. Formerly known as the 'Miscellaneous Pamphlets' volumes.

List of contents:

1. Bridge, F. (n.d.). The "Pepys Club" Grace. Music by Matthew Locke (1666). Arranged and adapted for use at the gatherings of the Samuel Pepys Club. [Music score].

2. Chappell, E. (1933). 'Samuel Pepys', *The Mariner's Mirror', 29(2), pp. 212-32.

3. Chappell, E. (1933). 'Elizabeth Pepys', The Somerset Year Book, 32.

4. Chappell, E. (1936). Leviova Pepysiana. London: Privately printed by Edwin Chappell.

5. Wilson, E.M. (1955). 'Samuel Pepys's Spanish Chap-Books, Part I', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2(2), pp. 127-54.

6. Wilson, E.M. (1956). 'Samuel Pepys's Spanish Chap-Books, Part II', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2(3), pp. 229-68.

7. Wilson, E.M. (1957). 'Samuel Pepys's Spanish Chap-Books, Part III', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2(4), pp. 305-22.

8. Roberts, S.C. (1953). 'Books: Their Use and Their Care', Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Library Association, Llandudno.

9. Ashbee, E.W. (1869). Mr. Ashbee's Occasional Fac-similie Reprints. VII. "The Assyse of Breade:" From the Original printed at London by Robert Wyer, circa 1540. London: Printed for subscribers only. (Relates to PL 1434).

10. Emslie, M. (1955). 'Pepys' Shakespeare Song', Shakespeare Quarterly, 6(2), pp. 159-70.

11. McKie, D. (1952). 'Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. (1633-1703)', Discovery, pp. 145-223.

12. Wormald, F. (1954). 'The Wilton Diptych', The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 28(3-4), pp. 191-203.

13. Warner, F. (1953). Christ's Hospital Masque 1553-1953. [Play].

14. Norman, P. (1920), 'Pepys and Hewer', pp. 53-77. [Includes correspondence between Margaret Toynbee and Philip Norman].

15. Harrison, F.L. (1958-1963). 'Music for the Sarum Rite. MS. 1236 in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge', Annales Musicologiques, 6, pp. 99-144. (Relates to PL 1236).

16. Gray, J. (1965). 'James Bailey', The Cambridge Review, 86(2102), pp. 437-46. [James Bailey (c 1790-1864), classical scholar and schoolmaster].

17. Fielding, X. (1955). 'A 17th century Atlantic outpost: The British occupation of Tangier', History Today, 5, pp. 463-72.

18. Pool, B. (1963). 'Samuel Pepys and Navy Contracts', History Today, 13(9), pp. 633-41.

19. Pepys Whiteley, D. (1965). 'My friend the Merchant: Thomas Hill and Pepys', History Today, 15(8), pp. 576-81.

Offprints and articles concerning Pepys and the Pepys Library bound into albums. Formerly known as the 'Miscellaneous Pamphlets' volumes.

List of contents:

1. Duff, E.G. (1907), 'The Library of Richard Smith', The Library, 30(8).

2. Fitzwilliam Museum (1933). Tercentenary exhibition of Books from the Library of Samuel Pepys lent by the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College Cambridge.

3. Gaselee, S. (1924). The Early Spanish Printing Press. A lecture delivered before the Anglo-Spanish Society of Great Britain and the Spanish-Speaking countries on Wednesday, December 19th, 1923. London: The Anglo-Spanish Society.

4a. Mcdonnell, M. (1934). 'A Newly Discovered Early View of the Exterior of the Second School', The Pauline, 52(350), pp. 101-4.

4b. Mcdonnell, M. (1934). 'A Newly Discovered Early View of the Interior of the Second School', The Pauline, 52(351), pp. 134-7.

5. Ladborough, R.W. (1953). 'Note No. 26. A Discovery in the Pepys Library', The Book Collector, 2(4), pp. 278-9.

6. Tillman Merritt, A. (n.d.). 'A Chason Sequence by Fevin', Essays on Music, pp. 92-9.

7. Godman, S. (1955). '"Youth's Delight": Pepys's Own Flageolet Tutor', The Times, 15 February.

8. Ladborough, R.W. (1956). 'Pepys and Pascal', French Studies, 10(2), pp. 134-9.

9. Peacock, A. (1957), 'The Queen's Sea Flags', The Mariner's Mirror, 43(4), pp. 269-80.

10. catalogue: treasures of Cambridge, Goldsmiths' Hall London 1959. [Exhibition catalogue].

11. illustrations: treasures of Cambridge, Goldsmiths' Hall London 1959. [Illustrations exhibition catalogue].

12. Carter, H. and Wolpe, B. (1959). 'Pepys's copy of Moxon's Mechanical Exercises', The Library, 14(2), PP. 124-6.

13. Scott, J.F. and Hartley, H. (1960). 'William, Viscount Brouncker, P.R.S. (1620-1684)', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 15(Tercentenary Number), pp. 147-57.

14. Wilson, E.P. (1960). 'Illustrations of Social Life III: Street-Cries', Shakespeare Survey, 13, pp. 106-10.

15a. Royal Academy. (1960-61). The Age of Charles II. [Illustrations exhibition catalogue].

15b. Anon. (1960). 'English Art Under Charles II', The Times, 9 December. [Review of above exhibition].

16. Richards, A.N.G. (1906-1). 'The King Dictates', The Cornhill, 171(1026), pp. 494-505.

17. Clifford, H.D. (1958), 'Farm-house where Pepys was a lodger, Country Life*, 5 June, pp. 1246-7.

18. Pepys Whiteley, D. (1960). 'The Pepys Library', The Cambridge Review, 81(1947), p. 366.

19. Pepys Whiteley, D. (1960). 'Books on Pepys', The Cambridge Review, 82(1991), pp. 167-8.

20. Pepys Whiteley, D. (1961). 'Problems with Pepys Portraits', Country Life, 6 April, pp. 778-9.

21. Pepys Whiteley, D. (1961). 'A Portrait of Pepys?', Country Life, 4 May, p. 1034.

The Master & Fellows of "Magd Colledge" to Revd Richard B. Gillam

Workmen - William Covill

Materials - hods [1] of brick mortar, hair mortar [2], Ely bricks, blew bricks, tiles, ridge tiles, oak laths, nails, "1 Hod of fine stuff", Dutch tiles,

Work done around College:

work done at the kitchen range

mending the tiling and slating about the College

mending and tiling and slating over the Chapel and round the first Court etc

mending some tiling at the Master's Lodge and repairing the College kitchen copper

stopping some rat holes in the kitchen

cleaning the oven and mending the brick work and pointing up the brick work in the kitchen

Total = £5 16 2½d

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

Received of Revd Mr Buck the sum of five pounds six shillings and two pence half being the contents of this bill
Richard Gillam

[1] hod = open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks or stones
[2] hair mortar = potentially meaning lime mortar which was commonly mixed with hair

£50 4s 5d paid to Richard B. Gillam for:

Workmen – Johnson, Braswait, Arnold

Materials – hods [1] of brick mortar, hods of hair mortar, ½ a thousand nails, bricks, blue mortar, the best bricks, tyles [3], lime, blacksmith scales, sinder dust [4], sand, mingle bricks

Work done around College -

mending the slating over the Chapel and Hall
doing the ceiling in Mr Woods wash hand place and stopping some holes up Mr Marriot's staircase
bunches of fir lath [2]
stopping some holes in the kitchen floor
underpinning the brewhouse next to the river and helping the carpenters etc
making the mortar for the garden wall and landing of bricks etc
for taking down the wall and helping the carpenters at the stank [5]
for the carpenter to bed the plank
the use of scaffolding stuff etc

22 June 1778 Received the contents in full by me Richard B. Gillam

[1] hod = open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks or stones
[2] lath = A thin narrow strip of wood used to form the groundwork for tiling, plastering, etc
[3] tiles
[4] cinder
[5] a pond, pool or ditch of slowly-moving water

£25 11s 6d paid to R. B. Gillam by the Revd Mr Buck for:

Workmen – James Wilkin; Oakings; Robert Whittlesy; Covill

Materials – Ely building bricks, hods [1] of blew brick mortar, hods of brick mortar, hods of hair mortar [2], bushels of lime, stone, gaul [2] for the stank [3], sand, tiles, nails, oak laths [4], yellow oaker [6], glew for size.

Work done around College -

Mending the plastering and whitewashing the ceiling of the Cloisters and lime washing the sides and staircases and work done at the underpinning and work done at the drain and arch next to the summer house in the Close etc

Finishing the drain in the Close and doing the underpinning of the Chapel next the Master’s Garden etc

Work done at the underpinning round the New Building and about the best part of the College etc

Mending tiling about the College and the Master’s lodge and stables etc

Work done at the chimney that caught fire in Mr Batley's Room Letter C No. 3 and fixing up the bath stove again etc

Mending the plastering tiling and doing the underpinning to the Coal House at the Master’s Lodge

Mending the rough casting at the Master’s Lodge

Mending some tiling over George Warren’s Chamber and Lean Two

To colouring and whitewashing the front of the Master’s Lodge and work done at the walls by Brewhouse yard

Whitewashing the College gateway

Doing some underpinning in the back lane

Cleaning and mending the oven in the kitchen

Raising the ladders up to the Clock and work done

Mending the brick wall where the coping was shoved off next to Chesterton Lane

[1] hod = open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks or stones
[2] hair mortar = potentially meaning lime mortar which was commonly mixed with hair
[3] gaul = bog-myrtle
[4] stank = pond, pool or ditch
[5] lath = A thin narrow strip of wood used to form the groundwork for tiling, plastering, etc
[6] oaker = variant spelling of ochre

Diaries of Robert Broadbent who was an undergraduate at Magdalene College between 1928 and 1933 (the diaries start just before his arrival in College (Jan 1928) and run on after he has left (Dec 1933) and there are further entries for May 1934).

The diaries are in six volumes, one per year. There is also a shortened and edited version entitled Myself when Young, 1928-1933 which Broadbent completed for the College in 1980. There are three appendices:
(1) Principal characters
(2) Last days in India, 1947 based on letters to his wife
(3) one term's accounts as an undergraduate

There is also a copy of the address given at his funeral in 1989.

Contains:

(1) Building and Living Fund Accounts, 1920-1926 (a continuation from volume MCAD/3/6/4)

(2) Composition Fund Accounts, 1883-1926

Mainly records dividends.

By c.1718 the Master Daniel Waterland had reviewed the College's finances and written it all in his Master's Book. He then appointed his brother Theodore as Bursar and Steward [College History].
1904 - ? A.S. Ramsey

1796 "Magdalen College" to Edward Mills the Disbursement Bill the Quarter ending at Midsummer

Paid the Brewer for 2 brewings = £0 10s 0d

Brooms & paper in the Buttery = £0 5s 0d

Knives & napkins in the Hall = £0 2s 6d

Salt for the Fellows Table = £0 2s 0d

The College sizings = £0 6s 0d

March 27th - 3 bottles of Port 7s 6d - 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0s
Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 6d

April 8th - Wine for the Sacrament = £ 0 4s 6d

May 15th - 3 bottles of Port 9s 0d - 1 bottle White 3s 0d = £0 12s 0d
Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 6d

19th May - 2 bottles of Port 6s = £0 6s 0d

20th May - 1 bottle of Port 3s = £0 3s 0d

21st May - Lease Withnall = £0 1s 0d

30th May - 2 bottles of Port 6s 0d - 1 bottles White 3s 0d = £0 9s 0d

Total = £4 0s 0d

Prom [1] £8 8s 11½d

Total = £12 8s 11½d

Nov 12th Received the contents by me Edward Mills

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

[1] Prom is an abbreviation of Promus meaning Butler

"Magdalen College" to Edward Mills

The Disbursement Bill the Quarter ending at Xmas 1794

Paid the Brewer for 3 brewings = £0 15s 0d
Brooms & paper in the Buttery = £0 5s 0d
Knives & napkins in the Hall = £0 2s 6d
The College sizings = £0 4s 6d
Salt for the Fellows Table = £0 2s 0d
Paid for mending a sugar castor = £0 1s 0d

Oct 25th - 1 bottle of Port 2s 2d - 1 bottle White 2s 2d = £0 4s 4d
Nov 1st - 1 bottle of Port 2s 2d - 1 bottle White 2s 2d = £0 4s 4d
Nov 5th - 1 bottle of Port 2s 2d - 1 bottle White 2s 2d = £0 4s 4d
Nov 14th - Wine for the Sacrament = £0 3s 9d

Total = £2 6s 9d
Prom [1] = £149 1s 6¼d

Total = £16 8s 3¼d

March 4th 1795
Received the contents by me Edward Mills

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

"Magdalen College" to Edward Mills
1795 The Disbursement Bill the Quarter ending at Michaelmas

Paid the Brewer for 1 brewing = £0 5s 0d

Brooms & paper in the Buttery = £0 5s 0d

Knives & napkins in the Hall = £0 2s 6d

The Masters Commencement = £0 2s 6d

Salt for the Fellows = £0 2s 0d

Total = £0 17s 0d
Prom [1] £3 13s 6¾d

Total = £4 10s 6¾d

December 12th 1795

Received the contents
By me Edward Mills

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

[1] Prom is an abbreviation of Promus meaning Butler

"Magdalen College" to Edward Mills
1795 The Disbursement Bill the Quarter ending at Xmas

Paid the Brewer for 6 brewings = £1 10s 0d

Brooms & paper in the Buttery = £0 5s 0d

Knives & napkins in the Hall = £0 2s 6d

The College sizings = £0 6s 0d

Salt for the Fellows Table = £0 2s 0d

Oct 26th - 3 bottles of Port 7s 6d, 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d

Nov 2nd - 3 bottles of Port 7s 6d, 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d

Nov 5th - 3 bottles of Port 7s 6d, 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d

Nov 20th - Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 6d

Total = £4 0s 0d
Prom [1] £10 19s 4½d

Total = £14 19s 0d
March 2nd 1796

Received the contents
By me Edward Mills

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

[1] Prom is an abbreviation of Promus meaning Butler

"Magdalen College" 1796 to Edward Mills

The Disbursement Bill the Quarter ending at Lady Day

Paid the Brewer for two brewings = £0 10s 0d

Brooms & paper in the Buttery = £0 5s 0d

Knives & napkins in the Hall = £0 2s 6d

Bachelors Commencement = £0 2s 6d

Salt for the Fellows Table = £0 2s 0d

The College sizings = £ 8s 0d

Dec 25th - 4 bottles of Port 10s 0d, 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 12s 6d
Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 6d

Jan 1st - 3 bottles of Port 7s 6d, 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d

An almanack = £0 0s 8d

3 bottles of Port 7s 6d, 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d

3 bottles of Port 7s 6d, 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d

Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 6d

Total £4 2s 2d
Prom [1] = £6 7s 2¼d

Total = £10 9s 4¼d

June 20th 1796
Received the contents by me Edward Mills

[1] Prom is an abbreviation of Promus meaning Butler

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

"Magdalen College" to J. Palmer

Paid the Brewers 1 brewing
For Brooms & Paper in the Buttery
For Knives & Napkins in the Hall
For Salt for the Fellows Table
Feast days, the College Sizings
The Bachelors Commencement

Total = £1 1s 1d

1777 Dec 25th – wine for sacrament
3 Bottles Port - 1 bottle White

1778 Jan 1st – 2 Bottles Port – 1 bottle White

Jan 6th – 2 Bottles Port – 1 bottle White
Feb 3rd – 3 Bottle Port – 1 bottle White
Feb 20th – wine for sacrament

Total = £2 9s 9d

Received May 1st 1778
In full contents of this bill
J. Palmer