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Contains:

(1) Sunday receipts and payments on the Poor Account
(2) Statement of land tax, licences, and parish rates

Indexed volume containing accounts for:

(1) Benefactions - Lord Anglesey, Groome, Milner, Peckard, Mynors Bright, Pattrick, Pepysian, Gill
(2) Payne's Augmentation
(3) Investments
(4) Compensation - LLanberis, Sutton and Whilloughby, Llangadwaldr
(5) Composition Fund
(6) Open Scholarships
(7) Tutor's balance
(8) Prizes - Walton
(9) Sale of land

Accounts of the Revd Samuel Lowe (Bursar) as receiver of the rents and profits of the freehold and copyhold estates of Peter Peckard.

Used in the case in Chancery between the plaintiffs William Gretton (Master), Fellows, and Revd Samuel Lowe (Bursar) and the defendants Richard Aldworth Griffin (Lord Braybrooke), John Robinson, John Smith, Martha Caldecot and Joseph Stephenson and wife, Richard Buck and Robert Sherard and John Ferrar.

Accounts for Wentworth House (which was bought by the College in 1835) listing rents received from tenants (Mr Shillito, 1834-40, Mr Barron, 1842-1948, Captain Davies, 1852-1861 and Mr Catling, 1862- at least 1865 when the volume ends). Also payments for repairs and general upkeep.

Contains account for the following:

(1) Abatements to various tenants
(2) Rates, taxes, and insurances on College buildings
(3) Repairs and improvements on College estates and College buildings
(4) Management of Estates
(5) College servants
(6) Estates on Rack Rent
(7) The Pickerel Estate
(8) Grainthorpe
(9) Steeple Ashton
(10) Peckard Vacant Fellowship
(11) Chesterton Road Cottages
(12) Audit sheet
(13) Milner Scholars Account
(14) Pepysian Benefaction
(15) Mynors Bright Benefaction and Building Fund
(16) Building and Living Fund
(17) Composition Fund
(18) Peckard Rolling Fund Account
(19) Stewards Account

Printed forms completed and signed by A.S. Ramsey (Bursar).

Information includes:
(1) name of the parish
(2) name of occupier
(3) estimated size of property
(4) gross estimated rental (or value)
(5) description of land and buildings
(6) details of lease
(7) rent

Volume recording the date, place in College that needed repair, details of the repair, and amount. The main part of the book relates to buildings on the College site but there ae a small number of entries at the back of the book detailing repairs to College owed property in Cambridge.

Volume listing the type of stock, the face value, and the fund (audit, Peckard Rolling, Milner, Peckard, Francis Pattrick, Pepysian, Latimer Neville Memorial, Walton, Gill, Caution, Composition, Kingsley, Building and Living, Mynors Bright).

Volume listing the type of stock, the face value, and the fund (audit, Peckard Rolling, Milner, Peckard, Francis Pattrick, Pepysian, Latimer Neville Memorial, Walton, Gill, Caution, Composition, Kingsley, Building and Living, Mynors Bright).

Volume listing the type of stock, the face value, and the fund (audit, Peckard Rolling, Milner, Peckard, Francis Pattrick, Pepysian, Latimer Neville Memorial, Walton, Gill, Caution, Composition, Kingsley, Building and Living, Mynors Bright). Indexed.

Printed valuations of investments prepared by McAnally, Montgomery & Co.

These are the individual bills submitted to the College for payment and detail work done. They run from Michaelmas to Michaelmas and are arranged in 4 separate quarterly bundles and then in one wrapper. The quarters are:

Bundle 1 - Michaelmas to Xmas
Bundle 2 - Xmas to Lady Day
Bundle 3 - Lady Day to Midsummer
Bundle 4 - Midsummer to Michaelmas

The total of each bill is recorded in the Necessary Expense Books [See MCAD/3/3]

Received of the Revd Mr Hodgson Bursar of Magdalene College the sum of two shillings and six pence in full for the Bachelors Commencement 1778

By me John Marshall

"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

A bill for "Magdalen College" Quarter ending March 19 1778

Bread baked = £14 5s 0d
For Baking etc = £3 11s 3d
Bran Sedges barm = £0 13s 0d
Batchelors Commencement = £0 3s 4d

Total = £4 7s 7d

Received April 8 1778 of the Revd Mr Hodgson the contents in full
Thomas Healey

Rec'd of the Bursar of "Magd College"

Two pound seven shillings and two pence for half a years Contribution money and Marshalls wages due at Lady Day
By me Edward Bore

Contribution money = £2 2s 8d
Marshall's wages = £0 4s 6d

Total = £2 7s 2d

[printed form completed by hand]

General Post Office London

Revd Bursar Magd College for John Briggs
1778

Jan 5 [St Thomas?] thro to April 5 - £0 14s 6d
Received April 1778 William Gregory

Revd above is your account which please to pay to Mr W. Gregory or Order & you will oblige your most obedient servant
John Briggs

Gives weekly totals for 13 weeks with a quarterly total of £2 8s 0d

Also fees for
Courts and Streets
Cleaning Combination
College letters
Total = £4 18s 0d

April 30 received in full of all demands J. Brown

"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

This is a bill for lamps and candles and is entered as such in the Necessary Expenses Book [MCAD/3/3/2] but it has 'Butlers Bill' written on the back of the bill.

£4 13s 8d paid to J. Palmer for Quarter ending Lady Day 1778.

Bill lists payments for candles, chapel candles, oil, salt glasses and mops.

[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

Giving weekly totals for Commons for 13 weeks for a quarterly total of £52 8s 11d

In addition there are payments for:
wages £7 0s 0d
brooms £0 3s 0d
coals £5 0s 0d

Total = £64 11s 11d

College tenement £0 1s 0d
6 sacks coal for Combination Room £0 10s 6d
5 sacks for the Brewhouse £0 8s 9d

Total = £65 12s 2d

May 2 1778 received the contents by me William Murfitt

£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