Printed form completed by hand
Cambridge [‘shire’ struck out] Town
Receiv’d 18 April 1778 of the Collectors for [‘the Parish of’ struck out] Magdalen – the sum of three pounds 11s 8d for one half Year’s Duty on Houses and Lights, due Lady day – last past.
Total: £3 11s 8d
Salary paid: £0 0s 9d Butlers Salary
Neat money: £3 10s 11d
For [?]
Johnson [?]
In addition to the numbered receipts, further items recorded in the Necessary Expenses Book (MCAD/3/3/3) are:
Cleaning Chapel and Greens = £0 11s 0d
Cleaning Library and Cloisters = £0 7s 6d
Mr Dean 1 Degree = £0 6s 8d
Xtmas 1794 "Magdalen College" to Elizabeth Briggs
Washing the table linen £1 10s 0d
December 31st 1794
Received this bill
Eliz Briggs [makes her mark with a cross]
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
December 21 1794
A bill to "Magdlen Coldge" for one Quarter sweeping the Kitchen chimneys £0 4s 0d
Received the contents
By me William Press
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
£3 8s 9½d paid to Elizabeth Palmer for the Quarter ending at St Thomas's Day 1794.
Bill lists money spent on candles, oil, mops, brooms, Chapel candles, cotton, sand, brush, the Presidents oil, stamp.
Paid by Revd Mr Buck [Bursar] and signed E. Palmer
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
"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]
Bill giving weekly totals for 12 weeks Commons paid to William Winder for the Quarter ending at Christmas 1794
Total = £38 19s 10d
In addition:
Cook wages = £7 0s 0d
Coals for the Kitchen = £5 0s 0d
16 sacks for the Brewhouse = £1 10s 8d
12 sacks for the Combination Room = £1 3s 0d
Brooms = 3s 0d
Waiting sizar [1] = 1s 0d
Total = £53 17s 6d
December 30 1794
Received of the Revd Mr Buck [Bursar] the sum of fifty three pounds seventeen shillings and five pence in full for this quarter by me William Winder, Cook
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
[1] Sizar - a student financing his studies by undertaking menial tasks within the College
The Revd Mr Buck Bursar to Magdalen College to John Rainforth Quarter ending 19 December 1794
Gate Bill
Gives weekly totals for 12 weeks with a quarterly total of £2 8s 0d
College Letters
Daily record of letters sent for this quarter with additional items:
Stamp paper = £0 0s 2½d
Quarterly total = £0 8s 5½d
Gate bill = £2 8s 0d
Courts, street & walks = £3 0s 0d
Combination Room = £0 15s 0d
Total = £6 11s 5½d
January 18 1795
Received the contents by me John Rainforth
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
[printed form completed by hand]
Revd Bursar Mag. Col. To Charles Coltson General Post Office, London
To News-papers
From 10 Oct 1794 to 5 Jan 1795 = £0 17s 6d
Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe And you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON
Received the Content [signed] Mr Rofe
[printed form completed by hand]
Received (the 15th day of October 1794) of the Master Fellows Scholars of Magdalen College by Mr Alderman Purchas for one years Quit Rent issuing of a freehold messuage in St Clements parish in Cambridge called the White Bull where the courts for the said manor have usually been held.
Due to the Right Honourable the Lord Sandys, in behalf of his said Manor, at Michaelmas last.
[signed] Edward Day received
£0 6s 8d
Received January ? 1795 of the Revd Mr Buck three pounds thirteen shillings baking for the Christmas Quarter for the use of the College account of H.B. Beales
Total = £3 13s 0d
In addition to the numbered receipts, further items recorded in the Necessary Expenses Book (MCAD/3/3/3) are:
Mr Dean 1 Degree = £0 6s 8d
Towncryer = £0 2s 0d
Cleaning Chapel = £0 10s 0d
Cleaning Library and Cloisters = £0 7s 6d
Bill 10 is not in the bundle but is listed as follows in the Necessary Expenses book:
Newspapers £1 15s 0d
In addition to the numbered receipts, further items recorded in the Necessary Expenses Book (MCAD/3/3/3) are:
Mr Dean 1 Degree = £0 6s 8d
Cleaning Chapel = £0 10s 0d
Cleaning Library and Cloisters = £0 7s 6d
Midsummer 1795 "Magdelen College" to Elizabeth Briggs
Washing the table linen = £1 10s 0d
July 16th 1795
Received this bill
Eliz Briggs
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
June 19 1795
A bill to "Maglendon Coledge"
For one Quarter sweeping the Kitchen chimneys = £0 4s 0d
Received the contents
By me William Press
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
The Revd Mr Buck Bursar to "Magdalen College" to John Rainforth Quarter ending June 19th 1795
Gate Bill
Gives weekly totals for 13 weeks with a quarterly total of £4 4s 8d
College Letters
Daily record of letters sent for this quarter with additional items:
Stamp = £0 0s 2½d
Quarterly total = £0 10s 2½d
Gate bill = £4 4s 8d
Courts, street & walks = £3 0s 0d
Combination Room = £0 15s 0d
Total = £8 9s 10½d
July 29th 1795
Received the contents by me John Rainforth
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
Received July 9th 1795 of the Revd Mr Buck four pounds fourteen shillings & threepence for bread baked for the account of the College Midsummer Quarter
By H.B. Beales
£4 14s 3d
"Magdalen College" to Edward Mills
The Disbursement Bill the Quarter ending at Midsummer 1795
Paid the brewer for one brewing = £0 5s 0d
Brooms & paper in the Buttery = £0 5s 0d
Knives & napkins in the Hall = £0 2s 6d
The College sizings = £0 6s 0d
Apr 5th - 3 bottles of Port 7s 6d - 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d
Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 2d
Apr 24th - Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 2d
May 24th - 4 bottles of Port 10s 0d - 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 12s 0d
Wine for the Sacrament = £0 4s 2d
May 29th - 3 bottles of Port 7s 6d 1 bottle White 2s 6d = £0 10s 0d
Total = £3 5s 6d
Prom [1] = £9 5s 5d
Total = £12 10s 11d
Oct 10th 1795
Received the contents by me Edward Mills
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
£4 7s 4½d paid to George Warren for Quarter ending at Midsummer 1795.
Bill lists money spent on brooms, sugar, candles, cotton, large brooms, sand, nutmegs, string, the brewer, mops, [mest?] candles, sand soap dust & brush for combination room, and oil.
Paid by Revd Mr Buck [Bursar]
Bill giving weekly totals for 13 weeks Commons paid to William Winder for the Quarter ending at Midsummer 1795
Total = £52 8s 7d
In addition:
Cook's wages = £7 0s 0d
Coals for the Kitchen = £5 0s 0d
5 sacks for the Brewhouse & portage = £0 10s 5d
12 sacks for the Combination Room = £1 5s 0d
Brooms = £0 3s 0d
1 Old Library = £0 2s 1d
College Tenant Dinner = £0 1s 4d
Wating sizar
Total = £66 11s 11d
Stamp = £0 0s 4 4 ½d
Total = £66 12s 3½d
Paid by Revd Mr Buck [Bursar]
[1] Sizar - a student financing his studies by undertaking menial tasks within the College
A bill for newspapers for £ 15s 0d is entered in the Necessary Expenses Book [MCAD/3/3/3] but is missing from the bundle.
In addition to the numbered receipts, further items recorded in the Necessary Expenses Book (MCAD/3/3/3) are:
Cleaning Chapel = £0 10s 0d
Cleaning Library and Cloisters = £0 7s 6d
Mr Dean 1 Degree = £0 6s 8d
Michaelmas 1795 "Magdalen College" to Elizabeth Briggs
Washing the table linen = £1 10s 0d
21st October 1795
Received this bill for Elizabeth Briggs
[signed] Eliz Briggs
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
September 25th 1795
A bill to "Magglen Collge" for one Quarters sweeping the
Kitchen chimneys = £0 4s 0d
The Combination Room chimney = £0 0s 6d
The Porters Lodge chimney = £0 0s 6d
Received the contents = £0 5s 0d
By me Will Press
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
1795 The Revd Mr Buck Bursar to "Magdalen College" to John Rainforth Quarter ending September 25th
Gate Bill
Gives weekly totals for 14 weeks with a quarterly total of £1 11s 2d
College Letters
Daily record of letters sent for this quarter with additional items:
Stamp = £0 0s 2½d
Quarterly total = £0 2s 6½d
Gate bill = £1 11s 2d
Courts, street & walks = £3 0s 0d
Combination Room = £0 15s 0d
Total = £5 8s 8½d
Oct 13th 1795
Received the contents by me John Rainforth
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]