Contains the records of the admission of Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Masters, and Scholars and includes their signatures.
Volume containing Royal mandates for the election of the following Fellows with the signatures of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles II (the mandates have been pasted into the volume):
(1) Jordan Chadwick, 1593 - Eliz I
(2) John Bell, 1568 - Eliz I
(3) George Fludd, 1585 - Eliz I
(4) Valery and Daubeny, 1560 - Eliz
(5) John Payne, 1597 - Eliz I
(6) William Goldingham, 1568 - Eliz I
(7) Daniel Roberts, 1580 - Eliz I
(8) R. Robinct, 1605 - James I
(9) Jacob Challoner, 1622 - James I
(10) Edward Hordden, 1609 - James I
(11) George Gilbie, 1609 - James I
(12) Rowland Manlove, 1664 - Charles II
(13) Charles Preston, 1667 - Charles II
(1) the first half of the volume contains certificates to show that individual Fellows had sworn the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy to the King, 1715-1775. There is a handwritten list at the back of the book of the Fellows that had sworn the oath and the date
(2) the second part of the volume reversed are inventories of:
(a) goods in the kitchen, 1717, 1724, 1725, 1726
(b) goods in the butteries, 1717, 1724, 1725, 1755
(c) goods in the new house and cellars, 1717, 1724
(d) goods in the kitchen, butteries, cellar and brewhouse, 1727-32, 1734, 1740, 1747, 1755
(e) College plate, 1737 (including weight), 1747, 1755 and list of new plate in exchange since the last inventory, 1757
(f) plate accounts, 1763, 1778, 1781
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].
Revd Mr Hodgson
Revd William Bywater
?-1802 Revd Richard Buck [1795 is the earliest date in the receipts so far that he is named as Bursar]
1802 - ? Thomas Paley [in 1805 when he became il; Samuel Lowe took over the duties as Bursar]
c. 1813-1819 Revd William Cornforth
1904 - ? A.S. Ramsey
1913-1937, 1943-1947 Talbot Peel
1947-1949 Dr Christopherson
1949-1977 John Burnett
1977-2001 Denis Murphy
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.
Quarterly undergraduate bills including draper, cook, laundress, steward, chandler, barber, bedmaker, buttery, shoemaker, books, apothecary.
At the back are receipts and payments including surplice fees at All Saints for christenings, marriages, and burials, 3 August 1712 – 21 July 1713.
Quarterly bills for each undergraduate. These are arranged by admission date of student. Then all the bills accrued by the student during their time at the College are listed.
Items include cook, tailor, buttery bill, bedmaker, shoes, barber, laundress, books apothecary, joiner, glazier, and tuition.
‘Pupils Accounts beginning at Michaelmas 1729’ is written on the first page.
Indexed.
Quarterly bills including the items – books, milliner, stationer, apothecary, chandler, butter and cheese, tailor, barber, joiner, bedmaker, shoemaker, dyer, stewards bill, sizar, tuition, draper, cook, charity school, laundress, shoemaker.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Printed forms giving the date, name of pupil and then the amount owed under headings including: bedmaker, butler, coals, College servant, degree fees, laundress, porter, rent, steward, tutor, bookseller, cook, druggist, grocer, hatter, housekeeper, painter and glazier, tailor, upholsterer.
Annual accounts for receipts and payments listing all members of College in order of seniority.
Receipts are recorded under the headings Annual Payment; Commons; Sermons; Exercises; Arrears. Expenses are recorded under the headings Library; Pavement and Lighting; Disbursements; Poor; Steward’s Stipend; Butler’s Stipend; Stamped Circulars
‘Caterer’s Book’ is written on the first page.
Copy of a College order dated Nov. 14th 1836 is written out on the next page and reads:
"At a College meeting called by the Master for the purpose of taking into consideration the responsibility of the Steward and other matters.
It was agreed:
the Caterer be no longer responsible for the Masters of Arts annual payments for keeping their names on the boards
that the Caterer’s accounts be kept separate and submitted to the College at the Peckard audit
that he receive a salary out of the said account of £50
that the accounts be kept by the Butler with a salary of £20 from the same fund and overlooked by the Caterer
that the resident Bye-Fellows and Sizars and the non resident Bas be exempt from any payment to this account
Copy of a College Order dated May 18th 1837
At a College meeting called by the Master it was agreed…..to confirm the following rate of Composition in lieu of the annual payment of £2 3s 6d for members of the Senate retaining their names on the boards viz:
For commencing Master of Arts £25
M.A. (or other degrees of more than 10 years standing) £20
M.A. (or other degrees of more than 20 years standing) £15
With a deduction of £5 in each case when the party is not in orders.
Annual accounts for receipts and payments listing all members of College in order of seniority:
Annual accounts for receipts and payments listing all members of College in order of seniority.
Receipts are recorded under the headings Ordinary Expenses; Commons; Sermons and Exercises and Totals.
At the end of the names is a Balance from last year; Compositions (name and amount); and Payments in the Year.
Expenses are recorded at the bottom of the page as totals and include Sermons; Commons; University Dues; and the balance in the Caterer’s hands
Loose – a number of pages including:
(1) A handwritten circular about fees to be paid to become life members of the College and University – see digital image
(2) A printed circular about membership of the Senate fees, July 1918 – see digital image
(3) Several notes of names and amounts due which were then entered in the book. They are handwritten on paper with the heading ‘Long Book’.
Records quarterly totals for necessary expenses including:
(1) wine - King's birthday, All Saints, 5th November, Sacrament
(2) tablecloths
(3) cleaning the Chapel's candlesticks
(4) bills - cook, butler, candle, baker, pewterer, glazier, bricklayer, carpenter, painter, plumber, chimney sweep, mason, laundress
(5) College sizings (butter and cheese)
(6) Xmas boxes for baker, miller, chimney sweep, the smiths
(7) greens for the Chapel
(8) glasses for the Combination room
(9) letters (specifies who from)
(10) Red coat, Blue coat
(11) Coal porter
(12) Library and Combination room servants
(13) Stewards paper and pens
(14) newspaper
(15) Corporation rent
(16) booth for the clock
(17) cook and wine for Magdalene day
(18) prisoners at the town goal and in the castle
(19) poor money - widows, a decayed tradesman, a blind man, a New England man with 12 children, several persons burnt with lightening, a man with the bloody flux, shipwrecked men, two foreign princes recommended by the King, Algerine slaves
(20) subscription to the Bridge
Records quarterly totals for necessary expenses including:
(1) Steward’s book and Necessary expenses book
(2) a decanter for the Combination room
(3) cleaning Chapel and greens
(4) booth for the clock
(5) bills – cook, laundress, candle, butler, baker, lamps, tin-man, cooper, smith, bricklayer, joiner, glazier, stone mason,
(6) sweeping the kitchen chimney
(7) University waits
(8) letters from... (name given)
(9) Blue coat
(10) coals
(11) newspapers
(12) Library and Combination room servants
(13) poor money
(14) wine for Commencement supper and Magdalene Day
(15) prisoners in the town goal and Castle
(16) baker’s and miller’s Xmas boxes
(17) British troops in Germany
(18) sufferers by fire
(19) a pair of bellows for the Combination room
(20) binding Berriman’s sermons
Records totals for necessary expenses divided into four sections:
Quarterly Expenses:
For bills submitted including:
Chimney Sweep
Cook
Brooms
Coals – also coals for Combination Room and Brewhouse
Steward’s Book
Bakers’ Bill
Laundress
Insurance of St Giles’s Tenements
Butler’s Bill
Lamps & candles & stamps
Combination Room
College letters
Cleaning Chapel and Greens for Xmas
Cleaning Library and Cloisters
Carriage of game from Audley End
Gardener
2 dozen soup plates
Mending the College Register
Mr Dean for 5 degrees
Town cryer
Carriage of candles from London
Christmas boxes
Contribution money and Marshall’s wages
Bookseller
Taxes and Abatement for the Year
Window tax
Land tax for various places including St Giles, Longstanton, Grainthorpe, Saltfleet
Lodge tax
Poor Article for the Year
Poor….[followed by a surname]
Prisoners in the Town goal
Prisoners in the Castle
Fire at Chesterford, Biggleswade
Quarterly Reparations
Gives occupation and the name of tradesman follows in brackets
Basket maker
Blacksmith
Brazier
Bricklayer
Draper
Clockmaker
Lamps
Cooper
Glazier
Gardener
Grinding knives
Ironmonger
Joyner (spelt Joiner from 1796, from 1800 called carpenter)
Painter
Pavier
Pump Maker
Rope Maker
Silversmith
Stone Mason
Tin-man
Wheelwright
Records the totals for necessary expenses divided into four sections:
Quarterly Expenses:
For bills submitted including:
Laundress
Chimney Sweep
College letters and stamps
Combination room and Hall fires
Butler's bill
Lamps and candles
Cooks wages
Chapel cleaning
Library and Cloister sweeping
Contribution money and Marshalls wages
School keeper
Stewards paper, pen and ink
Braziers bill
Plates and dishes
Draper's bill
Taxes and Abatement for the Year
Window tax
Land tax for various places including St Giles, Longstanton, Grainthorpe, Saltfleet
Lodge tax
Poor Article for the Year
Poor….[followed by a surname]
Mrs Briggs Annuity (1815-1821)
Grainthorpe Sunday School
Subscription to Addenbrookes Hospital
Quarterly Reparations
Gives occupation usually with the name of tradesman follows in brackets. Includes:
Brazier
Plumber
Painter
Stone Mason
Carpenter
Slater
Bricklayer
Ironmonger
Upholsterer