Accounts for the Peckard Trust.
Accounts for the Peckard Trust.
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.
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
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).
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
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.
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
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.
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]
A bill for "Magdalen College" Quarter ending September 18th 1795
Bread baked = £2 0s 0d
For baking = £0 10s 0d
Sedge, Barm [1] etc = £0 13s 0d
Total = £1 3s 0d
Masters commencement = £0 3s 4d
Stamp = £0 0s 2d
Total = £1 6s 6d
Wheat spent this quarter 4 bushel at 15s per bushel = £3 0s 0d
Total = £4 6s 6d
Received September 12th 1795 of the Revd Mr Buck the contents H.B. Beales
[printed form completed by hand]
Revd Bursar Mag College to Charles Coltson General Post Office, London
To News-papers
From 5 July 1795 to 10 Oct 1795 = £1 15s 0d
Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON
Received the Contents Mr Rofe
Magdalene College to John Deighton
1795
Jan 5 - An Imperial paper book bound & ruled = £1 4s 0d
Feb 19 - 10 Forms of Prayer for the Chapel = £0 5s 0d
Jun 2 - A quarto paper book = £0 2s 6d
Total = £1 11s 6d
Nov 21 1795 Received of the Revd Mr Buck Bursar
J. Deighton
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
Paid to Mr W. Stanley the sum of £4 18s 6d
Materials
Battens, nails, plate lock, two keys and two bolts, wood, board, deal [1], pitch nails, tin deal, oak,
Work done in College:
Cobwebbing the Chapel
Rale on the Piece
Work on Master's gate next to the Piece
Putting up the hall doors
Mending Mr Batley's bedroom floor
A new Butler's tray for the hall
Sundry jobs in the larder kitchen
Deals for two new trunks to the leaden gutters at kings head
Making a large meat screen for the kitchen
Mr Readhead's bill for tinning
Work done brewhouse yard gate
Sundry jobs in the brewhouse
To a sand sieve by the Porter
Work to skirting boards in the hall
Received August 15 1795 the contents above of the Revd Mr Buck
W. Stanley
[1] deal = timber
Revd Mr Buck Bursar Magdalene College to John Favell
Quarter bills for Midsummer 1795
1794
painting some window frames doors etc down Chesterton Lane & same at the Swan etc = £1 3s 0d
some doors windows etc at the tenements in the black smith's yards = £0 12s 0d
1795
painting post and rails in the Close all round 510 yards @ 3d = £6 7s 6d
[?] 6ft putty = £0 3s 0d
some palisades on wall = £0 4s 6d
a seat trice over round trees Green = £0 4s 0d
some work in the back yard lead Col = £0 7s 0d
some work in the Lodge yard etc = £0 4s 0d
part of Mr Bird’s Room painted = £2 2s 6d
Total = £11 7s 6d
Sept 17 1795
Received the above J. Favell
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
1796 The Revd Mr Buck Bursar to "Magdalen College" to John Rainforth Quarter Ending Mar 18th 1796
Gate Bill
Gives weekly totals for 13 weeks with a quarterly total of £3 1s 8d
College Letters
Daily record of letters sent for this quarter with additional items:
Lanterns mending = £0 2s 6d
Lamp scissors grinding = £0 0s 2d
Stamp paper = £0 0s 2½d
Quarterly total = £0 9s 11½d
Gate bill = £3 1s 8d
Courts street & walks = £3 0s 0d
Combination Room = £0 15s 0d
Total = £7 6s 7½d
April 29th 1796
Received the contents by me John Rainforth
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
Received April 20th 1796 of the Bursar of Magd Coll the sum of four pounds 10s 10d for half a years Contribution Money & Marshalls wages due at Lady Day 1796
John Taylor
[written as a note in the bottom left hand corner]
£4 5s 4d
Wages = 5s 6d
Stamp = 2d
Total = £4 11s 0d
[On the reverse is written]:
£4 5s 4d
£0 5s 6d
£4 10s 10s
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
Midsummer 1796 "Magdalen College" to Elizabeth Briggs
Washing the table linen = £1 10s 0d
1796 June 22nd Received the contents
Eliz Briggs
The Revd Mr Buck Bursar to Magdalen College to John Rainforth Quarter ending June 17th
Gate Bill
Gives weekly totals for 13 weeks with a quarterly total of £3 16s 4d
College Letters
Daily record of letters sent for this quarter with additional items:
Shears grinding = £0 0s 4d
Rake mending = £0 0s 6d
Going to the post etc = £0 0s 4d
Stamp paper = £0 0s 2½d
Quarterly total = £0 10s 6½d
Additional items added to the bottom of the bill:
Gate Bill = £3 16s 4d
Court, streets & walks = £3 10s 0d
Combination Room = £0 15s 0d
A years additional street sweeping due at a Lady Day last = £2 0s 0d
Total = £10 11s 10½d
2nd Nov 1796
Received the contents by me
John Rainforth
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
[printed form completed by hand]
Revd Bursar Mag. to Charles Coltson, General Post Office, London
To News-papers,
From 5 Apr 1796 to 5 July 1796 = £1 15s 0d
Please to pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige your humble Servant
CHARLES COLTSON
Received the contents [signed] Mr Rofe
Bill giving weekly totals for 13 weeks Commons paid to William Winder for the Quarter ending at Midsummer 1796
Total = £59 14s 8d
In addition:
Cook's wages = £7 0s 0d
Coals for the Kitchen = £5 0s 0d
12 sacks for the Brewhouse = £1 5s 0d
6 sacks for the Combination Room = £0 12s 6d
Brooms = £0 3s 0d
Total = £73 15s 2d
Paid by Revd Mr Buck [Bursar]
Received of the Revd the Bursar of "Magd. College"
Two shillings & 6d for the A. M. Commencement 1796
John Marshall