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Records the totals for necessary expenses divided into five sections:

Quarterly Expenses Michaelmas term 1821 – Easter term 1904
For bills submitted including:
Laundress
Chimney sweep
College letters and stamps
Combination room and Hall fires
Butler's bill
Lamps and candles
Cooks wages
Contribution money and Marshalls wages
School keeper
Town crier
Cook for festivals
Chapel cleaning
Library and Cloister sweeping
Stewards paper, pen and ink
Newspaper account
Paper for May examinations
Plates and dishes

Stewards Balance Sheets 1904-1928
Signed by the Auditors (Mr Elworthy) of Peters Elworthy & Moore from year 1922/23

Receipts includes:
From kitchen – wine and gas
Baths
Profits on cycle sheds
Use of telephone
Contributions towards College servants and maintenance of the establishment

Expenses include:
College sizings
Coals
Gas
Water
Licences
Butler’s disbursements
Miss Pate (typewriting)
University Press
Individual’s names [but no details as to what the payments are for]

Assistant Stewards Balance Sheets 1923-1926

Balance Sheets for the Wine and Commons Accounts 1926-1928

Stewards Audit Sheets 1907-1916
Gives Bursar’s credit and debit to the Steward

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

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 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 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

Colour photograph of Natasha McDowell, Research Fellow.

An edited version of the diaries of Robert Broadbent covering his time at Magdalene College. This was prepared by Broadbent for the College in 1980. There is a foreword in which he describes his family and early life including his time at Charterhouse School. Also includes three indexes:

(1) Principal characters
(2) Last days in India, 1947 based on letters to his wife
(3) one term's accounts as an undergraduate

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Parties: (1) John Lascelles, William Gibbon and Samuel Neale to (2) Humphrey Hyde

Mortgage for 1000 years for securing £2415 and interest.

Parties: (1) Mrs Phoebe Harding, (2) John Pond

Mortgage of a messuage or tenement in St Clements parish to secure £140 and interest.

Parties (1) William Bullen (brewer) (2) Mary Ann Twitchett Langton (widow)

Mortgage for securing £2700 and interest

Parties: (1) William Bullen (brewer) (2) Revd Philpott (Master of Catherine Hall), Thomas St Quentin and Charles Finch

Mortgage of the freehold and leasehold premises situated in Bridge Street and Fisher's Lane for securing £2,000 and interest at £5 per rent with a covenant by the mortgagees

Attached is a letter from John Dennis to the Revd Philpott, Thomas St Quentin and Charles Finch giving notice that by an indenture dated 2 July 1852 made between him and William Bullen the several freehold messuages, a tenement, inn, brewery and premises in Bridge Street and Fisher's Lane now in mortgage to them were granted and conveyed to him (Dennis) for securing the repayment of the principal sum of £700 and interest.

Parties: (1) Frank Waters (2) Francis Parsons

Mortgage of the Nurses Hostel for securing £800 and interest at £4 10s 0d per annum payable at Xmas and Midsummer.

Parties: (1) John Barnes the younger (2) Anthony Tompson

Mortgage of the Lily Pot for securing £157 10s 0d and interest with livery of seisin endorsed.

Parties: (1) David Evans Pratt (grocer), (2) Messrs C.B. Warrington and James Spearing

Mortgage of 17 Magdalene Street for securing £130 and £120 and interest subject to a prior mortgage.

Parties: (1) David Evans Pratt (grocer), (2) William Bond (provisions merchant)

Mortgage of 17 Magdalene Street for securing £120 and interest

Parties: (1) Messrs Purchas & Son (2) John Gillam

Parties: (1) Edward Day (2) Mary Brace

Mortgage in fee for securing £116 and interest. Livery of seisin endorsed.

Parties: (1) Edward Day (2) Henry Smith

Mortgage in fee (enrolled) of 5 acres, 1 rood, 1 perch of land and a little orchard adjoining in Stow Cum Quy for securing £52 and interest.

Livery of seisin endorsed.

Parties: (1) William Bullen (brewer) (2) John Dennis (gentleman)

Mortgage in fee of hereditaments in Bridge Street to secure £700 and interest subject to a prior mortgage to secure £2000 and interest.

Parties: (1) Edward Day (2) Thomas Brace

Mortgage in fee and counterpart of a messuage and close and 5 acres, 1 rood and 0 perches of land in Quy for securing £124 and interest. Livery of Seisin endorsed.

Parties: (1) Edward Gillam (sole executor of the late John Gillam) and others (2) Thomas Skeels, the younger

Mortgage in fee of freehold and assignment of leasehold and freehold premises for securing £3000and lawful interest.

Folded in with this document is the following:

Lease for a year between (1) Edward Gillam and John Purchas and (2) Thomas Skeels the younger, 26 June 1795

Parties: (1) Thomas Nutter (merchant), (2) Jonas Tebbutt

Mortgage in fee of freehold premises at Cambridge and an assignment of money arising from the sale of leasehold premises for securing £3500 and interest.

Folded up within this mortgage are two further documents:

(1) Lease for a year between Thomas Nutter and Jonas Tebbutt, 4 August 1826

(2) Bon for securing £3500 and interest between Thomas Nutter and Jonas Tebutt, 5 August 1826

Parties: (1) William Reggall, (2) William Grant Allison, (3) William Allison (4) Mary Anne Fowler

Mortgage of estates at north Somercotes and Grainthorpe for securing £1000 and interest.