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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

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]

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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

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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]