Item 2 - Necessary Account Book, 1758-1781

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MCCA/MCAD/3/3/2

Title

Necessary Account Book, 1758-1781

Date(s)

  • 1758-1781 (Creation)

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1 volume, paper

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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

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Accruals

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      The spine has come away from the block of text and repairs have been attempted by using brown sticky tape.

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      B/262

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

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