Item 3 - Necessary Account Book, 1781-1815

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MCCA/MCAD/3/3/3

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Necessary Account Book, 1781-1815

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  • 1781-1815 (Creation)

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1 volume, paper

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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

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      B/263

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