Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- September 1757 - September 1758 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 volume, paper
Context area
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Scope and content
Contains weekly accounts for members of College.
Gives a list of members of the College in order of seniority - Master, Fellows, Pensioners, and Sizars. Next to each name is the amount owed under the headings: Buttery, Commons, Gates, Punishments, and sometimes the name of a festival.
At the bottom of the page are totals for:
Pane, Portus, Poor, Prom
Coals, Intro, Poor, Punishments
There are further accounts for all members of College for items including:
Chamber Rent, Utensils, Cook, Catechist, H. Lecturer, G. Lecturer, and Tables
At the back of the book are lists of names and amounts under the headings:
Commencement Money, Act Money, Feast Money, Cautions, Incomes, and Problems
Loose in the front of the book is a letter dated 15 November from John Dudding addressed to 'Sir' [probably the Master, Thomas Chapman] asking for his lease on his farm in Alkbrough to be extended as his grandfather and father has also been tenants on the farm.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The parchment cover is coming away from the boards in a number of places.