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The Records of St John's College Set
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Master's Lodge Inventory: EA Benians (1933)

Inventories of the furniture of SJC Master’s Lodge, including a record of all the furniture in certain rooms, dimensions of some of the furniture, hand drawn floor plans, valuation of the furniture and lists of linen, china, glass and silver.

Glass negatives: College site

Includes: the whole, or most. of the exterior of the College and its public rooms, covered by a single series of glass negatives, in two wooden boxes. The slides are not dated, but an approximate date of 1939-1945 has been given due to the military uniforms and white flashings on the steps which are visible.

Reyner's Statutes

Two volumes of College statutes with note on by-foundations and benefactors. The first has a list of names in the front including: Mansfield Price, Richard Beadon, W. Pearce, Geo. Whitmore 1787 and Tho. Catton 1797. The second volume inlcudes a letter of presentation of a College senior divine to a living. Also includes correspondence related to the history of the second volume.

H.M. Stewart Album

A photograph album compiled by Hugh M Stewart (1947), cox of Lady Margaret Boat Club (LMBC) from the late 1940s-1950. It contains 63 pages of a scrap album completed by Stewart with original photographs and careful annotations of crew and races; also includes occasional hand drawn sketches and diagrams. Additionally there are 13 loose photos; race results for Cambridge from 1939 to 1956 and a list of past winners of CUBC events from 1920-1948 shown in the British Rowing Almanck (LMBC entries only).

Stewart, H.M.

Mixed Items: LMBC

Includes:

  • Rowing medals of Richard Clarke Roy (1854)
  • Book plate
  • Samples of flannel, hat band and blazer trimming from Buttress & Co. (1935)
  • Flag relics (1869 and 1889) with correspondence
  • Brass eagle from boat
  • Mini pennants (1950), Tideway head of river, 2nd boat[1], and Reading University head of river[2]
  • Copy of the `Morning Herald' account of Colquhoun race 1837 and various other clippings about races.

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Long Books: College Seniors

'Long books' (Fellows' butler): monthly accounts for the sizings & other internal college expenses, of fellows, fellow commoners, graduates (M.A. and above) on the books of the college 1736-1929, (1739-44 lacking).

By an order of 1883 'commons' dinner in hall was henceforth charged directly to the college, not reckoned as a charge against the fellows' bills of fare. The earlier practice probably explains why commons and sizings are so confusingly similar in the accounts.

Education Fund Accounts: Education Board

Includes accounts and bank pass books of SJC Education Fund, payments to lecturers for intercollegiate lectures. Also includes the report on the Education Fund for 19 Feb 1909 concerning the appointment of a committee to consider the remuneration or payment of College Lecturers. This report although printed has annotations and comments added to it.

Bank Account Books

Includes: volumes recording the tuition fees paid by students 1893-1906. The books list the amount paid by students for their College tutorials.

Macalister, Donald

Room Rents- Bedmakers - Laundresses

Includes: volume of accounts containing entries for Stephen Parkinson’s students in rooms throughout throughout the College. Each page is headed with the location of the rooms. Records student’s name, bedmaker’s name and of amounts due to be paid for rent, bedmakers and coals for each room occupant. Entries for bedmakers from including the names of the students by whom they are employed and their earnings for each quarter. Charges are noted at top of page: per quarter. Entries for laundresses including names of the students by whom they are employed and their earnings for each quarter. Charges noted at top of page for pensioners and sizars per quarter.

Parkinson, Stephen

Choir Books: Senior Dean

The Dean's choir books covering subscriptions to choristers' rules 1876-1919; orders and rules for the organist and choir; (receipts for stipends by lay-clerks and choristers (1857-1955), by choirmaster (1872) and schoolmaster (1887) for tuition; records of baptismal certificates received for choristers (1872 -1894) and admissions to choir (1865-1895).

Also included loose in Volume 2 is a business card for Mr F Nutcombe (successor to Mr HA Brown) foreman painter and decorator.

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