Copy 1, Volume 1

Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

  • Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An 1572-3. For mending the corner of’the mud wall of y® master’s close. 1573-4. For making clean coll. yard, at my Lord North’s coming hither. Mention of our breaking up, &c. 1575-6. Expences m the chancell, south ile, & steeple, &c. 1577-8. Expences in the comedy acted in the hall, &c., 23s. 2d. 1579-80. This year Mr. Marshall’s scholership was founded. A fire in Mr. Murgetrode’s chamber, between the master’s lodgings and the chappell. Charges of the comedy Bacchides, £1 19s. 1d. 1580-1. In the east window of the ch. were the picture of Christ and y® pieture of St. Peter. On the north side of the ch. the picture of Ignatius. 1582-3. Mention of the organs. To Mr. Stringer for him that begins the psalms, 3s. 8d. 1585-6. Sea coal first brought into the kitchin, heretofore wood and coal. Sea coal and turf this year. 24 webbs of lead blown _ down in y® chappell. 1588-9. This year Dr. Duport was made master of y® coll. For hedging about the walnut-tree. For juniper to aire the chappel on St. Mark’s day. 1590-1. For mending the mud wall in our m’ his close, &c. 1592-3. For mending glass blown down by the great winde, &c. 1593-4. The plague at Cambridge. To the glasier for new leading y° whole pane where the Founder is pictured. 1595-6. For beating down the wyndows in our m’s green ch., and wainscot ch. 1596-7. For a bord for the founders and benefactors names to be sett in the library. The well in the fellows garden was made, and seats about y® walnutt tree. 1597-8. Communion cloth on y® table, long 3 yards, broad an ell, cost £10. For drawing our Founder’s picture, £1 6s. 8d. For a curtain of green sarcenet for it, 7s. For a ladder to the pulpit. During the period to which the preceding notes refer,