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- September 1823 - September 1824 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Paid £28 16s 4d to Coe and Company for work done in College. Includes payments for:
Courts - taking of old rim, 1 new rim and fixed to lamp over arch, 2 brackets for gas, new lamp iron pump court and 2 screw bolts for it, 2 bars for window in Willis' garden, drilled holes lead and fixed in Willis' garden, 6 glass lanterns for staircases, 4 scrapers, plate and 2 screws cases, piece of wire and fixed window at Master's Lodge and nails and tacks for it, 3 glass lanterns for staircases, 7 new tops and mend old lanterns, 14 bottom pairs to old lanterns and 14 loops to backs of old lanterns, 3w large tin burners, hooks and man for fixing, mend lock to gate, strong joint nails and fixed to privy, 2 jointed plates for trunk of gas, 8 screws and fixed, an iron drill and hole in stone lead and fixed for lamp, bar for porters lodge, bar for coach gate next to road, eye with met and screw and plate for porters, eye in plate on gate, attend your cross bar to Gate and new harp to the same, staple in plate, a half staple, attend to your staples, 39 strong screws, taking Gate off hinges attend hook plate 4 nails and harying, staple and fix bolt to another gate, shovel, repaired lock to privy with 2 screws, new scythe and hanging, man and boy for cutting off 8 lamp irons, laid pokers in servants hall, plate across stable yard gate 17ft, 2 half staples on plates, 26 strong screws for plates, 2 long head holdfasts gate porters, 4 wedges for hooks of gate, catch for a latch, shaped 3 weed hooks, mend and sharpened spade (spud), 2 lamp irons with scroll work, 2 men for fixing lamp irons, plate and 4 nail for gas, 6 inch old lamp irons.
Combination Room - blacked stove, 2 men taking down lamp, cleaned and fixed, cleaned irons and fender, cleaned stove bars, 2 new loops mend cheek trivets and repaired.
Buttery - 2 bars for chimney, 2 plates to rivets and mend back to the chimney, 1 holdfast, 4 ft 6 inches wire for window.
Hall - cleaned stove
Chapel - cleaned 2 rods for curtains, removed 2 candlesticks.
Clock - 2 new lines, 3 men for fixing new lines, job to clock after rain, a year's winding and oiling clock
Kitchen - joints and screws, holdfasts and nails, 4 lory head holdfasts and nails, taking down jack cleaned repaired and fixed, oil for the jack, laid three pokers, mend a poker, mend 2 trivets and righting 1 trivet, 4 bars for stewing stoves, righting 1 stewing stove and mend poker, chimney bar, 2 screw hooks to hang up the chimney bar, grate for drain, new tines and handle to fork poker, repaired fly and straightened spindle to jack after accident, oiling the jack, cleaned outside movements, 2 men taking down stove and pipe cleaned and fixed, new piece pipe for the stove, 3 bars for copper, holdfast to frame of copper, mend 2 pokers, 8lb bar for bottom of oven, 2 thumb screws righting and oiling oven and pointed 3 cooks holdfasts, 3w sides to stewing stove 35lbs, righting the stove, laid 2 pokers, shovel, cleaned and oiled outside movements to jack, plate for rivets and mend dripping pan, oiling smoke jack, 2 men taking down jack out of chimney cleaned repaired and fixed, oil for the jack, laid 3 pokers. This section of the receipt is also signed by J. Willis the College cook.