Item 18 - Bricklayer's bill

1 item, paper.

Paid £34 17s 11 1/4d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: mending the plastering at Atkinson's staircase, mending the tiling and underpinning of the back building, at the coal house, cleaning the drain at the master's lodge, in the Fellows' parlor and pointing the garden windows, pointing a window in the library, mending the tiling at the stable and coal house, at the kitchen copper, pointing the window in the staircase in the gateway, at the Fellows' necessary and pointing the widow in the screens, cleaning the cesspool and drain, at the chapel, at the stables, at the hall chimney, on the leads, raising a scaffold, at the scaffold, at the tollhouse, at the tower, in the pump staircase, in the porter's lodge, cleaning bricks, and sanding tiles. Supplies included: brick and hair mortar, bricks, lath and nails, tiles, whitening, lime, sand, and blue mortar.

Reference to tower scaffolding could be related to the stucco being put on the chapel tower in the same year.