Item 48 - Carpenter's bill

1 item, paper

A bill for carpentry and joinery work done in the college, includes: 'Work in Necessary 4 & Nails' (11s 6d); a 1 inch deal (1s 10d); 1 feather edge deal (1s 8d); oak deals (5s 6d); mending the paper in the Lodge (5s 5d); 7 quire of blue paper (5s 10d); paste (1s 6d); mending an elbow chair for the Combination (3s 6d); nails and work in the buttress (1s 3d); 'Propping' trees in the close (1s 3d); making and fixing a shelf in the kitchen (2s 6d); 8 pairs of batons (1s 2d); 6 hold fasts and nails (1s 6d); mending the Fellow's apple chamber (1s 2d); 3 yards of 'Line deal nails' and hanging a sash in the room over the Gate (2s); Look, 2 bolts, 2 pairs of joints and nails (4s); mending a chair in the Combination (3s 6d); making and fixing a drawer, jobs in the buttress (8s 9d); 4 clothes pegs and nails (10d); a pair of sashes for Brough's room (16s); a new stick and mending 3 'hand fire screens' (1s 6d); nails and mending the fence in the Grove (1s 1d); putting posts down in the Close (2s); nails and mending the 'Necessary' in the Fellow's Garden (1s 6d); work to Mr Plampkin's staircase (16s 10 1/2d); 6 buttons (10s); putting 'sell' to Garden door frame and altering the coal place (7s 10d); 2 elbows, stumps and mending 2 making elbow chairs for the Combination (7s); work to 10 gutters 'Cornish & Facia of 3 sides in Cloysters' (£7 1s 10 1/2d); nails, screws and a brass nob to the Lodge door (16s 11d); 'sundry jobs in the Kitchen' (9s 4 1/2d); 1/2 yards of cheese cloth (9d). One entry beneath for 13th November is struck through: 'making 3 new doors and frames'. A receipt signed by Thomas Smith was fixed over the top of the final entry with wax. The total bill amounted to £42 2s 8 1/2d.