Item 39 - Carpentry bill

1 item, paper

An extensive bill of work done to the college by Thomas Smith, covering the year 1783-1784. The bill includes: making 3 new doors and frames, cupboards, window seat, repairing a floor and 'Jobs next Iron rales', and 28 days of labour (£3 10s); 10 deals (£1 1s 8d); 30 holdfasts to a pair of joints, with screws and nails (16s 9d); a pair of sashes (16s); cleaning the chimney piece, mending the floor, putting "Pieces" up in Castlery's Room (8s 9d); mending the Porter's ladder (6d); making and fixing sashes in the "Cupalo" (£2 9s 4 1/2d); mending the rails and gates in the grove (1s 10d); a baton (1s 8d); a ladder (6s); easing gates in the garden (6d); repairing the rooms under Mr Foley (£10); deals, nails and mending the door and floor in the Porter's Lodge (1s 11d); leather and leathering pump in the Master's Lodge (2s 6d); repairing rooms "up stairs in Cow Lane" (£14); "Work in grove", two men for 3 1/2 days each (17s 6d); shoring the arch (7s 6d); lead and making mould for the cloisters (1s); making moulds for Mr Coppard's window (2s 3d); working in the ground-floor room in Cow Lane (£1 10s); taking the stairs down and 8 days of labour (£11s); work to the partition and staircase, 13 days of labour (£1 12s 6d); work to ground room at the end of the cloisters and 2 days of labour (5s); 39 clean batons (£3 18s); work to the ground room next to the passage in the cloisters and 6 days of labour (15s); clean deal boards for the staircase (£5 5s 4 1/4d); "Putting Parititions & Lintings cases" in the larder and 9 days of labour (£1 2s 6d); work to window seat in Larder (1s 3d); work in the library, making "Good Landing" and 2 days of labour (5s 10d); making centre and fencing gate and 4 days 8 hours of labour (11s 8d); 4 "Balkers" (4s); work to the partition in Whitehead's room and staircase, and 6 days of labour (15s); wall hooks (3s 6d); fitting windows in Mr Coppard's room and work to the skirting on the staircase (15s); work in the kitchen and 2 days of labour (7s 1d); lock with a pair of joints and nails (4s 2d); oak linting for Mr Coppard's windows (6s); work in Whitehead's room, 1 day of labour (2s 6d); work to a room in the cloisters (8s 9d); step ladder for the garden (7s 6d);8 days work in the Master's Lodge (£1); 3 days work in the Kitchens (8s 1 1/2d); 'Making Center and work in Corsellis's Room' (£1); work to the porthole windows in the cloisters (6s 3d); 7 days work to the Chapel clerk's room (17s 6d); work to the door in the Library (5s); 'Stopping Passage up in Lodge (10s); work to 'Ox Eye' window and jobs over 7 days (17s 6d); hanging doors and jobs to the cellar in the Lodge (2s 6d). The total bill amounted to £81 16s 9 3/4d, and a receipt signed by 'Mr.s Smith' is attached to the bill with wax.