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Thomas Smith, of Hempstead, Essex, releases to Brian Smith, clerk, of Bures St Mary, Suffolk, all his rights in the messuage called Cavendish Place and other lands there.

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.

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.

A bill for joinery work done in the college between November 1768 and October 1769. The bill includes: 2 doors in 'Lodge' (2s 6d); oak (1s 1d); nails (4d); 'Mending the Landing of gateway stair' (1s 6d); deal (10d); 'dying damask Curtains' for the chapel (£1 4s); undoing and remaking the chapel curtains (7s 6d); 28 yards of 'best silk lace' (9s 4d); silk thread tape and 13 rings (1s 9d); 2 door springs (18s); lifting handles (2s); making board (2s); 'Altering door' (1s 3d); 'Leather for box & mending pump in Lodge' (1s 9d); 'putting Irons on hall doors' (1s); altering rails in the chapel (2s); hanging a sash in the Lodge (1s 8d); 'Repairing large Wooden gates next Close' (£1 12s 6d); 'findland deal' (3s 9d); making a door and a frame for the Master's garden along with a fence in the Close (18s 9d); brass doorknobs and nails (6s 9d); lining the ceiling in the parlour and repairing the cornices (£1 2s 6d); 2 brass buttons for shutters (3s 11d); mending the fence next to the pond ['pound'] (1s 9d); new leathering pump and a new bucket for the Lodge (3s 6d); making a door for the chapel (£1 18s 1/2d); glue (1s). Also includes references to labour costs. Total bill amounts to £15 4s and was signed by Smith.