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Paid £2 4s 9d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: laying a parlor poker, a new handle and rod for the porter's bell, a new spring and knob to latch at the back gate and fixing it with screws, new screw and fixing the chain in the master's walk, cleaning and mending the lock in the back gate, mending the lock of the master's stable, fixing a steel spring and screws in the master's kitchen, fixing a bar to the garden gate, mending the lock in the porter's lodge, mending gate lock in the fore gate, laying steel to a mattock at the back ends, a new handle and fixing it to the porter's bell, fixing holdfasts to the back gate next to the master's pond, sharpening and mending a hoe for the butler, and strong wall hooks.

Paid £6 9s 1d to Thomas Coe. For: key to chapel, 2 hooks, taking down window barrs and casement, strong brackett in chaple, spikes, fly wire fixed to pantry window, screw bolts to chaple roof, straps and staples, iron for carpenters, mend a strap, key to pulley, pins, key and collars for chaple.

Paid £3 18s 0d to Thomas Coe. For: strap, altering hinges, mending latch, new catch, new lock and keys, new padlock, nales by plumbers to fix lead, screws, spikes on the top of new gates, new spring, new tumbler for lock, sharpened mattock, fixing and altering gate, mend porters bell and lock, hanging pictures and new key.

Paid £1 15s 8d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college in Christmas quarter of 1778, including: a key and mending the lock for the fellow's bell chamber, mending a hoe, cleaning the hall stove, mending bars, fixing hoops on the cupola over the hall, hair staples, mending and hanging the porter's bell, and spikes.

Paid 12s 6 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For: key to masters gate, painted a mattock, steeled a pick ax, nales to masters pound, hooks and eyes with wings and new spade handle.

Paid 16s 1d to Thomas Coe. For: catch to a latch for chicken yard, porter's lodge door fixed, strong plates for wheel barrow, staple, mend of porter's bell, mend lock of surplus place in chaple and cleaned fellows lock.

A bill for smith's work up to Michaelmas 1783, includes: putting two keys together (1s); a new jack line (3s); a new grate and a pair of cheeks for the larder (19s 6d); chimney bar (6s 8d); altering and repairing a jack (2s 6d); a fender for the larder (3s); a 'blawer' (3s 6d);a set of fire irons (5s 6d); fixing a new door hinge (3s); adding an 8lb iron the kitchen pokers (3s 4d). Signed by S. Gurkin and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith's work, includes: 'strevit' in the kitchen (4s 6d); mending and fixing hinges (1s 3d); laying two pokers (2s 6d); a double skewer (3s); a spit wheel (1s); half a year looking after the jack (5s). Total bill amounted to 17s 3d, signed by S. Gurking and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith's work, includes: repairing a copper door (1s); copper bar (1s 6d); a 'chafing dish' (3s); 12 strong skewers (3s 6d); laying two pokers (2s 3d); mending the knob of the poker (6d); quarter of a year looking after the jack (2s 6d); 'round bale' to a pale (1s). Total bill amounted to 15s 3d, signed by S. Gurkin.

Paid £1 6s 8d to Thomas Coe. For locks, hooks and springs.

A bill for smith's work done to the kitchen, includes: new lock to the 'Coal Place' (3s); mending a poker (6d); three bars for a large gridiron (1s 6d); adding a 4lb iron to the Poker (1s 6d); grinding the clevers (6d); repairing a trivet (1s); 12 meat hooks for the larder (4s 6d; a fender for the range (7s 1 1/2d). Total bill amounted to £1 1s 10 1/2d, signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £1 3s 9d to Thomas Coe the smith for: hooks by plummers, a twin buckle and a hook and fixing a casement and pain in mr Foley's staircase, 25 bolt to a ladder in the master's garden, small trowell by workmen, wall hooks by the plummer's up the leads, a strap and nails and fixing to the Master's Pound Gate, hooks and eyes for gate next to the Dunghole, a plate by Filby, mending the porter's bell, key to quadrangle, new crank to porter's bell, 2 plates to posts round the dunghole and fixing, painting a weed pon, a hoop and four wedges for a sythe in master's garden, strong holdfasts by Filby for the pipe case, lead nails by Plummers.

Paid £2 2s 2d to Thomas Coe. For new rake, hinges, locks, mending the porters bell, fixing the fellows garden gate, parlour tongs and sash fittings.

Bills from Coe, the smith, from Christmas 1781 to Michaelmas 1782, all paid in November 1782. Kitchen parts of the bills examined and signed by Jonathan James, the cook.

A bill for smith work around the college, undertaken between October and December 1768. The bill includes: mending a lock and key, and fixing 'Garlick' gate (2s); mending the chapel locks (1s); mending the bell (6s); fixing the 'fellows pump' (2s); fitting a spout on the fellows' pump (9d); a scythe (4d); turning a buckle and mending a casement in the Master's lodge (6d); '4 Cramp hall fire place' (1s 4d); a strap on the gates (2s); 'all fixing' in the Fellows garden (1s 3d); mending a rake in the Fellows garden (4d); fixing the spout in 'the Corte' (10s); new spade in the Fellows garden (3s 9d); mending an old spade (8d); 'Laying parlor pooker' [poker] (1s); a stand for the porters' fire grate (6d); plates, nails and screws to mend the porters' ladder (1s); polishing 2 rods in the chapel (2s); mending lock and 2 keys for the 'buttress' (1s 4d); mending a lock and hinges 'of Lads bog' (1s); 2 hooks and 4 plates for the hall door (2s). The total bill amounted to £1 8s 9d, and was signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid to Thomas Coe. For: hooks, hanging doors in two rooms.

A bill for smith work around the college, undertaken between June and September 1769. The bill includes: cleaning the stove grate in the hall (4s); mending a lock 'in the barber shop' (1s 6d); mending a lock in the Fellows garden (6d); mending the porters' scythe (6d); a new lock and key for a gate (1s 6d); 12 'spikes' for the 'back gate' (1s); 66 'homaid' nails and screws to mend the back gates (4s 3d); a spring for the back gates (1s 6d); mending 8 spikes on top of the gates and other repair work (5s); cleaning the parlour stove (5s 6d); mending 4 fire brands (2s); cleaning the fender (1s 6d); mending a lock on the chapel door (2s); mending the pump (1s); lock for 'Garlick gate' (6d); 24 wall hooks 'for the plummer' (4s); laying 2 scythes. The total bill amounts to £2 7s 7d, and was signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid 13s 10d to Thomas Coe. For: bars, springs, lock on gate, mending chapel lock and laying parlour pooks.

Bill for various items and services, including: "severall Brooms in the Chapell" (6d); mending a garden rake (6d); "new middell to roler" in the Fellows Garden (2s); mending the "parlow stove" (5s); cleaning "frott fenders" (1s 6d); cleaning "Sett Irons" (2s 6d); cleaning "Iron hors[?]" (1s 6d); 2 "servis bolt" and mending "bellows pumps" (4s); "hoop weges sythe[?]" (6d); "hey [hay] Fellows Garding for paster"[pasture?] (9d); fixing shears (6d); "lengthing" casement and "pair Turnbuckell" belonging to the Chapel (2s 6d); to lock the Master's "Cloore" (6d); mending a broom (4d); "2 more Caisments" in the Chapel (£1 1s 4d); "4 Cramps 2 dousell pins" to fix the gate (3s); "mattock for porter" (6d). Total bill amounts to £2 9s 2d, signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £2 2s 4d to Thomas Coe. For hooks and spikes, mending bell, laying sythe, mend parlour lock, mend candlestick in chapel, window bars in court, gardening rake, cleaning and polishing and lock garlick gate.

Bill for various items and services, including: "2 Shaps" and repairing a door "to pump Cortes" (2s 7 1/2d); mending a "pain brace" (2s); repairing the pump in the Fellows Garden (1s); a spade for the porter (4s); mending a lock and key in the Fellows Garden (9d); screws in the parlour door (6d); leathering two pumps (1s); repairing a wheelbarrow (9d); "laying" two scythes (8d); mending lock hinges "of sealess bog" (6d); a key for "Garlick gate" (6d). Total bill amounts to 15s 7 1/2d, signed by Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work around the college, undertaken between March and June 1769. The bill includes: lock for the door (6d); lock for the master's gate (6d); 2 locks on the college gates (1s); lock and staple for the 'gate next groud[?]' (1s); new spade handle (1s); scythe (4d); mending a lock on the master's door (4d); a hook staple for the 'Garlick gate' (6d); a key and lock for the porter's lodge (1s 6d); lock for the Fellows garden (4d); 3 staples for the Master's garden (8d); a hook and 2ft long plate with screws (1s 6d); poker for the parlour (1s); laying a scythe (4d). The total bill amounts to 15s 10d, and was signed by Thomas Coe.

Bill for various items of 'smith work', including: a new lock and key for the College's coalhouse (2s); 'laying the pump' (2s); 3 keys for the garden, library and 'bog' (4s 6d); laying the parlour 'pooker' [poker] (1s); bog key for the porters (6d); a new parlour shovel (2s); 'master pump hoope' (6d); two pins 'to top College pump' (6d); replacing old screws in a post at 'End Colleg Walk' (2s); laying a matlock for the porter (8d); two keys and fixing the master's stable (4s); mending a hinge (6d); a lock on the master's garden (6d); staples in the master's stable (2s); a lock and key for 'Cooks' coal house (1s); a new rake handle for the fellow's garden (1s); 12 strong nails, 2 staples and a 'harp hook' for the master's stable (1s 6d); long hooks to hang a door (8d); hooks and 'home maid nales' (2s); mending the parlour's poker (6d); a large hinge and screws (2s); 'new duck hook & handell' for the porter (2s 6d). Signed by Glin [possibly Elin] Ricely and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work around the college, undertaken between January and March 1769. The bill includes: laying a poker for the parlour (1s); mending the parlour lock (6d); new spade handle for the Fellows Garden (1s 6d); mending a lock on the close gate (1s 3d); a bar for the porters 'Guite' (9d); new large spade (3s 6d); mending a lock for the coal house (1s); a new spring for the gate (2s 3d); fixing the door in the hall (1s); mending the parlour poker (6d); mending hinges in the Fellows garden and 'bog' (8d). The total bill amounts to 15s 7d, and was signed by Thomas Coe.

Bill for 'smithwork' in college, including: locking the master's 'cloose' (close) (6d); locking a gate (6d); locking the master's gate (6d); casement for the pump house (2s); locking the fellow's garden (6d); new wire and hanging porter's bell (2s 8d); mending and laying by 'ban/bar[?]' to the Hall (3s); laying out 'plain' in the Hall (6d); spade for the porter (1s); mending the lock in the master's stable (9d); hinge and screws for the master's coach house (2s 4d); five hooks and tens staples of the master's coach house (2s 6d); lock and pin chain (1s); locking the college bog (6d); casement for the master's lodge (3d); lock and staple for 'Garlick gate' (9d); 'new work' to the coal basket (4s); 3 staples to the master's stables (6d); spade for the porter (1s); new tumblers (1s); mending 2 locks in the master's garden (1s).

Paid £4 4s to Thomas Burton for emptying the college necessary. Signed with Thomas Burton's mark and witnessed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £3 0s 10½ d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen at the end of Michaelmas 1781: new barrs to range, handle and ferrel to a clever, mending a chafing dish, making a small clever, a barr to larder window and fixing with lead, piece of bird hole wire next ot the buttery and fixing, hooks to kitchen spitts, laying pokers, repairing a stove fraim (frame?), quarters looking after the jack.

Paid £2 19s 4d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: mending locks, mending the lock on the fellows garden, hanging doors, placing screws on the hall door, laying pokers, providing hooks for the master's garden, mending the locks in the parlor, polishing the parlor stove, mending gate clasps in the master's close, providing padlocks and a key, and cleaning the hall stove.

Paid £2 1s 10d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: mending a lock to the chapel for the porters, mending the porter's lock, mending a mattock for the porters, stapling in the master's lodge, and mending bars at the college gates.

A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Keeching'), includes: cleaning 2 Jacks (3s 6d); laying 'pooker' [poker?] (1s); hoops to mend a pail (6d); mending the cook's key (1s); mending the Range bars (3s 6d); mending the Jack line (6d). Total bill amounts to 11s, signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £2 5s 2d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: mending the gate lock next to the grove, providing locks, keys and spikes, mending a bar on the great gate, mending spikes and fixing themt to the master's wall, making a rake for the garden, hanging the hall door, providing a lock and key for the porters, and providing hooks for the garden.

A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Kettching'), includes: cleaning 2 Jacks (3s 6d); a new shovel (3s 6d); laying a 'pooker' [poker?]; mending a large poker (6d); for 'cutting' a pan and fitting the handle (6d). Total bill amounts to 10s, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work in the kitchen ('Kettching'), includes: cleaning the 'Great Jack' (2s 6d); cleaning the small Jack (1s); a key for the kitchen door (8d); laying the 'pooker' [poker?] (1s); mending the Jack line (1s); painting & 'Strater' [straighter?] 4 spits (2s); 6 sieves (9d); poker (1s). Total bill amounts to 9s 11d, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

Paid £2 12s 10d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: mending the parlor lock, providing candlesticks for the chapel, providing hooks and mending the lock in the fellows' garden, providing a key, mending the lock, and stapling in the master's close, providing a lock for Mr. Grigory's staircase, fixing a plate on the wall, providing lamp iron, providing a new rake for the porters, providing a lock for the parlor door, and fixing the porter's bell.

A bill for smith work undertaken between March and May 1769, includes: cleaning the 'Great Jack' (2s 6d); 'small Jack' (1s); laying pokers (1s); mending 'stillyard [steelyard]' (6d); a new grate (9s); two hooks (4d); a barring 'bard [board?]' (2s 8d); shovel and '2 pale Eam' (8d); mending the 'Chafend ixl [chafed axle?]' (6d). Total bill amounted to 19s 2d, and was signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

Paid £0 17s 17½ d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen the quarter ending at Christmas 1780: mending the range barr, repaired a clever, new door fraim (frame?) and 2 barrs, straightening 4 barrs, adding 3 jon to poker, band the jack.
Signed by Jonathan James.

A bill for smith work done in the college between June and November 1784, includes: a chimney bar for the ground floor room in the cloisters (6s); 18 cramps for masons (6s); repairing the lock on the library door (6d); repairing the Combination door (6d); padlock for the Chapel door, ordered by Mr Bonny (1s 2d); cleaning and repairing the hall stove (5s); polishing the stove in the Combination (5s); a new cast-iron back to the Combination stove (15s 6d); 23lb of waste Iron riveted in the middle to prevent it from breaking, ordered by Mr Plampkins (7s 8d); polishing the fire irons, fenders and horse (4s 6d); a pair of garden shears 'by Brett' (3s 6d); a large square staple for the coal house (8d); sharpened the mason's hammer and chisels (1s 4d); sharpened the 'weed iron' for the porter (2d); a padlock and piece of chain ordered by Mr Matthews (3s 2d); 'hasp' and 2 staples for the fence (6d); repairing 2 chisels (4d); 12 spikes 'by Plummers' (2s); spade handle 'by Brett' (1s); sharpening an axe and a chisel (5d); a new lock, 'neets' and screws, along with fixing a 'lads' bag (5s); repairing the lock on the blue gate (6d); sharpened a mattock and 3 chisels (6d); a padlock for the lime house (9d); 147 wall hooks for the chapel clerk's room (18s 4 1/2d); 140 wall hooks for the arch in the cloister (17s 6d); 80 bars for the hall windows £2 6s 8d; 3 pairs of new casements with frames for the hall (£2 2s); 24 wall hooks for the Master's Room (3s); chimney bars (6s); 204 wall hooks for the Master's Room (£1 5s 6d); mending a sconce for the chapel (6d); 5 lattice wires for the round windows (£1 7s 5d); repairing 'Pump Sweep in holes' and new pins (2s 6d); new iron gate and 2 top rails (£5 9d 6d); 4 new standards, 6 braces, 4 bars and 2 steps to the bottom of the gates (£6 6s); making 4 standards without braces and 4 bars (18s 4d); repaired 'Tenants old Gate' (2s). The total bill amounted to £32 3s 11 1/2d. A receipt of payment, signed by Thomas Coe, is fixed to the bill with wax.

Paid £2 4s 5 3/4d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of adding iron to the range, straightening and mending bars, laying a poker, cleaning a jack, and in the rest of the college, including: new flaps and mending the sink grate in the pump court, mending the rim of the pump, wedges up the tower, grinding copper to put in the master's pond, staples for filling up the leads, hooks for trees in the master's garden, mending the lock of the fore gate by Mr. Matthew's order with the master out, laying a scythe for the master's garden, nails for the garden gates, a hook with a socket for the hall windows by Mr. Matthew's order, keys and locks for the stairs in cow lane, and fixing bars to the stairs in cow lane. Section detailing kitchen work also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 11s 2 3/4d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of cleaning the jack, new copper bars, and straightening and mending the old copper bars. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 12s 1d to Thomas Coe. For: new shovel handle, mending stoke tongs and lever, new poker, cleaning jack.

Paid 8s 5 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For: cleaning jack, new point to a spitt, straighting barrs, adding to poker and fixing wheel.

Paid £1 9s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college and 4s 3d paid to the same for smith's work in the kitchen. Work in the college included: mending the back gate lock, a bow to a key for the porter, a new rake for the fellow's garden, laying a new scythe for the fellow's garden, a new key and mending the lock of the porter's lodge, new key and a plate to a lock for the toolhouse in the fellow's garden, a hook, key, henge, staples and nails for the leads, mending a padlock, laying a poker for the combination, straps with nails and screws for the doorposts on the leads, a hasp and staples and padlock to the clock, sharpening a grave iron for the bricklayers, strong plate and nails for a wheelbarrow, sharpening a chisel for the bricklayers, altering a scythe for the fellow's garden, fixing spikes, fixing nails to the coachhouse door, mending a brass lock in the master's bedroom, and mending the lock of the master's pond gate. Work in the kitchen was affixing a hook to the range, laying a poker and cleaning the jack. Section of kitchen work also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 12s 6d to Thomas Coe. For: new spitt wheell, spitts, cleaned jack, laid a poker and straightening stove barrs.

Paid 6s 7d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending a port hook, laying a poker and mending the lock for the outer door. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 6s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of cleaning a jack, mending the range bar, making a chopping knife, and adding iron to the poker. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 4s 1½ d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen from Christmas 1780 to Lady Day 1781: pair of bitts to a pair of tongs, plate and nails to the coal house door, fixing two spitt wheels, laying pokers, new stove and 2 barrs, straightening and mending 3 other barrs, quarters cleaning the jack. Received old frame and barrs (which is deduced from the payment).
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 7s 3d to Thomas Coe for new jack line, mending a ladle, mending a trivet, cleaning a jack and hinges.

Paid 7s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jakes, pokers, mending a lock, and mending a copper door. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 3s 5 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For work to range and jacks.

Paid £2 4s to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending stoves, adding a bar to a round stove, putting new bars on a square stove, laying a poker, a key and mending the lock on the outer door, and hooks for the plummers [plumbers]. Also signed by Jonathan James.