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A bill for smith work to the College kitchens between June and August 1769. Includes: cleaning the great jack (2s 6d); cleaning the small jack (1s); mending 5 range bars (2s 6d); laying a poker (1s 6d); 'pale Ear' (6d). Total bill amounted to 13s 10d, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work to the College kitchens between October and November 1768. Includes: mending a lock and key for the kitchen doors (1s); cleaning the great Jack (2s 6d); cleaning the small jack (1s); laying a poker (1s); laying 2 hoops '& 4 hott to Stoves' (8s 6d); laying 7 bars for the stove (3s 6d); mending a poker (6d); mending 'Jack fliers' (1s). Total bill amounted to 19s, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work between December 1768 and February 1769, includes: cleaning the 'Grate Jack' (2s 6d); cleaning the small jack (1s); 'shatering' and mending the 'Great' range (5s); laying a poker (1s). Total bill amounts to 12s, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ('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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

A Jesus College bill for smith work done in the kitchen. 9s 9d to clean the jack, to laying pokers, to mend the range, to new handill and fitting. Signed by the Smith Thomas Coe and by B. Fuller.

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'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.

Paid 5s to Thomas Coe. For jack, pale and pookes. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 11s 6d to Thomas Coe. For: jacks, shovel, spitt and mending pale. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 8s to Thomas Coe. For spits, jacks and stove handel. Examined by Jonathan James.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A bill for smith work, includes: 12 cramps 'by masons for cloysters' (4s); sharpening the weeding iron (2d); repairing a hand rail (7s); mending the Porters' bell (1s); mending the Combination bell (1s); sharpening 3 axes (1s 2d); new casement and frame in Mr Plampins stair case (14s); sharpening a pick axe (4d); sharpening a mason's axe (6d); 'piece of chair' (4d); painted a weeding a iron (2d); mending a pick axe (6d); a new press for the college seal (£2 12s 6d). The total bill amounted to £5 18s 4d, and was signed by Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work, includes: steeling 2 chisels for the bricklayers (1s); steeling and lengthening a chisel (1s); steeling a pick axe (1s); sharpening a stone axe (6d); steeling a 'crave' iron (1s); new hook and repairing another for the garden gate (9d); a new clapper to the hall bell (3s 6d); spring to a casement and fixing it with lead (1s 6d); a key for the chapel door (2s); 2 lead nails for the plumbers (9d); 2 turnbuckles, hanging 2 pair of casements and frames in the buttery (4s 6d); cleaning the hall stove (4s); repairing the hall stove, new nut and new screw (1s 6d); polishing the Combination stove (5s 6d); polishing the fire irons, horse and fender (3s 6d); new laying the poker (1s). Total bill amounted to £1 14s, 'kitchen bill £3 0s 2d' struck through. Signed by 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.

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.

A bill for smith's work done to the college, includes: chimney bar in the ground-floor room in Cow Lane (7s 4d); a new padlock, clasp and staples to the room over the Combination room (1s 10d); a double-bolted padlock and a piece of chain for the porters (marked 'returned'); a key for the iron gate (1s 3d); steeling a mattock for the gardener (1s); 12 'Cramps by Mason' (3s); mending the lock on the fellow's bog (6d); repairing a chisel (2s); 'Gudgeon' to the wheelbarrow (3d); 12 hoes with handles 'by Brett' (2s 6d); oiling and greasing 'Pevits' [pivots?] of iron gates (6d); 3 chimney bars for Whitehead's chimney (15s 8d); 12 spikes for the plumbers for pipes (1s); new bolt and fixing the 'Lads bog' (1s); a strong strap for the beam in the new staircase (10s 6d); new handle for a rake and hoe (1s 2d); sharpening an axe and chisel (8d); new steel and repairing 2 chisels for the bricklayers (1s 4d). The total bill amounted to £3 13s 10d. A receipt is fixed below, which was signed by Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith's work done to the college between October and December 1783, includes: new wire for the Porters' bell (2s 6d); mending the handle on the Porter's bell (6d); 2 'neets' and screws for a lock in the room over 'Camr[?]' (1s); a chimney bar in 'Cumbers Room' (7s); cutting bars out of windows (1s); '1/4 Year atten[din]g Jack' (2s 6d); 4 straps 'to Fain' (7s); casement and frame in 'Cassleys Room' (14s); mending a casement in Mr Foleys stairs (6d); cleaning the lock and replacing with a spring, for a new room in Pump court (1s 6d); a new pin and repairs to pump irons (2s 6d); mending 'hall barr' (8d). Total bill amounts to £2 13s 6d.

A bill for smith's work done to the college, includes: laying Combination 'Pokes' (1s); a chisel for the plumbers to cut out ice from the pipes (2s); repairs to the lock on the 'fellows bog' (9d); sharpening a 'Mattock for Grove' (6d); new steel mattock for the chimney bar in the 'new Room Cow Lane' (4s 6d). Total bill amounted to 11s 3d, signed by Thomas Coe.

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 £0 5s 6d to the smith for work done in the kitchen up to Midsummer 1782 for: mending a spit, laid two pokers, cleaning and looking after the jack.
Signed by Thomas Coe.
The name Jonathan James is also written down.

Paid £1 18s 11d to the smith for work done in the kitchen up to Michaelmas 1782 for: mending a latch, mending a casement, repaired the pepper mill, new lock and two keys and fixing, winch to the jack, mending beef fork, painted three spits, laid two pokers, fix meet hooks, new stove frame.
Signed by Thomas Coe.
The name Stephen Gurkin is also written down.

Paid £8 5s 9½d to the smith for: holdfasts for pipes by carpenters, hooks by Plummers, tantur hooks by Filby, New Spade in Master's garden, new lock and keys for buttery and fixing, new scythe in master's garden, new casement and train in Mr Friends staircase, altered a scythe, mending a key for chapel, 8 days cleaning the iron rales and gate next to the close, new staple and fixing the iron gate, staples to the rales, keys to the rales, 1 day cleaning the front gate adding 12 iron to top rail of palisades and several new holes, lead nales [nails] up the leads, piece of wire to fellows bog and fixing, spikes and irons for chapel bell, spikes to bottom and hooks to top of lamp ladder; work done in hall and combination (mending barr of hall stove, cleaning the hall stove and mending the cheeks, cleaned the combination stoves, cleaned fire irons, fonder, hons and laid the poker), college bill, kitchen bill.
Signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £1 9s 10½d to the smith quarter ending at Christmas 1780 for: hooks by Plummer's up the leads, polishing and fixing two curtains, rods in the Chapel, cutting barrs for brick layers up the leads, key to apple Room and staple to ditto, spikes in Master's Pound by Filby, strong nails by Filby up Tower, new pad locks, mending other padlocks, hooks to Tower Door, three staples and fixing, new tenants and mending the lock of White gate near the Close, Kitchen bill.
Signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £0 7s 4d to the smith for work done from Christmas 1780 to Lady Day 1781: mending the buttery key, new steel to a matlock by leach, barr, mending the lock of the white gate, fixing hinges of the lads bog, nails [nales?] by leach in the walks, wedge by Filby, nails by Filby, staple to sedge house.
Signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £0 6s 0d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchenup to midsummer 1781: mending the jack line, new jack lines, a quarters looking after the jack.
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 £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 £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 £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.

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

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

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