Paid £59 12s 9½d by Mr. Ranes [sic] to the bricklayer for: work done at cloister's windows (workman and laborer, removing scaffolding, bricks, bushels of lime, load of sand), work at the kitchen range, etc. (workman and laborer, bushels of lime, sand, bricks, tiles), work done in cloisters (workman and laborer, bricks, sand, hair mortar), upon the leads repairing walls (workman and laborer, hods of hair mortar), at cloister windows (workman and laborer, bricks, tiles, bushels of lime, load of sand, bushels of tinder dust (?) of tiles), making scaffolding at Mr Planton's windows and mending pavement (workman and laborer, bushels of hair, bushels of tinder dust), for Mr Planton's room and upon the lods (a workman and laborer), repairing pavement in middle walk (workman and laborer), repairing walls in pump court (workman and laborer, overtime, bricks, bushels of lime, bushels of tinder dust, bushels of hair, tiles, bundles of fir lath and nails), library windows and at Mr Planton's windows (workman and laborer), at bane in pump court and walls (workman and laborer), at cloister and windows, etc. (workman and laborer), at kitchen stove repairing the same at pump (workman and laborer, load of sand, bushels of pebbles), repairing walls under gutter (workman and laborer), sinking a cespoole in cloister court and making mortar (workman and laborer, bushels of lime, load of sand, bricks), at cloister windows and painting cesspool (workman and laborer, bushels of lime, load of sand, bricks), repairing kitchen stove (workman and laborer).
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster and by Joseph Brett (witness).
Paid £7 15s 11½d by Mr. Raynes to the bricklayer for: work at kitchen chimney (laborer and worker, hods of brick mortar, hods of hair mortar, bricks), at wall next to close (bricklayer and laborer, hods of brick mortar, bricks), to a job in screens (a workman and laborer, hods of hair mortar), preparing ceilings in butress and porters lodge (workman and laborer, bundles of fir loth and nails, hods of hair mortar, hods of brick mortar, bricks), repairing stove coppers and in kitchen (bricklayer and laborer, bricks, hods of brick mortar, bundles of fir loth and nails).
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster and by Joseph Brett (witness).
A bill for the porter 'Winding up the Clock' (10s). Also includes: cleaning 'the Clorster' [cloister?] (10s); cleaning the courts (6s 8d); cleaning the 'Quarter Tngle' [triangle] (2s); 'greens for the Hall' (3s). Total bill amounts to £1 8s 4d, signed 'received for my Father'.
Brett, Joseph