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A bill for sizings, includes: beef steaks (1s); pot for two tenants (4d); pot and two 'tards' (1s). Total bill amounted to 3s 4d, signed by S. Gurkin.

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.

John Apsey's bill for work in the kitchen. Expenses of making and mending, dishes, plates, saucepans, kettles, collanders, gridirons etc. in pewter, copper and brass.

Signed by Apsey and by one Stephen Gurkin.

A bill for work done to the kitchen, includes: mending a 'slice' (2d); tinning two stewpans and two frying pans (6s); tinning one pot saucepan and 1 large posnet (3s 6d); tinning four 'Bellyd' saucepan and two copper boilers (10s 2d); 'furring' a kettle and soldering 'sprin' (1s); use of 120 plates (10s); use of 30 dishes (5s); mending a tin sluice (2d); mending two water dishes, setting two handles and one new handle (4s). Total bill amounted to £2 6s, signed by S. Gurkin and John Apsey.

A bill for food served at the Commencement dinner on 2nd July 1782, includes: stewed eels (9s 6d); 4 fowls (8s); 4 lobsters (5s); cauliflowers and greens (1s 6d); potatoes (1s); strawberries and cream (7s 6d); pickles (6d); lemons (6d); codling pie (4s); a dish of peas (1s 6d); lemon pudding (4s); a dish of beans (1s 6d); a ham (9s 6d); pigeon pie with eggs (4s); chine of mutton (6s 6d); fricasse of rabbit (3s 6d); goose (4s); calf's head (5s 6d); 2 fowls (4s); tongue (3s); salmon (2s 6d); Tarts (1s 8d); salad (1s). Signed by S. Gurkin.

A bill for food, includes: a dish of salmon and a '10 d[ozen]' lobsters (10s); calves' head hash (5s); hunting pudding (3s 6d); apple pie (3s); fricasseed rabbits (3s 6d); a leg of mutton (4s 6d); turkey sausages (8s); 'Greens Butt &c' (1s); 2 chickens (3s 6d); cold beef (2s 6d); brawn (2s); herrings (9d); tongue (2s); mince pies and tarts (2s 4d). Total bill amounted to £2 1d, signed by S. Gurkin.

A bill for food served at Rustat's dinner, includes: 'salmon 20 d[ozen?] Lobsters' (12s); pigeon pie (2s 6d); 'Ragu'd Veal' (2s); collared pork (3s); tongue (3s); plum pudding (2s 6d); patties (1s 6d); round beef (9s); 3 chickens (5s 6d); pickled salmon (1s 6d); trifle (2s 6d); 'Gemonge' (3s); tartlets (1s 6d); cheesecakes (2s 4d); asparagus (3s); green salad (1s 6d). Total bill amounted to £2 14s 10d, signed by S. Gurkin.

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 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.