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The Master's bill to Mr. Raynes, Bursar, for £50 spent in repairing the Lodge. Signed by R. Beadon (Master.)

A bill for 'bricklars work done' in the college, divided into sections. Includes: bricks for work in the cloisters (15s); labour costs (various sums); 40 bushels of lime (£1 3s 4d); 2 loads of sand (4s); '4 thousand of bricks' (£1 10s); 1 hundred of tiles (3s); 12 bushels of 'sinder dust' (1s 6d); labour for cleaning the kitchen (4s 9d); a bundle of fir laths and nails (3s); hair mortar (1s 6d); whitewashing the buttress and pinting[painting] hall windows (10s 6d and 7s 6d); repairing the drain in cloister court (6s 4d); whitewashing Mr Plampton's staircase (3s 2d); taking down the spire from the hall (9d). Total bill amounted to £98 11s 7d.

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.

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 washing the College linen (18s), signed by Ann Harper.

A bill for washing the College linen (18s), signed by Ann Harper.

A bill for washing the College linen (18s), signed by Ann Harper.

A bill for washing the College linen (18s), signed by Ann Harper.

A bill for masonry work, includes: sawing old stone and laying the old stone to cover the chimney in the Butterys (4s 6d); labour costs (various sums); repairing the chimney in the Fellow's parlour (11d); 3 hours labour, plaster and mortar (1s); 2 feet of stone by the iron gate in the court (2s 6d); two masons cutting staircase window 'for sashes' in Mr Raynes staircase (6s); one hod of mortar and fine mortar (1s); one mason for cutting a window 'for Sashes' over the front gate (5s 7 1/2d); 'pointing in' sashes (1s 6d); one mason for cutting the sides of 'Door Jambs[?]' in the staircase from the hall to Mr Bonny's room (6s 9d); cube stone in the arches and steps in the cloister (£21 1s 5 1/2d); 'superficial plain work' (£9 15s 6 1/2d); 'circular plain work' (£4 18s 5 1/2d); 'circular moulded work' (£6 1s 4 1/2d); paving (£5 17s). The total bill amounted to £73 14s 2d. A receipt is fixed beneath with wax, signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

A bill for work done to the college between September 1782 and 8th November 1784. The bill includes: painting the skirting board on the lodge stairs and 'mending several pts. on wall' (4s); painting 70 garden sticks green (5s 10d); painting the tin funnel from the buttress twice with lead colour (1s 6d); painting 18 yards of the new gates in lead colour, three times (9s); painting the doors by the hall 'Chocolate' (1s 8d); white lead and oil for the masons (4s); painting the cloisters 'in new Corpick' three times (13s); painting 4 18 'light sashes' three times in 'Lanthorn' (12s); painting six '16 light sashes in Cloysters' three times (16s); painting the Stone Gateway four times in a 'dark stone colour' (14s); painting the iron gates twice in 'lead colour' (5s 10d); painting 'the other Iron work' once (5s 10d); painting 'blank windows' black, three times (6s 6d); painting 3 new casements, frames and 76 'saddle bars' (5s 5d); painting 50 new windows (£8 6s 8d). Bill is then subdivided according to work done in Mr Turner's Room and Mr Whitehead's Room. This includes (for Turner): painting 40 yards of skirting board 'of three Rooms' twice (16s 8d); painting door case, shutter and windows in the bed room (2s); painting 2 '12 light sashes and one 4-light sash (2s 8d); colouring two passages and a closet with yellow distemper (12s). For Whitehead, this includes: painting 46 yards once in the 'Keeping Room' (11s 3d); painting the new door lining three times, and painting the mullions of the windows (5s 4d). Total bill amounted to £14 10s 8d. On the reverse is a note of receipt signed by Charles Freeman.

A bill for work done to the college between December 1743 and March 1784, which includes: solder for leading the copper in the kitchen (2s 11d); labour costs; 2 squares of crown glass to go under the stairs [unspecified] (2s); repairing old glass and fitting new crown glass on Mr Coppard's stairs (1s 10d); leading old glass (2s 6d) and repairing old glass on 'Cowlain' stairs; repairing old glass (6s 6d) and fitting new glass (5s 2 1/2d) in the chapel; cleaning windows (1s) and 2 squares of crown glass (7s 2d) for the Combination room; leading old glass (1s 4d) and fitting new glass (1s 9d) in the Clock room; 3 square of crown glass for the 'Buttris' (1s 6d); new lead for the sash windows in Mr Smith's room (7s 8 1/2d). The total bill amounted to £11 12s 1 3/4d. A receipt for the payment, signed by Robert Painter, is attached to bill with wax.

A receipt for the payment of £2 'due to Mr Rustat's Bursar', signed by W. Mathew.

A receipt for the payment of 13s 4d as one year's salary, paid by Dr Beadon to Thomas Lombe, the steward of the Manor of Gravely. Signed by Lombe.