Bricklayers invoice/bill.
Courts and precincts:
November 16 1858:
- Work to steps after Gas fitters and in front of the paving. Mans time.
- Open and empty drain and leafs from the pump. Repair slating over the offices. Bricklayers and labourer: 1 day, 34 dutchess (duchess) slates, nails, cement.
November 20 1858:
- Take up the old steps front of College, build a foundation for new ones. Prepare the ends of old ones to receive above. Repair the path of front entrance. Repair the slating over the knife place. Bricklayer and labourer: 3 3/4 day, 8 hods of buck mortar, 1 1/4 bushel of cement, 1 hand cart load gravel, 8 slates and nails, 2 hods hair mortar, and plaster of Paris. For the new steps: 10 ft cube of Ketton stone, 36 ft sup. of sawing and plane face.
- Fix the new steps and prepare ends of the old ones to receive them and alter the paving. Mason and labourer 3 days.
- Raise ladders and repair the Hall chimney and clean out the tube, clean out the top of another chimney, clear Gutters and jobs. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/2 day, bricks and cement.
December 1858:
- Take up pavement and relay above with Paris to various places. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/4 day, 1 hod of brick mortar.
- 2nd court. Alter drain and lay in a siphon tap. Bricklayer and labourer 1/2 day, siphon tap and cement.
- Work to floors for gas. Pebble to places and make good for plastering. Bricklayer and labourer 2 1/2 days, 2 hods brick mortar, 2 hods hair mortar, cement and plaster.
February 5 1859: Clean out and make good to drain, mens time and cement.
19 Feb 1859: Dig and enfamine and work to drain.
26 Feb 1859: Make good to drain, dig for and make a new drain to take off the overflow of water from the Bogs. Work to paving and the sill of back gates. Bricklayer and labourer 3 1/2 days. 5 hods of mortar, 30 tiles, cement and 30 bricks.
- Repair the brickwork and put on bricks on end to the dung place, point to the pantiles. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/2 day, 6 hods hair mortar, 1 1/2 bush cement.
- Work to the sewer in the ditch. Bricklayer and labourer 1 day, 1 1/2 bushel of cement.
March 12 1859: Open, clean out and make good two traps. Work to drain and and trap above from the water pipes in the third court and pave over above. Bricklayers and labourers 1 day.1 glaze, siphon, trap, 3 pecks cement, 1 hod brick mortar.
May 14 1859: Make a drain at the back of chapel and other jobs. Dig and earth and lay down pieces of new pebble paving to make the entrance wider. Also lay new piece to the entrance of the garden gate. 31 yards of new paving including pebbles, gravel, and laying complete.
- Take up and relay old paving to parts. 34 yards of paving. 1 1/2 load of paving gravel and carting.
- The Third/3rd Court. Dig and lay in a new piece of Glaze drain and put bricks on edge to the grass plot and work to cesspool. Bricklayer and labourer 1 day, 10 ft glaze tube, 125 bricks, 1 hod brick mortar and cement.
- Take down the four ceilings of servants water closets. Point to roof of sedge place. Open and clean out water pipes next pump and mend the wall of passage to the Buttery. Bricklayer and labourer 2 1/2 day, 4 hods hair mortar, 4 pantiles, plaster of paris, and cement.
- Take off top of wall to servants water closet and build it higher, take off slates to the roof and prepare work to receive the new cistern. Bricklayer and labourer 2 days, 9 hods brick morter, 80 bricks and cement.
- Put four new ceilings to water closets and repair and make good the seats, white wash the walls of above, new slating to roofs, and repair the slating to roofs of knife and shoe place and other jobs. Bricklayer and labourer 2 3/4 day, bricklayer 2 3/4 day, 2 1/2 bundle lathes and nails, 1 hod of mortar, plaster of paris, cement and whitewash.
- New slate to roofs of water closets. 70 slates and nails and putty. Slater and labourer 1 day.
- 1 load of dirt carting away.
College:
December 18 1858: Work to the stove in the Hall.
February 5 1859: Mr Oakleys, raise ladders, take off old top of chimney and fix wind guard. Bricklayer and labourer 3/4 day. 1 hod hair mortar and cement.
- Staircase next the chapel. Repair walls after gas fitters.
April 2 1859: Work to chimney to cure from smoking. Bricklayer and labourer 1 1/4 day, 2 hods brick mortar, cement, 2 drain tiles and hair mortar.
April 23 1859: Work in room to hearth stone which sunk.
July 16 1859: Repair the plastering to staircases and passages in the first court. also repair the plastering in staircase in cloisters. Bricklayer and labourer 2 days, 4 hods hair mortar, 1 hod putty, laths and nails, 3 pecks of plaster of paris.
- Mr Westmorlands rooms, take down the ceiling entrance to above, put up a new ceiling and clear away rubbish. Raise ladders and work to top of chimney. Bricklayer and labourer 1/2 day. 3 hods brick mortar, cement, and 1 hod hair mortar.
- Buttery, repair stone door joints and work to where door shuts against. Third (3rd) court, lay the paving against the pump. 6ft 4in sup. stone and cement.
- Repair to walls. Bricklayer and labourer 1/2 day. 2 hods mortar and cement.
- Repair the hearth and jobs.
- Cement and bricklayer and labourer 1/4 day.
- Whitewash the ceiling and walls of above.
Kitchen:
July 16 1859: Examine chimney, build work in side of above to stop the smoke issuing into Mr Jowell's room. Plaster to inside of the round iron, work of smoke stack. Briclayer and labourer 2 days, 8 hods brick mortar, 30 titles, candles, 6 hods of hair pargeting, paid men extra for working in chimney.
- Take down the two coppers and rebuild and new furnace, work to hotplate, fasten stone in larder and other jobs. Bricklayer and labourer 3 1/4 days, 13 hods brick mortar, 3 hods hair mortar, 15 welch (welsh) fire bricks, 30 tiles.
The Chapel
March 19 1859: Point to several lights. Bricklayer and labourer 3/4 day. Plaster and cement.
- Build scaffold in the chapel and build up the interior of blank window. Secure the arch and work on wall which was bulging and clear away the scaffold. Bricklayer and labourer 4 days, 2 labourer 1/2 day assisting, 40 hods brick mortar and cement.
