English stoneware
Plant pot
13½ x 9¾. After R. Pyle, engraver.
McArdell, James13¼ x 10. After R. Pyle, engraver.
McArdell, James8 x 5⅛
Box of mathematical instruments, formerly the property of Roger North and given to the College on his death in 1734. Also includes printed list of instruments in box, probably once used when instruments were included in an exhibition.
Henry Wynne, Chancery Lane, London1 piece is Samian, 3 are 18th or 19th century. Samian sherd is 9g with rouletted decoration. Identified by K.Anderson, this is a fragment of a Central Gaulish 18R dish (1st-2nd century AD).
7½ x 6. After Daniel Mytens.
19¾ x 15. Scuffed and torn laid on to linen.
Phillips, G. H.Request for money to help fund the extension of A and B staircases ("to raise the building opposite to what we call the new building") and to pay for "a handsome new wall, gate, and peers towards the piece". Signed by Richard Warren with small remaining fragments of red wax seal.
Paid to Robert Grumbold for work done on the new building, including payments for new windows, new watertable, new ground table and for working and laying the old ground table, new corbell table, coping, for taking down the old windows and preparing quoins for the new windows. Signed by Robert Grumbold
Paid to Robert Dalton for work done by him on the new building. Includes costs for painting the old wainscot in a ground chamber by the Fellows garden door and for whiting the ceiling and chimney in the same room; For painting two outward doors in the same staircase; For painting the new iron casements and irons and 42 iron bars for windows facing the court, for painting of 13 wooden casements and pains, for painting 14 new sash windows next to the Fellows garden, for putty and glass for those windows, for whiting the glass, for a brush, for whiting two low room chimneys that were newly plastered. Signed by Robert Dalton
Paid to John Burgis for part leading the new building. Signed by John Burgis
Paid to John Smith for work done on A and B staircases. In (James) Shrawley's chamber for 4 yards of duck malting, three and half yards of paper, a new bedcord, two mats, nails and joints for the tables in the chamber.
In (Geoffrey) Ekin's chamber three pieces of paper, 17 yards of duck molting, for hanging attic room bed chamber and study, for "great and small" nails, a yard and a half of green base, for ten yards of tape and brass nails, for taking the hanging down. Signed by John Smith