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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.

A bill for smith's work done to the kitchen, includes: new lock to the 'Coal Place' (3s); mending a poker (6d); three bars for a large gridiron (1s 6d); adding a 4lb iron to the Poker (1s 6d); grinding the clevers (6d); repairing a trivet (1s); 12 meat hooks for the larder (4s 6d; a fender for the range (7s 1 1/2d). Total bill amounted to £1 1s 10 1/2d, signed by Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work, includes: steeling 2 chisels for the bricklayers (1s); steeling and lengthening a chisel (1s); steeling a pick axe (1s); sharpening a stone axe (6d); steeling a 'crave' iron (1s); new hook and repairing another for the garden gate (9d); a new clapper to the hall bell (3s 6d); spring to a casement and fixing it with lead (1s 6d); a key for the chapel door (2s); 2 lead nails for the plumbers (9d); 2 turnbuckles, hanging 2 pair of casements and frames in the buttery (4s 6d); cleaning the hall stove (4s); repairing the hall stove, new nut and new screw (1s 6d); polishing the Combination stove (5s 6d); polishing the fire irons, horse and fender (3s 6d); new laying the poker (1s). Total bill amounted to £1 14s, 'kitchen bill £3 0s 2d' struck through. Signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £1 10s 9d and 6s 4d for smith work including bars for in the Masters Lodge, locks for the Fellows Garden, mending the lock in Porters Lodge, mending the lock in the Chapel, to mend locks in the Stable, fixing lock gate, etc. Signed by the smith Thomas Coe and by B. Fuller.

Payment of £3 4s 6d to the smith for, mending lock in chapel, sythe, new end to stop of back the new spring and fixing, to cutting serve out of the porter mahen (?) serve now and shorting the chain at the endwalk, to mending lock in log, clean parlour stove, clean new horn, clean sett ponds off fonder, laying the pooker, mending hook and lock of fellows garden, mending lock in masters garden, mending hoodite, mending fellows lock, new lock hog and fixing a mentor bank yard, mending buttess lock, hog gardening for porter, mending hog masters garden, new hog for the porter, laying the standard braces and rebetts, fixingt on role pan, mending to cement in Donopthor [?] staircase, lock masters close, mending lock and keys to garlick gates, new back poane with a nitt (?) to serve and fix in back parlour stove, mending lack fellows hog, porters bell [or hall?], lock grittess, pan caisment to a frain in porters lodge, hooks in fellows garden, mending window under the millner, 13 foot of iviz [?], fixing the doors (?), hooks fellows garden, mattock in fellows garden, mending parlour, hall and melting candles, mattock and printing twice.

Signed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £0 7s 4d to Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen: clean jack, clean small jack, booker, mend shovel, mend pooker, mend lines (?), mend steelyards.
Signed by Jonathan James.

A bill for smith work around the college, undertaken between January and March 1769. The bill includes: laying a poker for the parlour (1s); mending the parlour lock (6d); new spade handle for the Fellows Garden (1s 6d); mending a lock on the close gate (1s 3d); a bar for the porters 'Guite' (9d); new large spade (3s 6d); mending a lock for the coal house (1s); a new spring for the gate (2s 3d); fixing the door in the hall (1s); mending the parlour poker (6d); mending hinges in the Fellows garden and 'bog' (8d). The total bill amounts to 15s 7d, and was signed by Thomas Coe.

A bill for smith work to the College kitchens between June and August 1769. Includes: cleaning the great jack (2s 6d); cleaning the small jack (1s); mending 5 range bars (2s 6d); laying a poker (1s 6d); 'pale Ear' (6d). Total bill amounted to 13s 10d, signed by John James and Thomas Coe.

Paid to Thomas Coe £2 5s 9d for smith's work around the college, including lock and key for the gate; parlor pokers; mending the parlor lock; and hooks

15s 10d paid to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including copper bars, and great and small close jacks. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 9s 4d to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including jacks, jack line, pokers, mend pails, and fixing pulleys. Paid 11s 6d to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including jacks, pokers, and line. Paid 12s to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including jacks, pokers, a lock for the kitchen door, fixing a long poker, and fixing the spit sack. Paid £1 4d to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including pokers, mending stove hoop, mending bars, mending jack pulleys, laying pokers, and candlesticks. All also signed by Jonathan James and all dated to 17th December.

Paid £3 5s 8d to Thomas Coe for smith's work, including: a new shovel in the parlor, mending locks and keys and making new keys for the master's close, hooks and staples for fixing the garden gate in the master's close, mending a padlock, locking the garden gate, mending a lock and door in library staircase, a chimney bar and cutting out the window bar in Curtis's rooms, a chimney bar in Brooks room, mending a mattock, a new rake for the drain, and hooks and loops for the long hall door.

Paid £11 14s 4d to Thomas Coe for work including: spikes in the college walks, a lock for the master's close, locks and keys, spikes, mending the parlor lock, a lock for the garden, cleaning the parlor stove and polishing the kettle, mending hooks, mending pokers, mending the lock on the garden gate, closing the hall grate, mending the lock and key and clasp and a new padlock for the master's close gate, new casements, hanging doors, and staples.

Paid £4 4s to Thomas Burton for emptying the college necessary. Signed with Thomas Burton's mark and witnessed by Thomas Coe.

Paid £2 16s 9d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: cleaning and mending the parlor stove, laying pokers, mending the lock on the garden gate, on the pump in the fellows' garden, mending a ladder for the fellows' garden, making a key to the garden for the porter, wall hooks for the fellows' garden, creating a instrument for the bricklayers to use to drain pump court, and cleaning and mending the hall stove.

Paid £1 3s 3d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: cleaning the hall stove, mending the clockwire(?), a new pump, wall hooks for the master's garden, creating a lock and key and fixing the lock to the porter's lodge, and work in Brott(?) garden.

Paid 6s 10d to Thomas Coe for work in the college, including: laying parlor pokers, on the outer door of the chapel clerk's room, and various work in the chapel clerk's room.

Paid £1 5s 5d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: fixing hooks and staples on the master's coach, fixing handles to spades for the garden, mending the lock to the fellows' garden, a new mattock for the porter, laying a scythe for the porter, and wall hooks for the garden.

Paid to Thomas Coe. For: locks, hooks, laying parlour pookes, new handell and springs.

Paid 8s to Thomas Coe. For spits, jacks and stove handel. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 15s 8d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college in Christmas quarter of 1778, including: a key and mending the lock for the fellow's bell chamber, mending a hoe, cleaning the hall stove, mending bars, fixing hoops on the cupola over the hall, hair staples, mending and hanging the porter's bell, and spikes.

Paid 12s 6 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For: key to masters gate, painted a mattock, steeled a pick ax, nales to masters pound, hooks and eyes with wings and new spade handle.

Paid 12s 1d to Thomas Coe. For: new shovel handle, mending stoke tongs and lever, new poker, cleaning jack.

Paid £1 3s 9d to Thomas Coe the smith for: hooks by plummers, a twin buckle and a hook and fixing a casement and pain in mr Foley's staircase, 25 bolt to a ladder in the master's garden, small trowell by workmen, wall hooks by the plummer's up the leads, a strap and nails and fixing to the Master's Pound Gate, hooks and eyes for gate next to the Dunghole, a plate by Filby, mending the porter's bell, key to quadrangle, new crank to porter's bell, 2 plates to posts round the dunghole and fixing, painting a weed pon, a hoop and four wedges for a sythe in master's garden, strong holdfasts by Filby for the pipe case, lead nails by Plummers.

Paid £0 17s 17½ d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen the quarter ending at Christmas 1780: mending the range barr, repaired a clever, new door fraim (frame?) and 2 barrs, straightening 4 barrs, adding 3 jon to poker, band the jack.
Signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 4s 1½ d to Thomas Coe the smith for work done in the kitchen from Christmas 1780 to Lady Day 1781: pair of bitts to a pair of tongs, plate and nails to the coal house door, fixing two spitt wheels, laying pokers, new stove and 2 barrs, straightening and mending 3 other barrs, quarters cleaning the jack. Received old frame and barrs (which is deduced from the payment).
Signed by Jonathan James.

Bills from Coe, the smith, from Christmas 1781 to Michaelmas 1782, all paid in November 1782. Kitchen parts of the bills examined and signed by Jonathan James, the cook.