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, LondonRequest 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 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
Paid to Joseph Woodcock for work done on the new building, including payments for pointing windows, mortar, plastering the chimney, alterations made to the Master's lodgings next to the new building, loads of lime, bricks, to labourers, a journeyman, loads of sand, lathes and nails, bushels of hair and scaffolds. Signed by Joseph Woodcock
Paid to Joseph Woodcock for work done on the new building, including payments for bricks, labour time of Henry Alden and Richard Atwood, a carter for carriage, for workmen, for labourers. Signed by Joseph Woodcock
Paid to Joseph Woodcock for work done on the new building, including payments for sand, cart carriage, scaffolding, lime, journeymen, Richard Atwood, Joseph Clements, William Plumer, John Read, lathers, scoutels, sines, pails, matocks, tubs, lins, labourers, clay to parge the chimneys. Signed by Joseph Woodcock
Paid to Richard Cuchey for taking away numerous loads of rubbish. Signed his mark.
Paid to Robert Grumbold for work done on the new building.
Paid to Joseph Woodcock for work done on the new builidng, including payments for journeymen, labourers, lime, sand, tiles, lathes and nails, bricks, trowelmen. Signed by Joseph Woodcock
Paid to John Coe for work done on the new buildings, including payments for large spikens, small spikens, holdfasts, a pair of fire irons for the porter's lodge, eight straps and 16 bolts and keys and coterils, lead nails, hooks, two new pairs of joints. Signed by John Coe
Paid to John Burgis for plumbing work done on the new building. Signed by John Burgis
Paid to William Newling for work done on the new building, including payments for 8 sash windows on the first storey, 8 sash windows on the second storey, double lines and pulleys. Signed by William Newling
Newling, WilliamPaid 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
Payment made to John Newling for work done on the new building by his father, William Newling. Signed by John Newling.
Newling, JohnIncludes summarised totals of bills received for work done on the extension to A and B staircase. Includes note of separate payment to Smith for mending and putting up hangings in Tew's and Wood's chambers. Probably written in the hand of Richard Warren, bursar.
Payments made for the work done on painting and wainscotting the rooms of (George) Lewis, (Henry) Toundrow and (Edward) Pemberton, pensioners, and the "end chamber of the middle storey".