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Bill and receipt to Jesus College from Shallow & Coleman for various repair works done from 1847-1848. Includes work done in Courts, Buttery, Combination Room, Kitchen, and on the clocks. Signed on receipt of payment in full Shallow and Coleman.

Iron work done to the estates.
Ironmongery: gratings, hooks, stapes, nails, paddlocks.
Marked received, j. Shallow.

Bill and receipt for £6 16s 8d for ironwork.

Receipt for new iron components for various college buildings, coming to a total cost of £42 15s 5d.
Courts: steel end to key of hydrant; spring wire for Porters' bell; 3 weed hooks; 2 new handles; back and sides of stove in lecture room; new key for the servants' hall cupboard; new lock for back gate; chain links for Lowe's, nos. 3 and 5; chain trap for Lowe's, no.4.
Hall: hooks fixed to windows; 5 swing casements and frames (including 5 bronze hooks and 28 yds of cord).
Buttery: range with oven and boiler (including pipe, holdfasts, and cement); coffee boiler and coffee pot; new boiler (incl. screws and cement)
Chapel: mending door to stove; furnace cleaned; galvanised pail; cleaning and mending lock; new top and mending of 5 candleholders [?]
Kitchen: 2 bottoms, 2 covers, and 2 rings; copper ladle; new key for Chubb's lock, cleaned and refiled; mending dripping pan stand; taking up plates for sweeps and refixing, cleaning, and blackening; oiling jack; coal hammer; handle for punge poker; square 6 screws for shelf; plugging coal and fixing bar shelf; a blower
Clock:one year winding and oiling.

Bill for:
6 hooks and fastened coves (Groyder)
Double back and fixed (Cleverly and A.B. Wilson)
Cleaned, mended, and lacquered two locks (Fairbairn)
10 brass head screws (incl fixing)
Bottom screws and fixed to stove (Chanter)
Double back and fixed (Tucker)
Misc cleaning and mending new locks, fixing screws
New hob; repairing stove.
Total cost £3 1s. Signed by Thomas Shallow.

Receipt for ironworks carried out in student rooms between December 1875 and September 1876. Total cost of works £14.10, signed off by William Thomas Coleman. Specific work includes:

• Plate rivits (H.W. Wilson)
• Fixing back screws. (Hockin and Champion)
• Fix hook and [?] bottom (Hockin and Champion)
• Fixing new back screws to stove (Jennings, Champion, L2, L5, L6, F3)
• Register stoves in K2, L9, L3, L4.
• Fixing new cheeks and back hooks in L7.
• Fixing new hob in L8.
• Fixing wall hooks to side of stove in L6.
• New slip and bearing bar.
• Pins to fix bars to stove.

Bill for ironwork to student's rooms. Total payment of £4 12s. Includes payment for: new tube to chimney at Newberry's; mend hob, screws and stove at Oliver's; 2 holdfasts to Oliver; mending casement's at Mr Westmorland's; screws for Mr Holland and Mr Westmorland; clean and mending 3 mortice locks and 2 brass locks, 4 ebony roses at Foster's; fixing stove and James' and Backhouse's; holdfasts to Coves at Frances'; double and back stove B1; back and fixed B2 and E1; clean and mend 2 locks E1; 8 screws to door E3; clean and mend lock, new spindle and handle, 1 escutcheon, 3 roses and 8 screws to B 2; cleaning brass lock at Pickance's; fixing stove at Wales' and Mr Luckock's. Dated 28th November 1866 and signed by Thomas Shallow.

From the Revd Prof Corrie to Shallow and Coleman. Ironwork done on the following: courts and outside, hall, chapel, buttery, combination room, clock and kitchen. Items billed for the courts and outside include: nuts, screws, & fixed staple to bar of gate stable; cleaned & repaired lock to ditto; mended gas lamp gateway; new joint and mended ditto; opened stable & key to ditto porter; cleaned & repaired lock to back gate; doubled back & fixed to stove harries; plate & screws fixed latch to school; new fall door to register Mr Drake; nails & fastening bar over water closet; key to front gate; cleaned and repaired lock ditto; 2 notched bars over water closet; 100 nails & 2 men fixing ditto 1/2 day each; nails & fastened lamp on stairs; cleaned & repaired lock next Shoe Place; 2 men taking down spiking off wall next water closet length 4 standards & making higher; 4 bars with 48 spikes under ditto; 4 screw bolt; 2 men fixing ditto; padlock; hasp 2 staples fixed coals; new bridge & repair lock back gate next Cinder Place; cleaned & repaired 3 locks to front gate; oiled & eased other bolts stocks; mended gas key porter; joint & mend lamp; hook to plate of gate nails fixed; eased & oiled gas tap; wynch to ditto; eased taps & c to 3 gas lamps; alt' bar & add' 3 cross spikes Lowthers; key to gas; lead; repaired lock letter box; 2 collars to raise Master's gate; 1 collar & fixed gate hook; eased tap to gas; repaired lock bedroom Porters' Lodge; add' 5 cross spikes to bars Lowthers; 1 Lowe's drain trap Manor St; cleaned & repaired lock to gate next Close; cleaned & repaired outer gate lock ditto ditto; 1 new weed hook & steel to another; cleaning lantern & horn to ditto porters; 2 hooks & nuts & mend stove bottom & fix back Feudall; back & fix Morgan; mend gas lamp; plate screws & fix to cart; 9 hooks & loops & nuts new foot & repaired stove Porters' Lodge; 1 slip to stove; eliptic stove shoe blacks; 2 holdfasts to ditto; strapped staple screws & fixed porters; stapled & latched screws & fixed; 5 teeth and alt' rake to clean stones; sharpen weed hook; sharpen crowbar; double back & fixed to stove Sharp; coal scoop school room; taking off weather vane, cleaned spindles centre for ditto, oiled & fixed; alt' key by Porter; 2 candlesticks school room; 2 men cutting 5 upright 2 cross bars out of window school room; 1 new bar to ditto; cutting fresh holes & fixing ditto; lead for ditto; inner back screws & fixed White; sharpened 2 points; handle to coal hammer; laid 2 points, sharpened 2 ditto; handle to ditto; bow to 1 key & bit to another Porters; mend joint to gas lamp; eased tap to other. Items billed for the hall include: drill holes in lamp; handle to coal shovel; 3 men taking down stove for sweeps; charcoal for flue; springs to carving forks; thumb screw & fix to flue door; thumbscrew & fix to casement; 2 springs, 4tl lead; 1 man fixing; taking down stove, 4 plates, 12 bolts & mend cheeks, 1 new back, 1 set front bars, 16 new bars, repair stove, white, lead & fix ditto; clean & large 3 burner lamps; handle & fix to flue door; 2 baskets charcoal for flue; grate to air flue, ash pan to grate ditto; chain 2 swivels drilled holes & fix to flue; 2 bushels charcoal. Items billed for the chapel include: 2 long ferrules to join brush; new handle; 1h doubters. Items billed for the buttery include: screw spindle & nut to knife cleaner; key to inner door, bolt & repair lock to ditto. Items billed for the combination room include: laid poker, fasten fret & nut to rail 7 tighten bars; clean large lamp 4 burners. Items billed for the clock include: 2 new lines to clock; 2 men 1/2 day stringing & fix ditto, new pulley to clock line; mend lever to striking part of clock, one year's winding clock. Items billed for the kitchen include: mend & fix iron to pole for oven chains, blower to stove larder; 1 cast iron milk pan tinned; oiling jack, clean & right 10 skewers; key to patent lock, key to stocks ditto, clean & repair 2 locks; socket & mend range poker, lengthened 2 other ditto, sharpen saw; marking iron, grinding 2 cleavers, key desk & mend a lock; oiling jack, knife steel; new bar to range 21th, right 3 ditto, end & mend spit rack & fix; bottom 21th, oiling jack; 4 bars to copper 24th, right 9 ditto, piece cast plate; taking down jack cleaning repairing & oiling; 13 bars to copper 60th; shovel long handle, pan to 1 ditto, laid poker, laid 1 ditto larder; bottom 22th. Amount billed totals: £34 6s 0d. Signed by Thomas Shallow.

Invoice for ironwork.

November 18th 1858: Open rusted padlocks to Gate.
4th December 1858: Coal scoops, porters.
January 1859: Cleaned and repaired lock on gate next to close. Bill for key of above. Repaired latch and screws, and bell, Porters lodge. 4 gas lamps. 3 bars to mend bottom hook and to fix cheek of stove. Lock for front gate of stable yard.
February 1859: 3 holdfasts for stove, porters' house. Taking off, cleaning, and refitting 8 locks, bolts and fixing screws to doors and gates at stable yard. Mending latch on Close Gate, 2 screw bolts and fixed hinges to Wood Yard, Hinge screws refixed to Gate. 5 holdfasts and nails for gate. 3 holdfasts for levers affixed to door frame to Water Closet, mend bolt to back doors, cleaning and refitting lock for front door Gardens.
March 1859: Repair bell to porters lodge. New flaps and fixed bracket to joinings.
28th April 1859: Cut piece out of iron post. Fix Kitchen door.
4th May 1859: Gas lamp.
July 1859: Shorten bucket rod, stable yard. Repaired and refixed lock turret. Chain and staple for ladders. Padlock for above. Double back and bottom for stove. 2 holdfasts to stove.
August 1859: Dutch door and handle, porters. Cleaning and mending 2 lamps, porters.
September 1859: Drain trap near pump in Court. 2 air bricks above Black's.
November 1859: a stay, hook, and 2 bolts, 2 men boring wall and fixing above.

Hall:
November 1858: Thumb lever for flue door, 2 rivets fixed to flue door, 2 rivets fixed joint to above. Coal scoops.
December 1858: Ring key for stove. Poker for stove. Cleaned stove. 2 sets bars for stove.
January 1859: a shovel for stove, grinding 2 carvers, grinding 8 carvers, taking up door and spring cleaning, fresh fix bottom pivot and fix the soil. Clean foil pullies and dinner bell. Bushel of charcoal.
March 1859: 4 springs for carving forks, bushel of charcoal, grinding carver, 2 guards for forks, spring for carving fork, top pivot for Hall door and making it shut.
May 14th 1859: knife steel.
August 17th 1859: clean stove, clean 2 fenders, taking down lamps, cleaning them, 2 pieces for burners and mend bottoms.

Combination room:
November 1858: taking down lamps. 2 locks and 2 key for Mr Rowe. Laid a poker.
January 1859: cleaning lock.
14th July 1859: mend copper kettle.

Chapel:
November 1858: 2 lengths 4 inch. rain water pipe. 10 long nails for above. Taking down gutter and fixing above.
December 1858: 1 length 4 inch pipe.
January 1859: replacing 28 feet of old gutter. New joints for above. 4 1/2 foot of pipe. 3 elbows. Making angle of gutters. Flanges and nozzle for piece. 13 brackets, 2 lengths 3 inch iron pipes, 1 angle head, 1 shoe for above, 33 strong levers, man 1 day fixing, painting above. End to poker.
March 1859: Man cutting bars out of window. Casement and frame for above. 6 yards lime/line book and fix.
May 1859: padlock, 2 keys to lower doors. Clasps, staples. Taking down stove, pipe for above, cleaning and refitting.

Buttery:
February 1859: cleaning and repairing lock to door, laid poker.
May 19th 1859: Cleaning lock.
October 26th 1859: Patent lock.

Clock: one years winding and toiling.

Kitchen:
November 1858: a cleaver, grinding 2 cleavers, sharpen a saw.
December 1858: grinding cleaver, steak tongs, righted balance skewer.
January 1859: steak tongs, oiling jack, bottom to plate, new furnace face, grinding cleaver.
February 1859: sharpened set of saws.
March 1859: sharpened and mended shovel. End to poker.
April 1859: Grinding 2 choppers. Oiling jack.
May 1859: bottom 22lb, repairing steak tongs.
25th June 1859: oiling jack, hook 1 lever, and fix to lever.
August 1859: 4 bars to range chimney, taking down jack and cleaning it. fixing cover plate and bottom plate. 5 furnace bars of copper. 4 bearing bars.
November 1859: fork for steaks.

Note confirming receipt of payment.

Paid to Shallow and Coleman total £5 15s 4d for:
8th August 1939 - Stove Brackhams room, Pair Cover and 4 holdfasts, Stove in Powels Room, Pair Cover, Pair slips
6th January 1840 - 2 plates to Stove Blake's room, 1 Bar, 2 Holdfasts
14th August 1840 - Stove in Beck's room, Pair cover, Pair Slips, 4 Holdfasts
2 old stoves

Receipt from Jesus College to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork done on various different areas of college, including the courts; student rooms; the combination room; the hall; estates; the chapel; the clock and the kitchen, from November 1861 to October 1862. All totals £44 14s 5d. Signed 5 December 1862 by Thomas Shallow.

Bill for ironwork done in the college from late 1863 to autumn of 1864. Total payment of £56 17s 9d. Includes payment for work done to courts: including pitching iron to lamp posts, fixing a French latch opposite the Porters' Lodge, mending bell pole and wind guard, mending gates, doors, locks and lamps around college, forging keys, forging tube, shortening lawn mower chains, mending porter's bell and other bells around college, fixing holdfasts to doors, forging new window bars, fixing stove in Servant's Hall and fixing wire in a window in the buttery. Also includes work to the hall: grinding three carving knives, mending poker, stove and plate warmer, hearth brush, mending door pivots, fixing chain to lamp. And work to chapel: fitting poker end, forging a pair of scones for the ante-chapel, fitting 14 ft pipe and elbows to stove, fitting iron brackets to candle, cleaning pipe and stove, forging candlesticks, curtain rods and hooks, fixing holdfasts, mending key to tower, work to lock. Also one year's winding and oiling of the clock. And work to the kitchen, including: oiling smoke stack, straightening two bar and bar ranges, fitting a top to drain tap in scullery, 2 new bottoms to the hob plate, mending and shortening Jack chains, oiling and cleaning Jack, altered ventilator over hot plate, work to oven door, sharpening saws and grinding cleavers, fixing hook to grid iron, work to door and lock, bracket for shelf, mending boiler, cleaned and righted drip pans, fastened wheel to spit, 2 bars for chimney, 4 pins for spit racks. Includes abstract on the back with breakdown of costs, with student rooms total added and then crossed out. Dated 26th November 1864 and signed by Thomas Shallow.

Receipt for ironwork done at the college.

Includes payment for work done in the courts: taking down guttering shoe and remaking same; cleaning and oiling gas taps; fixed latch to door of Servant's Hall; mending lamp in cloister; fastened spring to water closets; lengthened Porters' poker; work to top of drain trap; cleaning and mending stable lock; fastening nails to door frame; cleaned and mended mower; new case to iron lock for gate near close; wiring and mending bell at the Porters'; cleaning and oiling hinges and bolts; fixed bar to window in H staircase; fixed new lock to stable near Porters' Lodge; two hooks on plates and eight screws at the Gardeners' House; new lock fixed to Coach House on order of Mr Westmoreland; taking four hurdles to pieces and repairing - annotated with a '?' in pencil in the margin; 2 new keys to patent locks to Library for Mr Morgan; eased taps; two padlocks to front gate and ladders. Total £4 17s 10s. Annotated in pencil to deduct 1s.

Work to students' rooms: job to stove in Duncan's room; double back and fixed Corfield; square to partition, cleaned and mended 2 locks, new pan nibs and spindle, lacquered cases cap staples, all for Swainson; 5 brass head screws; back and fixed to stove Mayland; catch and mend latch Corfe. Total £1 6s 6d. Annotated 'to be made out as a separate account'.

Work mending the stove in the hall and the boiler in the buttery.

In the chapel: pan on stove; cleaning stove and pipe on multiple occasions; taking off lock and taking out key, mending screws; new poker end; two doubters; strong padlock to door. Total £1 14s.

Work to estates: fixed lock to iron gate on Malcolm Street for Frisby. Total 3s.

Work to clock: taking down clock and cleaning; new ends, new brass bushes for spindle; 2 new copper hands as to drawing; shorted hand movements, new wire to striking parts and stringing pulleys; four brackets and holdfasts to frame; two standards with braces to hammer; cost of two attendants over four days each. Total £10 16s.

Work to kitchen: mend gridiron; two plates and hooks to screen; oiling smoke jack; peal and handle; bottom and ring to hob plate; fastened handle to hob closet; rod four brackets fixed to front of heat plate; taking down and mending jack; sharpening saws, grinding choppers and pointing beef hooks; bottoms and covers to hot plate; mending range poker.

Total cost £28 19s 7d. Received 28th November 1865 and signed by Thomas Shallow.

Wind guard Griffith
Bar for top of chimney
Register stove Mr King
Wind guard on chimney of Mr King
Bar for chimney
Cleaned & mend lock E staircase
Register stove Gibbs
double locks Mr (?) call (?) Matthews Ha
Slip & ban Gibbs
Back & fix'd woodward
fastened bar to stove of Mr Pickance

Total: £11 15s 0d

Bill and Receipt to Jesus College from Shallow & Coleman for framework done to the Estates.
Apr. 25: 42ls Hooping & punched at Dixon's House 3s 9d
2 straps 3s
Screens & nails 6d
Double catch 4 screens Ditto 1s
May 2: Pools & screens at Dixons 1s
June 3: Wroughs (?) Grate 2 loops Manor St. 15 7s 6d
Sharpened 2 points Ditto 4d
total: 17s 1d
Signed in new hand "Received T. Shallow"

Paid £37 1s 7d for ironwork done around College including payments for:

Master's Lodge - 34 inch stove in butler's pantry, pair of cover and slips and holdfasts to the same.

Courts - mend lamps in staircases, burner to lamp by porter, sharpened to points to pickaxe, staple, nails and fixed to lock stable, mend a key to stable, mend a lock screw and fixed, key to stove in cleaners place, cap, staple screw and fixed the same, spiking and bearings over close gate, men drilling holes, rivets and fixed screw to handle and screw lock porters, check spring and mend bill to the same, mend bolt fix a tumble repaired lock to stable, screws and fixed latch to stable, mend key for porter, new bar to iron gate of close, drilled hole rivets and fixed screw the gate, irons for wall stable, making three pairs of hinges, hooks in plates, bolts on plates, bar on plate, new cock to gate, long plate to a bolt, righted hinges, pointed hinges, strong screws, laid ends to axe sharpened, lengthened bar to gate, loop with cut and collar to gate, loop in plate and screws to gate, stop for gate, chimney bar in harness room, sheet iron and nails by bricklayer, bars and nail to indo in coal place, new key and lock for coal place, elliptic stoves, squares to door frame in stable, wrought grate stable yard, cleaned and repaired lock in stable, key to stable, thumb piece to latch, sharpened weed hooks, strong made wrought iron pushing latch with catch and hasp etc for stables, strong cup staple to gates, 33 inch stove C staircase, pair of covers and holdfasts for the same, thumb latches for saddle house, staples to chaise house, prepared hinges, bars to window, turnbuckle and fixed to window, square for wood sacks, cutting ends off bolts, opened large iron lock next to the Master's Garden and key for the same, standards and bars in harness room, four sheets of tin, tacks for stable, righted four joints opened holes etc, hooks and staples to coach house and altered to spindles and fitting to handles.

Combination Room - blacked stove, cleaned bars, cleaned irons and fender, cleaned large lamps

Buttery - piece fly wire and fixed window, key to a lock, cinder shovel

Clock - a years winding and oiling

Kitchen - plate under oven, bars to oven, right bars to oven, stand for pudding pans, pokers, mending pokers, catch and fixed to oven door, slides to oven, balance skewer, turnbuckle and fixed to case, holdfasts to sideboard, pins to spill racks, handle and foot to blower, pair of joints and fix a duper, laid to pokers, chain to a plug, pair joints and screws to duper, tines to jack poker, bars to stoves, eased doors to copper and hob plate, righted bars and made new bars to the same, to shovels, plates under oven, bars to furnace, plates, rivets and mend oven, taking down jack cleaned used, oiled and fixed, keys to stock lock.

Paid to Shallow and Coleman £26 12s 7d for iron work in college. Includes payment for:

COURTS
Runners to lamp posts, Chains stapled to bar in Stables, Hook stapled to door, Holdfasts, New lock to gate in coal place, Nails stapled to coal place, Bolts fixed to coal place, Cleaned & repaired lock to outer gate, Hook stapled to outer gate, Large staple fixed in Stable, Lengthened bar to window, Mend lamp posts, Mend shovel, Padlock for door of Chapel, Loop/chain fixed to door of Chapel, Length of spikes on Palisades, Feed to standard of Palisades, Staples to lead beaming, Nail to fix to lead beaming, Stays to bolt to spikes, Cleaned & repaired lock to Privy, Screw fixed plate to Stable Gate, Bay to window, Lead fixed to window, Water butt by posts, Strong copper lamp posts, Sharpened/mend hook, Rub stones, Thinned edging knife and grounded, Cleaned & repaired lock to iron gate - drilled holes, rivets fixed, Ground sythe, Sharpened weed hooks, Drilled holes & fixed back to Range Buttery,
Bars to windows in Cloisters, Taking lock off Buttery & mend, Bolt fixed to Buttery, Lock to Stable and key to Coach house, Manger pins mend rack chains, mend lock hook & staples

COMBINATION ROOM
Screws to curtain pin, Large slop pail, Blackened stove, Cleaned bar to stove, Cleaned irons, Lamps cleaned

CLOCK
One repair winding & oiling

KITCHEN
Range poker with wood handle, Shovel with long handle, Mend beef fork and apple corer, Mend handle to Milk, Oiling Jack, Holdfast to hot plate, Side & bar to stewing stove, Bars to Copper, Making a curl bar, Cutting curl iron plates, Set of ironwork for oven, Fire lamps, Cover tile, Shortened latch copper door, Peal handle, Rails to furnace of oven, Jeakes patent stewing stove, Holes fixed for ladles, Rim to steamer, Rod & chain drilled holes & fixed for grid irons

Paid to Shallow and Coleman 12s for repair of gutter and brackets and two men to fix them

Bill and receipt for the payment of £21 9s 7d for work done at the College.

Summary of ironworks undertaken over the course of a year including the courts, buttery and kitchens. Sum of £30 16s 4d.

Includes a receipt of the sum received and signed by Shallow and Coleman.

Receipt for: square rails for fence on Manor Street; inking down gutter soldering, 18 ft of line pipe, 1 bracket, 3 hooks (all for Manor Street); inking down gate on Malcolm Street, new screw centre refixed standard and rehanging gate in Malcolm Street; 2 hinges, 16 screws, 2 new hooks (all for Malcolm Street); 17 ft of line gutter, 10 feet of pipe, 8 brackets of hooks, new piping. Total cost £3 3s. Received by Thomas Shallow.

Receipt for:

• Drilling holes, plate, rivets, fastening bars to stove (Blake)
• New front to latch (Robinson)
• Spring-clean and mend lock and key (Richards)
• Clean and mend brass locks (Sharp, Jameson, G2, G1, A4, B5, B6)
• Clean and mend rim locks (A4, G1, B5, B6)
• Clean and mend drop handles (F1, F2)
• New drop handles (F3, A4)
• Two spindles (F2)
• Screws (and fixing thereof) (F staircase, G1, B5, B6)
• Clean and mend locks (unspecified) (Boys, A3)
• Brass knobs and spindles (A3, G2)
• Cap staples (G1)
• Clean and mend mortice locks and keys (L12)
• Front plate to latch screws (and fixing thereof) (K1)
• Straighten two bars to window (G2)
• New cheeks, hob, double back, pins, and rivets to mend stove. (L12)
• Double back and screws to mend stove (Parish, J.R. Morgan)
• Plate and screws for window (Watson)
• Spring-clean and mend lock in bedroom (Watkins)
  Total cost £5 9s 6d. Received by Thomas Shallow.

Payment of £101 18s 6d to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork. Includes payments for fitting and mending various locks and hinges, oiling gas taps, ironwork for the water closets, mending various gas lamps, mending and providing various fireplace tools, mending porter's bell, a new lawn mower and repairs to others, ironwork to front gates, work to stove in Gardener's House, repairs to gutters in stable yard, mending two pewter measures in the buttery, work to stable gate, repairs to bedstead and water can in Porter's Lodge, fixing iron plates to library door, cleaning Hall and chapel stoves, winding and oiling the college clock, work to various student rooms (including Hodgson, Bourke and Beard, Walters, Edwards, Smithwick, Harris, Tomkins, Arr, Mr. Woodham, Armstrong, Corfield, Palmer, Oliver, Cuthbert, Cooper), work to hot plate, spit, dripping pan stand, grid irons and smoke jack in the kitchen, mouse traps for the kitchen, sharpening saws, cleavers and choppers, and work to courts entrance. Includes payment for staples, iron nails, hinges, screws, plates, hooks, bars. Signed by Thomas Shallow.

Receipt for repairs to iron work carried out in college between February 1874 and October 1875, at a total cost of £51 16s 11d.

Works include:

• Master's Lodge: new hot plate; repairs to servants' door and frame (including 4 holdfasts); furnace bars; lengthening skirting round furnace; nails.
• Courts: open lock and key to court seal press; new long straps; screw bolts; take up fence and mend long rods, drill holes, and fix wedging; new band for chimney in Ball's House; 2 new tubes with hoods for houses in stable yard; take down guttering and piping, painting and refixing; dismantle, cement, and refix range with screws and new bars; 2 angular plates, 12 screws for ladder on roof; iron caps with wire tops; cutting bars off front iron gates, halving them down, and fixing new bars; new wrought iron ladder for lawn mower; hooks; mending 3 pitching irons, screwing hoops and fixing hooks to gas pipe; cleaning and mending locks on gates and to lecture room; repairing padlock on library door; soldering and mending pipes and guttering in houses in Close.
• Buttery: corkscrews; tea kettle, tea pot, key to cellar door; beer cans; japanned beer cans.
• Chapel: nuts, bolts, and nails for gate next to chapel; cord and brass hook for windows; new tops for candlesticks; dismantling, cleaning, and mending grill stove (including bots, rivets, iron plate, nuts, screws); new furnace bars.
• Hall: taking up door spring, new steel roller, pivot, and brass bushes, repairing and fixing; taking hinges off door (oil, new strap hinge with shifting pin and lever).
• Clock: annual winding and oiling.
• Kitchen: pans, shovels; mend chopper and grinding machine; new clamp for mincing machine; taking up and refixing plaster for sweeps; oiling jack; mend latch on furnace door; 2 bottoms and 2 rings; new pan for hot plate; knob to slide door; blade to marking iron; wrought iron bars for scullery; clean and mend drip pan stands; new end to range bar; new scuffler and pole to oven.

Receipt for various ironworks repairs and materials:

• Plate screws and mend stove (Jerrold's)
• Clean and mend lock at 42 Jesus Lane; new lock screws and fix to door.
• 2 plates and 24 screws for 66 King Street.
• Cut bars out of and digging out standards, and remove from Horse and Groom.
  Total cost £2 12s.

[Receipt]

Received December 8th 1846 of the Revd. Doctor French, twenty eight pounds fifteen shillings and fourpence for ironwork on college acct. [account] as per bill,

[Signed] Tho. Shallow

[Itemised bill]

Jesus College for Ironwork

To Shallow & Coleman

1846 – Masters Lodge

1st of January –
[?] a copper; £0 9s 6d
New Pipe & Tap to ditto [Master’s Lodge]; £0 10s 6d
Damper; £0 3s 0d
Roighled [Rough led?] 5 bars; £0 2s 6d
Hooping; £0 0s 6d
Mend latch copper door; £0 1s 0d
Set of Ironwork to order; £4 5s 6d
Doorframe for sweeps; £0 2s 0d
5th of March –
Plate & bar over drain, 21 [?]; £0 5s 3d

26th of October –
Oiled & cased crank wire & repaired bells door & gate; £0 3s 0d
[Total=] £6 2s 9d

1845 – Courts

28th of October –
2 Good locks & cap staples drill’d 10 holes & screw bolts 4 revits [rivets?] & fixd [fixed] [?] gates next close;

5th of November –
3 Strong lid grates stable yard 45 - £1 2s 6d
11th of November –
20 ft. gutter coach house; £0 10s 0d
3 ft. 6 in. pipe to gutter coach house;
6 brackets 1 [hour?] & fixed; £0 3s 0d

16th of November –
2 hooks; £0 4s 0d
3 hooks & & rings to hang horses; £0 2s 0d

27th of November –
Fixd. turnbuckle to case in Chapel; £0 1s 0d

1st of December –
Mend gas lamp court; £0 1s 6d

29th of December –
Screws & fixd. turnbuckle to [casement?] Chapel; £0 1s 0d

1846 –

Mend hammer Chapel;’ £0 0s 6d
16th of January –
Drill’d hole in plate & screws
3 fixd. [fixed] bar to gate; £0 1s 6d

17th of January –
Mend hammer; £0 0s 6d

19th of January –
Sharpened 2 ends and 2 handles to Chapel; £0 1s 0d

26th of January –
Fix’d turnbuckle to cas’t [casement] Chapel; £0 0s 6d
27th of January –
Sharp’d crove bar to Chapel; £0 0s 6d
30th January –
Mend [?] shoe place; £0 1s 0d
31st of January –
2 Bushels charcoal Chapel; £0 3s 0d
Mend brass curtain [?] 3 fixd. to Chapel; £0 3s 0d

9th of February –
[?] to Chapel door; £0 1s 6d
Sharp’d [sharpened] 4 points; £0 0s 8d
14th of February –
Open’d lock gate cleaned & repaired to Chapel door; £0 1s 6d

14th of February –
[?] to Gate; £0 1s 2d
Strong plate screws & fixed; £0 1s 0d
16th of February –
Sharpened 3 weed hooks 1 men, handle to gate; £0 0s 9d
20th of February –
Taking bar out, mend[ed] and fixed, gate next close; £0 4s 0d
Square to door cell & screws fix’d in cinder place; £0 2s 0d
21st of February –
2 [?] land fence next close 36; £0 18s 0d
Taking out 5 land & lengthen’d fence next close; £0 5s 0d
12 ft lead; £0 2s 6d
2 mend 1 day firing 12 ft. lead; £0 8s 0d
Cleaned and repaired lock, Porters; £0 1s 6d
4th of April –
Laid 2 points; £0 3s 0d
9th of April –
Sharpen’d 4 weld hooks; £0 0s 8d
13th of April –
Laid 1 point; £0 1s 6d
Sharpened 2 weld hooks; £0 0s 4d
23rd of April –
Sharpen’d 2 weld hooks; £0 0s 4d
Ground [?]; £0 0s 9d
27th of April;
Laid 2 points; £0 3s 0d
Sharpen’d 2 weld hooks; £0 0s 4d
29th of April –
Glass to Porters’ Lamp; £0 1s 6d
6th of June –
Laid 2 points; £0 3s 0d
11th of June –
Padlock hasp & loops fix’d Chapel door; £0 2s 0d
11th of August –
Fixed pump, locker and key to bolt; £0 1s 0d
27th of April –
New lever to clock hammer; £0 2s 6d
22nd of September –
Key to Chapel door; £0 1s 6d
Taking down [?] window; £0 1s 0d
24th of September –
New cheek new stand and plate, and repaired stove cookers room; £0 4s 0d
19th of October –
Charcoal for Chapel; £0 2s 0d
Man ½ day lighting fire; £0 2s 0d
21st of October –
2 men fixing curtain rods; £0 3s 0d
[Total=] £9 19s 10d

Combination Room
1845 –
17th of December –
Mend lamp; £0 1s 0d
14th of March; Hook 4 screws & fix’d; £0 0s 6d
29th of June; Cleaned vivers & fender; £0 2s 6d
3rd of September; Cleaned large lamp; £0 7s 0d
2 men fixing large lamp; £0 2s 0d
[Total=] £0 13s 0d

Buttery
1845 –
13th of November –
Key to cupboard; £0 1s 0d
27th of November –
Plate revits [rivets?] and screws and mend top of boiler; £0 4s 0d
1846 –
10th of April –
Curtain rod 2 hooks fixed; £0 1s 0d
17th of April –
Plate 10 screws fixed to bracket under board; £0 1s 6d
16th of October –
Plate rivets ground fired fixed boiler plate white lead 4 screws bolts & mend, new tap 12 screws mend bars ground taps & repaired range; £1 10s 0d
Steam pipe to Range; £0 3s 0d
Man ½ day fixing; £0 2s 6d
[Total=] £2 3s 10d

Clock
One year winding & oiling; £4 14s 6d

Kitchen
1845 –
11th of November –
Cleaned 2 drip pan stands & shortened legs; £0 4s 0d
2nd of December –
2 Holdfasts & fixed shelf; £0 1s 0d
1846 –
19th of January –
Oiling Jack; £0 5s 6d
20th of February –
Mend handle to pepper-mill; £0 1s 0d
23rd of March –
Bottom to boiler, 23 lb.; £0 5s 9d
9th of April –
Oiling Jack; £0 5s 6d
19th of June –
Oiling Jack; £0 5s 6d
18th of August –
Top to boiler, 32 lb.; £0 8s 0d
19th of August –
2 pumps; £0 8s 0d
1 holdfast; £0 1s 6d
20th of August –
2 new sides to stove, 31 lb.; £0 10s 4d
4 new bars to to stove, 20 lb.;£0 6s 8d
22nd of August –
Cleaned, repaired & oiled jack; £0 15s 0d
3 new chains to stove; £0 12s 0d
11th of September –
Bottom to boiler, 22 lb.; £0 3s 6d
13th of October –
Cleaned & righted drip pan stands; £0 2s 0d
17th of October –
Shovel with a long handle; £0 4s 6d
[Total=] £5 1s 9d

[Grand Totals=]

Masters Lodge = £6 2s 9d
Courts = £9 19s 10d
Combination Room = £0 13s 0d
Buttery = £2 3s 6d
Clock = £4 14s 6d
Kitchen = £5 1s 9d
=£28 15s 4d

[Second paper]

Letter of receipt dated 8th of December 1846. Signed by Thomas

Accounts of payments made for ironwork tasks around college by Shallow and Coleman, totalling £32 6s 5d.

Paid 50 pounds 5 pence to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork.
Courts and outside work
Range with ? and boil and steam pipe Porters House
Ironing Stove and 2 bars at do
Pipe on Chimney at do
A wind guard at do
new lock 2 keys to door at do
2 ventilating air bricks
Slip over range
3 gallon oil can
3 bars copper gardeners house
New lock to pantry door Porters
False bottom at Porters
Secured repaired 2 locks in the choristers room
new spindle nobs to do
cup staple 2 screws and fixed
cubpboard lock Porters
latch 2 catches 2 buttons 2 nobs
Mended poker Porters lodge
2 keys to cupboards at do
3 scutcheons at do
1 length pipe to drain
nob and mend poker Porters lodge
Cleaned and oil and joists to gate
closet lock Porter
lock fastened at do
2 keys to gates porters house
new casement W Westmorland
Taking down gutter repaired
Do at porters
5 brackets to do
2 men fixing do 1/4 day
12 screws and fresh fixed latch to knife place
1 check spring ? bell gate
Key to fellows water closet porter
Cleaned and repaired lock to do
Brass pack fixed for
Slip to top of fire place at do
Rake to clean oven at do
Bolt screws fixed water closet
Falso bottom to stove Porters
Mend a shovel do
3 feet pipe fixed to ? tub
Repaired lock to coal place
Laid poker Porters Lodge
Altered stove and padding fire stove back and checks W Fisher
Lock 2 keys fixed porters lodge
4 handles fixed to drawers
Mend latch nails fixed stable yard
x back fixed (?)
Mend lamp Porters Lodge
Double back fixed (Shield)
Laid 29 feet gutter at Gardeners house
8 feet pipe to do
Pipe on chimney at do
1 hook for do
Cleaned ? 2 locks to gates 3 bolds and 2 men fixing
Crate for drain brick
Double back and check to stove ?
Key boat house by Porter
Cleaner=d repaired lock do
Mend a lamp
Blower fixed Porters lodge
0 brass labels engraved for keys
Latch 3 keys fixed school room
Two lock fixed to stable yard
A plate screwes fixed to do
check fixed to range porter
Key to Sedge (?) Place
Back fixed, Dew, Holloway, Hilton
new back and bottom 2 screws and fixed Kindersly
2 checks repaired stove Brooker
A new false back to do
Double back 2 screws and fixed
???
36 prick Elliptic stove (Sharp)
Bar fix do bricklayer
New check fixed back repaired stove and bar to do (Buk[?])
New hob, new back s
Double back dixed Grace and Ingram
2 check repaired stove Ingram
back stove number 2 Pump stove
Double back fixed Hawker
Morgan, Steve Elwell
Lecture room
Spoocily, Wilson
School room
Mullins
Mending a key
Lowe's drain trap
Mend key stable

Combination Room
Taking down lamp pin
Turnbuckle fixed to window

Hall
Pipe on chimney
4 mustard (?)

Signed Thomas Shallow

Paid £31 17s 5d for ironwork around the College. Including:

Master's Lodge - lengthened handle and rod to pump, 2 sheet iron sides to range, 8 wall hooks nails and fixed, 6 cut iron plate at back of range, 2 bars to range, 6 bars to copper, plate in front of hot plate and wall hooks.

Courts - Eased latch to Porters Lodge door, bars to window in Beaufort's Room, 4lb lead and fixed the same, mend porters bell, a plate by Carpenter, mending bell, harp 2 screw loops and padlock to Mr. Graham's room, mending shovel by porter, catch screw and fixed servants hall, padlock and fixed loop stable gates, repair front gates, joint to harp of large bar and fixed to front gate, collar to key of front gate, mend poker in porters lodge, hook and staple drilled hole in stone and fixed to passage, mend bolt to front gate, mend lock to porters letter box, repair lock to chapel door, key to iron gate by porter, key to shoe place, job to bolt of large gates, mend porters bell, square and nails for door frame, ground 2 scythes, righted and fixed latch in Bates' room, sharpened 2 weed hooks, iron and fixed to pump spout, band screws for the same, righted stop and step to front gate, door chain and fixed to gate, latch catch and brass and fixed at porters lodge, taking key out of lock, 2 long holdfasts by bursars, screws and fixed to gate, sheet iron nails and fixed the stove at porters lodge, mend lock to front gate, 26 feet pipe to Mr. Percy's stove, bottom of large 2 elbows to the same, 6 irons to the same, taking irons off buttery chimney.

Combination Room - cleaned stove and brass, cleaned irons and fender, taking down lamp cleaned and fixed, blacked stove, cleaned bar to stove.

Hall - 2 men taking down stove, new double flue, part new hood, 1 new front bar, cleaned, repaired and fixed stove.

Clock - lengthened lever to striking part, a year's winding etc

Kitchen - Handle to beef fork, new foot to salamander, oiling jack, mend 2 pokers, socket to large poker, plate rivets and mend drip pan, shovel, laid poker, job to pepper mill, keep to latch oven door, mend latch to copper, new chain to jack, 2 bars, 5 bars to stoves, righted four stoves, righted four sides to stoves, 3 bars to oven, righted oven, 16 fire bricks, 11 bars to coppers, 6 bars to stewing stoves, righted stewing stoves, sheet iron to back of stoves, 8 wall hooks, fire repeller to oven, oiling jack, taking down outside and clean jack, laid poker, 2 new stewing stoves, 12 bars to the same, 2 plates under, 2 new stoves, 12 bars to the same, 2 plates under, 4 new trivets, lined meat screen, 2 fenders to charcoal place, fixed cheek to range (all signed by M. Willis).

Bill for supply of metal fittings and parts and repair or installation labour.

Court including Porters' Lodge, gate, stables:
grates, nails, locks, hinges, bolts, staples, screws, latch, hooks, brass over-plates, plates.
Chapel: repaired frame on chapel, took down spindle to mend.
Stables/stall: fixed screws to manger.
Grounds: lengthened and sharpened weed hook.
Gates: padlocks, spikes, pointed gate hooks.
Plates fixed Halliwell's room.
Elliptic stove (for?) Braham's Room.

Pantries: replaced lock.
Back pantry: repairs.
Repair stove Powels room.
Repair stove Porters' room.
Pantries: mend cable (poss. table)
Grounds: 127 feet of spiking on the wall.
Repair stove Powels room.
Repair stove Porters' room.
Grounds: 127 feet of spiking on the wall.
Combination room: blacking stove, .
Clock: new (word unclear??) hoop, 2 pieces of collar to dial. Other repairs winding and oiling
(£5 1s 6d).
Kitchen: steak tongs, mending implements including beef fork, oiling and chains for the jack (roasting spit), vat and equipment for preparing milk, parts for coppers, repaired cooks holdfasts [not clear, but could mean clamps] stewing stove, oven and hob. Either mended or replaced backs and sides of coopers and stewing stove, new back parts and sides to oven. Taking down jack chains [jack can mean a mechanically turned roasting spit]. New handles to side door.
Totals:
Courts £23 10s 11d
Combination Room £1 0s 0d
Clock £5 1s 6d
Kitchen £7 8s 5d
£37 0s 10d
Deduct for use of ??
£33 4s 2d

Total: £33 4s 2d

Receipt addressed to Dr French 9th December 1839

Bill for ironwork to students' rooms, from Shallow and Coleman. Total payment of £1 6s 6d, and includes payment for: work to stove in Duncan's room; double back fixed in Corfield's room; square to partition, cleaning two locks, new pair of knobs and spindle, cap stables, brass head screws, all for Swainson's room; back to stove in Mayland's room; latch in Corfe's room. Received the 28th November 1865 and signed by Thomas Shallow.

Paid £29 18s 2d to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork in College. Includes payments for:

Hall - lined coal scoop, mend poker, new standards two bars and spikes, cleaned stove, cleaned two fenders, two men for taking down stove, taking stove to pieces, new cheeks to stove, two new inner backs, part new outer back, new set front bars, new rivets to other bars, two sets of furnace bars, sheet new and mend cases, 16 pins and nuts, 8 screws and nuts and repairs, three men each for fixing and cleaning stove, taking down cleaning and fixing 6 lamps, shovel.

Masters Lodge - Righted rack and fixed cheek to range, mortice catch on cloister door, key to front gate, cleaned and repaired locks, taking up hot plate and taking off rim righted hot plate six rivets and fixed, a plate 3 rivets and fixed, plate to end of hot plate, righted furnace bars to hot plate, cap staple and fix, four bars to chimney, screw belt and plate to beam bedroom, three square head bolts, man sawing off bolt and cutting nut, hook fastened another and fitting spit racks, straps and nails.

Courts - Taking off Gate, pair of joints, porters bell, wire and repaired bell to outer gate, mend Dutch hoe, mend shovel, repair lock to shoe place, key to stable by groom, laid raker porter, repaired gutter in stable yard, spring cleaned and repaired lock to cloister, cleaned and repaired lock to front gate, made cap staple secure and fixed to front gate, double back and fixed to stove Baddelys room, four screw bolts, two braces and eight screws to barrow, double backed and fixed Kidays Room, plates and clasps for snow shovel, gudgeons to barrow, rivets to standards in the stable, latch screw to Master's stables, fixed tumbler to case to stiarcase, 1lb of holdfasts to stables, hooks, bolts and screws to stables, sharpening weed hooks, bolts to ladder, mend lock to wicket gate, tree hooks for ivy, puce spiking and two bearings, drilled hole in spiking, sheet iron partitions to coal bins, chimney bar.

Buttery - new tap to range, laid poker, opened padlock to cellar, mending bottle poker, iron fixed for roller for towel, new lock two tumblers, 4 keys and fixed door.

Combination Room - screw to lamp, tumbler and repaired mortice lock, lay and mend poker, opened door, inner back to stove, cleaned stove and fender, mend curtain pin, taking down lamp and cleaned, paid two men for fixing lamp.

Chapel - cleaned candle sockets

Clock - for winding and attending

Kitchen - oiling jack, laid and lengthen poker, right and straighten spit, bottom to stove, eye to casement, altered jack chains, mend lock to door, collars and raised doors, bars to stove, holdfasts, righted bars to copper, nails and fixed door, screws and fixed stove in larder, thumb screw to trough of gridiron.