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- 4 November 1758 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Paid to James Ivers for work done in the College including for whiting and blacking the Hall chimney and varnishing the chimney piece, for painting the College parlour chimney piece and doing the sides in lead and blacking the back, cleaning and painting the seat on both sides, work in the fellows garden, for finishing work in the Hall, "scouring the Hall all over", brushes, soap, whiting the Hall and the entrances to it, blacked the bottoms of the panelling in the Hall, paint the Hall in olive colour, for painting the four carved pots at the top of the entrance, "for colour and time the bare places", blacking round the coat of arms and cleaning the same, whiting the passage to the parlour and blacking the bottom, painting the iron and wood work in pearl colour going up into the Hall and colouring the doors the same, for whiting the butteries, for painting and staining with oil the rostrum in the hall, for gilding the carved shield for the picture frame and writing in the same, for painting the sash windows and sash frames in the front of the College twice over in oil, for putty and time repairing 40 sashes, two painting piers in the audit room, to painting the inside of piers at the lodge, for mending some places in the dining room in the lodge, painting where the pictures in the lodge dining room hang, painting the two new pairs of windows for the kitchen and covering them three times in oil, for painting a new door and door case in the garden belonging to the new wall, for painting the new shutters in the study at the lodge, painting the door and skirting board and the end of the book case and mending some places in the room by it, for painting part of the wall in oil in the passage by the audit room and whiting the walls, painting handrails down all the banisters on both staircases, whiting and blacking five chimneys, painting 3 doors in the kitchen twice in oil. Signed by Ann Ivers