Item 45 - Painter's bill (Charles Freeman)

1 item, paper

A bill for work done to the college between September 1782 and 8th November 1784. The bill includes: painting the skirting board on the lodge stairs and 'mending several pts. on wall' (4s); painting 70 garden sticks green (5s 10d); painting the tin funnel from the buttress twice with lead colour (1s 6d); painting 18 yards of the new gates in lead colour, three times (9s); painting the doors by the hall 'Chocolate' (1s 8d); white lead and oil for the masons (4s); painting the cloisters 'in new Corpick' three times (13s); painting 4 18 'light sashes' three times in 'Lanthorn' (12s); painting six '16 light sashes in Cloysters' three times (16s); painting the Stone Gateway four times in a 'dark stone colour' (14s); painting the iron gates twice in 'lead colour' (5s 10d); painting 'the other Iron work' once (5s 10d); painting 'blank windows' black, three times (6s 6d); painting 3 new casements, frames and 76 'saddle bars' (5s 5d); painting 50 new windows (£8 6s 8d). Bill is then subdivided according to work done in Mr Turner's Room and Mr Whitehead's Room. This includes (for Turner): painting 40 yards of skirting board 'of three Rooms' twice (16s 8d); painting door case, shutter and windows in the bed room (2s); painting 2 '12 light sashes and one 4-light sash (2s 8d); colouring two passages and a closet with yellow distemper (12s). For Whitehead, this includes: painting 46 yards once in the 'Keeping Room' (11s 3d); painting the new door lining three times, and painting the mullions of the windows (5s 4d). Total bill amounted to £14 10s 8d. On the reverse is a note of receipt signed by Charles Freeman.