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- 6th December 1865 (Creation)
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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.