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- 28th November 1865 (Creation)
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1 item, paper.
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Receipt for painting and decorating college courts, chapel and lodge. Includes cost of: painting a zinc sheet to make a notice for the chapel door; cleaning, painting and varnishing 6 portable iron chairs belonging to the Fellows Garden; cleaning, stopping with putty and painting the outside work to windows in Masters' Lodge fronting over garden; cleaning down and painting iron work to windows. Work to courts: cleaning down, stopping with putty and painting outside work to windows fronting First Court and painting four windows looking westward towards Grove (112 windows); cleaning down, stopping with putty and painting all outside work to windows looking northward, including oiling the ironwork twice; same work to windows in Cloister Court (24 windows) and to windows in the Old and New Building looking eastward. Also to windows of First Court looking southward over entrance gateway and windows to the left of the gateway. Also includes cost of: burning off paint to door and frame in the Master's Lodge garden and repainting both sides; burning off paint and repainting the outside of the Lodge door to the gardens and fanlight window above; rubbing down and painting kitchen door and fanlight by garden; priming, painting, graining and varnishing three new cupboard to the water works compartment; priming and painting 12 cupboards in plain colours, also to the water works. Work to the principal entrance to college: washing and whitening ceilings and preparing and colouring the wall to the Lobby and passage approaching the Buttery, Kitchen and Servant's Hall; cleaning down and varnishing oak work and painting the plain work; cleaning down, revarnishing and touching up the gates to principal entrance on both sides. Total amount £51 14s 3d. Paid 28th November 1865 and signed by W. & G. Flack.