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The Master & Fellows of "Magd Colledge" to Revd Richard B. Gillam

Workmen - William Covill

Materials - hods [1] of brick mortar, hair mortar [2], Ely bricks, blew bricks, tiles, ridge tiles, oak laths, nails, "1 Hod of fine stuff", Dutch tiles,

Work done around College:

work done at the kitchen range

mending the tiling and slating about the College

mending and tiling and slating over the Chapel and round the first Court etc

mending some tiling at the Master's Lodge and repairing the College kitchen copper

stopping some rat holes in the kitchen

cleaning the oven and mending the brick work and pointing up the brick work in the kitchen

Total = £5 16 2½d

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

Received of Revd Mr Buck the sum of five pounds six shillings and two pence half being the contents of this bill
Richard Gillam

[1] hod = open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks or stones
[2] hair mortar = potentially meaning lime mortar which was commonly mixed with hair

£50 4s 5d paid to Richard B. Gillam for:

Workmen – Johnson, Braswait, Arnold

Materials – hods [1] of brick mortar, hods of hair mortar, ½ a thousand nails, bricks, blue mortar, the best bricks, tyles [3], lime, blacksmith scales, sinder dust [4], sand, mingle bricks

Work done around College -

mending the slating over the Chapel and Hall
doing the ceiling in Mr Woods wash hand place and stopping some holes up Mr Marriot's staircase
bunches of fir lath [2]
stopping some holes in the kitchen floor
underpinning the brewhouse next to the river and helping the carpenters etc
making the mortar for the garden wall and landing of bricks etc
for taking down the wall and helping the carpenters at the stank [5]
for the carpenter to bed the plank
the use of scaffolding stuff etc

22 June 1778 Received the contents in full by me Richard B. Gillam

[1] hod = open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks or stones
[2] lath = A thin narrow strip of wood used to form the groundwork for tiling, plastering, etc
[3] tiles
[4] cinder
[5] a pond, pool or ditch of slowly-moving water

£25 11s 6d paid to R. B. Gillam by the Revd Mr Buck for:

Workmen – James Wilkin; Oakings; Robert Whittlesy; Covill

Materials – Ely building bricks, hods [1] of blew brick mortar, hods of brick mortar, hods of hair mortar [2], bushels of lime, stone, gaul [2] for the stank [3], sand, tiles, nails, oak laths [4], yellow oaker [6], glew for size.

Work done around College -

Mending the plastering and whitewashing the ceiling of the Cloisters and lime washing the sides and staircases and work done at the underpinning and work done at the drain and arch next to the summer house in the Close etc

Finishing the drain in the Close and doing the underpinning of the Chapel next the Master’s Garden etc

Work done at the underpinning round the New Building and about the best part of the College etc

Mending tiling about the College and the Master’s lodge and stables etc

Work done at the chimney that caught fire in Mr Batley's Room Letter C No. 3 and fixing up the bath stove again etc

Mending the plastering tiling and doing the underpinning to the Coal House at the Master’s Lodge

Mending the rough casting at the Master’s Lodge

Mending some tiling over George Warren’s Chamber and Lean Two

To colouring and whitewashing the front of the Master’s Lodge and work done at the walls by Brewhouse yard

Whitewashing the College gateway

Doing some underpinning in the back lane

Cleaning and mending the oven in the kitchen

Raising the ladders up to the Clock and work done

Mending the brick wall where the coping was shoved off next to Chesterton Lane

[1] hod = open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks or stones
[2] hair mortar = potentially meaning lime mortar which was commonly mixed with hair
[3] gaul = bog-myrtle
[4] stank = pond, pool or ditch
[5] lath = A thin narrow strip of wood used to form the groundwork for tiling, plastering, etc
[6] oaker = variant spelling of ochre