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Michaelmas 1795 "Magdalen College" to Elizabeth Briggs

Washing the table linen = £1 10s 0d

21st October 1795
Received this bill for Elizabeth Briggs

[signed] Eliz Briggs

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

September 25th 1795

A bill to "Magglen Collge" for one Quarters sweeping the

Kitchen chimneys = £0 4s 0d
The Combination Room chimney = £0 0s 6d
The Porters Lodge chimney = £0 0s 6d

Received the contents = £0 5s 0d
By me Will Press

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

1795 The Revd Mr Buck Bursar to "Magdalen College" to John Rainforth Quarter ending September 25th

Gate Bill
Gives weekly totals for 14 weeks with a quarterly total of £1 11s 2d

College Letters
Daily record of letters sent for this quarter with additional items:

Stamp = £0 0s 2½d

Quarterly total = £0 2s 6½d

Gate bill = £1 11s 2d
Courts, street & walks = £3 0s 0d
Combination Room = £0 15s 0d

Total = £5 8s 8½d

Oct 13th 1795
Received the contents by me John Rainforth

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

Bill giving weekly totals for 14 weeks Commons paid to William Winder for the Quarter ending at Michaelmas 1795

Total = £16 5s 6d

In addition:

Cook's wages = £7 0s 0d
Coals for the Kitchen = £5 0s 0d
5 sacks for the Brewhouse = £0 10s 5d
Brooms = £0 3s 0d

Total = £28 18s 11d

October 18th 1795

Received of the Revd Mr Buck the sum of twenty eight pounds and eighteen shillings and eleven pence in full for this quarter by me William Winder Cook.

"Magdalen College" to Edward Mills
1795 The Disbursement Bill the Quarter ending at Michaelmas

Paid the Brewer for 1 brewing = £0 5s 0d

Brooms & paper in the Buttery = £0 5s 0d

Knives & napkins in the Hall = £0 2s 6d

The Masters Commencement = £0 2s 6d

Salt for the Fellows = £0 2s 0d

Total = £0 17s 0d
Prom [1] £3 13s 6¾d

Total = £4 10s 6¾d

December 12th 1795

Received the contents
By me Edward Mills

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

[1] Prom is an abbreviation of Promus meaning Butler

£4 2s 8½d paid to George Warren for the Quarter ending at Michaelmas 1795.

Bill lists money spent on candles, mops, scuttles, large broom, plow brush, soap, sand, dust, small brushes, whitening, brooms for Brewer, baskets, bread and cheese for workmen, cotton, Nutmegs, oil, and stamp.

A bill for "Magdalen College" Quarter ending September 18th 1795

Bread baked = £2 0s 0d
For baking = £0 10s 0d
Sedge, Barm [1] etc = £0 13s 0d

Total = £1 3s 0d

Masters commencement = £0 3s 4d
Stamp = £0 0s 2d
Total = £1 6s 6d

Wheat spent this quarter 4 bushel at 15s per bushel = £3 0s 0d

Total = £4 6s 6d

Received September 12th 1795 of the Revd Mr Buck the contents H.B. Beales

Received Sept 29 1795 of the Bursar of "Magd Coll" the sum of four pounds 7s 4d for half a years Contribution Money & Marshalls wages due at Michaelmas 1795

John Taylor

[written as a note in the bottom left hand corner]
£4 5s 4d
Wages = 2s 0d
Stamp = 2d

Total = £4 7s 6d

Received of the Revd the Bursar of "Magd. Coll." two shillings & six pence for the A.M. Commencement 1795
By me John Marshall

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

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag College to Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 5 July 1795 to 10 Oct 1795 = £1 15s 0d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Contents Mr Rofe

"Magdalene Colledg" to William Coe

Winding up the clock from St Michael's Quarter 1794 to St Michael's Quarter 1795

£2 5s 0d

Received 29th Oct 1795 the contents by me William Coe

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

Magdalene College to John Deighton

1795
Jan 5 - An Imperial paper book bound & ruled = £1 4s 0d

Feb 19 - 10 Forms of Prayer for the Chapel = £0 5s 0d

Jun 2 - A quarto paper book = £0 2s 6d

Total = £1 11s 6d

Nov 21 1795 Received of the Revd Mr Buck Bursar
J. Deighton

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

A letter and bill transcribed below.

Sir,

Your favor with a bill on Newnham and Co. for £9 3s 4d I received this day which balances your account. I am much obliged to you for it, and am very sorry you should have occasion to complain of the candles sent to you, my son will be in Cambridge next week. He will take the liberty to call and look at them and if it's your wish will change them.

London January 9th 1796

I am Sir yours,
Benjamin Jiggins

Magdalen College London January 27 1795

Bought of Benjamin Jiggins

Wax Chandler

Successor to the late Mrs Jones No. 19 Poultry

Wax long = £0 6s 0d - 56
Wax = £0 3s 0d - 8
Total = 64 - 2s 10d = £9 1s 4d
Box = 2s

Total = £9 3s 4d

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

Paid to Mr W. Stanley the sum of £4 18s 6d

Materials
Battens, nails, plate lock, two keys and two bolts, wood, board, deal [1], pitch nails, tin deal, oak,

Work done in College:

Cobwebbing the Chapel

Rale on the Piece

Work on Master's gate next to the Piece

Putting up the hall doors

Mending Mr Batley's bedroom floor

A new Butler's tray for the hall

Sundry jobs in the larder kitchen

Deals for two new trunks to the leaden gutters at kings head

Making a large meat screen for the kitchen

Mr Readhead's bill for tinning

Work done brewhouse yard gate

Sundry jobs in the brewhouse

To a sand sieve by the Porter

Work to skirting boards in the hall

Received August 15 1795 the contents above of the Revd Mr Buck
W. Stanley

[1] deal = timber

1794 Michaelmas to Christmas Quarter "Magdalen Coll" to Robert Painter

For work done by order of the Revd Mr Buck Bursar

Aug 6 - 5 ft of old glass new leaded
6 squares of glass

Sep 8 - Staircase in the cloister
3 ft of old glass repaired
2 crown squares

Sep 26 - 3 crown squares

Oct 7 - The Butlers Room
4 ft of old glass repaired
2 crown squares
Cleaning of windows

The Kitchen
3 squares of glass

Oct 22 - The Masters Lodge
Cleaning of two pair of sashes
2 crown squares

Nov 8 - The Buttress
Cleaning of windows

Nov 19 - The Masters Lodge
A days work two men cleaning two windows

Nov 20 - 3/4 days work two men cleaning windows
4 crown squares

Nov 21 - The Combination Room
Cleaning of two pair of sashes

Nov 25 - Masters Lodge
14 foot of old glass new leaded
18 squares of glass

Nov 27 - At Mr Hulls
6 crown squares

Total = £2 8s 4½d

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

Received of the Revd Mr Buck Burser the sum of £2 8s 4d as for bill annexed for two quarters viz michaelmas to Christmas 1794
Robert Painter Junior

[1] Staircase
[2] Cloister

Smiths work done for "Magdalaen Colledge" by J. Fuller

Oct 6 - repairing the steel yard and cleaning the kitchen
Oiling the smock jack [1]
laying a poker

Oct 28 - 3 new bars for the copper

Nov 3 - Cleaning the Combination fire iron and fender
laying a poker
cleaning a horse

Nov 12 - grinding knives and cleaves
mending the jack chains
repairing a lock of a door in the kitchen

Dec 3 - grinding a chopper and two knives
laying a poker
an iron for a door port in the back yard
½ staples and nails and staple to another
straightening of bars of the kitchen range

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

Total = £1 7s 5d

Dec 26 1794 received the contents J. Fuller

[1] a machine for roasting meat on a spit driven by hot gas rising from the fire

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

Revd Mr Farish Pupils bills for St Thomas 1794 to John Favell

Painting some work up G staircase for Mr Green. The bird cage

Doors, shutters, skirting boards etc chocolate lite colour

Total = £0 12s 0d

Dec 24 1794 received the above J. Favell

"mem. this bill belongs to the College, but by mistake was brought in to Mr Farish. R. Buck"

£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

£27 13s 1½d paid to Mr Stanley by Revd Mr Buck for:

Materials –
Oak, battens, nails, screws, deals [1], pitch, large rising joints

Work done around College –
Coal house and stairs back court

Jobs in Master’s Lodge and the buildings in the back court

Work to the bell wheel

Seat on the high walk stairs going up to the presidents bath house window

Work done to Dr Warring’s coal house door etc

Taking down the hall doors

[1] deal = timber

"Magdlen Colidge" to Peter Spencely

1795

Feb 9 – for new felt and clack to wort pump = £0 5s 9d

Feb 25 – for a new bucket and leathers to pump in Butler’s seller = £0 7s 6d
For new box and clack = £0 4s 6d

June 8 – for mending wheel of the Chapel bell = £0 2s 0d
For time taking down iron work and hanger bell = £0 5s 0d

Total = £1 4s 9d

Received July 16 1795 by Peter Spencely

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

Revd Mr Buck Bursar Magdalene College to John Favell
Quarter bills for Midsummer 1795

1794
painting some window frames doors etc down Chesterton Lane & same at the Swan etc = £1 3s 0d

some doors windows etc at the tenements in the black smith's yards = £0 12s 0d

1795
painting post and rails in the Close all round 510 yards @ 3d = £6 7s 6d

[?] 6ft putty = £0 3s 0d

some palisades on wall = £0 4s 6d

a seat trice over round trees Green = £0 4s 0d

some work in the back yard lead Col = £0 7s 0d

some work in the Lodge yard etc = £0 4s 0d

part of Mr Bird’s Room painted = £2 2s 6d

Total = £11 7s 6d

Sept 17 1795
Received the above J. Favell

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

The Revd Mr Buck to Thomas Fisher for "Magdalen College"

1794
Jan 19 – 4 ½ yards huckaback [1] 3s 6d = £0 15s 9d
Feb 14 – 8 yards of huckaback 3s 6d = £1 8s 0d

Total = £2 3s 9d

Rec'd July 13 1795 of the Revd Mr Buck Two pounds 3/9 for Goods

[1] a stout linen fabric, with the weft threads thrown alternately up so as to form a rough surface, used for towelling

1795 The Revd Masters and Fellows of "Magd Coll Camb" to William Waits

Jan 14 – Four saddle bars to window of the clock = £0 1s 6d

Feb 21 – Two irons to the kitchen pump = £0 1s 4d

Mar 4 – Mending the sweep mending the kitchen pump
Bucket prod lining the bolt = £0 2s 0d

Mar 5 – Sharping a mattock [1] = £0 0s 3d

Mar 17 – Mending four furnace bars = £0 1s 6d

Apr 9 – Lengthening a chisel = £0 0s 10d

Apr 10 – Eight wall hooks = £0 1s 0d

Apr 20 – One dozen of wall hooks = £0 1s 6d

Apr 22 – Laying a mattock = £0 1s 6d

May 4 – Mending the sweep lining the bolt of the kitchen pump = £0 1s 0d

May 20 – Lining the sweep of Masters pump = £0 1s 0d

Jun 6 – Two nuts to the irons to bell = £0 0s 6d

July 25 – A bolt and key to masters pump = £0 1s 2d

Aug 7 – Mending a pair of shears = £0 0s 2d

Total = £0 15s 3d

1795

August 7th Received this bill by me William Waits

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

[1] mattock - a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to a pickaxe

1795 "Magdalen College" to J. Doggett for Work in the Close

April 24th to self two days and three quarters = £0 5s 6d
Labourer = £0 4s 1½d

Total = £0 9s 7½d
April 27 1795

Received the contents by me John Doggett his mark [he signs with a X]

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

1795 Midsummer quarter "Magdalen Coll" to R. Painter & Son
For work done by order of the Revd Mr Buck Bursar

May 12 – The Masters Lodge
A new bucket and leather and box and clacks to the pump

The Butlers Room
6 feet of old glass repaired at 2d ft 4 crown squares 9 by 8 measured 2 ft at 18d / feet

May 16 – The Masters Lodge
For work to the pump

May 22 – The Combination
Cleaning of 2 pair sashes

May 30 – The Butlers Room
1 crown square 10 by 8

June 8 – The Clock Cupola
7 feet of old glass repaired at 2d ft 7 common squares 9 by 6 measured 2 ft 7 [?] at 10d
2 of putty
¼ of a days work 1 man and nails 2d

Total = £0 17s 3d

October 28 1795 Received the above Robert Painter & Son

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

1795 Smiths work done for "Magdalaen Coll" By James Fuller

Mar 27

Repairing & cleaning lock of a Buttery door

A key to the brewhouse yard

April
Oiling of smoke jack [1]

Laying two pokers

Grinding 11 knives and 2 cleavers

Addition of 16 lb of iron to a bar of the range & sizing

Laying the Combination pokers & jointing the spits in the kitchen

Fixing a back wheel to a smoak jack

Grinding a pair of shears & new rivet and bar

Repairing & altering a lock of front gate & new key

A bar to a Porters Lodge window lead and fixing

2 dogs [2] for a building by the brewhouse

3 staplers & [?]

A new double brace to the pump at the Kings Head and fixing

A staple and half staple to a bath window shutter

Altering a lock of the Hall door and fastening cranks of the bell at Porters Lodge

Total = £1 17s 2d

[1] smoke jack - a machine for roasting meat on a spit driven by hot gas rising from the fire
[2] fire dogs - normally one of a pair, on which logs are laid for burning in an open fireplace, so that air may circulate under the firewood, allowing better burning and less smoke