The following are the items of expenditure paid to make the building
held by tenancy outside the gate an almshouse for poor brothers and
sisters of the crafts and fraternity of brewers of London, for
which Robert Smyth paid £10, as was indicated previously.
First, for sawing of various
pieces of lumber |
17d. |
Item, paid to Janekin Pekker
carpenter for all his labour in carpentry, for he undertook the
general contract, that is, for the piece work |
40s. |
Item, paid to John Stok
lumber supplier for assorted lumber bought from him for the almshouse
at various times |
42s. |
Item, for ale for
the carpenters |
1d. |
Item, for 4 oak
laths, at 8d. each |
2s.8d |
Item for for 4 pine laths
at 6d. each |
2s. |
Item, to Nicholas Fuller
for 1½ lb. of iron, called
stirrups |
3d. |
Item, to Robert Cok labourer
for half a day spent breaking down a wall in the tenants house called
the almshouse |
1d. |
Item, to another labourer
for 2 days |
4d. |
Item, to one John, a labourer,
for 5 days of work, at 3d. a day |
15d. |
Item, as a reward to the same
labourer |
1d. |
Item, to one Robert, a dauber,
for 7 days spent on daubing, at 4½d a day including lunch |
2s.7½d. |
Item, to John Smyth labourer
for 9½ days, at 4d. a day including lunch and a reward given to
the same dauber |
3s.3d. |
Item, to one Piers, a labourer,
for 3½ days, at 5d. a day |
17d. |
Item, to Robert Rowe dauber
for 10½ days, at 6d. a day, for daubing various walls |
5s.3d |
Item, to the same dauber for
his lunches |
4½d. |
Item, to one John, a labourer,
for 1 day |
4½d |
Item, for straw for the daubing |
3d. |
Item, to John Smyth labourer,
for carrying tiles |
1d. |
Item, to the aforementioned
Robert the dauber, for 5 days making repairs, daubing and other tasks
in various parts of the almshouse, at 5d. a day |
2s.1d |
Item, to the same Robert
the dauber, for his work on lathing and daubing, for 3 days at 6½d
a day including lunches |
19½d. |
Item, for freestone for
the great door |
2s. |
Item, for transport of that
stone |
3d. |
Item, to John Crowston mason
for 1 step comprising 4 feet of solid stone, to go before the door of
the almshouse |
16d. |
Item, to Goldryng mason for
2 freestones and masonry work thereon |
4d. |
Item, paid for 1 freestone for
the side of abovementioned door |
6d. |
Item, paid to Ralph Worsted,
freestone carver, for 7 days, at 8d. a day |
4s.8d |
Item, for his lunches during
those days and a reward |
2d. |
Item, to William Batte mason
for 6½ days, at 8d. a day |
4s.4d |
Item, to John Wolde mason for
9 days, at 8d. a day |
6s. |
Item, paid for ale for
the masons, daubers and labourers |
1d. |
Item, to 2 masons in
the employ of Henry Botston mason, for 2 weeks, at 4s.3d the week
each including lunches, for building the walls of the privy and
a wall called a reredos in the kitchen, along with paving the kitchen |
17s. |
Item, to William Walton labourer,
to work under the masons for 11 days, at 5d. a day |
4s.7d |
Item, to another labourer
to work under the masons for 6 days, at 5d. a day |
2s.6d |
Item, for
stabilizing the old privy in the
almshouse |
2s.2d |
Item for a
gutter of new lead (26 lb. in weight)
for that privy |
22d. |
Item, for making 2
teyes of pavement for that lead gutter,
to keep the water out of the privy |
16d. |
Item, for 1 cartload of gravel
for the same task |
4d. |
Item, given to Stephen Brewer
for fetching stones out of the small cellar for the pavers to use in
making the aforementioned pavement |
4d. |
Item for 68 paving stones for
the kitchen of the almshouse |
13½d. |
Item for
112 Flemish tiles, at 12d. a hundred,
for the kitchen |
13½d |
Item, for transport of
those stones and tiles |
6d. |
Item, to John Tenterden for 5700
transom[-nail]s,
at 10d. the thousand |
4s.9d |
Item, for twopenny nails,
threepenny nails, sixpenny nails, and eightpenny nails |
15½d. |
Item, for 100
sprigg nails for the daubers |
1d. |
Item, to the lumber supplier
in Wood Street for 200 fivepenny nails |
10d. |
Item, for 100 fourpenny nails |
4d. |
Item,
[for] twopenny nails, threepenny nails,
sixpenny nails, eightpenny nails |
15½d. |
Item, for two lead nails for
the front door of the almshouse, and for the lock, latch, and bolts
of that door |
8d. |
Item, for 1 door-lock, with
1 staple, and its installation in a room of the almshouse |
8d. |
Item, for two staples for
the bolts of the middle door |
1d. |
Item, for repairs to the latches
of various doors |
1d. |
Item, for a lock for the
kitchen door, with 1 staple |
6d. |
Item, for 3 new keys, with
adjustments to 3 locks, for various doors |
8d. |
Item, for 1 lock and 1 staple,
with 3 keys, for the door of Robert Lynford's room. |
12d. |
Item, for installing a lock,
with 1 staple, on the door of the room at the top of the stairs, next
to Janet Awmbele |
2d. |
Item, for 1 hasp, with 1 staple,
for the kitchen door |
1½d. |
Item, for 1 cramp with 1 catch
for the kitchen window |
1d. |
Item, for repairs to a lock to
the door of a privy in one room of the almshouse |
2d. |
Item, for 1 new key to the
kitchen door |
3d. |
Item, for repairs to a lock in
the dark room |
2d. |
Item, for various hinges for
windows and doors, with 1 pair of
garnet-hinges |
15d. |
Item, for 9 loads of lime for
the almshouse |
8s.10d. |
Item, for 6 loads of sand for
all work undertaken in the almshouse, at 5d.
[the load] |
2s.6d |
Item, for 5 loads of loam
for the daubing in the almshouse, at 4d. the load |
20d. |
Item, for transport of 6 loads
of refuse to the field, at 3d. the load |
18d. |
Item, for 5 lb. of candles
with wicks for the carpenters, daubers and other labourers
[use] in mornings and evenings |
7½d. |
Item, for 1 earthenware pot,
to hold water in the privy in one room
of the almshouse |
1d. |
Item, for making a coal-bin
for Janet Awmbele's room, and for fixing up the floor in another room
with loam, over 2 days, at 3d. a day |
6d. |
Item, to the lumber supplier
in Wood Street for 6 boards for various doors, and for a pipe for
the privy, a window for the kitchen, 14
quarters [to
serve] as supports and props and elements of the windows and
doors |
8s.2½d |
Total: £10.2s.6½d |
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The following are items for a gutter above
the kitchen of the tenant-house now called the almshouse |
First, for 2 quarters for
the transoms of the gutter |
8d. |
Item, for 1 long board for
the bottom of the gutter |
10d. |
Item, to 2 carpenters for 1 day,
constructing the gutter, 8½d each including lunches |
17d. |
Item, for half a
hundredweight and 16 lb. of new lead,
at 8s. the hundredweight, for the gutter, totalling |
5s.2d. |
Item, for the replacement of
1 hundredweight and 3 quarters of old lead, at 16d. the hundredweight,
totalling |
2s.4d |
Item, for transporting
the old lead out and the new lead in |
4d. |
Total: 10s.9d |
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The following are items for a gutter above
the hall in the tenant-house now called the almshouse |
First, three pieces of timber
for transoms for the gutter |
6½d |
Item, for threepenny nails,
fourpenny nails, fivepenny nails, and sixpenny nails |
6d. |
Item, given to a man to assist
the carpenter with the gutter and to lay the tiles |
1d. |
Item, for three boards for
the bottom of the gutter |
10d |
Item, for three boards for
the sides of the gutter |
10d. |
Item, for half an
eastland board for a window in
the great chamber of the tenant-house |
3½d. |
Item, to a carpenter for 4
days work on the gutter and other tasks, taking 7½d a day, lunch
included |
2s.6d. |
Item, paid to a plumber for
removing, working, and resetting the old lead in the gutter, along
with 2 lb. of solder |
18d. |
Item, paid for 100 laths for
the tiling of the houses near the gutter |
8d. |
Item, for 3 sacks of lime |
6d. |
Item, for lath nails |
3½d. |
Item, for a quarter of tiles |
2d. |
Item, to a tiler for 1½
days in tiling the houses, at 8½d. a day including lunches |
13d. |
Item, to his assistant for
1½ days, at 6d. a day including lunches |
9d. |
Item, for 1 load of loam for
fixing various defects underneath the gutter |
4d. |
Item, to a dauber for 1 day
in fixing those defects, including his lunch, at |
8½d. |
Item, paid to an assistant to
the dauber for 1 day, including his lunch, at |
6½d. |
Item, for transport of refuse
from that gutter |
1½d. |
Item, for 1 piece of new lead,
weighing 26 lb., for a gutter of the tenant-house above the pentice of
a window |
23d. |
Item, for lead nails for that
lead |
1d. |
Total: 14s.3d |
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