The rebuilding of the hospital in the eighteenth century : part 2 / by Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E.
- D'Arcy Power
- Date:
- [1927]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The rebuilding of the hospital in the eighteenth century : part 2 / by Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ And Mr. President attended by the Treasurer several Noblemen Aldermen and other Governors then went from the Court Room to the Building. And the said Inscription being read and the Copperplate placed in a Cavity of the Corner Stone of the South West Corner of the Building Mr. President laid the said Corner Stone and Mr. President and the Treasurer gave money to the Workmen and then re¬ turned to the Court Room.” Agreements were entered into with : (i) Richard Norris, of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, for brick¬ layers for the fourth pile on April 19, 1757. In all the bricklayers’ work, including drains and cesspools, the best plain bricks to be used, all hard burnt for £5 13<s. for every rod of brick-work. He enters into a bond of £1,000. (ii) On May 20, 1757, Matthew Hillyard, of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, in the City of London, Carpenter, and Christopher Horsnaile, of the same place, Mason, sign a bond for £1,000 before undertaking the carpenter’s work : ££ whole deal guttering with oak bearers at fivepence per foot superficial. Three quarters rough slit deal boarding under slate at Fourteen shillings and eightpence per xx Square. Good straight joint deal boarding of dry ten and twelve feet Christiana Heals free from Sap and well nailed with twentj^-one pound Brads at one pound twelve shillings per square. Rails and Ballusters to be right wainscott the same as in the last Building at eight shillings per foot running and half pared, to be dry with a right half wainscott with oak joists scantlings ten by two and a half at one shilling and three pence per foot superficial ; steps of stairs to be dry with a half right Wainscott including risers, string boards, strings of oak at four shillings and sixpence per foot running. Heal brackets to cornices at two pence half penny per foot superficial. Sawing and Labour to Girders trussed with Oak and bolted at eight shillings per girder.’* (iii) Haniel Harrison ££ Agreed with Mr. Robinson, the Clerk of the Works, to dig the Shore [sewer] to the Building at /9 per running yard ... it contains 106 running yards and l/3rd. £47.17.0. May 1757. ££ Agreed with Mr. Robinson to digg a large passage to the other wing, a Foundation for the Arch Areas to twelve windows and to take as much as is not useful] for levelling and cart it away for the sum of £46.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30801254_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
