Miscellaneous papers

ST. GEORGE-THE-MARTYR QUEEN SQUARE

1725. Table of fees proposed by the vestry (ff.1-2).

ST. ANNE LIMEHOUSE

c. 1724. Unnamed mason's proposals (ff.3-4v).

BETHNAL GREEN, STEPNEY

[26 February 1743]. Petition by the parish officers and inhabitants, stating that Stepney contains five hamlets of which Bethnal Green is one; the hamlet contains 1,800 houses and a population of 15,000, most of whom are two miles from the parish church. The commission purchased a site in 1725. They petition for a church to be built and a parish constituted (13 signatures) (ff.5v-6). Also (f.7) a plan of White's Ground, [27 November 1724].

CHRIST CHURCH SPITALFIELDS

[8 July 1714]. Separate proposals for bricklayer's work by Mathew Fortnam, Thomas Slemaker and Richard Goodchild, Henry Hester, Nathanael Miller, Thomas Lucas junior, Francis Withers (ff.8-20).

[8 July 1714]. Proposals by Thomas Dunn for mason's work (ff.22r-v).

ST. GEORGE BLOOMSBURY

[20 June 1716]. Proposals by George Vaughan for digging (f.24).

c. 1725. List of the principal inhabitants proposed for vestrymen (f.25r-v).

ST. GEORGE HANOVER SQUARE

c. 1725. List of vestrymen (f.27).

ST. ALPHEGE GREENWICH

[August 1712]. Proposals by Richard Billinghurst for bricklayer's work (f.28).

6 August 1712. Bricklayer's bill for day-work (f.30).

[12 August 1712]. Proposals by Thomas Hues for bricklayer's work (ff.31v-32).

[September 1712]. Petition by William Courey to be employed as smith (f.33).

23 February 1713. Proposals by John James for carpenter's work (ff.35-6).

[11 March 1713]. Proposals by Henry Savage for plumber's work (f.37).

[1713]. Proposals by John Fawcit for joiner's work (f.39).

[1713]. Proposals [by William Ransom] for glazier's work (f.41).

[12 August 1713]. Petition for payment by Edward Strong jr. and Edward Tufnell, masons (f.42).

26 March 1714. Bill of Thomas Hues and Richard Billinghurst for bricklayers' work (f.44).

[11 June 1716]. Proposals by John Simmons for joiner's work (f.45).

12 December 1729. Report by John James and John Andrews (for Hawksmoor), proposing that the old tower be cased with stone (f.46).

ST. JOHN SMITH SQUARE

[12 August 1713]. Petition by Thomas Hues and William Tufnell, bricklayers, for amendment of their contract owing to the rise of prices (f.48).

3 April 1714. Bill of the same for brickwork on the foundations (f.50).

c. 1714. Petition by the same for payment, having completed their contract 'notwithstanding the hardships they mett with in raising four high towers' (f.51).

c. 1716. Proposals by Thomas Denning for the roof 'according to a modell' (f.53r-v).

[March 1727]. Petition by John Boson for payment for carving new churches in Westminster and Bloomsbury (f.55).

28 June 1728. Resolution of the commission that the Dean of Arches and others draw up a list of vestrymen (f.57).

[1728]. List of persons proposed for vestrymen (f.58r-v).

[1728]. List of persons appointed vestrymen (f.59r-v).

ST. LUKE OLD STREET

6 February 1718. Comparative table of bricklayers' rates (f.61).

1718. Proposals for bricks or bricklayer's work by: John Burton (f.63); John Waxham (f.64); John Barber (f.65); Richard Billinghurst (f.67); Edward Boswell and John Ford (f.69); John Eden (f.71); George Eden (f.73); Thomas Lucas (f.75); Thomas Hues and William Tufnell (f.77); Thomas and Henry Scott (f.79).

[1718]. Proposals by Stephen Whitaker and William Wiesbiedge to supply bricks (f.80). Another by James Wilson, [1718] (f.82).

[1718]. Proposals by Thomas Phillips for carpenter's work (f.83r-v). Another by an unnamed carpenter, [1718] (ff.85-6).

[1718]. Proposals by Thomas Phillips for joiner's work (f.87).

c. 1721. Letter from James Wilson, who has contracted for bricklayer's work, concerning the shooting of rubbish on the site (f.89).

[1727]. Proposals by John Cleave for smith's work (f.91r-v).

[1727]. Proposals by John Robins for smith's work (f.93r-v).

24 July 1727. Comparative table of estimates for smith's work (f.95).

[8 December 1732]. Petition by John Belshaw, joiner, for payment for work at Old Street and Horsleydown (f.96). Also (f.97) a further petition by the same, [17 February 1733].

1733-8. Accounts of the trustees appointed by Parliament for walling and enclosing the church, churchyard, and for building a parsonage house (ff.99v-100).

20 March 1745. Letter from William Nicolls, Rector of St. Luke, concerning walling the church and churchyard and building a parsonage house (f.102).

ST. MARY LE STRAND

21 October 1713. Statement by John Stone that the George Inn site in Little Drury Lane is suitable for a minister's house (f.104).

[24 June 1714]. Proposals by Henry Hester and Francis Withers for bricklayers' work (f.105r-v).

[24 June 1714]. Proposals by William and John Townesend for masons' work (f.107r-v).

25 July 1716. Agreement by George Grove, carpenter, for payment for timber to John Foltrop, James Grove, and Ezekiel Cook, merchants. Copy (f.109).

[-]. Petition by John Norris, son of the late George Norris, paviour, for payment under agreement with his father in 1717 for removal of rubbish to Westminster (f.110).

ST. MARY WOOLNOTH

[1716]. Petition by Richard Goodchild, bricklayer, reporting that the old foundations will be removed in a few days, the steeple excepted (f.112).

26 October 1717. Bill of Charles Scriven for glazier's work on the parsonage house (f.113).

[6 February 1723]. Surveyor's estimate 'of what will make the New Church in Lumbard Street fit for Divine Service' (f.114).

[19 December 1723]. Petition by David Arnott for amendment of his contract for plumber's work (f.116).

13 March 1724. Letter from Hawksmoor and John James concerning a petition by Thomas Dunn, mason (f.118r-v).

25 February 1726. Petition by Gabriel Appleby, joiner, for payment (f.120).

[1730]. Petition by James Preedy, painter, for payment for painting the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Commandments, in St Mary Woolnoth, and Christ Church Spitalfields (f.122).

ST. PAUL DEPTFORD

18 June 1713. Proposals by Thomas Lucas for bricklayer's work (f.124).

[20 June 1713]. Proposals by Edward Tufnell and Edward Strong jr., masons, for masons' work 'according to Mr. Archer's design of ye Tuscan Order' (f.126).

[25 June 1713]. Proposals by Thomas Hues for brickwork in the parishes of St. Margaret, Westminster, and Deptford (f.128).

[9 July 1713]. Proposals by James Grove for carpenter's work at the same (f.130r-v).

[7 October 1713]. Petition by Thomas Lucas, bricklayer, for payment, the walls being raised six feet (f.132).

22 March 1714. Measurement of brickwork by Thomas Lucas. Certified by Hawksmoor and James Gibbs (ff.134-5).

17 August 1715. Proposals by Christopher Harrison, plumber, for roofing the church with milled lead (f.136).

[1715]. Proposals by George Osmond, plumber, for the same (f.138).

June 1730. Warrant to Nathaniel Blackerby, treasurer, to pay the churchwardens £100 towards the cost of a Bill in Parliament. Copy (f.139).

[23 January 1745]. Petition by James Bate, Rector of St. Paul Deptford, for completion of purchase of lands for endowing the living (f.141).

[1750]. Estimate of repairs needed to the parsonage house (f.142).

27 June 1750. Contract by William Bradshaw, of the Strand, carpenter, to repair the parsonage roof (f.143).

ST. JOHN HORSLEYDOWN

8 August 1727. Legal opinion of J. Ward on contract for mason's work with the late Edward Tufnell (f.164).

[1728]. Proposals by John Lock for carpenter's work (f.145r-v).

[1728]. Proposals by Thomas Phillips for the same (f.147).

22 March 1728. Proposals by Benjamin Timbrell for the same (f.149).

[1728]. Proposals by John Meard for joiner's work (f.150).

[1728]. Proposals by John Lock for the same and St. Luke Old Street (f.152).

22 March 1728. Proposals by James Slater for plumber's work at St. Luke Old Street (f.154).

16 April 1728. Proposals by John Cleave for smith's work (f.156r-v).

17 April 1728. Proposals by Thomas Goff for the same (f.158r-v).

17 April 1728. Proposals by Samuel Parr, of the parish of St. Olave Southwark, for the same (f.160r-v).

12 December 1729. Tabulated abstract of joiners' proposals (f.162).

164 ff.