Eleven volumes of accounts of Bablake School, 1656-57, 1666-67, 1673-74, 1678-79,...

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1656 - 1698

Eleven volumes of accounts of Bablake School, 1656-57, 1666-67, 1673-74, 1678-79, 1688-90, 1694-98.

Accounts of Bablake School 1656-1657.

f.1. Front cover, 239 written on it in ink.

ff.2-8.r. 19 Dec. 1656-11 Dec. 1657. Accounts of Widow Old's for providing food, light, coal, drink, hiring help, making clothes, looking after sick pupils, repairing equipment and buildings at Balake School, the accounts being made on weekly and monthly bases.

f.8.v. 19 Dec. 1656-11 Dec. 1657. Annual accounts.

f.9.r. Extraordinary expenses for the above year, for making coats, paying the wardens, the Bailiffs of the guilds and charities, the preaching of three sermons and payments not relating to the school, viz. payments to almsmen in Greyfriars Hospital, also payments of nurses wages.

f.9.v. Allowance for rents not received, re charities relating to Bablake School, viz the City, Mr. Walden's Gift, Mr. Norton's Gift, and the account for taxes allowed, re various individuals.

ff.10-13. Blank.

f.14. Back cover.

Accounts of Bablake School 1666-1667.

ff.16-22.r. 14 Dec. 1666 - 12 Dec. 1667. Accounts of Hannah Olds for providing food, candles, ink, nursing sick pupils, coal, beer, payments for burial of Wheatley, washing, repairing clothes, repairing the building, wood and purchasing clothes at Bablake School, the accounts being made on weekly and monthly bases.

f.22.v. Extraordinary accounts for the year, re making and purchasing clothes, setting out boys as apprentices; payment of Almsfolk in Greyfriars Lane, paying wardens and bailiffs, and payments, re charities supporting the school, Sharatts Gift, Davenports Gift, the nurses wages, the Account Dinner and the accountants wages.

f.23.r. Accountants allowances, re taxes paid by various individuals for the year and rents not received.

ff.23.v - 24.r. Accounts for setting out six pupils of Bablake School as apprentices, the costs of each being £5.6s.4d, £3.18s.2d, £4.0s.4d, £4.12s.6d, £3.17s.10d, £3.17s.5d, including the £2 premium paid to the master, accepting the apprentice in each case.

f.24.v. Total yearly accounts for Bablake School.

f.25. Blank.

F.26. Back cover.

Accounts of Bablake School 1673-1674.

f.27. Front cover. 'Widow Olds Accounts, 1673 and 1674' written on it in ink.

ff.28-34. 28 Nov. 1673-4 Dec. 1674. Accounts of expenses for Bablake School for food, drink, candles, laundry, ink and pens, baking, burying Thomas Kew, repairing shoes, coal, making clothes, wood, parchment to cover books; made on a weekly and monthly basis with the monthly totals and yearly totals on 34.v.

f.35.r. Accounts for setting out two pupils as apprentices and yearly accountants allowances for taxes, re. various individuals.

f.35.v. Extraordinary payments for 1674 and accountants allowances for rents not received.

f.36.r. Annual balance for 1674.

f.36.v. Blank.

f.37.r. Back cover, calculations endorsed in ink.

Accounts of Bablake School 1678-1679.

f.38. Front cover. '1667' written on front in ink.

ff.39-45. 29 Nov. 1678 - 3 Dec. 1679. Accounts of Hannah Olds for the children of Bablake School; for food, candles, ink and pens (money paid to the schoolmaster), leather, nursing sick boys, washing, beer, making clothes, baking, repairing furniture, sweeping the chimney, repairing the kitchen floor, mending shoes, burying a pupil (name lost due to damage to folio), besoms, books and paper, the accounts being made on a weekly and monthly basis, the yearly total of the monthly accounts being on f.45.v.

f.46.r. Accounts for setting out five pupils as apprentices.

f.46.v. Accountants allowances for rents not paid and taxes allowed for the year.

f.47.r. Extraordinary payments for the year.

f.47.v. Annual balance for 1679.

f.48. Blank.

f.49. Back cover.

Accounts of Bablake School 1686 - 1687.

ff.50-56.r. 3 Dec. 1686 - 23 Nov. 1687. Accounts of Hannah Olds for the children of Bablake School (described as Bablake Hospital); for food, candles, wages to labourers for work done, shoes, baking, cutting the boys' hair, furniture, socks, coal, washing, thread, money paid to the old nurse, leather, caps, yarn, ink, sweeping the chimney, beer; the accounts being made on a weekly and monthly basis, the yearly total of the monthly accounts being on f.56.r.

f.56.v. Accounts for setting out seven boys as apprentices.

f.57.r. Extraordinary payments for the year, the payment by the accountant, of hearth tax on property supporting the school being transferred from a separate list: Accountants allowances, re rents not received.

f.57.v. Annual balance for 1687.

Accounts of Bablake School 1688-1689.

f.58. Front cover. '1689' written on front in ink.

ff.59-65. 23 Nov. 1688 - 27 Nov. 1689. Accounts of Hannah Olds for the children of Bablake School (described as Bablake Hospital); for food, bills of the cooper and glazier, repair of shoes, washing, baking, ink and pens, cutting the boys' hair, stockings, seeds and making the garden, candles, making shirts, nursing sick boys, hempen cloth for sheets, writing 10 boys names, the accounts being made on a monthly and weekly basis, the yearly total of the monthly accounts being on f.65.r.

f.66.r. Accounts for setting out ten boys as apprentices.

f.66.v. Blank.

f.67.r. Extraordinary payments for 1689. Accountants allowances for rents not-received. Accountants allowances for taxes.

f.67.v. Annual balance for 1689.

f.68. Blank.

Accounts of Bablake School 1689- 1690.

ff.69-75.r. 29 Nov. 1689 - 26 Nov. 1690. Accounts of Hannah Olds for the Children of Bablake School; for providing food, mending shoes, mending socks, washing, baking, coal, paying the glazier for work, seeds for making the garden, the nursing of sick boys, a comb, to Mr. Butler for ink and pens, cutting the boys' hair, to Thomas Holton for writing to the overseers and writing three boys' names, thread, yarn, candles, material for shirts, wages for labourers, spoons, sparables (shoemaker's nails), greats; the accounts being made on a weekly and monthly basis; the yearly total of the accounts being on f.75.r.

f.75.v. Accounts for setting out three boys as apprentices, extraordinary payments, accountants allowances for rents not received.

f.75.r. Annual Balance for 1690.

f.76.v. Blank.

Accounts of Bablake School 1694 - 1695.

f.77 Front cover. 'Wheatley 94' and '1694 - 1695: Wheatley entered,' written on front cover.

ff.78-84. 23 Nov. 1694 - 4 Dec. 1695. Accounts of Hannah Olds for the children of Bablake School for; food, milk, shoes, sparables, repairing a kettle, sieves, yarn and knitting hose, baking, washing, making shirts, mending shoes, cutting the boys' hair, cash paid to Mr Butler for pens and ink, sheets, leather to mend shoes, wool for bolsters, the glaziers bill, seeds for the garden, coal, knitting, praising James Robinson for work done, a scuttle, leather for shoe repair, payment to Mr. Maycock 'for a note for beer for a year,' the accounts being made on a weekly and monthly basis, the yearly accounts being on f.84.v.

f.85.r. Accounts for setting out 10 boys as apprentices.

f.85.v. Extraordinary payments and the accountants allowance for rents not received.

f.86.r. Annual balance for 1695

ff.86v.87. Blank.

f.88. Back cover.

Accounts of Bablake School 1695-1696.

f.89. Front cover. 'Wheatley 96' and '1695 + 1696.' 'Wheatley interest' written on the front.

ff.90-96. 6 Dec. 1695 - 12 Dec. 1696. Accounts of Joseph Olds for Bablake School; for food, payment of the glaziers bill, repair of shoes, yarn for hose, shoes, knitting hose, washing, greats, a comb for thread, sparables, coal, baking, cutting the boys' hair, yarn and payments for knitting hose, seed for the garden, curing the boys of the itch, for '6 ABC's', mending a kettle, the cooper's bill, a pot lid, ink and pens, the nurse, repairing coats, yarn for knitting, repairing a sieve, mending a lock, wood and ivory comb, candles, mending pot hooks, the accounts being made on a weekly and monthly basis, the yearly total of the accounts being on f.96.v.

f.97.r. Accounts for setting out four boys as apprentices, extraordinary payments and the accountants allowance for rents not received during the year.

f.97.v. Annual balance for 1696.

f.98. Back cover.

Account of Bablake School 1696 - 1697.

f.99. Front cover. 'Mr. Wheatley's Accompt q.v. 1697 entered' written on front.

ff.100-106.r. 18 Dec. 1696 - 8 Dec. 1697. Accounts of Joseph Olds for Bablake School; for food, writing paper, payments to Joseph Brown the tiler for work, excessive costs of the accounts dinner, leather for shoe repair, knitting hose, cutting the boys' hair, washing, baking, mending shoe, thread, payments for 'the old nurse', a barrow, besoms, parchment to cover books, seeds for the garden, coal, wood, mending a kettle, scouring a rug, cloth for shirts, 'an English school book', sparables, cats gut for coats, beer, the accounts being made on a weekly and monthly basis, the yearly accounts being on f.105.r.

f.106.v. Accounts for setting out five apprentices.

f.107.r. Extraordinary payments 1697.

f.107.v. Allowance for rents not received 1697.

f.108.r. Annual balance for 1697.

ff.108.v. 109. Blank.

f.110. Back cover.

Accounts of Bablake School 1697 - 1698.

f.111. Front cover, 'No.4. (No.4) 1698, entered', written on the front.

f.112-118. 10 Dec. 1697 - 7 Dec. 1698. Accounts of Joseph Olds for Bablake School; for food, expenses of accounts, dinner, writing to the overseers, mending shoes, yarn and knitting hose, baking, washing, expenses of the schoolmaster for pens and ink, cutting the boys' hair, lodgings outside for sick boys, the bill of Mr. Crump the glazier, coal, colouring for 21 pairs of yellow hose, mending a kettle, writing paper, the bill of Martin Orton the cooper, wood, hemp for shirts, catgut for coats, a scuttle, beer, bands; the accounts being made on a weekly and monthly basis, the yearly accounts being on f.117.v.

f.119.r. Accounts for setting out five boys as apprentices.

f.119.v. Extraordinary payments.

f.120.r. Allowance for rents not received.

f.120.v. Blank.

f.121.r. Balance for 1698.

f.121.v. Blank.

f.122. Back cover.

Previous reference. Charities: 4.

English

These accounts have been guarded and filed as one volume and foliated consecutively. These documents have been foliated, guarded and filed.