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COLL BA 52

Reference code

COLL BA 52

Title

Building accounts: Expenses of repair

Level

Item

Administrative / Biographical history

The school was probably the temporary schoolroom used until Lower School was ready. Long Bridge is presumably on the site of Fifteen-Arch Bridge over Jordan. The new bridge may be Beggars Bridge over Colenorton Brook.

Date

1454

Content description

Expenses of the repair and removal of the school through Provost Westbury. ff.1-2 Journal of wages, September-October. Stub of leaf removed f.3 Journal of wages for repair and making [making good?]of Long Bridge, October-November.7 November a holiday for `Festum Dedicationis'. (In 1444-1446 5 June was observed for this celebration). In some accounts 8 November, Feast of the Quatuor Coronati, is a holiday but here it is worked. f.4 Payments for carriage of timber and repair of the new bridge, July-August 1455; carpenters' wages, September.
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