Price the Joyner’s Bill for Furniture and Woodwork in Trinity Chapel

The Building of Lincolns Inn Chappell[1]

Price the Ioyners woorke in the newe Chappell at Linc: Inne & his rates required.

20. Iune. 1623  

For 21 yards of setteinge at 3s 4d the yard comes to  

for the worke Called french panell round the
Chappell 39 yards in mesure
Comes at 7s the yard to  

for the playne worke round about the Chappell            
Called sypher and square
Comes to 120 yards 2 foote at 3s 4d the yard 

The lower skrine in mesure 27 yards 3 foote  at 12s the yard
Comes to   

The nine long perticions in mesure 84 yardes at 5s the yard
Comes to

The perticions that parte the meedle pewes 16 yardes at 5s the yard
Comes to   

The soyle boards[2] in the windowes 10 yards at 2s 6d the yarde
Comes to    

The dores and Carued[3] heads in the meedle pewes on both sides in mesure 38 yards at 10s the yarde

The dores and Carued heads for the sid pewes in mesure 56 yards
and a halfe and a foote and a halfe
Comes to

For the vpper skrine in mesure 13 yards and a halfe at 12s the yard
Comes to  

For the vpper part of the vpper skrine being doble Carued worke
Comes to 14 yards in mesure and a halfe at 20s the yrd

The long Pew in the Chancell being put Close to the wall
in mesure 16 yardes and 6 foote at 8s the yarde
Comes to

Halfe a foote of worke Cutt to wast[4] round the Chappell
amoynteth[5] to 109 foote makes 12 yards and a foot
at 3s 4d the yard
Comes to  

For allering[6] the upper Pew in worke man shipp 13 dayes
Comes to   

For new laying the bords under the Communion table for
stuffe and workmanshipp

For stuffe workemanshippe turning and
Coorving[7] the Pulpitt

For Raysing the reders pew the Coobord[8] and the new flower[9]
Comes to

For 8 dayes worke in cutting downe the worke
round about the Chappell
Comes to

For 160 deales[10] for the flower

For 6 loade of Tymber[11] 28s the loade

For sawing the timber and Carraige[12]

For playning the bords and laying the groundplate[13] laysts[14]

For tymber spikes and worke manship
To fitt the pauements   

For nayles for the same worke 

For the seates kneeling boards bracketts nayels and workemanshipp in the
30 side Pewes at 6s a peece  

For the seates kneeling boards bracketts nayles and
workemanshipp in the 20 meedle pewes at 5s a peece

For stuff and work lost in all the perticions in
Cutting them 2 inches lower amoynteth to 6 yards and 6 foote at 5s the yarde
Comes to 

Payd for Cutting of them to a worke man for 6 dayes worke 

Payd for Caruing of the pannells in euery bencher’s
Pew 3s 4d the Pew

For the Chappell dore and the Communion table

The totall sume is

For the dores and Carued heades because I gaue you an estimacion of them at 10s  the yeard I sett downe no mor in mesure but they stooud me in 12s the yard at the lest by reson of the varietie of the Carving wch comes to £9 8s more then
I haue sett down for them in my Reconing the wch I defer to your
Worshipps Concideracions

besides we payd him for the litle pulpit that standes in the midst of the
chappell in the vpper part of the Chappell[15]

  


£       s     d

 

3—10—0
13—15—4

20—0—0

16—8—0

21—0—0

4—0—0

1—10—0

19—0—0

28—6—6

8—2—0

14—10—0

6—13—4

2—0—0

1—6—0

1—7—0

2—6—6

0—16—0

0—16—0

9—0—0

8—8—0

1—10—0

7—0—0

1—10—0

2—0—0

9—0—0

5—0—0

1—13—4

0—12—0

1—10—0


7—10—0

220—0—0

230£


                                                                                             

                                  

                                                                   

                               

                                                   

                                                    

                                                      

                                                               1—10—0

                                                                  19—0—0

                                                                         28— 6—6

                                                    8— 2—0

                                   14—10—0

                                                                      6—13—4

                                            2—0—0

                                                                              1— 6—0

                                           1—7—0

                                                       2—6—6

                                                             0–16—0
                                                            0—16—0

                                                                           9—0—-0

                                                               8—8—-0

                                                              1—10—0

                                                                                  7—0—0

                                                                                   1—10—0

                                                                               2—0—0

                                                                                  9—0—0

                                           5—0—0

                                                                                1—13—4

                                0—12—0

                                                          1—10—0

                                              7—10—0

                                                       220—0—0

                                                                        230 £

                                                                                                                                            } 10

£1623


[1] Transcription of Lincoln’s Inn ms. A1d1/2/3 in the Saunderson Papers. We are grateful to Steven May, Adjunct Professor of English, Emory University and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, for his help with this transcription.

[2] Sills, i.e., window sills

[3] Carved

[4] waste

[5] amounteth

[6] altering

[7] carving

[8] cupboard 

[9] floor

[10] “In the timber trade, in Great Britain, a deal is [a board] understood to be 9 inches wide, not more than 3 inches thick, and at least 6 feet long.” (OED, s. v. “deal,” n 1)

[11] timber

[12] carrying

[13] Literally a groundplate is, according to OED, the “lowest horizontal timber in a framing; a ground-sill.” (s.v. “ground-plate,” 1)

[14] Joists. The architectural historian Peter Guillery has suggested to me in private correspondence that the phrase “groundplate joists” should be read as a “term used loosely to refer to the framing of [the chapel] floor.”

[15] This item is in a different hand from the rest of the document.