| Description | Abstract General of works carried out in 1737 and 1738, viz. the new wing, necessary houses (privies), garden walls, pulling down the Pest House and making the garden, and repairs to the old building. 'Thomas Bisson, architect' was responsible for all these. His own bill is for 'directing and surveying the works', but the 'measuring' was done by R Vanmer, doubtless a surveyor. The tradesmen's bills include one for thatching to the coping of the new garden walls, and one for gardener's work in clearing, levelling and draining the ground.
The foregoing are in an original sub-bundle. Another contains bills for gardening in 1739, including bills for 180 fruit trees: mulberries, peaches, quinces, nectarines, and vines, as well as apples, pears (named), plums and cherries, acquired in the autumn of 1739. |
| AdminHistory | A Court of 13 April 1737 agreed, on the report of a committee, (i) to add a wing to the new building, (ii) to enclose the newly acquired land (the Pest House site) and arrange for its use, including a burial-ground. |