The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London - Unknown

Similar entries to the above occur for many years.

Paid Charles Window for fetching four Dead Bodies from Tyburn this year and expenses	2	8	0
Paid my Lord Chief Justice Parkers Tipstaffe for taking up severall persons who rescued the Dead Body from the Beadles	1	0	0
1718–19. Paid M^r Elms his Bill for ffees at the Sessions in prosecuting the persons who were Indicted last year for taking away the Dead Bodies	5	7	0
1719–20. Paid Cha: Window for fetching two bodies from Tyburn & for going for another when they could not gett one	1	5	0
Paid to bring a Skeleton from St. Giles’s to the Hall in a coach	0	2	0
Paid the Beadles expences for going to Tyburn for a Body for the Muscular Lecture when they could not get one by reason of a great Mobb of Soldiers & others	0	13	0
1720–1. Paid for a Livery gown and hood to the use of the Company to Cloth the Members with upon their taking the Livery	2	12	6
P^d the High Constable of S^t Giles’s Parish for assisting the Beadles in recovering a Body which had been taken from the Beadles by the Mobb	0	7	6
Paid the Hangman for the Dead mans cloths which were lost in the Scuffle and for his Christmas Box	0	15	0
Paid for a halfe length Picture of King Charles the Second to hang up in the Parlour and for a Gold frame to the said Picture	7	5	0
Paid M^r King the Frame maker for a frame to Inigo Jones the famous Architect’s picture Presented to the Company by our late Master M^r Alexander Geekie	1	5	0

Both of these pictures are still preserved at Barbers’ Hall.

Every year now, and for some years, are entries of Expenses incurred about the rioting, which took place when the Beadles went to Tyburn for the bodies of malefactors; very frequently the Company prosecuted the rioters, and were continually compensating the Beadles and others who were injured in the fights.

1731–2. Paid M^r Osmond for Plumber’s Work about the Trough for the Dead Bodys	6	0	0
Paid M^r Ashfield for Carpenters Work about the said Trough	1	14	0

This was a species of wooden coffin lined with lead in which the “subjects” were placed on their arrival from Tyburn.

Paid for 4 Silver Pepper Boxes [270]	5	5	0
Paid the Officers of both Counters for a body [271]	2	2	0
1735–6. Paid M^r Newton the Silversmith for a new Badge for the Barge master	4	11	6
Paid the High Constable for the expenses at the late execution when the body was rescued	3	13	6
Paid the Beadles expenses in prosecuting John Miller, one of the Persons who assaulted the Constables and rescued the body	2	2	0
Paid M^r Clarke the Sollicitor at Hicks Hall his Bill for Indicting and prosecuting the said John Miller to a conviction	8	7	10
Paid M^r Clarke the Engraver for engraving the Dedication to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington on the Print of King Henry the Eighth’s Picture	5	5	0
1737. Paid M^r Babbidge for making a Skeleton of Malden’s [272] Bones	3	3	0
1739. Paid the Beadles for their being beat and wounded at the late execution	4	4	0
1740. Paid for mending the Windows broke upon bringing the last Body from Tyburn	0	6	0
1741. Paid for a Silver Punch Laddle	1	4	0
Paid the expences for the Buck S^r Rob^t Walpole gave the Company	1	3	6
1744. Paid M^r Hawes for two large Branches for the Hall	70	0	0

These massive chandeliers were broken but preserved when the Hall was pulled down in 1864, and one formed of their fragments is now hung on the staircase leading up to the Committee Room.

Paid taking the Company’s Linnen out of Pawn

This linen must have been stolen and pawned, as the Company were not at this period in such financial difficulties as to necessitate their personal property being taken care of by a pawnbroker.