The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London - Unknown

1745–6. Dr. Tyson’s picture was sold to Mr. Luke Maurice for £10 10s.

Mr. Goodyer was paid £11 for the table and inscription (now in the entrance lobby) which records the separation of the Surgeons from the Barbers in 1745.

1751–2. Mr. Whiston bought the Company’s library for £13. This library consisted of a great number of ancient MSS. and books relating to Surgery.

Putting an Advertizement in the Daily Advertizer offering a Reward to any Person who should discover who stole the Lead from off the Hall Kitchen	0	2	0
Paid M^r Spencer for cleaning the Guns Swords and bayonetts	0	6	0
1760. Paid M^r Chessun the Upholsterer his Bill for new Standards & making the new cloth for the Stand	67	15	6

This was the stand for the liverymen used on Lord Mayor’s day and on other public occasions.

1770. The expenses on Lord Mayor’s day this year were as follows, and are a fair sample of the entries for many years before and after this date.

Cash Paid—
M^r Bick for Spermaceti	1	10	0
The Watermen for their Breakfast and attendance	1	12	6
Two men to keep the gates	0	10	0
Four men to keep the Stand	1	0	0
M^r Beaumont for musick	5	0	0
Mess^rs Sherwood & Co. for Ribbons	3	14	9
M^r Hulberd for Beef for breakfast	4	1	0
M^r Wareham for dressing ditto	0	16	0
The Housekeeper’s Bill	2	0	0
M^r Wilding’s Bill for Wine for the Stand	6	15	7
The Beadle for pipes and Tobacco for the Stand	0	6	0
M^r Dance Clerk of the City Works for fixing the Stand	1	1	0
The Carpenter’s Bill about ditto	8	11	3
The Upholsterer’s Bill	2	0	0
Jarvis & Sharpe, Turner’s Bill	0	18	8
	£39	16	9

The Livery dinners on these occasions were paid for by the Stewards.

The next book of Accounts extends from 1785 to 1821, but like the latter part of the last one it is almost destitute of interest. On the first page is an extract from the Will of Mr. Edward Griffin (10th April, 1596) relating to his gift to the Company, and there are also sundry memoranda concerning Banckes’ gift.