Collectanea Curiosa, 1781,

ting up of the same in safe custody , xxxvk iiiifL Item , for tAro CIOAVS for tho Carpenters to take doAvn the bells with , pondering xvh . lb ., iis . id . ob . Costs upon the HBAV frame of the

almshouse Avrought atEirtlyngton , Lyme Hills at Kirtlyngton , Staunton , Beeldey , lleclington . To Thos . "Watlington , Warden of the Carpenters , for making , planking , and rayling of the IIOAV bridge standing over the water in Cowley Mead , betAveon St . Edmund ' s Avell and tho east side of tho said

College ; Avith the making of tAvo HBAV gates , one of them containing twelve foot in length or widoness , another twelve foot in height , and the other containing eight foot in height and ten foot in Avideness , one of them standing near unto St .

Edmund ' s Avell , the other standing near unto a place called our Lady hi the Wall . To Jo . M ylls , Edward Arnald , Eich . Styll , Christopher Leech , Eobort Haule , Jo . Stagpole , Jo . King , Jo . Andersey , and other Free Masons and Setters , in lward for then- diligence in applying of then labour in setting upon the neAV town at the east end of the neAV hall of the said

College , on Saturday after their hour accustomed to leave Avork , xiid . Paid to Mr . DaAnd Griffits , Priest , for his stipend for Avages , as Avell for keeping of the Monastry of St . Frideswide aud saying of divine service , after the

suppression of the same unto the first stalling of the Dean and Canons in tho said College , as for his labours in overseeing of workmen dayly labouring there , in all by the space of thirteen months , as by a letter made at Lord Grace ' s commandment

my , directed to the Dean of the said College , doth appear viil . Mr . Roland Messenger , Controller of the Works .

Mr . Jo . Smith , Auditor of the Works . , l ' o Eobert CarroAve for draAving and laym S of xicmced . of boards in lodgings at the alms-house and at Glocitor College , at xiic ? . the C , by convention , cxik vid . Also paid to Tho . CoAvper and Philip ntall

^ ^ Clerks to the Auditor of tho said Works , for then diligence as Avell in casting and trying of all the said books , from 'ie first beginning of the said Avorks uu-0 the breaking up of the same , in all "y the space of five years , lxvk viiid . J -he whole sum of all the buildings

cannot be gathered hence , because the book Avanteth tho beginning and ending , but as much as may be I have gathered the Avhole smn of that book , out of tho particular expences and sums as they are east there at certain timesAvhieh in that book are

, called xvnes , i . e . as I suppose Quindens , because at every fifteen days' end the Avhole expences of those fifteen days are summed up and sot doAvn at the end . The beginning of the first fifteenth in that book is Avanting , but the ending of it is there

, namely , upon tho ivth day of November , Avheroof the charge arisoth , as in the same appeareth , unto ccxA-iiiZ . xvs . vid . ob . The second Quinden is from Nov . xiv .,

20 Hen . VIII ., to Nov . xxivth . Expences 16 GZ . 19 s . Id . The tAventy-fourth Quinden is from xth Oct ., 21 Hen . VIII ., to Oct . xxivth . Then follow some additional expences . Whereby it appeareth that this Journal

containeth only one year ' s expences and no more . Sum total of the expences ivheroin for the building Avere 7835 Z . 7 s . 2 d . From Avhenco may be computed the Avhole of Avhat Avas laid out , the College having been five years in building .

A FAC-SIMILE of the now very rare map , entitled " Civitas Londinum , " a survey of the cities of London and Westminister and the borough of Southwark , by Kalph Agas , in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , will shortly be issued , accompanied by a biographical account of its author and a critical and historial examination , by Mr . AV . H . Overall , of the work and of the Several so-called reproductions of it by Vertue and others . It will be published by Messrs . Adams and

Francis . OitrnA ^ f AV OKKING S CHOOL . —The Assistant-Secretary of the Orphan AVorking School , Haverstock-hill , under the direction of a sub-committee of the charity , has undertaken to deliver a course of Lectures in tho suburbs of London , with a view to put the working arrangements and passing claims of the Institution prominently before the benevolent public . One of

these lectures was given at the Lecture Hall , Sydenham , on Monday , the chair being taken by the Hon . and Kev . A . Legge , M . A . The school was founded at Hoxton in 1758 , for the maintenance and education of twenty boys at first , aud afterwards of twenty girls . On its removal to tiie City-road twenty-five y oars after , the accommodation was nearly doubled . The present commodious building , at Alaitlnnd-park , was

erected in 1847 for 200 children , and enlarged in 1860 so as to enable tlie committee to receive 200 additional scholars , shonldsufficient funds be provided . There are now in the school 238 boys , and 128 girls , but it is hoped that the full complement will shortly be received if the appoalnow being made , is adequately responded to by the sympathising public . Specimens of needlework , writing , mapping , & c , were exhibited during the evening .