Cheek's name is also spelled "Cheke" in some sources. He was Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
Stephen Colledge (whose name is also spelled "College" in some sources) was executed in Oxford on August 31, 1681.
The sheet of paper on which this bill was written has been cut into two and mounted on a larger sheet, which acts as a wrapper for it.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Pennant, Some account of London, Westminster, and Southwark (London: 1793?); PML 18871-18875; volume 4.
The acceptance of the bill is signed by Ailesbury, Bridgewater, Craven, Howard, Huntingdon, Nicholas, Peterborough and Sunderland.
A bill giving an account (totalling £293 3s 1d) for the safekeeping and feeding of Stephen Colledge (identified on the wrapper as the "Protestant Joiner"), Edward Whitaker and John Wilmer in the Tower of London. Accounts are for June 29 to September 29, 1681. Also listing payments due to the Chaplain, the Physician, the Gaoler, the Chirurgeon, the Apothecary, the Yeoman Porter, the Water pumper, the Scavenger, and the Clock keeper, as well as to the smiths and bricklayers who performed "reparac[i]ons" to the building. An additional expense line is for "coales for the wards."