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- 10 December 1839 (Creation)
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2 items, paper
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Work on Master's Lodge:
Making and hanging shutter for an apple room, turning door in kitchen, repaving basin for the pump. Putting down posts, hooks for coach house and stable yards' gates. Materials: deal, ladder rounds, two screw pulleys. One day making greasing jack for Master's Carriages. Two and three quarter days putting up brackets and shelves, altering the windows et cetera. Easing windows and repairing their beads, putting in new sash fasteners. Screws, nails, sash fasteners, lime. Putting on 'button to closet".
Putting on door handles, removing and refitting locks. Changing door to coal house. Repairing and changing sashes and new beading. Materials: deal, brass eyes, sash line (2 yards), nails.
Half day making and fitting two knife boards. Three holdfasts [clamp, vice or hook]. New standers [check] for pump. Easing the pump. Mending floor to staircase. Repairing of Master's coach house door. Materials: deal, nails, 1 lb holdfasts.
Total: £6 4s 5 1/2d
Receipt from James Webster for £6 4s 5 1/2d