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- C. 1848 (Creation)
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5 items, paper
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Document 1:
Bill for building work done in 1848 including:
1/2 making model for oven bars in Hitchin, 2s 3d
1 1/2 days making and putting in Hammer Steel, to Buttery and new form in Chapel, 6s 9d
16x11x1 deal, 3x5x3/4 deal, 2 feet 2 inch 2 inch act (?), 5s 6d
¼ day to fork handle for Gardener, 1s 1 1/2d
3x2x2 Ash
2 days making door and frame into ring from Garden where wall was taken down, 9s
1 Wood stock lock, 1 pc of 20 inch joints, 4s 9d
2 dozen cooler nails, 4d
Hanging window in library 1 pan of joints & screws, 2s 6d
And work in 1849 including:
Labour to taking down large free in grove, 6s 6d
Sharpening saws for topping trees out of grove and files, 2s 3d
½ day carting trees out of grove, 3s 3d
Sharping [sic] 3 saws & 2 files, 2s 6d
Getting timber out of Grove, 2 men 3 ¼ days e/a horse and man at timber cart, £1 1s 3d
¼ day carting timber from grove, 2s 3d
3 days hanging gate, putting down parts e/a mending fence in close, 13s 6d
½ stone nails, 2s
¾ day mending farrow (?) 5x3x2 ½ inch, 4s, 4 1/2d
Sawing own stuff from repairs of fences, 6s, 6d
½ day repairing fence in Paddock & nails, 3s 6d
Flatting & cross cutting And for stock, 3s 6d
½ day fixing sink in kitchen 8 ½x3 1/2x1 ½, 4 days repairing and easing windows, 3s, 3d
Front court, water pipe casing, 18s
3x1 1/2x1 ½ 2 inch moalding [sic], 9s
4 ½ nails 6x8x3/4, 3s 3d
2 ¾ days repairing combination windows, 12s 4d
32x9x1 ½ inch nails, 12s 1d
6 days 1 man 1 ½ days another repairing piping in courts for Painters easing windows in court repairing Porters Lodge staircase, £1 13s, 9d
16x11x1, 14x2x1, 7s 8d
4 ½ day 2 men repairing cupulo fitting in new lashes easing & repairing floor and windows in Lecture Room, mending windows and frames in Front Court, hanging flap in kitchen, £2 6d
4x1 1/2x1 ½ deal, 1s 9d
2x 2 1/2x1 ¼, fastener for the Combination Room, 1s 9d
¾ day boarding up in coal place, 3s 4 1/2d
10x9x3, 1 dozen spikes, 6s 4d
Putting a lock late kitchen garden gate, 1s 8 1/2d
Labour getting brush off tree out of grove, 9d
Amounting to £12 18s 4d
Document 2:
Receipt of payment for above, received 18th January 1850, from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to Webster & Son. Signed on receipt of payment by James Webster Junior.
Document 3:
Bill and receipt for building works done by Webster & Son in 1848 and 1849 including:
Replacing fences, 2 days mending fence next to Butt Green, 9s
Materials for above, 2s
1 day mending fences round Paddock, 4s
Nails for the above, 2s
1 day repairing fence on Butt Green, new Head to Gate, 4s
Labour for the above, 3s 4 1/2d
Materials for the above, from poplar, 5s
¼ day repairing fence round paddock, 1s 1 1/2d
Materials for the above, 5d
Amounting to £1 10s 11d
Signed on receipt of payment on 19th January 1850, James Webster Junior for Webster & Son.
Document 4:
Bill and Receipt for work done in Chapel in September 1849, including:
½ day repairing canvass to temporary chapel. 2 Men & nails, amounting to 5s
Signed on receipt of payment on 19th January 1850, James Webster Junior for Webster & Son.
Document 5:
Bill and receipt for building work done at the Lodge in 1848. Including,
1/2 day taking up floor and rehanging for Bell Hanger in Lodge, including ½ dozen 2 inch screws, 2s 7d
½ repairing fence and 3 inch nails, 3s 6d
½ day mending stannings (?) in Masters Stables, 2s 9d
Job to putting latch on Stable door, 9d
½ days preparing and fixing shelves in pantry easing doors and rehanging saches, 6s 9d
Nails and screws for the above, 5s 7d
Wood for the above, 6s 2d
¼ day easing and rehanging sack, 2 yds live, 1s 6d
2 ½ fays repairing front Gates, 11s 3d
Nails and wood for the above, 5s 5d
Amounting to £2 6s 3d
Signed on receipt of payment on 19th January 1850, James Webster Junior for Webster & Son.