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A bill for bricklaying work done to the kitchen of Jesus College between November 1768 and September 1769. The bill includes: a day's labour (3s 1d), brick mortar (1s 4d), 80 bricks (2s), 'a gob to Copper in kitchen' (1s), 'witing' (1s 9d). Total bill amounted to £2 13s 4d, and was signed with Margaret Foster's mark.

A bill for bricklaying work done to the Master's Garden between November 1768 and June 1769. The bill includes: labour, brick mortar, 'Larth & nails' (£1 4s), 'hare mortar' (9s 6d), bricks, 'witing and sise' (4s). Total bill amounted to £6 3s 1d, signed with Margaret Foster's mark.

A long bill for bricklayers' work "done by Margt Forster". The bill refers to work done to the Master's stable, the kitchens, the garden the Chapel, and mostly covers payments for labour, bricks, tills, mortar, nails, lime and sand without reference to the work carried out. Amounts to £38 12s 1/2d, and signed with a cross by Margaret Foster.

Bill for bricklayers' for "work done to the marsters Lodge", includes: paying a workman for a quarter day's work (6d); "tills and morter" (1s); paying 2 "workmen" and 2 "Labourers" for one day (6s 4d); 10 loads of brick morter (3s 4d). Total bill amounted to £1 2s, and is signed with a cross, "Margaret Foster her mark".

A bill for bricklayers' work done in the college between July 1782 and March 1783, divided up into sections. For work done to the Master's Lodge and gardens in opening a cesspool and making a 'dorm' and Vault, including: labour costs (various); 20 bushels of lime (11s 8d); 1 load of sand (2s); 16 bushels of 'grinder[?] dust' for the Master's yard (2s); bricks (£2 9s 6d); 2 bundles of fir lath and nails (6s); 16 bushels of hair (9s 4d); 5 'hods' of brick morter (1s 8d). For 'worke done to the kitchen coper[copper]', including: labour costs; 5 hods of brick mortar (2s 2d); 60 bricks (1s 6d). For work done to the cloister court in making a drain and 'cleaning Rubish', including: labour costs; 'a jobb in Mr Corterbodies' staircase (1s). For work done to the buttress chimnies, including: labour costs; 24 bushels of lime (14s); 1 load of sand (2s); bricks (£2 5s); repairing the walls in the buttress and labour costs (£1 6s); 13 bushels of hair (7s 7d); tiles (4s 6d). For work done to the buttress and 'jobing' in College, including: 1 bundle of fir laths and nails (3s); bricks (5s). For work done on the wall near the kitchen, including: 1 'hod' of hair morter and 30 bricks (1s 3d); bricks (12s); 1 1/2 bundle of fir laths and nails (4s 6d); plastering a wall (1s 7d); 'a jobb in an Empty Room' (1s 6d). For repairing the tiling over 'the Gateway', including: labour costs; tiles (4s 6d); brick morter (2s 4d); hair morter (1s 6d); 30 bushels of lime (17s 6d); sand (4s). The total bill amounted to £22 5s 9d, and was signed by Margaret Forster.