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Paid to Margaret Forster for work done at the College, including payments for the garden wall, a workman, bushels of lime, bricks, a labourer, sand,

Paid £9 9s 10d to Margaret Forster for bricklayers supplies incluing lath, nails, bricks, brick and hair mortar, and tiles, and for work: on the stair case, bricking up a doorway in the garden wall, turning arches into cesspools, mending the ceiling, making a drain in the court, at Boggis room, in the court, painting chapel windows, at the cesspool in court, sloping windows over the hall and at the cesspool, at the pump drain, sinking a cesspool to the bog, mending the wall by the pump, at summer house in the Fellows' garden, at the Master's lodge, and at the kitchen range.

Paid £45 5s 10d to Margaret Forster for work in the college, including: paying workmen, hair brooms, dusting the hall, work on the cesspool in the master's close, brick and hair mortar, tiles, fixing a bath stove in the master's lodge, bricks, sap lath and nails, sand, work on the master's garden wall, hanging copper in the kitchen, cleaning rubbish out of the fellows' garden, painting windows in Mr. Boggis staircase, lime, a birch broom, work in the fellows' garden, and work on the fellows' garden wall. Signed with Margaret Forster's mark.

Paid £8 8 1/2d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work including: work at the master's garden wall, laith and nails, hair mortar, bricks, brick mortar, work on Mr. Black's staircase, cleaning the drain at the master's lodge, work on the fellows' garden wall, work on the hall chimney, lime, sand, whitening on the fellows and schoolboy hall chimney, work on Mr. Nevil's staircase, stone whitening, glue, and blacking.

Paid £3 3s 5 1/2d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: repairing the kitchen copper, bricks, brick and hair mortar, cleaning and mending the wall in the fellows' garden, painting the leads, and setting Dutch tiles in the master's lodge.

Paid £16 6 1/2d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: opening, cleaning, and paving up the well in the fellows garden, in the kitchen, in the cloisters, in the gatewary and the kitchen copper, in the screens, repairing the range in the masters lodge, erecting a scaffold for the plumbers, whitening the master's kitchen, in the hall and mending the chimney over Mr. Matthews', blacking the border in the cloisters, mending the walls in the back yard, and whitening the gateway and passage to the fellows garden and repairing the garden wall. Supplies including: bricks, sand, brick and hair mortar, lime, tiles, whitening, glue, mops and brooms, and lamp black. Bundled with JCAD/2/2/9/1776/18 and 20.

Paid £10 2s 9 1/2d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: striking scaffolding and cleaning the leads and at the back building. Supplies included bricks, tin lath and nails, lime, sand, hair mortar, and pavements. Also include four references to working overtime.

Paid £34 17s 11 1/4d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: mending the plastering at Atkinson's staircase, mending the tiling and underpinning of the back building, at the coal house, cleaning the drain at the master's lodge, in the Fellows' parlor and pointing the garden windows, pointing a window in the library, mending the tiling at the stable and coal house, at the kitchen copper, pointing the window in the staircase in the gateway, at the Fellows' necessary and pointing the widow in the screens, cleaning the cesspool and drain, at the chapel, at the stables, at the hall chimney, on the leads, raising a scaffold, at the scaffold, at the tollhouse, at the tower, in the pump staircase, in the porter's lodge, cleaning bricks, and sanding tiles. Supplies included: brick and hair mortar, bricks, lath and nails, tiles, whitening, lime, sand, and blue mortar.

Paid £15 15s 4 1/2d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work at the back building. Supplies included: lime, tin lath and nails, hair mortar, sand, tiles, and heart(?) lath and nails. Also references to overtime work.

Paid £3 16s 8d to Margaret Forster. For: labour, lime and fir lath and nails.

Paid £6 6s 4 1/2d to Margaret Forster. For: fire place at kitchen range, labour, bricks, mortar, nails, repairing masters garden wall, scafolding in chaple, hair, lime, pointing windows and hair mortar.

Paid £2 7s to Margaret Forster. For: labour, tiles and nailes.

Paid to Margaret Forster for work done at Mr. Britts, including payments for a workman and a labourer, brick mortar, bunhes of hart, lath and nails, ridge tiles, bricks, tiles, hair mortar, work of a boy, sand.

Received of Mr. Newton. £28, 13s for bricklayers work done for Rev. Dr. Carrell by Margaret Foster. Work done at the lodge. Signed by Margaret Foster.

Paid £12 9s 2d for bricklaying work including wages for a workman and a labourer, bricks, tiles, mortar, buckets of lime, large nails. Some work has been done on the Garden's wall. Signed by the bricklayer, Margaret Forster.

Paid to Margaret Forster £17 16s 6d by Dr Caryl. For workmen, bushels of hair, nails, bushels of lime, load sand, bricks, sap lath and tiles.

Paid to Margaret Forster £53 11s 0d. For workmen, lime, load sand, tiles, bricks and lindor dust.

Paid £8 4s 7d to Margaret Forster. For labour, hair, hair mortar, sand, lime, lath and nails, whitning and painting.

Paid £10 10s 8d to Margaret Forster. For: labour, sand, pulling down chimneys, bricks, and lime.

Paid to Margaret Forster £9 7s 9d for work at the Comptons Room, including for labourers, workmen, tin, lath and nails, hair mortar, whitening stones, brick mortar, stone cutting, and tiles. Also includes brick and hair mortar at Boggis' room.

Paid 13s 1/2d to Margaret Forster for work in the room next to the chapel, including: brick, brick mortar, lath and nails, hair mortar, and pavements.

Paid £23 8s 11 1/2d to Margaret Forster for work, including: on the staircase next to the chapel, on the kitchen range stove and copper, at Mr. Gunton's house next to the close, at the master's lodge, pointing the larder and hall windows, laying a step at the lodge, stopping a drain in the close, at the master's stable, mending plaster in the cloister, mending and whitening Mr. Matthew's staircase, in Mr. Porter's staircase, in Mr. Taylor's staircase, in the cloisters, mending a chimney over the gateway of garden hall, at the butteries, and supplies, including: lath and nails, hair mortar, bricks, brick mortar, tiles, whitening, glue, stone, brooms, blacking

Paid £2 16s 1 1/2d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work including: painting the leads, brick and hair mortar, tiles, repairing the kitchen range, bricks, mending the walls in the barber shop, and work on the wall in first court.

A bill for 'bricklars work done' in the college, divided into sections. Includes: bricks for work in the cloisters (15s); labour costs (various sums); 40 bushels of lime (£1 3s 4d); 2 loads of sand (4s); '4 thousand of bricks' (£1 10s); 1 hundred of tiles (3s); 12 bushels of 'sinder dust' (1s 6d); labour for cleaning the kitchen (4s 9d); a bundle of fir laths and nails (3s); hair mortar (1s 6d); whitewashing the buttress and pinting[painting] hall windows (10s 6d and 7s 6d); repairing the drain in cloister court (6s 4d); whitewashing Mr Plampton's staircase (3s 2d); taking down the spire from the hall (9d). Total bill amounted to £98 11s 7d.

Paid to Margaret Forster for work done at Mr Brett's and Jaggers, including payments for a workman and a labourer, bunch of says, lath and nails, hair mortar, tiling mortar, tiles, work done in the kitchen at stoves, brick mortar, bricks at Randels, pointing a window, pointing the barber's window, underpinning and paving, a bushel of stone with sand at the kitchen range, bricks and brick mortar for the kitchen chimney, bushels of lime, candles for whiting the kitchen, lime to whiting at the stable, work on the garden wall and for cleaning the Hall, paving tills to Chapel, work done on the copper and stove in the kitchen

Paid 3s 11d for work done in the Fellows Garden inclunding one day salary of a workman and a labourer and 40 bricks. Signed by Margaret Forster.

Paid £29 7s 10d for work done at Jesus College during the year 1759, including salary wages of workmen and labourers, bricks and brick mortar, work to Mr Hallifax chimney, work to the Garden wall, buckets of lime, building a oven in the kitchen, work at the Fellows stable, loads of paving gravel, buckets of stones with carriage. Signed by Margaret Forster.

Received of Dr Caryl. Paid £3 8s 4d for work done to kitchen range, to stoves and copper, to pointing chapel windows, to Masters Colle house, including workmen and labourers wages, bricks, brick mortar and lime. Signed by Margaret Forsters.

Paid to Margaret Forster £9 4s ½d for bricklaying including: in the buttery cellar; hair and brick mortar; pointing the Porter's Lodge; bricks; tin lath and nails; lime for washing; mortar for the library staircase; scuttles of sand; pointing windows in pump court; in the master's lodge; whitening and cise (?); pointing the cornish in the combination room; in the court; drain in the court; and at the cesspool. At the bottom of the bill, a note that Margaret Forster also received at this date £24 11s 10d for garden work.

Paid 16s 10d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: at Mr. Nevile's staircase and chimney, brick and hair mortar, fir lath and nails, striking plumber's scaffold, and repairing the plumber's fireplace. Bundled with JCAD/2/2/9/1776/19 and 20.

Paid £7 10s 9d to Margaret Forster. For labour, hair mortar, clearing pool next to masters garden, brick, making pool next to fellows garden, lime, load sand and whitning

Paid £5 8s 7d to Margaret Forster. For: labour, bricks, hair, scafolding and brooms.

£3 2s 11d paid to Margaret Forster for work done in the room over the Combination, including for workmen, bricks, lath and nails, and mortar.

Paid £5 9s 3 1/4d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: at Lee's garden and pump, paving under the stairs at the master's lodge, in the chapel clerk's room, and at the fellows necessary. Supplies include: brick and hair mortar, bricks, fir lath and nails, and tiles. Bundled with JCAD/2/2/9/1776/18 and 19.

Paid £3 8s 1 1/2d to Margaret Forster. For labour, bricks, mortar, tiles, nails, hair mortar, whitening and colouring.

Paid £10 6s 10 1/2d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including in: the back building, fellows' fruit chamber and pump drain, the master's garden walk and at the pump, repairing the wall next to the chapel stairs and carrying home scaffolding, whitening Mr. Foley's room, and using scaffolding for the plasterers. Supplies included: bricks, lath and nails, sand, lime, pavements, hair mortar, and lime taken home.

Paid £11 2s 1/4d to Margaret Forster and signed with her mark for work in the college, including: at the back building, and on the scaffolding at the tower. Supplies included: lime load sand, hair mortar, pavements, and tin lath and nails. Also multiple mentions of overtime work.

Paid £14 10s 10d to Margaret Forster for work in the porter's lodge, the master's garden cesspool, the stable, mending the kitchen ceiling, opening the drain in the lane, cleaning the drain and honing an arch over the cesspool, cutting out a window in the kitchen, in the master's lodge, combination chimney, the master's lodge chimney, in the larder, the chimney in the cloister, in the master's backyard, and in Mr. Tyrwhits chimney and supplies including: hair mortar, bricks, brick mortar, tiles, lathe and nails, a scoop, clay, whitening, wire, lime, and sand.

Paid £17 14s 1 1/2d to Margaret Forster for work in the rooms over the larder, in the cloister, over the kitchen, and in the library staircase, and supplies, including: bricks, mortar, hair mortar, lathe and nails, paving tiles, blacking, whitening, and pavement.

Payment of £25 3s 1½d from Mr Darby by Margaret Foster the bricklayer for workman and labourer, bushells of lime, load of sand, bricks, hare mortar, brick mortar, lorth and nails, to paving by the pumps and bogs, scuttle of sand, to garden wall, tills, set pool in fellows garden.

Signed with a cross.

Payment of £8 14s 4d to Margaret the bricklayer for work done at the Master's lodge: workman and labourer, brick mortar, gobb, garden wall, bushells of lime, loads of sand, bricks.

Payment of £3 4s 3d to Margaret the bricklayer for painting the lamp join, to stoves and kitchen: workman and labourer, brick mortar, bricks, work done in the Buttery: workman and labourer, mortar, to taking up the paving and lowing the ground in the cloisters, repairing the rong [?] and copper and stoves in kitchen and fire place, bricks, to paving the master's coach house, load of sand, hore mortar, paving gravel.

Payment of £13 17s 11d to the bricklayer for work done in the cooks garden, workmen and labourers a day, bushell of lime, loads of sand, carrying loads of bricks, to workforce to coole house, plain tils, lorth and nails, pan tils, hods of brick mortar, cleaning hall, a workman and labourer a day to stove in the kitchen, to work done in the hall room, work to seschool [?] in the court, to work done in the cloisters, work done in the kitchen, stone of whiting, pound of glue, hods of hore mortar, nails to caffling to a pound of candles, mending two fire places.

Signed by Will Arber [?]. At the top of the page it says that the work was done by Margaret Forster.

Paid £59 12s 9½d by Mr. Ranes [sic] to the bricklayer for: work done at cloister's windows (workman and laborer, removing scaffolding, bricks, bushels of lime, load of sand), work at the kitchen range, etc. (workman and laborer, bushels of lime, sand, bricks, tiles), work done in cloisters (workman and laborer, bricks, sand, hair mortar), upon the leads repairing walls (workman and laborer, hods of hair mortar), at cloister windows (workman and laborer, bricks, tiles, bushels of lime, load of sand, bushels of tinder dust (?) of tiles), making scaffolding at Mr Planton's windows and mending pavement (workman and laborer, bushels of hair, bushels of tinder dust), for Mr Planton's room and upon the lods (a workman and laborer), repairing pavement in middle walk (workman and laborer), repairing walls in pump court (workman and laborer, overtime, bricks, bushels of lime, bushels of tinder dust, bushels of hair, tiles, bundles of fir lath and nails), library windows and at Mr Planton's windows (workman and laborer), at bane in pump court and walls (workman and laborer), at cloister and windows, etc. (workman and laborer), at kitchen stove repairing the same at pump (workman and laborer, load of sand, bushels of pebbles), repairing walls under gutter (workman and laborer), sinking a cespoole in cloister court and making mortar (workman and laborer, bushels of lime, load of sand, bricks), at cloister windows and painting cesspool (workman and laborer, bushels of lime, load of sand, bricks), repairing kitchen stove (workman and laborer).
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster and by Joseph Brett (witness).

Payment of £28 9s 10d received from Dr Caryl to the bricklayer for workmen and labourers a day, bricks, stoves and copper in kitchen, hod of brick mortar, hod of hose mortar, bushells of lime, loads of sand,

Signed by Margaret Forster's mark.

Paid £9 1s 1d by Dr Caryl to the bricklayer Margaret Forster for: repairing the kitchen copper, a bricklayer and labourer a day, hods of brick mortar, bricks, hod hair mortar, a workmen and labourer for repairing the garden wall, opening drain on lane, worker and labourer for painting chapel windows, hair mortar brooms, work in the garden, etc.
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster.

Paid £7 15s 11½d by Mr. Raynes to the bricklayer for: work at kitchen chimney (laborer and worker, hods of brick mortar, hods of hair mortar, bricks), at wall next to close (bricklayer and laborer, hods of brick mortar, bricks), to a job in screens (a workman and laborer, hods of hair mortar), preparing ceilings in butress and porters lodge (workman and laborer, bundles of fir loth and nails, hods of hair mortar, hods of brick mortar, bricks), repairing stove coppers and in kitchen (bricklayer and laborer, bricks, hods of brick mortar, bundles of fir loth and nails).
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster and by Joseph Brett (witness).

Paid £2 8s 1d by Dr Caryl to the bricklayer Margaret Forster for: work done in the cloisters, stone of whemg (?), glue, slanish colouring, stopping (?) windows in fellows appell room.
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster.

Paid £7 6s 3d by Mr Reynes to the bricklayer Margaret Forster for: cleaning cespool and drain in kitchen, bushells of lime, load of sand, work men making mortar, bricks, tiles, etc.
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster.

Paid £18 10s 4½d by Dr Caryl to the bricklayer Margaret Forster for: Repairing wall next to the front gates and the stoves in the kitchen (days of workman and laborer, bricks at stoves, hods of hair mortar, bushels of lime); at Garden wall (laborer and workman, brick mortar); at Pespoole in pump court (laborer and workman, bricks, bushels of lime, load of sand); finishing cespoole and making Dunghill hole in Close (workman and laborer, bushels of lime, load of sand, painted [?] tiles, plain tiles, hods of hair mortar, bricks); repairing cloister's ceiling (workman and laborer, hods of hair mortar). Deducted for mortar brought back.
Signed with a mark by Margaret Forster.