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Received of Mr Newton. Paid £1 2s 5d to 'making a pair stow risen of old stones', 'taking up marble', '2 plinths to chimney piece', vein marble, tiles, mortar, masons and labourers wages. Signed by Benjamin Jeffs from Jeffs and Bentley.

Paid £8 14s 5d including 'purbeck paving', a half day of 'a mason cutting old stones indoor', a half day of 'a labourer carrying out rubbish', mortar. Signed by Benjamin Jeffs from Jeffs and Bentley.

Paid to Dr Benjamin Jeffs £56 0s 3 3/4d. Work including: 5 cube Ketton stone to repair windows in East Front of College, carrying and use of scaffolding and day labour.

Stonemason's bill for work done between January-July 1782, comprising repairs to the Buttery door, the Cloister, the Master's Lodge, and windows in Mr. Bonney's library and Mr. Allison's study. Cube stone, mortar, plain and moulded work, scaffolding and ladders, and masons and labourers' costs. Signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

Bill from Jefferson & Bentley. Paid £2 7s 10d for stone-masonry work done around the College including 'Katton stone in windowstool', a mason and a labourer, 'kipping out old window', mortar. Received of Mr. Newton. Signed by 'Benjamin Jeff & Co'.

Paid 4s 10 1/2d by the widow Mrs. Muggleton for one year's quit-rent due to John Martin Esq. Received by Benjamin Kettle.

A bill for masonry work, includes: sawing old stone and laying the old stone to cover the chimney in the Butterys (4s 6d); labour costs (various sums); repairing the chimney in the Fellow's parlour (11d); 3 hours labour, plaster and mortar (1s); 2 feet of stone by the iron gate in the court (2s 6d); two masons cutting staircase window 'for sashes' in Mr Raynes staircase (6s); one hod of mortar and fine mortar (1s); one mason for cutting a window 'for Sashes' over the front gate (5s 7 1/2d); 'pointing in' sashes (1s 6d); one mason for cutting the sides of 'Door Jambs[?]' in the staircase from the hall to Mr Bonny's room (6s 9d); cube stone in the arches and steps in the cloister (£21 1s 5 1/2d); 'superficial plain work' (£9 15s 6 1/2d); 'circular plain work' (£4 18s 5 1/2d); 'circular moulded work' (£6 1s 4 1/2d); paving (£5 17s). The total bill amounted to £73 14s 2d. A receipt is fixed beneath with wax, signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

Paid 19s 9 1/4d to Benjamin Jeffs of Jeffs & Bentley for mason's work in the college, including: work on the hearth in the master's parlor, taking up old coping and laying it again, fine mortar, and laying a stone over the drain by Mr. Norfolk's house.

Paid £3 6s 8 3/4d to Jeffs & Bentley for mason's work, including: stones for drains with holes through, stones for drains, a slab in the room over the larder, laying mortar, windowsill stones, altering windows, mortar, and the use of a ladder. Received by Benjamin Jeffs.

£4 42 3d paid to Benjamin Jeffs of Jeffs & Bentley for mason's work, including: cutting the library door case for wood frame and door; paving in the gate way; mortar; putting in a slab in Mr. Crumpton's room; repairing plinths for a wood chimney piece; putting in cube stone to windowsill and jambs in Mr. Crumpton's room; cutting window for sash; two stones to go over drains in the court; fititng a slab in the room over Mr. Crumpton's; and laying paving outside gate way.

Paid 1s 7d to Benjamin Jeffs for mortar and work on a slab in a room in First Court.

Paid £4 17s 10d to Benjamin Jeffs for mason's work in the college, including: repairing the chimney piece in the fellows' parlor, providing a cube of Ketton stone for the door case and setting and backing the door, carrying away scaffolding, on the hearth in the fellows' parlor, paving at the pump, and inserting bars in the windows in Mr. Walton's room.

Paid £2 19s 3 1/2d to Benjamin Jeffs. For: stone coping for chapel, superficial moulded work and laying.

Paid £3 9s 4 1/2d to Benjamin Jeffs of Jeffs & Bentley for mason's work, including: stonework for a windowsill in the room next to the master's lodge (Curter), mortar and plaster, a pair of stone plinths to wood chimney pieces, putting a slab in a room at the end of the hall up two staircases (Brooks) cutting a window for sash frame, and putting a slab in a room by the library. Crossed out is work done for a munion to window in graounds room next to the chapel.

Paid £1 9s 11d to Benjamin Jeffs of Jeffs & Bentley for mason's work, including: a munion for the window in the ground room next to the chapel, mortar, repairing the buttery door jamb, new stone, taking up the graving in the chapel and laying it down again, and fine mortar.

Paid £11 18s to Benjamin Jeffs of Jeffs & Bentley for mason work, including: a pair of plinths for the wood chimney in the lodge, piecing the door jamb at the Master's Lodge, stone and mortar, plugging holes in joints, iron bars, melt lead, cutting out iron bars from old coping, and carving away old coping.

Paid £12 12s 8d to Benjamin Jeffs for: fit in cube stone weathering in Cloisters, superfluous plain work on cloisters, a mason 7 hours fixing ditto, fit in cube stone coping under iron palisades, work to ditto, plugholes in joints to run with leads, holes for iron barrs, hod of fine mortar, fixing to melt lead, 2 masons 2 days taking down palisade and carrying away old coping, a mason one day and a half assisting the smith to fix iron work.
Signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

Payment of 4s 10½d received from Brett by Jeffs and Bentley for a mason one day and two hours setting the chimney piece in Lodge kitchen, a labourer 3/4 of a day and two hours at the lodge kitchen, to one hod mortar.

Payment of £25 3s 11¾d received from Mr Darby by Jeffs and Bentley for a piece of base for side of college 3 foot long, paving in west side of cloister, Yorkshire paving in passage at north east corner of court, 8 hodsfine mortar, load of sand, 2 days of a masontaking up old floor, 9 days of a labourer carrying out old floor and carrying in sand.