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[First paper]
Wall Next Diver’s Garden [£6 15s 91/2d]

1845 –
20th of December

5 ¾ days Bricklayer and labourer digging foundation and building wall next Divers Garden; £1 17s 3 1/2d
2100 bricks, 16 bushels lime, 1 load sand; £4 18s 6d
[Total=] £6 15s 9 1/2d
[Second paper]
Dwarf Wall in Malcolm Street [£2 19s 3d]

1846 –
2nd May –
Dwarf Wall in Malcolm Street next Shippey’s
2 days Mason and apprentice to coping; £0 17s 0d
18 feet of 5 1/2 x 5/2 stone; £0 15s 0d
100 bricks 6 tons mortar, 1 ¼ peck cement; £0 8s 6d
7lb lead; £0 2s 4d
11th May –
1 day finishing £0 8s 6d
5 lb stone color, 1 pint of oil; £0 2s 11d
1 day painter to ditto; £0 5s 0d

Posts Malcolm Street [£2 9s 1 1/2d]
Fence Butt Green [£2 4s 0d]
Fence late Barry [£3 19s 1d]
[Total] £8 12s 2 ½d

Malcolm Street
1845 –
18th of October –
¾ day putting down posts and of Malcolm Street next Kings street; £0 3s 4 1/2 d
18 x 5 x 5 x 5 oak; £0 15s 9d
25th of October –
9 ½ days work by men making road; £1 10s 0d

Fence on Butt Green
7th of March –
3 ½ days repairing fences; £0 14s 6d
4lb 4 inch nails, 4lb 10 inch nails; £0 3s 4d
24th of April –
3 days repairing fence at Butt Green and Grove; £0 13s 6d
¼ 3 ½ nails 1 [?] joints & screws; 4 inch round bolt; £0 2s 2d
Sawing stuff to fence and grove at Butt Green; £0 10s 6d

1846 –
9th of May –
For sawing own material & fence where house was occupied by Mr. Barry; £0 6s 0d
6 ½ days carpenter preparing and butt down fence; £1 6s 0d
39 x 9 x 1, 18 x 11 x 1, 18 x 11 x ¾, [deal?]; £0 13s 5d
1 pan of Garnet screws and nails; £0 3s 6d
23rd May –
6 ft. carpenter finishing on 7 x 6 x 1, £0 4s 2d
8th of June –
1 ¼ days painting fence; £0 6s 3d
14lbs lead color, 4 pints of oil; £0 8s 9d
66 feet super [?]; £0 11s 0d

[Fourth paper]
Fence on New Square
1845 –
22nd September –
2 days repairing fence on New Square; £0 9s 0d
11 x 3 x 3 [?], 1 foot 3 x 3 oak & nails; £0 2s 9d
[£0 11s 9d]

[Fifth paper]

Acknowledgement of receipt of £18 19s 0 ½ d from the Reverend, the Master and Fellows of Jesus College. Signed by J. Webster & Son.

Paid £14 12s 7d to J Webster & Sons for work done in Gents Rooms

Bill for £4 12s 7d paid to J. Webster & Sons for carpentry work done in Gents Rooms, dated 9th March 1847

1845 –
The Revd, the Master & Fellows of Jesus College; J Webster & Son, For Work done in Gents Rooms

29th August
1 Day marking pack and repairing and changing on Cow Lane Staircase, £4.
Deal to ditto, 3d.
Easing Window Mr. Hayward Room, 9d.
Button & Ring, 6d.

5th September
4 ½ days Mr. Seymour’s Room putting down joist, preparing floor and skirting, £1 0s 3d.
93 feet 9 x 1 prepared; 46 x 4 x 3 oak
38 x 3 x 3/8 Deal; 3 feet 2 inch floor braces
½ C mixed nails, £2 11s 3d.

19th September
1 ½ days repairing floor and joist
In Mr Sutton’s Room, 6s 9d.

6 ½ x 9 x ¾, 12 x 3 ½ x 2 oak […] to do, 4s 4d.
½ day taking centre of window Mr Sutton, 2s.
14 feet 11 x ½ inch and nails, 2s. 6d.

Receipt for £387 10s 0d for work done in the Graveley Account

For repairing walls and re-erecting a range of buildings consisting of fowl houses, pig sties, cart horse and nag stables, fowl houses, cow lodges, calves places also a brick all from House to pond; £137 0s 0d

For building a new Barn with Brick underpinning Stud and Batten eather boarding, slated roof, wood floor on oak joice [sic; joist]; £239 0s 0d

3 new oak Gates & Irons and batten fencing in yard 28 x 6 ½ x 6 oak 24 x 5 x 5 oak, 70 x 6 x 4 oak, 24 x 4 x 6 oak and labour to do; £11 10s 0d

Total = £387 10s 0d

Received the 12th day of December 1846 of the Revd. Dr. French by cheque.

Letter acknowledging the receipt of payment of £100 0s 0d from Jesus College, Cambridge. Signed by J. Webster.

Cambridge, 12th of December 1846

Received of the Revd., the Master and Fellows of Jesus Coll the sum of thirty one pounds six shillings for work done to Mr. Hunell’s Barn (Shelford as per [?] annexed)
[Total=] £31 6s 0d
Signed, J. Webster, J. Webster & Son

Receipt for work done to two new houses on Jesus Lane totalling £64 13s 8d, in;

1845 –

‘For work one to Houses in Jesus Lane occupied by Masters Adams and Porcher.
Jobbing work not to be accounted as fitting up House.’

6th December – Cleaning out gutters; £0 2s 6d
20th December – 3 Loads of shingles and carting to footpath; £0 18s 0d

1846 -

7th February – 14 day 2 Men putting up fillets to roof, Mr. Adams’s House, ditto putty; £0 3s 3d
14th February – Hanging Sash at Mr. Adams’s, 2 ¼ Yards lime; £0 1s 6d
31st February – Repairing slating, 2 men. 1 slate and ½ ton of Blue Hair mortar; £0 2s 2 ½ d
4 days Plaster and Labourer to washing, plastering and printing up; £1 10s 0d
2 hods mortar, ¼ peck plaster, ¼ peck cement; £0 3s 10d
24th April – 1 ¼ days mending floor. 7 x 11 x 3/4; £0 6s 9d
16th May – Emptying Privy; £0 10s 6d
20th June – Job to easing window at Mr. Adams’s,
3 yards of dark lime to do; £0 2s 9d
1 day, 4 men putting on chimney
Pots to both houses; £0 13s 0d
8 hods mortar, 1 slate ½ peck of cement, 25 bricks; £1 12s 5d
[Total =] £6 6s 8 1/2 d

Fitting up house with shelvers
April 3rd – 4 ½ days putting shelves in Pantry, easing door and windows; £1 0s 3d
34 x 11 x 1 ½ , 21 x 11 x 1, 21 mixed nails, 1 [illegible]; £1 0s 10d
2 ½ days Whitewashing ceilings; £0 12s 5d,
Fitting up; £2 13s 7d
4 large Balls of White. 6 H [Hods?] Glue, ¼ peck plaster; £0 5s 2d
11th April – 4 ½ days putting up cupboards; £0 10s 6d
In kitchen, 30 x 11 x 1, 7 x 3 x 3; £0 10s 6d
½ day plaster and labourer making good, round cupboard in kitchen; £0 3s 6d
17th April – 2 days hanging doors and making cupboard front; £0 9s 0d
34 feet super, ¼ Square framed doors; £1 5s 6d
2 for of 2 ½ Buts & Screws. ¼ 2 ½ nails; £0 5s 1/2d
2nd May – 2 days setting Range; £0 13s 0d
100 Building and 100 paving bricks ; £0 12s 0d
8 Hods Mortar; £0 3s 4d
16th May – 1 ¾ days 2 Men building dust men; £0 11s 4 ½d
60 building bricks. 3 hods mortar, 2 pails of lime wash; £0 4s 9d
Job to fixing Bell board 3/3 x 9 x 3/4; £0 1s 1d
1 ¼ days man and labourer washing and stopping airy paving with lime; £0 8s 1 1/2d
34 Bricks, 1 Hod Mortar 7 x 4 x 3 oak; £0 4s 9d
30th May – ½ day 2 men bricking up copper hole and making good floor; £0 3s 3d
10 Bricks, 1 Hod Hair Mortar; £0 1s 0d
6th June – ½ day putting on nobs and buttons easing and changing sashes; £0 2s 3d
2 black nobs, 2 black buttons
2 brass nobs, 2 brass buttons; £0 3s 0d

Total fitting up = £9 16s 10 ½ d
Brought up = £16 3s 7d

‘Painting House Jesus Lane No. 1 and outside of No. 2’

17th April – 3 ½ days painter and 2 ½ days apprentice; £1 0s 9d
18th White paint, 8 pints of oil, 4 pints turps, 8 sheets of sand paper, 3 Hs [Hods?] putty; £0 18s 8d
24th April – 4 days painter; £0 18s 0d
9th May – 4 ½ day man 1 ¼ days apprentice; £1 2s 9d
4 Hs [Hods?] Wt [white?] paint, 6 sheets sand paper; £0 3s 0d
16th May – 4 days Man and apprentice; £1 2s 9d
20 H’s [Hods?] White, 8 H’s stone colour; £0 14s 0d
6 pints of oil, 3 pints of turps; £0 5s 6d
2 Hs Green to Flower Stauns to Windows; £0 2s 0d
23rd May– 6 days painter, 5 days apprentice to outside of the 2 houses; £1 17s 0d
6 White; 8 Stone Colour, 2 pints of oil, 1 pint turps; £0 8s 10d
7 days work by painter 6 days by lad, stopping cleaning and painting; £2 3s 6d
14 ½ White, 7 pints of oil 3 pints turps. ½ pint varnish, 13 Hs Stone Colour , 2 Hs Green; £1 2s 5d
30th May – 2 days 2 painters and apprentice to the houses; £1 1s 0d
6 Hs White, 7 Hs Stone Colour, 3 Hs Lead, 3 pints of oil, 1 pint turps, 3 Hs putty, 4 squares glass; £0 11s 2d; £0 12s 6d

£14 7s 1d
[Total =] £30 10s 8d

28th May – Cleaning and Lackering Brass work
35 Large door nobs, 8 small door nobs
Striking plates, 22 Rosets, 3 new ones.
3 Thumb pieces, 3 key hole plates, 3 drop key plates, 3 new drop key plates,
1 square brass plate; £1 2s 6d

1 Range with Bright fittings in Kitchen; £6 0s 0d
2 Stoves for Dining and Drawing Room; £5 10s 0d
3 Stoves for Bedrooms; £3 6s 0d
1 Stove for Study; £2 10s 0d

In papering Mr. Porcher’s house same as delivered for Mr. Adams; £15 14s 6d

[Grand total =] £64 13s 8d

Received of repairs in Gentlemens rooms of 2£ 5s 8d.

Schedule of Bills to J. Webster & Son totalling £535 12s 6d;

(1) Graveley Repairs; £387 10s 0d
(2) New houses in Jesus Lane; £64 13s 8d
(3) Estates;
Divers' Garden Wale; £6 15s 9 1/2d
Posts [?]; £2 9s 1 1/2d
[?]Fence; £2 4s 0d
Fence Jesus Lane; £3 19s 1d
Dr New Square; £0 11s 9d
Dwf [?] Wall Wale inft [?]; £2 19s 3 1/2d
[Total=] £33 3s 9 1/2d
(4)
Covets [?]; £13 6s 7d
Gravel; £10 5s 0d
Lodge, £9 12s 2 1/2d; [Total=] £33 3s 9 1/2d
(5)
Mr Hunell new floor; £31 6s 0d
[Total=] £535 12s 6d
Overleaf signed by the Revd. Dr. French.