Eighteen pinned pages of receipts to Reverend, Master and Fellows of Jesus College for work done by Seymour and Sons (?formerly D. Bradwell and Sons) at Jesus College on the Masters Lodge, the College, the Buttery, Staircases F, K, D, M, B ,the Dining Room, the Students and Servants W.C., urinals, Dr. Westmoreland's Rooms, the Kitchen, the Precincts, the Chapel, the New Building and The College Estates (39, 41, 45 Jesus Lane, West Grove Cottage, Mr Balls House, no. 67 and 68 Kings Street, Belmont Place, no 10 Little Manor Street, Park Terrace no. 1, 4, 5, 6) totalling £121 14s 11d. Signed W. Seymour and Sons.
Mostly bricklaying, labour and carpentry but includes many materials such as putty, plaster, cement, sand, bricks, mortar, cement, screws, bundles of lath, buttons, beads, holdfasts, knobs, glue, whitening, tiles, scaffolding, paint, etc.
Specific tasks include: easing and repairing the Garden Gates and Trestle, rehanging casement, preparing and fitting new pump in scullery, fixing new brackets to window board, carting away rubbish, removing old stoves, putting in new stoves, assisting bell hanger fireing bells, opening and cleaning drains, cut away brickwork in preparation for plumbers, attending the plumbers and making good the drains after their work, rehang doors, rehang the lift, repairing door frames, repair paving, refine fireplace tiles, removing stoves for Smiths to repair, laying new floor, easing windows, prepare and repair coal bins, rehanging sashes in windows, raising ladders, clearing gutters, repairing chimneys and sideboards, clearing cesspools, cleaning flues and hotplates, lime washing kitchen wall, bricking up old flue, repairing chimneys, repairing ovens, attending the sweeps, building scaffold, cleaning walls, ceilings and beams, repairing plaster, rebuilding oven, refining gate latches, fastening door, easing greenhouse door, repairing walls, refining wood, making good new slating for skylight, taking up floors, taking down cupboards, painting lead flashings after plumbers on the roof, preparing wedges for plumbers, repairing seats, preparing staircase moulding, repairing roof tiling and chimney pots, repairing walls, whitening the celiings, painting woodwork, refining skirting and shelves, repairing brick floor, cleaning the drain, carting materials
Small note scribbled on a torn letter attached by a second pin reads Ellis 13/8. Calculation on the back totalling £127.
To The Master's Lodge: to ease and repair the Garden Gates and Trestle; take off ease and rehang casement; to prepare and fire new pump standard and casings in scullery; fixing new brackets to window board and fillets round window; Bricklayer cart away two load of rubbish from the yard, take out old stove in bedroom, and fire new with stove slips and Encaustic tiles; put in new fire bricks to back of stove, fire bricks, easing the stone sill of the large gates, including: labour and materials include: nails, labour (carpenter's, bricklayer's), bundle of lath, brass butts and screws, spikes, holdfasts, beads, iron buttons, knob, iron brackets, stone slips, bricks, hods of mortar, cement.
To College: cut away for and assist Bell Hanger firing bells from the lecture room and W. Morgan's Rooms to the Buttery; to Staircase F open and clean out the drain from Gyp Room and make good the same; to Staircase K cut away the Brickwork for plumbers to repair the pipes and make good the same; Staircase F attend plumbers repairing; to Student's W.C. make good the pans and drains after the plumbers cutting away and attending plumbers in eval cellar; Staircase M open and clean out drain and assist plumbers; Staircase D cut away and make good wall to water to water pipes; to Dining Hall rehang the door to bell rope, work to cupboard; Rehang the Lift; to the Servants W. C. prepare and dire new seat, to pointing the lead flashing on the Roofs after plumbers; Staircase C The Lecture Room prepare and hang new head and flush door and repair the door frame, mortice lock and keys, to open and clean out drain to Rainwater pipe near the Buttery and make good; take up the york paving near the W.C. and relay the same to a proper Fall and relay the Pebble pacing at the sides, to the Reverend E. H. Morgans rooms, to refire the tiles in the fire place; Staircase B open and clean out the drains from the water cupboard and make the same; Staircase D to unstopping Rainwater pipe and make good to drain; to K14 take out the stove for Smiths to repair and refire the same; L5 & L6 take out the stoves for Smiths to repair and refire the same; B3 take out the stove for smiths to repair and refire the same; Staircase C prepare and fire 2 new Coal Bins on landing and lay new floor under the same; Staircase K repair coal bin and ease windows; Staircase B Mr Moses open window in sitting Room and fire stops; Staircase K Mr Streets Rooms rehang the Sitting Room door, reblack the jambs; Staircase L Mr Greaves Room rehang the sashes in two windows with new Weights and lines; Rain Ladders to clean out the gutters over Servants Hall. Including: labour costs (carpenters, labourers, bricklayers), peks or bushels of cement, hods of hair mortar, brick mortar, bricks, sharp sand, screws, stout sash lines, nails, deal, floorboards, sash weights, sash line
To Kitchen: take off and ease door in Kitchen; take up the flood, take down cupboard Front and make good the same after bricklayers repairing the Chimney of the Kitchen Range and repair the sideboard; clean out the cesspools; take off the hot plates clean out the flues, rebuild the flues, refire the hotplates and lime wash the wall round the same; empty the Cesspools, repair the Range and Chimney brick up the old copper flue and take down the old panel work and cement the outside of the Chimney in the store room; repair the bottom of sink and point the front of the oven. Including labour costs (carpenters, bricklayers, labourers, mans,) screws, nails, deal, firebricks, tiles, hods of mortar, peks of cement, ring stone, york stone, bricks, bushels of sand.
To Attend the Sweeps: take off the hot plates and rebed the same, to empty the Cesspool and clean out the traps, to open and clean out the Cesspool, take off the Hot Plates and the boiler attend the Sweeps, repair the brickwork in the Flues and reset the plates and clean out the cesspool. Including material and labour costs (bricklayers, labourers and mans), hods of mortar, bushels/peks of lime, furnace bricks.
To Build Scaffold: clean the walls and ceiling and two beams, twice whiten the walls and ceiling, paint the beams, black in the Kitchen and Larder and repair the plastering, carting loads, scaffolding . Including materials and labour costs: bushel of cement, labour costs (plasterer and labourer), glue, stone whitening, peks of plaster, paint.
To take down the oven, rebuild the same, lay new Floor, new crown, and new furnace lumps as per estimate; to take down and refire copper. Including labour costs of bricklayer and labourer, and materials including furnace bricks, tiles, fire tiles.
The Precincts: refire the latch on the Gates leading to close, fasten up the old door looking on the College Grounds from carpenters shop Mr Adams Premises; making good the brick floor in the Old Stables after the Plumbers. Including costs of: screws, carpenters time, bricks and bushel of sand.
To the Fellows' Garden: to the greenhouse fire drip over doorway and ease door; to the gates leading to the Close refire the cap staple and repair the gat, to repair the wall near the Masters Gates Jesus Lane, including material and labour costs for screws, nails, labour costs (Carpenters, Bricklayers and Labourers) Bricks, hods of mortar.
The Chapel: to clean out the Gutters; to the Chapel furnace open and clean out the flues and attend the smitsh and make good the Brickwork, to making frame for marker. Costs include: fire bricks, hods of mortar, bricklayers, carpenters, labourers and mens time, canvas and tacks.
The New Building: Mr Hoppe, refire wood, chimney piece, to fire new stove in shoe Blacks place. Includes costs for nails, holdfasts, deal, carpenters, bricklayers, and labourers time, hods mortar, cement and bricks.
Staircase P: Open and clean out the drains from Gyp Room and make good the same, 1 pek cement and mens time.
To the Servants urinal: make good the slating to new skylight and repair the slating and make good the plastering. Includes slates, nails, hod of hair mortar and mens time.
To Dr Westmorland Rooms: take out the stove butt, in new Fire Bricks back and refire the same. Including costs for bricks, hods of mortar, fire lump, and bricklayers and labourers time.
Alteration in Urinal: take up the flood, dig out and alter the drain, fire new trap; build up brickwork, fire new trap, build up brickwork, fire new Iron grating, and make good the flood. Including bricks, bush and pek of cement, bushel of sharp sand, and bricklayers and labourers time. Work continued with further materials required.
Staircase O Mr Macleod Rooms: Take down cupboard and skirting, take up floor and plaster behind to prevent the smoke from coming through, take down and refire the work, to point all the lead flashings after the plumbers on the roof; prepare wedges for Plumbers, fire lead flashing. Including materials and labour costs: nails, peks of cement, bricklayers, labourers, plasters and carpenters time, bushels of cement and sand.
Further alteration on Urinal: prepare and fire new skylight and frame, prepare for the plmubers in urinal, case the rainwater pipe and fire bottom in urinal, to repair seats and risers in Student W.C. and fire new bearers. Including costs of carpenters time, screws, beads.
Staircase O: cutaway and make good for plumbers, including carpenters time.
Mr. Grey's Rooms: prepare and fire surbase moulding in sitting room, Carpenters time.
The Students W. C.: prepare and fire casing to pipes after the plumbers, screws and carpenters time costs.
The College Estates: raise ladders and repairs times on roof; Mr. Holdens 39 Jesus Lane raise ladders and refire chimney pots, raise ladders take off old chimney pot, repair the top of chimney and fire new wind guard; repair the tiling on roof and refire chimney pot; Mr Spademans Jesus Lane prepare and fire new ceiling to Summer House and repair the Roof; repair the roof and clean out the gutters of the Five Houses; Mrs Hinson 41 Jesus Lane open and clean out the old brick, drain and make good to sink with glazed pipes, open and clean out the main drain acorss the bottom of three Gardens and make good the same; 45 Jesus Lane prepare and fire new sashes and frame to back bedroom, repair the rafters and oak sill, sash bead and moulding, repair the tiling on roof plaster, the dormer cheeks (?), make good to new window frame, clean out the gutters and repair the tiling on nº 41-42-40. Costs including materials and labour for: tiles, hods of blue mortar, bricklayers, carpenters, and labourers time, pek of cement, hods of mortar, bricks, hods of mortar, match brand, bushel of cement, sand, screws and nails, laths, plain tiles.
Continued: West Grove Cottage: Mr Robinson, provide and fire two new backs to stove and repair the slattering on roof, take off the old wind guard, cut away the brickwork and alter the flue and fire new wind guard, to cure smokey chimney, repair slating on roof; Mr Balls House repair the washhouse roof, strip and retile the roof, cut in brick corbels under the gutter; Mr Robinson, take off the old wind guard and fix new guard; no 67 and 68 Kings Street prepare and fire two door sills and repair door jambs; no 68 King Street to repair the walls whiten the ceilings paper the Bedroom and Sitting and paint the wood work as per estimate; Belmont Place, Mrs Pettit House open and clean out the W. C. drain and fire new trap and pan, and make good the drain; no. 10 Little Manor Street repair the tiling at the back, repair the plastering in W. C., prepare and fix new door and frame rehang the washhouse door, repair the branding, make new gate and fence next street, on the wall in back room, repair the plastering on stairs, repair the brick floor and repair bedroom window; Park Terrace Nº 1-4-5-6 take down and refire skirting, plate rack sideboard and shelves, stopping rats runs, take up the brick work from old drains and wells, from soil pipe of W. C. take down the area wall, enlarge the area and lowe the floor, lay in new glazed pipe drain, cutting out the old soil pipe, brick up and make good the plastering, carting, open and clean the drain from rain water pipe and make good the same. Costs include material and labour: bricks, slate cement, bricklayers, carpenters, labourers, and men's time, hods of mortar, slates and nails, holdfasts, lath, pantiles, peks of cement, drain pipe, hods of mortar, closet pan, screws, load of sand, bell trap, hod of putty, pek of plaster.
