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Bill for masonry and stonework (Jeffs and Bentley)

Paid £24 13s 10 1/2d to Jeffs & Bentley for the following masonry work: 3/4 of a day's labour "Cutting a Door Way" in the Masters Lodge; paving the east-side of the cloister; constructing a "Cube Stone Step" at a door into the court; "plain work"; 10 "hods" of fine mortar; 4 loads of sand; labourers paid for 12 days of work in taking up old paving stones, and altering the paving at the Chapel door; 3/4 of a day's labour in altering the paving in the chapel. Signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

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Bill for masonry and stonework (Jeffs and Bentley)

Paid £19 10 7 1/2d for masonry work, including: 416 feet 10 inches of paving fitted into a passage by the Buttery; installing "Cube Stone Steps" at the doors to the Kitchen and Buttery; "superficial plain work"; 3 loads of sand; 5 "Hods of fine mortar"; 3/4 of a day's labour to carry the sand; installing a cube stone step 3ft 3 in "at West Door of Passage"; 2 men hired for half a day to take up the old step at the "Garden Door". Signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

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Bill for masonry and stonework (Jeffs and Bentley)

A bill for masonry work in college, includes: "20ft 0in Retton Stone" to repair windows and piers (£2 3s 4d); "Superficial Molded Work" (£2 7s 8 1/2d); 8 days work by a mason repairing windows (£1 1s 4d); 8 days work by a labourer repairing windows (12s); mortar (4s 4d); ropes and scaffolding along with extra labour (2s 6d); 24 feet of "Superficial Molded Church Jambs & Mantle to Contract Hall Chimney" (£1 16s). Total bill amounted to £9 12s 8 1/2d, signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

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Bill for masonry and stonework (Jeffs and Bentley)

A bill for masonry work between March and June 1769. The bill includes: repairs to the marble paving in the chapel (4s 6d); 1ft 1in of black marble (4s 4d); 3 hods of fine mortar (1s 6d); cleaning the stone work in the 'first Court' (1s 5d). Also includes references to labour costs. The total bill amounted to 14s, signed by Benjamin Jeffs.

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Mason's bill

Paid by Jonathan James to Mr. Jeffs & Bentley 15s for one marble mortar, 12 in diameter. Mortar received on 23rd June.

James, Jonathan