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Land and Assessed Taxes, St Andrew Gr and All Saints

Three receipts for land and assessed taxes, two for St Andrew the Greater and one for All Saints. All received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College. The first two are signed by J. Webster, collector, and the third is signed by William Wiseman, collector. The third has a number of names written on the back. Amount totals £14 4s 6d for the first two, and £3 0s 4d for the third.

Webster, J.

Receipt for work done to Mr. Hunell's Barn, Shelford

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

J. Webster & son

For work done in the courts

Paid James Webster £15 17s 8d for racks & standings in Master Stable hanging shutter and putting in new bar, Deal, Sash Line, Nails, easing door, cover to lock in yard adjoining the coal house, repairing fence next to common, old oak logs, carting down stuff, easing stable doors, repairing/altering pump & dresser in kitchen, re-hanging sash and putting in slips to Porters Lodge, Screws, re-hanging garden doors, laying new floors in Master Garden water closet & pulling up skirting, floor brads, preparing staircase, lining out window next to Masters Lodge, putting up beads, cutting away for the stonemason, making good to stone, repairing floor & skirting, prepared angle bead, cutting out number for plasterers, taking down old stairs, preparing window board, putting up staircase letter N, repairing casing to pump in back yard, black button,

Webster, J.

Carpentry bill

Paid £5 19s for work done in the Master's Lodge including payments for preparing and putting up linings and mouldings and making and hanging of a new door to the house keepers sleeping room, list of sizes of wood used, screws, 6 inch rim lock, pair of joints and screws, taking down, removing and putting up shelves for butler's pantry etc, nails, to the above work and to removing and refixing of cupboard easing sash putting on fastenings, preparing and laying floor and joists to butler's sleeping room, brass buttons knob and hooks, to the foregoing work and to putting up pegs and hooks and fixing shelf in cellar, repairing and rehanging sashes in drawing and bedroom, one brass pulley sash line wood and nails, new lock and fixing to wood house door, refixing case over jack line putting up casings to chimney piece in bedroom, laying down drugget etc, tacks, job done to water closet, fastening partition to lobby and water closet and repairing sink.

Webster, J.

Carpentry bill

Paid £12 18s for work done in the Master's Lodge including payments for carpenters work to building of coal house and altering the Master's old coach house into a stove room and harness house and fitting up the same, nails, list of sizes of wood used, a pair of 14 inch T joints and screws, new wood stock lock, thumb latch, deal, ash, oak, old oak, 55ft of reduced brickwork the difference in excess between erecting of the fence walls as first intended and building up the end of new coal house.

Webster, J.

Building bill

Paid £308 1s to Webster for work done building cottages in front of the Fellows stables, including payments for erecting cottages, extra between deal floors and 9 inch pavements, labour to circular corner of brickwork, painting chimney pots, to erecting a coach house for the Master and fence walls to the stable yard as per estimate, extras, oak stop for the carriage laid in coach house floor, building bricks on edge floor instead of the same laid flat. Receipts signed by Webster.

Webster, J.

Carpentry bill

Paid £7 2s 1d to Webster for work done on the gentlemen's rooms, perhaps indicating rooms that were occupied by students.

Staircase C room 2 - preparing and fixing dado, capping and skirting, nails, deal, pitch and tar
Staircase C room 4 - repairing and rehanging door, deal and nails
Staircase E room 1 - repairing of floor, deal and nails
Staircase H room 1 - cutting away and fitting up to window by fireplace, preparing and fixing ribs to window, taking down, altering and refixing of chimney piece, cutting away for hearth and making good floor, deal, nails, preparing dado and staircase mouldings, deal, men for doing the work, small mouldings, cutting away and fixing window in partition and putting up dado and staircase mouldings, clasp, holdfasts, gallon of tar, half stone of pitch, making fitting in and hanging of window, iron pivot to the same, putting up mouldings around window, screw eyes and nails, sash line.

Webster, J.

Painting bill

Paid £9 for painting work around College including for painting done to the Master's stable, the new gates, harness house, gig house, and to the ladders and shelter over the same at the end of the stable, also to outbuildings in the Master's Garden, Fellows stable yard and great gates next the road. Signed by Webster.

Webster, J.

Carpentry bill

Paid £12 13s 3d for carpentry work done around College Courts including payments for repairing pale fence next the common, taking down trees and repairing fence to altering road leading down the close and nails to the same, repairing boarding, stannings, door etc in the fellows stables and wood work to new privies in the yard, lists of various wood sizes used, repairing doors to young gentlemens privies, repairs in fellows stables and to new privies as above named. a pair of hooks and bands, one thumb latch, 4 inch bolt, screws, repairing and rahanging coach house doors etc in fellows stable yard, new stock lock, list of different sizes of wood used, repairing boarding to sedge house and coping to dung bin, spikes, squares of tar dressing all materials to the fence next Midsummer Common.

Webster, J.

Building bill

Paid £117 9s 6d to Webster for work done in College including for work done on New Square for making part of a new road by picking up and removing gravel more northward in front of Mr. Fuller's houses and carting stuff to making gravel path from north to south, to cutting down a tree and old bushes and stubbing up the roots at the west end removing part of posts and rails on the north side, putting up new posts and rails and new gate at the west end and painting the same, work by carpenters and labourers, loads of bricks, bats etc to raising the road, horse cart and man removing earth and gravel on the ground, oak for making grate frame, cube oak for posts, rails, oils for painting.

Webster, J.

Repairs bill

Paid £1 11s 10d to J. Webster for work done in the college kitchen including repairing dresser plate racks and other jobs, 3 dozen brass hooks, joints, clasps, holdfasts, wall hooks, repairing door and plate rack, nails etc. Also wood with measurements. Signed by Webster

Webster, J.

Carpentry bill

Paid £6 4s 6d for work done in the Master's stable yard including payments for preparing and putting down posts and spurs of old oak for the new gates making and hanging the gates and putting on fastenings and making frames for draining grates in the yard, labour of a man, oak, deal, list of sizes of wood used, 4 inch spikes, new lock and bolt, cast iron grate under pump.

Webster, J.

Abstract of bills

Summary of work done by Webster for Jesus College including payments for making gravel road on New Square etc, Master's Lodge, Gentlemen's Rooms, Courts, Fellows Stable etc, College kitchen, new gates in Master's stable yards, coal house, store room, harness house, building to cottages and coach house, painting stables etc. All for £384 10s

Webster, J.

Abstract of bills

Summary of work by Webster for Jesus College including post and rail fencing in New Square, work done in the courts, work done to gentlemen's rooms, work done to the Master's Lodge, journeys etc all for £107 5s 8½d.

Webster, J.

Kitchen work bill

For work done in the kitchen:
27th February - 1/2 day making of bordered covers to lay over the stoves;
12th March - 1 day for fitting on the above, plus costs of materials £1 8s. 0d.

Webster, J.

Lecture Room work bill

For work done in the Lecture Room July 30, 1/2 day to lining of door frame and oak and nails
3 shillings

Webster, J.

Combination room work bill

For work done in the combination room
6th August - 1/2 day preparing and fitting of angle beads (and cost of materials)
1 1/2 days taking down window curtains and other jobs in the room
13 3/4 days repairing of panels
17 1/2 days hanging of a sash
£1 1s. 1d.

Webster, J.

Work bill

Bill for 1835 and 1836
For work done at the end of Elm Street
7th November - 1 day 2 men preparing and putting up 10 oak parts 8p, oak materials 1p7s6d
total: 1s15s5d

Received the 10th day of Dec. 1836 of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College receipt of payment

Webster, J.

Bill for work done in the courts

Bill of £14 17s. 3d. for work done in the College courts

Doors and materials, wood, frames nails, plates, labour of men to install

Webster, J.

Carpentry bill

Paid £2 12s 2½d for work done to the Courts in College including repairing fence by the common, nails to the same, making a door and frame to Fellows Garden in further Court, oak for the same, hanging of the door and putting on fastenings, preparing of lintels etc, oak post, pair of stout joints and lock, putting up board for the lamp ladder in cloisters.

Webster, J.

Carpentry bill

Paid £34 6s 8d for work done on the Master's Lodge by J. Webster. Includes payment for casing windows, cutting away studs in the wood house and preparing to hang a pair of boarded doors for chaise house, deal and nails, deals for the door, middlestay to the door, hanging splice to door, screws, new lock to the door, for making and hanging new door to the Lodge preparing and fixing of casings and altering rehanging and casing of doors, 6 inch iron rim lock and to latches, 3 pairs of joints and screws, nails, sash line, 3 dozen inch screws, pair of joints and knob latch, repairing garden door, deal for the manger, for sundry jobs in the lodge, blocking and skirting altering of lock and job to chimney piece, wood and nails for the same, labour for sinking well and cesspool for new water closet, labourer for wheeling earth into field, horse cart and chair for the same, deal for new curb to the well, preparing and fixing of work to the new water closet, sawdust for the partition, labour for filling in the dust and helping of the carpenter, deal to the new water closet, 2 pairs of brass butts and flush ring, wood, deals, nails and work on the new water closet, seat and riser to the water closet, run of oily moulding to the water closet, putting up studs and to removing door in passage near to water closet, job done to coach house doors and jobs in the lodge, making and hanging of new raised panel door to the above passage preparing and fixing of architrave etc, iron rim lock and joints to door, run of oily moulding to the same, run of angle beads to the same, prepared skirting, floor boards (brads), hanging old door to the College Room etc, fitting up room where the old water closet was, wall hooks, brass hooks, prepare for new water closet in the garden, preparing and fitting up of the same, oak, clasp and screws to the same, opening and repairing of door leading out of cloisters to the kitchen and other jobs, holdfasts for water closet in the garden, 6 inch bolt and screw to privy door, putting in of new lintel and casing of doorway leading into front garden, putting up manger in stable and holdfasts for the same, 3 yards of line to rehanging of sarks.

Webster, J.

Reverse of Bill for College Work on Master's Lodge

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1833/59/2
  • Part
  • 24th August 1833 - 14th September 1833
  • Part of College Archives

Reverse of the bill from the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for work done in the Master's Lodge, dated from August 24th to September 14th 1833. Includes purchase of nails and the making and hanging of a new door, as well as installing a new lock. Carried on from obverse calculations, total of £13 3s.

Webster, J.

Bill for College Work on Master's Lodge

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1833/59/1
  • Part
  • 24th August 1833 - 14th September 1833
  • Part of College Archives

Bill from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for work done in the Master's Lodge from August 24th to September 14th 1833. Includes putting up of stud work door jambs(?), skirting, work altering staircases. Total of £11 8s 7d.

Webster, J.

Carpentry Bill

1833 invoice from Jesus College to J. Webster for carpentry. Includes Rhadegund ground, Master's lodge, courts, staircase & laundry, kitchen. Total of £31 11s 14.

Webster, J.

Kitchen Work Bill

Invoice from the Master and Fellows of Jesus college to J. Webstet for work done in the kitchen from September 7 to September 21 1833. Includes taking down a platetack, mending water trough and table, installing a new joint on the table. Total of 14s 2d. Received December 7th 1833, signed by J. Webster.

Webster, J.

Bill for College Work on Laundry

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1833/58/1
  • Part
  • 24th August 1833 - 5th October 1833
  • Part of College Archives

Bill from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster, for work done to staircases and laundry, dated from August 24th 1833 to October 5th 1833. Includes skirting the staircases and laundry, putting up angle beads, mending the floor, purchase of nails, new handrail, repair of window frame. Total of £13 5s 9d.

Webster, J.

Parker's Piece Maintenance Work Invoice & Receipt

Invoice for work done by Parker's Piece, from J. Webster to Jesus College Cambridge, on May 5 1832 and May 19 1832. Includes falling of a tree on Christ's Pieces for the repairing of a fence on Parker's Piece, for bringing material to sandpits, the purchase of hooks, hinges and a lock, sanding planks to cover cesspool, removal of timber to the pit, and covering pit with earth. Total of £3 6s 5d.

Receipt received on December 17 1832 of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, the sum of £4 15s 6d. Signed by J. Webster.

Webster, J.

Courts Work Bill

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1833/57/1
  • Part
  • 17th November 1832 - 7th September 1833
  • Part of College Archives

Invoice from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for work done in the courts, dated 17 November 1832 to 7 September 1833. Includes a new side for a wheelbarrow, putting in fence next to the Common, making of a rafter for the lodge house, repairing the door, wall hooks to butterings in the cloisters. Total of £2 19s 10 1/2 d.

Webster, J.

Reverse of Courts Work Bill

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1833/57/2
  • Part
  • 17th November 1832 - 7th September 1833
  • Part of College Archives

Reverse of bill for work done to the college courts from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster. Includes repairing a fence, mending a gate. Total of £4 8s 5d (including the obverse). Received the amount for the bill, december 7th 1833, signed J. Webster.

Webster, J.

Fencing Invoice & Receipt

Invoice from J. Webster to Jesus College, for fencing work done from November 19 1831 to September 8 1832. Includes repairing fences, taking down trees, digging land, cleaning out the cesspool, carting of timber, purchase of saw for poplar rails. Total of £7 1s 6 1/2d.

Receipt recieved of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, dated December 17 1832, for the sum of £7 1s 6 1/2d for the amount of the bill. Signed J. Webster.

Webster, J.

Kitchen & Larder Invoice & Receipt

Invoice for work done in the kithen and larder from Aug 13 to Sept 24 1831. the Master and the Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster. Includes installing boarding, cutting away for bricklayers, putting up partitions, repairing plate rack, repair of pump casing & shelves in scullery & forgoing work. Total of £3 6s 5 1/2d.

Receipt received of the Master & Fellows of Jesus College from J. Webster, dated December 1831, for the total of £3 6s 3 1/2d.

Webster, J.

Wood Carting & Fencing Invoice & Receipt

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1831/16
  • Item
  • 9th April 1831 - 11th June 1831
  • Part of College Archives

Invoice from J. Webster to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College for preparing and carting of wood at Caxton, dated from April 9 1831 to June 11 1831. Includes taking down fences, taking down timber, loading and carting of timber, paid lawyer at sundry times, morturing, painting, installing gates. Total of £21 1s.

Receipt dated 9th of december 1831 from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster, the sum of £21 1s. Signed by J. Webster.

Webster, J.

Gas & Coke Invoices & Receipts

Invoice from the Cambridge Gas-Light & Coke Company, to the Revd Master & Fellows of Jesus College. Dated 25th of March 1831. Two quarter's rent from 20th of September 1830 to 25th of March 1831 for burners. Also 3rd of February 1831, a half a chaldron of coke. Total of £15 11s 6d.

Receipt dated 28th of May 1831, recieved of the Revd Master & Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £7 10s as per bill December 1830 for the Gas Company. Signed E. J. Tweed.

Receipt dated 28th of May 1831, recieved of the Revd Master & Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £7 10s as per bill March 25 1831 for the Gas Company. Signed E. J. Tweed.

Invoice from the Gas Light & Coke Company to the Rev Master & Fellows of Jesus College, dated 1831. For two quarters rent from March 25th to Sept 20th, large argand burner, gas as by argand, batswing, extra consumption for burning without glasses, total of £15.

Receipt of the received of the Revd Master & Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £15. Dated November 12 1831. Signed by E.J. Tweed.

Webster, J.

Master's Lodge Work Invoice & Receipt

Invoice to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College from J. Webster for work done at the Master's Lodge. Includes new fencing, fence repair, purchase of wooden stakes, floor repair, front gate repair, purchase of nails. Total of £7 16s.

Receipt for work done around the college from the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster, dated December 1831. Total of £7 16s. Signed by J. Webster.

Webster, J.

Delivery Bill & Receipt

Bill of the Master and the Fellows of Jesus College to J. Webster for stuff sent to Mr Theobalds and Steeple Morden, the Carriage included. Includes oak joists for a new floor to the barn, 2 inch planks deals, feather edge boards, studs, braces, oak planks, nails, legedges, and oak planks for the side of the pond adjoining the bridge. Total of £29 18s 5d.

Receipt received on the 22nd of July of the Revd Dr French the sum of £29 18s 5d being the bill amount delivered for stuff sent to Mr Theobalds of Morden. Signed by J. Webster.

Webster, J.

Barn Conversion Bill & Receipt

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1830/60
  • Item
  • 25th July 1829 - 28th November 1829
  • Part of College Archives

Invoice for work done from J. Webster to the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College. Details for converting a riding horse stable into a barn at West Wratton Valley Farm by stripping out the inside, putting up a new pair of doors and frame, putting up new braces and beams to the walls and repairing the tile floor. Dating from 25 July 1829 to 28 November 1829. Total of £75 10 1/2d.

Receipt for work done at the Valley Farm from the Revd Dr French to J. Webster recieved 24 April 1830. Total of £75 10 1/2d. Signed by J. Webster.

Invoice for work done to the Valley Farm from Mr Webster to Thomas Safford (?). Details various ironwork dating from 25 June 1829 to 3 August 1829. Total of £5 14s 5d.

Receipt for work done at the Valley Farm from the Revd Dr French to Thomas Safford recieved 24 April 1830. Total of £5 14s 5d. Signed by Thomas Safford (?).

Webster, J.

Carpenter's bill

Paid £3 17s 7d to J. Webster for work done to the Lodge 1827-1828.
1st December 1827: taking down the wainscot, nails for re-fixing the wainscot in the Hall.
July 1828: post to the Lodge garden, piecing of gate, hanging the gates flush on the outside, cutting away spurs for stonemason, boarding and capping to the Hall, preparing and fixing screws and nails, bushels of Roman cement to repairing of the walls, plasterer, labourer and lad, plaster of paris, sill for coal cellar, fixing of old gate.

Webster, J.

Carpenter's bill

Paid total £12 7s 7d to J. Webster for work done to the Courts 1827-1828.
1827: Spikes for spurring round cradles to young trees, nails to the grove, cutting around the trees, pruning and fixing. Carpenters assisting timber fellers in the Grove.
1828: Horse drawing of timbers over the ditch, nails to mending of fence by the Charters Close, felling of elm tree on Christs Close, grass cutting, removing trees in Jesus Close, loading and carting of elm tree from Christ's Pieces, sawing it into parts, horses and man for removing the poplar in the Close, carpenter for making of sawpit, sawing of poplars rails and elm parts, making a grove fence. Also making knife boards for the porter and shoeblack, mending and changing stable gate, making 2 gothic sash casements and a frame.

Webster, J.

Carpenter's bill for kitchen work

Paid £1 12s 9d to J Webster for work done to the Kitchen: making of water troughs, carving of pump and other jobs, 4 days' work.
Signed J Willis (cook)

Webster, J.

Carpenter's bill

Paid J. Webster sum of £15 1s 4d for putting up a new pair of gates and posts.
May 24th: wood and nails for making the gates, 5 1/2 days, 2 men.
October 4th: oak for posts, 2 1/2 days 2 men for preparing posts, 1/2 day carting of rubbish, nails, spikes, 5 3/4 days for hanging the gates, 6 days another man for ditto, caps to the posts, 1/2 day 2 men helping with posts.

Webster, J.

Carpenter's bill for work done to gateway

Paid Mr Webster total of £9 19s 7d for building work.
August 13th-18th: Paid total £4 10s for 6 casks of cement.
August 16th-23rd: Paid total £5 9s 7d for work done at Jesus College Gateway including 2 plasterers, a labourer, a boy, 2 loads of sand. Addressed to William Shearman.

Webster, J.

Receipt for carpenter

Received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £29 7s 10d on account of bill delivered in October last (work done to Kitchen, Courts, and Gateway).
Signed J. Webster

Webster, J.

Bills to J. Webster

A number of bills to be paid to J. Webster for word done in the college, including: repairing the gate to the Master's Lodge, trimming trees on Christ's pieces etc.
For the following sums:
£7 17s 4d
£2 9s 4d
£5 4s 3d
£12 15s 2d.

Webster, J.

Sundries bill

Received 14th Day of December 1824 of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College by Payment of the Reverend Dr French the sum of eighteen pounds 5/3 for sundries of work done at the college as for bill annexed.

J Webster

£18.5.3

Webster, J.

Maintenance bill

  • JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1824/35
  • Item
  • October 1823 - August 1824
  • Part of College Archives

Paid £18 5s 3d to James Webster for sundry work done around college including two men preparing and fixing shelves at the New Building, shelves to gyp rooms in the New Building, nails and wall hooks to the New building, six brass knobs, six escutcheons, a hook, two men working on the shelves, oak slab to the pump, 11ft 3x3 oak to making a frame for the sink in the kitchen, deal to making a case to pipe under the sink, for a bracket and standard for the kitchen sink, boards to the dresser in the kitchen, two six inch wall hooks and nails, a pair of three inch butts and screws, repairing a fence in the Master's close, nails and work to the Master's close, poplar for repairing the fence by the grove, 12 nails and work for repairing the fence, 11 elm posts to fencing by Christ College pieces, 8 further elm posts and other wood, elm rails, nail and work for this fence, a hook and eye to stable shutters etc, further wood to repair stables, railing to stable yard plantation, wood, posts and nails for the stable yard plantation, workmen and a day of an apprentice for the stable yard, a cartload of thorns and carriage, mending the fence in the Master's close, for putting extra battens to the fence near the Charters stable, cutting off arms of trees and taking them to the College and paying a man and apprentice, mending gates opposite Rhadgeund Buildings, mending garden gate, cross cutting timber for repairing fence by the grove, 2 pairs of 18 inch joints one 6 inch bolt and a quarter day to rehanging doors to the Chapel tower, battening to repairing of fence by the grove, oak for sink frame to kitchen.

Webster, J.

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