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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.

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.

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.

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.

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