Add MS 89290/4/11

Bills and receipts for goods and labour, London and Cambridge, including thatching bills 1848-1870.

London bills:

• G. F. Scherer, watch and clock maker, 6 September 1826.
• Robson & Hale, decorators, 1825-1827.
• John Squire, chairman, 1829-1830. With receipt 1831.
• W. Grant, upholsterer, 1830.
• J. Bennett, for chimney sweeping, 1829-1831.
• Aveling & Bentham, Italian & Oil Warehouse, for curacao, 1830-1831.
• Charles Hedring lamp manufacturer 7 November 1831.
• George Robins, for water filters, 1831.
• W. Richardson, for lamps and sundries, 1830-1831.
• Hancock and Rixon, London Glass Manufactory, 1831

Cambridge bills:

• E. Cole, sundries, 1830-1831.
• Postillion account to Joseph Porter 1831-1832.
• Amiger [?] and Handasyde, Iron Foundry, Upper Ground Street, for pipes for Messrs Cobham and Co. boat for Ware (addressed to Captain Francis Hart, Arrington, Cambridgeshire), 8 November 1836.
• Martin Palmer for ironwork to gates on Mr Roberts Porter’s Farm, 1854.
• John Wilson Jewson, Earith, bills for lime, etc. 1854-1858.
• William Drake, timber, 1854.
• Saunders & Fairley for asphalting Robert Porter’s Barn floor, 1859.

Thatching bills, 1848-1870:

• William Pate senior, thatching etc. 1848
• By order of Mr Josh. Tebbitt to Josh. Bent (thatching – tar line, mending, work of self and boy, bunches spits, etc.). £2/13/3. Settled by Joshua Bent. 1850. Verso: 1850 June 26 Josh. Burt Thatcher at Josh. Tebits House £2.13.3.
• Mr William Gillett H. Sucker (thatching work itemised). 1849. Verso: 1850 June 16th. Henry Sucker reps thatch of Wm Gilletts Barns £1.6.7.
• Mr William Gillett re H. Sucker (thatching work itemised). 1849. Verso: [Unrelated sum?]. 1850 June 26th Wm. Gillett repairing Hovells & on farm £1.18.8
• Wm Pate (farm buildings) to William Waters [thatching items – cleaning, chaff house, barn. Joshua Philllips Surveyor. A moiety of this to be paid by Lord Hardwick £3.3.6. J. Jones. [Pencil]: Settled Wm Waters. 1850. Verso: 1850 June 26th Wm. Waters thatcher at Wm Pates Farm Building / a moiety £3.3.6
• Mrs Pate for thatching cart shed. 1854.
• Mr Charles Mustell … Littleport & Denham Commissioners, 8 Dec 1858. 2 cwt read [reed] bought of John Newton by contract for Mustells House, £3/2/00. Settled John Newton Jany 6th 1859 (draft and receipt stamp / postal fiscal stamp “Draft payable on demand or receipt – one penny”). Verso: 1868 Wm. Mustell for Reed £3.2.0
• Charles Doe. Thatching (squares of repairing work on Mr Mustell’s shop and saw pit, ropes, straw, ridgeing, etc.,) £3/19/1. Received 14 May 1859 (with the mark of Charles Doe) (draft and receipt stamp). Verso: 1859 June 20th Charles Doe Thatcher at Mustells £3.19.1.
• Nov 19th 1859. Wm Tebbitt to John Simpking for … thatching £2.18.0. Surveyor (draft and receipt stamp). Verso: 1859 Dec. 19th. John Tebbitt for thatching done at Buildings £2.18.0.
• To Chas Doe to thatching work on Mr Mustell’s House [items], 1858. paid 1859. £8.6.4.
• William Morley thatching at Apshall at Mr Little’s, 1864. Receipt 1865.
• Haddenham W. H. F. Pate to Henry Burton to thatching [items] John Dring Surveyor (draft and receipt stamp), 1865. Verso: 1865 December [17?] Henry Burton Thatcher at W. H. Pales £10.19.0.
• William Bates at Thatching Barn & at at Mr W. Luddingtons, Willow-row Farm. 1870.