Account and memoranda book of John Webb: Receipts and payments. Wages, contracts...

Account and memoranda book of John Webb: Receipts and payments. Wages, contracts etc. Memoranda - Took to Joseph Hills turnips 40 sheep at 2½d. each per week, 21 to the score (10 Oct. 1728); Accounted with John Woodward for 24 stone of flax and 4 stone of hurds which is to be carried on (22 Feb. 1728/9); Delivered to Geo. Lea 50 stone of hurds at 9d. per stone (Jan. 1728/9); 26 sheep sold to Mr. Dadley at 26s. 6d. each (10 March 1728/9): Sheep went to Hamton 1 Jan. 1729/30. came away 16 Feb. 1729/30; Levy made to raise money to pay for hinding cows, £3. 6s. 7d. - names of farmers and individual assessments 20 Feb. 1732/3; Agreement with Joseph Shaw for repairs of Briery Land House - lay bricks at 3s. per 1,000, pull down chimney & clean bricks 2s. 6d. (19 Nov. 1732?); Agreement with Edward Pestill to repair Briery Land House - prepare all timber and do all new work at 4s. per square, roof and floors, lay all floors at 3s. per square that are taken up and new laid, all new windows at 6d. per light and all door cases that are made new at 1s. 6d. per door, 3 stair cases at £1. 5s. (18 Feb. 1729/30); Detailed description of work done by Edward Pestill as above - new floor over shop, floor in garret over shop, parlour floor, chamber and garret over it etc. (Feb. 1729/30); Levy to collect 4d. in £1 for parish of Fullbrook Warks. - Webb's assessment 3s. 4d., total £6. 9s. (12 Jan. 1729/30); Wages paid to work people (women) raking stubble, rate 4d. per day. The accounts and memoranda are written on the pages for that purpose in an Almanack for 1729 Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore, physician. Imprimatur, S.L. 18 May 1728. London. Printed by Thos. Wyld for the Company of Stationers. 1728.

The advertisements in the Almanack include - Lordships surveyed, divided, and inclosed, and maps thereof fairly delineated with whatsoever is remarkable in their just proportions by Tycho Wing of Pickworth (Ru.) near Stamford.

Artificial teeth set in so firm as to eat with them and so exact as not to be distinguished from natural; they are not to be taken out at night as is by some falsely suggested but may be worn years together: Yet are they so fitted that they may be taken out and put in by the persons that use them at pleasure and are an ornament to the mouth and greatly helpful to the speech. Also teeth cleaned and drawn by John Watts and Sam. Rutter, operators, who apply themselves wholly to the said business and live in Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London.