Tools to be used on the estate, garden implements, wheelbarrows, lawn rollers, things needed about the house, stables, and cottages, were to be attended to.

The church roof was being repaired.

Taking all these things and the "doing up" of the Court itself, there was more work than the village could manage, and carpenters, bricklayers, and decorators were necessarily brought from other places.

Still Joe Buttle and Sim Soames were allowed to lead in all such things as lay within their capabilities.

It was they who made such a splendid job of the entrance gates and the lodges.