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Description: | This is a day book for expenditure covering only part of the period covered by RED 3/1/4/6/1, namely from 1770.
These cover expenditure as in that book, but more detail given.
What follows is a somewhat arbitrary selection of entries to show some of the less usual items:
p. 14 1771, February 9 Mr. Bewley for inoculating Charlotte £10 10s.
p. 19 1771, October Oratorios at Lincoln £6 17s.
p. 21 1772, February 21 Gave 2 Italian musicians £2 12s 6d.
p. 21 1772, April Mr. Lumby in full for church £30 (Lumby was a local architect).
p. 22 1772, May London diversion, sights, plaisirs et depens menues £47 8s.
p. 24 1772, October Harvest prizes at Harvest feast, 150 present £1 0s 8d.
p. 25 1772 Players at Barton £1 2s.
p. 26 1773 Mr. Senn for 12 apostles, 3 landscapes, £26 8s 6d.
Post and rails at Brigg Bridge being 6s 6d more than any other man in the county will give 6s 8d.
p. 27 1773, April reference to Law Bew of Wistow near Selby for his journey having the same defect in speech as Charlotte yet speaking very intelligibly £2 5s.
p. 28 1773 May Slater for Miss' picture £2 5s.
p. 29 1773 May Operas, Ranelagh and small expenses £19 17s.
p. 30 1773 August Mr. Carr architect for several plans £25.
p. 31 1773 November 1 Mr. Senn for 4 panes of coats of arms £2 12s 6d.
p. 36 1774 June Mr. Senn for a plan of Redbourne £5 5s.
p. 36 1774 October 21 Musicians etc. for concert at the church £31 14s 6d.
p. 37 1774 December 1 Harrison for 6 Bells £132 16s.
p. 38 1775 January 20 Mr. Senn for 3 landscapes, Redbourne £6 6s.
p. 38 1775 March 6 Mr. Lambert music £1 1s.
p. 39 1775 March Hayward for a church font £26 10s.
Comm.furniture £33 17s, doyley ditto £11 11s.
Wedgwood £5 15s, Phelps China £3 10s.
Organ £63 pianoforte £24 13s 6d.
p. 40 May 19 Lambert tining the harpsichord.
p. 44 November 25 Bell, mason, for the gateway £65.
p. 50 1776 July, Manning, carver, at the gateway £4 14s 6d.
p. 51 December 27 Expedition to Nocton play £3 16s.
p. 52 1777, January 9 Mr.Stubbs for a family picture and landscape £84.
p. 53 March Kettle for a Bath (most exorbitant) £9 15s.
p. 57 July 16 Mr.Hodgson for the deed of Redbourn composition between the Bishop Vicar and Patron £2 2s.
p. 58 October 20 Mr.Hayward statuary on account £50.
p. 63 1778 March to May Hudson,carver and gilder £171 8.
p. 64 Harpsichord £36 15s 6,violincello £3 13s 6d a flute £1 1s 0d, Hayward statuary on account £50.
p. 72 Towards rebuilding Snitterby chapel £85 11s 6d.
p. 74 Hayward statuary in full £142 8s 0d.
p.81 To Mr.Braidwood for 5 months teaching Charlotte to speak and read without any Benefit at the rate of 1 guinea per hour and at his own school £315(1780 ).
p.86 1780 October 28 Wood for coat of arms in Roche abbey stone £11 4s 6d.
p. 97 1782 Mr.Hayward for a monument etc.for M.D.D.C.C.T £69.
p. 116 1784 June Mr.Carr for alteration of a plan £10.
p.129 1785 (no precise date) to porters,prenctices,plough jaggs etc. £1 19s 6d.
p. 130 1786 Subc. to Pottergate hill road at Lincoln £10 10s.
p.138 1787 Stodart for a pianoforte etc. £71 5s 6d.
Ends on p.141 with the rough paper with the note of his last entry and blotting paper still in the book.
There is evidence of his second marriage on p. 107: 20 March 1782 Marriage ....£17 6s inc.licence ring (10s 6d) payment to clergy, ringers, Blyborough and Redbourne. | Subjects: | Country Estates Church Of England Parishes Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | 1770-1787 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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