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Robert Ward’s accounts for carpentry and cartwright work

Posted on December 8, 2022 by km55
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front covers of 2 manuscript volumes

Manuscript account books of Robert Ward, an English carpenter and cartwright, covering a period of approximately 30 years. In his work as a cartwright, Ward supplied wheels, spokes, axles and cart bodies, as well as completed regular repairs, with everything itemized and priced in these records. He also doubled as a house carpenter, supplying staircases, doors, door-frames, windows, beams and floors and worked for a number of customers. Several names reappear throughout the manuscript including: Alice Tattam, William Baylis, Thomas Coleman, Daniel Dover, the Earl of Stanhope, William Flowers and Thomas Gurney. Few town or village names besides Long Marston appear, suggesting that his clientele was very local. Ward also regularly supplied fences and rails, coffins for a range of names individuals (men, women and children), and painted signboards. The latter service seems to have become more dominant after the main period the manuscript and among the many in-fillings added after 1810, to the mid 1830s, are several simple calligraphic trials for such signs (mainly Ward’s own name). The later entries in different hands suggest the business and the accounting was passed to a second generation.

  • Author: Ward, Robert, active 1781-1830s.
  • Title: Robert Ward’s accounts for carpentry and cartwright work : manuscript.
  • Production: Long Marston, Buckinghamshire, 1781-1830s (bulk 1781-1810)

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 272

Acquired October 2021

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Account book recording building work and carpentry

Posted on November 21, 2022 by km55
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handwritten account book

A manuscript account book of a general builder that provides a detailed record of works, in particular bricklaying and carpentry, carried out for different clients from appoximately 1803 to 1814. The prices for materials and employment of additional laborers are included, and in many cases the locations of clients are noted next to their names.

  • Title: Account book recording building work and carpentry carried out for clients in the vicinity of Southwark : manuscript.
  • Production: Southwark, London, circa 1803-1814.

Catalog Record

LWL Mss vol. 273

Acquired July 2021

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Reverend Stopford album of invoices and receipts, mathematical workbook…

Posted on April 11, 2022 by km55
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A bound volume that was used in the late 18th-century probably for instructors in a school to teach mathematical principles, with examples to illustrate the use of these principles and the answers to the questions, including one example with a drawing of a tower. From 1795-1807, Reverend J. Stopford reused the pages to mount receipts for household expenses, income and rent from properties in Louth; he used blank sheets to record expenditures for a variety of expenses and income, letters and accounts related to work in a school and staff to teach students, payments to other church officials, deacons and rectors, a copy of his letter of appointment to the school as well as receipts for the tuition and costs of boarding for his son. Elizabeth Addleshaw, for example, earned money for both “washing” and teaching of children”. Engraved receipts include ones from John Birkett at the Hat and Beaver in Black Frier Gate illustrated with an image of a beaver and receipts from businesses in Louth, T. Misdall, “dealer in foreign wines and spirituous liquors” and J. Jackson, “printer, bookseller, binder, stationer, and vendor of all genuine patent medicines. Agent for London and Country newspapers …” From 1878-1885 the blank pages at the end of the volume were used as a ledger to record cash payments for insurance, shipping companies, glass and gas, and a variety of businesses, and other expenses for companies in Manchester, London, and Barnsley; with death notices, letters, advertisements laid in. Stamps for “Edwin Bayford’s Family Mourning Warehouse, 16 Shamble Street Barnsley” and invoices and advertisements for various businesses including Rylands & Sons Limited, Manchester, Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire and Midland Railway Companies suggest this volume was used for a time to house advertisements related to the business of the warehouse and related services, from umbrellas to insurance and advertisements. Several letters from the firm of Spencer, Turner & Boldero inform the recipient of the death partners. An engraved, illustrated bill for the Shooter, Bayhorse Wentbridge includes the bill of fare. An index to the approximately 70 accounts appears toward the beginning of this section of the volume, written over pages that had been used by Stopford in the early 1802-1803.

  • Creator: Stopford, Joshua, Reverend.
  • Title: Reverend Stopford album of invoices and receipts, mathematical workbook : printed text and manuscript.
  • Production: Louth, England, 1795-1807, 1787

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 264

Acquired September 2020

Posted in Manuscripts | Tagged Account books, Invoices, Lewis Walpole Library September 2020, Mathematics, Receipts, Schools--Englands, Undertakers and undertaking | Leave a reply

Church records of vestry minutes and accounts

Posted on March 31, 2022 by km55
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These vestry records include costs of burials, tolling the bells, and salaries. In 1734, when these records begin, the decision was made to rebuild the main body of the church as it was considered ‘too dark and mean and incommodious’ to accommodate the town’s growing population and a “Tax for rebuilding the Church” was introduced. In 1730, a workhouse was established in Gainsborough. The vestry appointed “Trustees of the Workhouse” and judging from these records they held considerable financial control. The vestry were responsible for key appointments including overseers of the poor, church wardens, and others. Although overseers of the poor nominated by the vestry were sometimes considered despotic in behaviour, they were tasked with differentiating between the “deserving and undeserving poor” allowing an initially more efficient and generally humane system to operate. Unregulated, the power and responsibilities of the vestries grew with spending accounting for just under a fifth of the national government itself. This continued until 1834, when the Poor Law Amendment Act was introduced to curb the considerable spending on those in poverty, reallocating relief to the workhouses in order to deter applications. Covering a period of over 70 years, these manuscripts provide detailed longitudinal accounts of spending on vestry work, workhouses and overseers of the poor.

 

  • Title: Church records of vestry minutes and accounts : manuscript.
  • Production: Lincolnshire, England, 1734-1808

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 253

Acquired May 2020

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Reverend Stopford album of invoices and receipts…

Posted on March 30, 2022 by km55
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 A bound volume that was used in the late 18th-century probably for instructors in a school to teach mathematical principles, with examples to illustrate the use of these principles and the answers to the questions, including one example with a drawing of a tower. From 1795-1807, Reverend J. Stopford reused the pages to mount receipts for household expenses, income and rent from properties in Louth; he used blank sheets to record expenditures for a variety of expenses and income, letters and accounts related to work in a school and staff to teach students, payments to other church officials, deacons and rectors, a copy of his letter of appointment to the school as well as receipts for the tuition and costs of boarding for his son.

  • Author: Stopford, Joshua, Reverend.
  • Title: Reverend Stopford album of invoices and receipts, mathematical workbook : printed text and manuscript.
  • Production: Louth, England, 1795-1807, 1787

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 264

Acquired September 2020

Posted in Manuscripts | Tagged Account books, Invoices, Lewis Walpole Library September 2020, Louth, Mathematics, Receipts, Schools, Undertakers and undertaking | Leave a reply

Ledgers for Durrant estate of Scottow, Norfolk

Posted on May 13, 2021 by km55
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The first of two extensive manuscript account books from the house, the Day Book records receipts from 22 Sept 1759 (£10,513. 10. 5 1/2) to 1769 (£3820. 5. 1 3/4) and expenses 22 Sept 1759 (£10,341. 6.6.) to 1769 (£3683. 19. 9 1/4), which are laid out at opposite ends of the book. For the decade 1770-1780 they are presented together as following accounts occupying the center of the ledger. Receipts and expenses are carefully balanced and range from the £3,000s to over £10,000 per annum. Receipts include cash in hand, numerous sums from individuals (probably rents), loans (£6000 was borrowed from ‘Mr Ives’ in 1769), stocks and dividends, from Aylsham Navigation, sales of wood and hay, bricks, bequests (£510 was received from Sir Randal Ward, who died in 1762). Expenses include rents (with large payments to Sir William Fleming and to the bankers Messrs Gurney), ‘Bishop’s rents’, ‘wife’ (entered annually as an expense, being £450 in 1780), staff and servants, agricultural labour, produce, gardening, stables, carts and carriages, upkeep of buildings (bricks, glazing, thatching etc), clothing, window tax, charity (including a contribution of £25 to the new Norwich hospital, founded in 1771, another for North Walsham School and occasional payments to various named paupers), medicine, investment (Leeds Navigation was paid £240 in 1771), a fire engine, local clubs, lotteries, clocks and watches and ‘largesses’ for labourers. The Day Book also notes Sir Thomas Durrant’s frequent attendance at local court Sessions and assemblies (with regular visits to Dereham, Swaffham, Norwich, Thetford, Yarmouth, North Walsham, London, but also York and Margate and elsewhere in England). Particularly interesting are detailed day-today living expenses including entries for: theatre, books ([?Thomas] Payne is named as bookseller more than once, while in 1776, £18 9s was paid for books and mathematical instruments), ‘a sheet map of Norfolk’, pictures (in 1774 four were purchased: Repose in Egypt by F[rançois] Mille; Dutch Garden by Apshoven, £7 7s; A Warm Landscape by Swaneveldt £3 7s; a Madonna ‘from Raphael’ £2 5s), visiting grand houses and gardens (Blickling, Hampton Court mentioned among others), pleasure gardens (Ranelagh, Sadler’s Wells), the Royal Academy (in 1770), coffee houses, dinner at Boodles [Pall Mall], inns, racing, ‘japanned card cases’, Wedgwood vases (£7 7s) card playing (winnings and losses entered in the account). Loosely inserted is a single sheet bill for house repairs from one John Green, mason of 21 December 1761, itemising major renovations, bricks, glazed pantiles (a type typical in Norfolk), wood and labor.
The second account book, the Scottow Ledger, contains yearly accounts for named individuals connected with the Scottow estate, either as tenants or as creditors. Numerous local names are found including Harbord, Blofeld and Gurney. Each account usually occupies a double page. The data recorded includes rents and taxes.

 

  • Author: Durrant, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1722-1790.
  • Title: Ledgers for Durrant estate of Scottow, Norfolk : manuscript.
  • Production: Scottow, England, 1759-1815

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 252

Acquired May 2020

Posted in Manuscripts | Tagged Account books, Administration of estates, Lewis Walpole Library May 2020, Manors, Norfolk | Leave a reply

Starks’s account book for 1795

Posted on August 17, 2020 by km55
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see description belowAn account book kept by James Stark Senior, for substantial building work carried out at Ryston Hall, Norfolk, England between September 1795 and September 1798. Ryston Hall, in Norfolk, was built between 1669 and 1692 by the English architect Sir Roger Pratt, 1620-1684. Ryston Hall was remodelled by Sir John Soane in 1787, the work having been commissioned by Edward Roger Pratt, an acquaintance of Soane made on a grand tour; the quantity of bricklaying in these accounts suggest that additions were still being made to the house. In the 36 months covered in this book, Stark charged a total of approximately £1,462.18.7: listings include the number of days worked by a small team of carpenters and bricklayers, together with additional bills from suppliers and extra workers when required. The core team includes three members of the Colcher family, Tibbet, Barrit & Stark. The bricklayer is recorded as Butrice (spelled various ways throughout). Many of the workers, including Butrice, come accompanied with ‘his lad’ or ‘his son’. One record includes ‘Burton'(?) and ‘his daughter’, who worked only one day. In addition to the regular bill for labor and materials, entries include ‘Beeston’s bill for greenhouse £48.10.6’ and ‘Stark‘s bill for greenhouse £57.2.0’.

  • Author: Stark, James.
  • Title: Starks’s account book for 1795 : manuscript.
  • Production: Norfolk, England, 1795-1798.

Catalog Record 

LWL Mss Vol. 248

Acquired June 2019

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Account book recording rental accounts and disbursements

Posted on April 27, 2020 by km55
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Manuscript record of rental accounts and disbursements between 1761 and 1775 for properties in Homerton, the Old South Sea House Estate and Tower Hill, London, owned by William Harvey and his heirs. Included are records of residents on the Old South Sea House estate, which was well-positioned in the City of London, among them being listed Joseph Mellish, Samuel Waldo, John Boissier, Stephen Tessier and Sir John Chapman. There are also a few commercial rents, including a “warehouse & compting house” leased to Mr. [Mark?] Cramer. The costs of the annual maintainence of the properties, including taxes and bills for expenditure on carpentry, bricklaying, glazing and plumbing are recorded in great detail.

  • Author: Harvey, William, 1714-1763.
  • Title: Account book recording rental accounts and disbursements for properties in Homerton, the Old South Sea House Estate, and Tower Hill, 1761-1775 : manuscript.
  • Production: London, 1761-1775.

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 247

Acquired June 2019

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Account of expences on a tour to France, July 14th 1788

Posted on May 13, 2019 by km55
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A manuscript recording the detailed expenses of Mr and Mrs Bradshaw while on a tour and prolonged stay in France before and during the French revolution.

  • Author: Bradshaw, Mr,
  • Title: Account of expences on a tour to France, July 14th 1788 : manuscript.
  • Production: France ; England, 1788 July 13-1793 June 30.

Catalog Record 

LWL Mss Vol. 242

Acquired September 2018

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Accounts book of Roger Pettiward of Putney, 1789-1796

Posted on April 10, 2019 by km55
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manuscript journal

Manuscript ledger of Roger Pettiward for the years 1789-1796, when he was a bachelor in his late 30’s living primarily in Putney. This extensive and detailed ledger offers insight into the necessities and frivolities of an 18th century man-about-town.

  • Author: Pettiward, Roger, 1754-1833, author
  • Title: Roger Pettiward account book, 1789 June 25 -1796 December 31 : manuscript.
  • Production: England, 1789 June 25 -1796 December 31.

Catalog Record 

LWL Mss Vol. 233

Acquired March 2018

Posted in Manuscripts | Tagged Account books, Finance--Personal, Lewis Walpole Library March 2018 | Leave a reply

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