| Description | 1. West Awdry's account book 1841 listing tenants' names and their estates, rent paid and arrears remaining. Includes Henry Vennelle, house burnt down and the land let to William Brinkworth. Second part of book moves to owners and occupiers including Lord Methuen. End of book covers taxes, casual receipts and disbursements. Concludes with grubbing and planting at Nash Hill and Nethermore.
2. Receipt from North Wiltshire Bank for a cheque to the credit of Mrs Talbot.
3. Receipted bill from West Awdry for solicitor's work including agreements on cottage rentals, a warrant of distress for rent arrears on George Knott, a trespassing notice on Thomas Selman, George Selman, John Weston and John Bryant, Mr Stevens' notice to quit his house and garden due to rent arrears and disputes arising between Carey and Banks with a notice to quit Manor Yard, a journey to Lacock to take declaration as Master Extraordiner in Chancery, the insolvency of Messrs Hammersly and resolving payment of dividends (2).
4. Bill and receipt, and a receipted bill from W Heale & Son for fruit trees and seeds, including nectarine, peach, cherry, cardoons and salsify, and larch trees (2).
5. Account of timber sold to John Gale including elm, oak and ash, with receipt.
6. Account of wood sold from Nethermore to Charles Hunt, Joseph Prosser, John Butcher and William Hays.
7. Receipt from Coutts & Co for money to be placed in the account of William Henry Fox Talbot from Messrs Williams & Co.
8. Receipt from Hughes, Locke, Olivier & Saunders for money to be placed in the account of William Henry Fox Talbot.
9. Receipt from Messrs Stillwell & Sons for a letter and enclosed draft from Wilts & Dorset Banking Company for £300 to be placed in Lady Elisabeth Feilding's account.
10. Receipted bill from T Cullis for repairing a well bucket.
11. Receipted bill from J J Brinkworth for brooms.
12. Receipted bill from David Clarke for straw.
13. Bill from John Humphreys for grubbing and planting at Nethermore and other places.
14. Receipt from unknown for highway rate.
15. Receipted bill from Charles Banks for a new ditch.
16. Bill and receipt from John Gale junior for new box with slide for camera obscura: water tray, board to place in a chair with hole for the head, contrivance for dipping paper, frames for drying paper, deal box for mahogany framed board, repairing young ladies' toys, stand for drying decanters, rustic seals for young ladies, fitting up a packing case for drawing apparatus, drawing frames with boards covered with flannel and holland, new paper boxes, 2 troughs, box lined with baize, alterations to the other boxes, packing cases for the whole, joint legs and fixing to camera obscura and two poles for supporting background.
17. Receipted bill from H E Carrington, Bath Chronicle for an advertisement to let Reybridge Cottage.
18. Receipted bills from James Blackham for work around woods, putting up notices on church doors of parishes adjoining Lacock to give notice of the perambulation of the boundaries of the parish of Lacock, collecting jurymen for court, working on the fire engine, measuring and giving notice of rent of potato land, hay making, rick making, hauling and work on water pipes (3).
19. Bill and receipt, and a receipted bill from Isaac Fortune for new leading for lights and pump buckets, cleaning glass and other work for manor properties (4).
20. Receipt from Mr Elzie for payment for a bell.
21. Note from C Talbot (probably Constance) to unknown concerning accounts forwarded.
22. Receipted bill from A Sloan for audit charges, dinners, wine, horse and grogs for tenants, and a court dinner of punch, tobacco and a waiting charge.
23. Receipted bill from Joseph Laws for a load of manure and dinner for a man and boy.
24. Receipt from D Sargent for highway rate.
25. Receipt from the West of England Insurance Company, Exeter for fire insurance.
26. Receipts from James Mundy for payment for revising the valuation of Wick Farm and valuation of Abbey Farm (2).
27. Receipted bill from George Simpson of the Gazette & Herald, Devizes, for advertising Reybridge Cottage.
28. Receipt from Thomas Moore for subscription to the Lacock Prosecution Society.
29. Receipted bill from the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette for advertising Reybridge Cottage.
30. Bill and receipt from Job Elms for thatching work to various cottages.
31. Receipted bill from George Banks for building walls and fixing a smoke jack at Lacock Abbey.
32. Bill and receipt from George Banks for repair works to various estate cottages, paving and drains.
33. Receipted bill from William Stiles for repairing gates at Wick Farm.
34. Receipts from A Sloan for poor rate.
35. Receipted bill from B Ring for work at estate cottages, stays and nails, latches and horse shoes, and shoes for a donkey, and work at the abbey.
36. Receipted bill from Isaac Fortune for work at the abbey, repairing glass, cleaning windows and painting the dining room.
37. Receipt from J J Blanchard for highway rate.
38. Receipted bills from Thomas Moore for assessed taxes.
39. Bills and receipts, and a receipted bill from George Carey for work at the abbey and cottages including cleaning and oiling an iron chimney in the nursery, repairing tiles and drains, dusting the chancel, fixing an iron chimney in Amelina Petit's room, a chimney in Mrs Talbot's room and clearing snow on 15 Jan 1841 (3).
40. Receipt from George Crook for poor rate.
41. Receipt for a year's subscription to Chippenham Literary & Scientific Institution.
42. Receipt from John Stone to Mrs Crocker for land tax.
43. Receipted bill from John Phelps for work in the garden including a grate for the hothouse and mending of tools.
44. Bill and receipt from H G Awdry for tithe rent charge due to Reverend Paley.
45. Receipted bill from Richard Knott for straw.
46. Receipted bill from J Walters for rhubarb roots.
47. Receipted bill from John Gale junior for work in the garden, repairing a cucumber box of lights and various tools.
48. Receipted bill from John Humphries for turnpike and booking.
49. Receipted bill from William Mitchell for a load of stone at Mr Curnick's farm.
50. Receipt from H G Awdry for Fussell's rent charge due to Reverend Paley.
51. Receipt from James Hull for poor rate.
52. Receipted bill from Isaac Fussell for church rate.
53. Receipted bill from George Carey for digging work at Nethermore before planting trees.
54. Account book and receipt from John Gale junior for work on estate farms and cottages, including fixing doors, floor boards at the Red Lion Inn and the old workhouse. |