Description | 1. Receipt from Coutts & Co for Rosamond Talbot for part of a cheque. 2. Receipt from Coutts & Co for Ela Talbot for part of a cheque. 3. Receipts from the British Linen Company Bank for cheques for the credit of Mrs Gilchrist-Clark (2). 4. Receipt from Coutts & Co for Ela Talbot for part of a draft. 5. Receipts from the Capital and Counties Bank for cheques for the credit of Charles Henry Talbot (2). 6. Receipt from Coutts & Co for Rosamond Talbot for part of a draft. 7. Bills, two receipted, from Joseph Phelps for work at abbey and cottages including an iron bridge at Mr Crisps' and work at the Red Lion (3). 8. Receipted bills from James Fortune for work at abbey and fields including fixing windows and pipe repairs in fields, work on the galvanized receiving tank and the water tanks that supply the village (3). 9. Receipted bills from James Fortune for work in the garden including work to the large conservatory, and painting (3). 10. Confirmations by Thomas Holloway of required payment to James Stevens for thatching work, with receipts from James Stevens (4). 11. Receipted bills from J & J Morrill for tiling, plastering and whitewashing work at various farm houses and cottages including work at Mrs Banks the grocer's, Mrs Wheeler the baker's and at the schoolroom (2). 12. Receipted bills from J & J Morrill for work at the abbey including repairing Duchess slates and eaves, and painting maids' rooms and larders (2). 13. Receipts from Thomas Lewis for poor rate (2). 14. Receipt from Thomas Lewis for income tax, inhabited house duty and land tax for woods and Nethermore and Naish Hill farms (3). 15. Receipts from Thomas Holloway for salary (4). 16. Receipt from E C Pelgrave to Nicholas Croker for tithe rent charge for the parish of Bromham due to Reverend E B Edgell. 17. Receipted bills from James Tayler for straw, one with a receipt from the Corsham Weighing Engine (2). 18. Receipted bill from James Tayler to Thomas Holloway for hauling and repairing a road in the allotment field. 19. Receipted bills from James Fortune for work on manor propeties including papering and painting, and work to John Gale's shop, casements for glass, repairing lead lights and painting work (3). 20. Receipt from James Stevens. 21. Receipts from John Austin for income tax, inhabited house duty and land tax for farms, Lacock Abbey and cottages (3). 22. Receipted bills from F & H Banks for masonry work on estate cottages, including Tower House, repairs to estate cottages, farms and the abbey, including building brick walls and paving. Abstract at back of one bill lists places work undertaken including Tuckers China Shop and building a bridge at Dr Crisp's. 23. Receipt from Jabez Slade to James Fry for payment for catching moles. 24. Receipt from John Mitchell for land tax. 25. Receipted notice from W, J & D Awdry for tithe rent charge due to Reverend John Paley. 26. Receipted bills from Mrs Ring for work to estate farms and cottages including gate irons, chimney plates and hooks and nails, mostly for New Farm and the Red Lion (2). 27. Receipts from the West of England Fire & Life Insurance Office for fire insurance for Wick Farm, Inlands Farm, Abbey Farm, the Red Lion, New Farm, Naish Hill Farm, Nethermore Farm, cottages, Old Vicarage, Hester Banks' house and Lacock Abbey (11). 28. Receipted notice from W, J & D Awdry for tithe rent charge due to P H Desvignes. 29. Receipts from W & J W Awdry for interest (2). 30. Receipt from John Gale. 31. Receipted bills from F & H Banks for hauling rubbish, clay and stone (2). 32. Receipts from John Austin for poor rate on stores, cottages and Lacock Abbey (6). 33. Confirmation from Thomas Holloway of required payment to Susan Pegler for lighting fires and airing Reybridge Cottage, with receipt from Susan Pegler. 34. Receipted bills from W F Cannon at the Red Lion for lunch, dinners, wine, soda water and horses (2). 35. Receipts from Frederick and Hester Banks (5). 36. Receipt from W, J & D Awdry for tithe rent charge due to Reverend John Paley. 36. Receipted bill from William Light for brass casement fasteners. |