Description | 1. Bundle of credit receipts: a. Receipt from Coutts & Co for a draft for the credit of Ela Talbot. b. Receipt from Coutts & Co for a draft for the credit of Rosamond Talbot. c. Receipts from the British Linen Company bank for cheques for the credit of Mrs Gilchrist-Clark (2). d. Receipt from Coutts & Co for cheques for the credit of Ela and Rosamond Talbot.
2. 26 Mar 1888 Letter from Thomas Holloway, valuer and surveyor, regarding James Stevens' bills and suspicious lengths of time he has taken to do work; includes a receipted bill from James Stevens for thatching work on cottages. 3. Receipt from John Mitchell for income tax, inhabited house duty and land tax for Bromham. 4. Receipted bill from William Gardener, ironmonger, for a manger rack and grate at Reybridge Cottage. 5. Receipted bill from Frederick and Hester Banks for masonry work to various estate cottages, lime, cement and dirt provided (2). 6. Receipted bill from Frederick and Hester Banks for haulage of goods and rubbish for the estate (2). 7. Receipted bill from Frederick and Hester Banks for goods and works at the Abbey including providing lime, rebuilding a garden wall and cleaning walls and chimneys (2). 8. Receipts from John Austin for income tax, inhabited house duty and land tax for cottages, farms and Lacock Abbey (3). 9. Receipted bill from James Tayler for coal to Tower House and hauling faggots. 10. Receipted bills from James Tayler for straw for thatching, with 2 receipts from the Corsham Weighing Engine (2). 11. Receipted bills from John and James Morrill for tiling and plastering work to various estate cottages (3). 12. Receipted bill from Jane Pitt for drain pipes. 13. Receipt from E C Pelgrave for tithe rent charge for Bromham due to Reverend Edward Bettinson Edgell. 14. Receipt from Thomas Lewis for income tax, inhabited house duty and land tax for Pewsham woods and farms (3). 15. Receipts from Thomas Lewis for poor rate (2). 16. Receipted bills from J & J Morrill for repairing, cleaning and tiling work at Lacock Abbey (2). 17. Receipted bill from Henry Henly for pipes. 18. Receipted bill from Thomas Turner for pipes. 19. Receipted bill from Thomas Holloway for drainage of Yardley Hill at Wick Farm. 20. Receipted bill from Thomas Holloway for salary. 21. Receipted bills from M Ring for blacksmith goods provided for manor properties (2). 22. Receipted bills from Joseph Phelps for frames, gates, posts and other items for manor properties (2). 23. Receipts from the West of England Fire and Life Insurance Office, Exeter, for fire insurance (5). 24. Receipts from Thomas Holloway (5). 25. Receipted bills from W F Cannon of the Red Lion for audit expenses (2). 26. Receipt from Messrs Awdry for tithe rent charge due to P H Desvignes. 27. Receipts from John Austin for poor rate on Reybridge Orchard, leazes, cottages, garden and stores, and Lacock Abbey (10). 28. Receipted notices from W, J & D Awdry for tithe rent charge due to Reverend John Paley (2). 29. Receipt from F Colbourne to Mr Fry for whitewashing. 30. Receipts from West Awdry for interest due to the trustees of the late Reverend T A Clarke (2). 31. Receipted bills from Thomas Holloway for work on a new road (includes a receipted bill from Robert Smith for the contractors' work), making a survey and map of Inlands or Whitehall Farm, consultations on work, surveying the Corsham Road allotments, marking elm trees to be cut on the estate, meeting workers for measuring and advice, and journeys, and various other work. 32. Receipts from Frederick and Hester Banks (8). 33. Receipted bill from James Fortune for works and goods at the Abbey including repairing pipes and taps, and cleaning a fire engine pump. 34. Receipted bill from James Fortune for works and goods to the cottages including making and repairing windows and painting. 35. Receipted bill from James Fortune for works in the garden. 36. Receipted bill from Joseph Phelps for blacksmith work at Lacock Abbey. 37. Note by Thomas Holloway of money due to the estate from money received of Mr Harris. 38. Receipt from Richard Kettle. 39. Receipted bill from M Ring for shoeing. 40. Receipted bill from Samuel Spinke for bookbinding. 41. Receipt from George Webb for income tax, inhabited house duty and land tax. |