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Adam, Thring & Sheldon: rent due from W H Burt for the Red House
Adamson & Blacklock: cheque received of the Bond over Speddoch
Affleck and Sons: kitchen range
S Arthur, A J Adams, H E Gerrish: leazes
C Austin: offer to let two small pieces of land in Wick Lane
Mrs Austin: tenancy of small field by the railway bridge
E & F Austin: typewriter for Miss Talbot
Mrs Awdry: War Memorial Committee; floor to be repaired
E M Awdry: notice to quit; Vicarial tithe; registration/baptism of Belgian children; housing of working classes
Mrs Silobia Baker: left house empty and owes rent
Frank Banks: clearance of garden, Wick Lane; government requirement to plough 7 acre field; notice to quit garden at Nethercote Hill purchased by Miss H F Gale; notice to quit several pieces of land; possible purcahse of a strip of land
F Banks: repairs at homes of R H Foley, W Hudd, A Beer, J Bird, Walter Baker, Mrs King, John Austin; the Red House, Miss Simco, Mrs Mortimer, Mrs Keem, J Flowers, Thomas Jenkins, Frank Latham, William Collett, Miss Awdry, George Taylor, J Edwards, Miss Simes, A Beer; Miss Estcourt, Henry Fennell, Mr Keen, Frank Crew, Michael Selman, Fred Jones, A Stevens; Mrs James Cole, J Chamberlain, John Chivers, Joseph Chamberlain, W Cowling, W Taylor, W Selfe, W Fox, Fred Banks, Mrs Barnett, Mr Burt, J Edwards, Mrs Reeves, Fred Heath, R Jones, Mrs Eli Webb, Miss E Bath, Mrs Selman, Mark Hood, Miss Awdry, Fred Wheeler, Henry Smart, J Snozzel, John Chivers junr, G Chamberlain, Tim Flower, Mrs G Taylor, Mrs Fred Hunt, W Fortune, Mr Cowling, W Selman, J Ring, R Moore, Miss E A Hunt, R Moore. T Selman, J Horwood, Mrs D Smith, E Brinkworth, Arthur Webb, W Cowlings, Samuel Hunt, Fred Heath, Mrs Baker, J L Croker, Job Elms, Mrs S Baker, Joseph Jones, R Jones, W Selman, H Smart, Miss Warren, W Foden, T Jenkins, T Bath, W Self, W Coleman, Mrs Pullin, Joseph Stevens, E C Hunt, A C Butler, W Farmar, A Stevens, Mrs T Flower, Naish Hill farm, Post Office, Cantax House, W Baker, E Waseland, C Weston, Mrs Pullen, F G Jones, J Webb, Harriet Baker, Mrs Wheeler, Joseph Vines, W Attwood Miss Miller, Lackham Boat House; drinking stone on lower common, Bowden Hill, and the chancel roof; new build of 2 cottages (later occupied by Pullen and Blanchard families).
Representatives of the late F Banks: complaints by tenants of the 2 cottages Banks built; moles "working very much in the field"
Miss M A Banks: notice to quit; repair of work carried out by her father; proposed letting arrangements following her father's death
Walter Banks: repairs; to walls at Raybridge and Whitehall farm, Harry Collett, R Moores, Mrs Wheeler, Thomas Jenkins, Abbey field; Mr Guley proposing to make cheese at Wick farm
The Bath Tramways Co: times of opening of the Abbey
The Bear Hotel, Devizes: opening times for the Abbey
A Beer: moles; clear nettles in Brazier's Close
J Bently Ltd: return of drum of weed killer
Bevir & Sons: difficulty travelling between Lacock and Grittenham
J S Blackford: wooden snow shovels
T H Blanchard: tenancy at Bowden Hill
J Bird: work required on house occupied by E Blanchard, lately occupied by late Mrs Snozell
Mr Bird: purchase of mare by Mr Pocock
William Bird: leaze
Andrew Boa: Naish Hill farm
Rev G H Bode: donation to St Michael's Home for Epileptic Women
Lily Bolwell: the maid who scalded her foot
W L Bown: asking for owner's name of car AM 3825 which caused damage to property
Harold Brakspear: water rate
Mr White and Rupert Bagster: visit by the British Archaelogical Association
The British Linen Company's Bank:
W H Bromley: Affleck range possible remedy for smoking chimneys
Bruton, Knowles & Co: testimonial for W H Self, son of W Self
W M Burridge: account
C J Butler: his grate
John Butler: H Hill, schoolmaster, looking for house to rent
Madame Caesons: access for Mr Collett to his fields through Cantax House
Capital & Counties Bank: overdraft
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F Chadwick: timber
John Chamberlain: clear closet vault; ditch clearance
Channell, Dyer & Gallaway
Miss T Chester: sale of land for a house on the Corsham Road
Alfred Chivers, Percy Hankey: tenancy
F Chivers: agreement to let land in Wick Lane
Christie, Manson & Woods: items for sale
Christophers & Lodder: purchase of 3 cottages and gardens at Cantax Hill
Coborne & Sons: marble chippings for late Mr Talbot's tomb
Mark Coleman: tenancy of cottage
Mrs W Collett and Mr E Bath: called meeing to discuss tenancy of house and garden lately occupied by E Bath
W Collett: offering lease of 2 paddocks at Cantax House
Mrs Collett: notice to quit pasture near Cantax House
Miss Collett, Mr Barr, Mrs M J Walters, L C Glyn, R C Binney, Percy N Northey, Miss Williamson, A Wright, G F Barnes, Mrs Whitfield, F A Lane: interest in renting Cantax House
The Commandant, German Prisoners Camp, Yatesbury: request for manpower for land clearance, mentioning the fields "are some 2 miles from Bowood, the seat of Lord Lansdowne."
The Commercial Union Assurance Co: policy for 2 cottages occupied by Jenkins and Webb; claim by maid who scaled her foot; staff reduced to 4 in gardens, 1 in stables, 2 in house; insurance of a pair of newly-built cottages at the old Turnpike
Controller Timber Supply: Foley short of staff and has been called up for medical re-examination
Mr Cook: seeking a reference for Isaac Booy
J S Corbett, English Forestry Association: wire netting and larch plants
Corsham Waterworks Co: wayleave; high rate for use of one water tap
Cory Bros & Co: platation for sale
W F Courridge
F Coward: house occupied by E Brinkworth
Frank Crew: unable to effect repair to ceiling
R Cripps: Red Lion; requesting knowledge of applicants for manager of the Red Lion, Mr Dawson a likely candidate ; meeting with Capt Winsland to discuss damage at the Red Lion; case against Hopkins; donation to Lacock Club; donation to the Lacock War Memorial Fund
Crockett & Henderson: prospective tenant; not disposing of any property
F Croker: cutting of underwood; thatching; death of his daughter
J N Croker: Nethermore Farm
J W Crook: repair to house not carried out due to lack of labour
Robert Deverall: sale of wood
A E Deverall: value of Spanish chestnut trees
The District Valuer: Manor and New Farms
Henry Dixon & Son: travel to Lacock
A W Doel: leazes and stray cattle on Bowden Common
Downing & Rudman: build a pair of cottages on old turnpike cottages site
W J Dyke: no farm to let
John Edwards: painting at Mr Austin and Miss Hunt's
Mrs Elmes: wall paper for kitchen
Mrs Elworthy, H Hill, Mrs Gale, C Tanner: house to rent
Mr Feltham: offer of lease of Nethermore farm
H J Fisher: wire netting
L E Float: visit by Devizes Secondary school
Miss Foden: continue tenancy
Food Office: rationing; application for sugar for preserving fruit
The Fine Arts & General Insurance: insurance for items (listed) to be sent to Christies
J Fry: leazes on Bowden Common
A Gale: who gave him permission to remove a load of straw
W J A Gale: land to let
L Gardner: water rate on house occupied by William Edmunds
Miss Gilchrist Clark (Miss Talbot): matters concerning the Abbey and the Lacock estate including insurance of Lark House; names mentioned Fox, Mark Hood, Belgian Fund, Bird, Mr and Mrs Fortune, Gaston and Madame Caeseas, John and Henry Austin, William Self; Alford, Brinkworth the baker, Stevens, hedge between Cantax House paddock and field occupied by Eli Latham; matters following the eath of C H Talbot; the Abbey roof; update on Lacock matters whilst she is abroad- submarine menace in the Channel; Foley and Fortune rejected for military service; few visitors to Abbey due to petrol restictions; compulsory ploughing up of 200 acres of pasture in parish -about one half of land sown down since 1872 to be broken up; bad weather affecting harvest; potato disease; distribution of wood to tenants, musings on possible sale of farms and comparison with sale of Hartham estate; sale of Gainsborough picture; Dr Taylor's proposed purchase of field No 266; sale of Whitehall Farm; Royal permission for assumption of new name and coat of arms; problems with insuring items to go to Christies to pay death duties - the sale of paintings was mentioned in the Wiltshire Gazette; stabling of horses for German prisoners of war whilst ploughing in parish; sale of the Red House to Captain Burt; diptheria at Lacock, some deaths; Bird and Fortune do not get on; Foley's argument with Lady Shippard; plague of fleas in Bridge Cottage; finding a room for Fred Heath, shoemaker; Prisoner of War Fund doubled; Wild memorial; her service with the WRNS; receipt of a New Year Honour; death of Wm Self's 2nd son; deaths at Naish Hill due to influenza; her operation; Lackham Estate sold to Lord Glanely; trespass in Inwood, with missing faggots and poles; Dick Hopkins broke leg whilst playing football; Aaron Watson's claim of footpath through Bewley Court yard to be considered by Council; John hall removed to the Union Infirmary; death of Dinah Smith aged 92 yrs; housing shortage; surplus Army huts - possibility re Frank Latham; death of Mrs Beer, The George Inn; piano to Bath; way forward following F Bank's death; John Austin, new premises needed for the doctor's surgery, the Fox family the first applicants for the house on Bowden Hill late Heath's; Herbert Fennell helping Richard Foley, news of the Banks' family; Ring, the blacksmith, had kidney removed; Lacock War Memorial Fund, William Foden taken to the Union Infirmary - his death; a daughter of Jones at Naish Hill, died after being taken to hospital - there is a disabled son; Mr Talbot's and Madame Sanit's graves, death of Edmund Hunt; Mrs Gerrish and Notton farm; tenancy of William Self ; pig and bee keeping; opening hours of the Abbey; agricultual labourer's wages; possible Triple Alliance strike; Queen Anne's Bounty; Choral Society - Mr Hinton elected as conductor, Frank Banks's claim under Agriculural Holding ActsHerbert Fennell appointedfsd Assistant Overseer and Parish Clerk, D M Coffin purchesd Bewley Court; Mr Ramsbottom's pension; the end of a long line of Croker's as farm tenants - leaving the farm in a poor condition; death of John Fry of Raybridge farm, possible donation for a fire engine for Chippenham; slump in milk prices due to milk combines; Mr Ramsbottom's negligence; deaths of Mrs Leaf and George Pullen; young Coleman, invalided due to head wound, attempted suicide; John Austin had a stroke
The Hon Mrs Charles Brand, Lieut A H Wrixon, W N Ledbury and A E A Stackey: discontinuing permits to view the Abbey because of depleted staff.
E S Slade: Mr Rowles has been accepted as tenant at Naish Hill farm; account for underwood from Tacklemore Wood; traction engine knocked over gate post
Mrs Gilchrist Clark: mention of Mrs and Mrs Fortune, Bird, Mrs Taylor, John Austin, Mr Courridge, Mrs Hunter; diptheria at Lacock, some deaths; influenza especially at Bowden Hill, payment of Mrs Selman's rent
W J Guley: move straw; top of tree fallen onto neighbour's land; cottages in Wick Lane; motor garage at Wick Farm
Easton Courtney & Darbishire: water supply at Wick Farm
Henry Dixon & Sons: photograph of Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs Davenport
John Edwards: repairs at houses of Mrs Ring, late Joyce, Mrs Horwood, Col Palmer at Cuckoo Bush farm, Manor farm; repair of cottage previously occupied by Mark Hood; repair to greenhouses
Samuel Elliott: rateable value of Naish Hill farm, last occupied by E S Slade of Ash Hill farm, currently occupied by R M Rowles; various Tithe values
Estate Office, Bowden: supply of potatoes
Miss Estcourt: repairs
A T Farthing: tithes for Halfway farm and the Vicar
J A Fellows: poplar poles
A H Fennell, A Miles: tenancy
A Fennell: unable to be allocated cottage to his son as given to Mr Shields
W S Fletcher: cord-wood; damage to fences at Nethermore Farm
The Forestry Officer: damage to Nethermore Farm
W Forgan: requesting advice dealing with Government agents for timber; shortage of labour
C Fortune: occupation of the Abbey lodge
Miss Fowler: request for Tithes
Mrs Fry: possible quit land for release to immobilised soldiers
F W Leaf: photograph of oil painting portrait of Henry VIII.
H W Leaf and Huntington & Leaf: probate matters; interest payable under W H Fox Talbot's will; death of Mrs Elizabeth Jones, survivor of legatee under Rosamund Talbot's will; to deal with any matters with Lady Shippard; sale of New Farm and Rectorial tithe; sale of Naish Hill farm to Lord Glanely; lease of Naish Hill farm to General Palmer; question over ownership of piece of land No 125 on Ordinance map; purchase of 3 cottages and gardens at Cantax Hill; sale of land to Miss Chester
Lacock Brewery: boundary
Mr Lambert and E H Button: visits to the Abbey
A H Lapham: gravel
E Latham: moles; possible inspection by Government authorities
S Langton: wood
Ledbury Bros and AA Bodman: damage to walls caused by their vehicles
E J Lee: water rates on Holt cottages
A W Long: repairs
The Lowden Brickworks Ltd: supply of pipes
Major Lylsey, Royal Wilts Yeomanry
Captain Mann: earth at Innwood; hounds to Innwood
Mann, Rodway & Green, Chennells, Dyer & Gallaway: sale of 60 & 62 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-Sea
Mr Mason: estate books for audit
E W Maundrell: water-wheel at Wick Farm
The Hon Paul Methuen: outstanding account for vegetables
A Miles: offer to let land in Wick lane, known as Ramsdown
W C Minty; payment of rent and tithe
Roger Money- Kyrle: owner of car AM 3825 which caused damage to gates
Mr Middlemist: clear trees at Inwood
Miss L H Miller: leaving house in High Street
J Mitten: chimney sweep
Mullins & Son: wind-engine, water supply at Wick farm; reservoir
Mr Newman: clearance of cess-pit, renting a house for a workman; Hicks to rent house in High Street and asking if Evans and wife need be evicted at this time of year.
Orchard & Co: timber
A Pardon, A Authonissen: birth certificates for their sons
John Patkins: wayleave for Chippenham Electrical poles
George Pegler, A Miles: tenancy agreement
J R Pinegar: Lackham Estate
Pte T Priest 202080: matters regarding his house whilst he is away and his wife is at Devizes
Prebendary Clark Maxwell: authority to obtain deeds; matters following death of Mrs Elizabeth Jones
Note on the fuel supply at the Abbey
National Bank of Scotland
Col Mozley: state of houses in Lacock, seeking advice on repair or replacement
F Holierness: the Red Lion
Thomas Selman: stable at Whitehall farm; repairs to following: Miss Kettle, Tower House, Nethermore Farm, Fred Heath, Joseph Chamberlain, Fred Wheeler, J Webb, W Foden, E self, Miss E A Hunt, Mre Clifford, R Butler, Wick Farm, James Elmes, Mr Bath, Jackson's cottage, brother's garden at Lover's Lane, Mrs Oram, Mr Attwood, Mr Cowling, F Wheeler, G Taylor,
Ben. Reid & Co: 1300 Japanese larch trees
The Roadstone Supply Company: coarse chips
Parker Pearson, Grittleton Estate Office: land to be sold to Council for housing
Dawson, Bennett & Co: new owners of Halfway farm liable for Tithes
J J Newman: cesspit; removal of willows from river; rabbits at Inwood
J F Ringwood: opening times of the Abbey
Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries: GWR to redeem tithe rent charge
E J Carter Banks & Bennett: Miss Talbot not disposing of any property
J, L & E Pearce: pig shelters
N Pegler:
Sydney Perks: Abbey not open to the public
The People's Refreshment House Association Ltd: the Red Lion; Miss Talbot's input to new manager; local doctor(Hamilton) seeking assurance of his continiued use of the red Lion's coach-house for a garage with appointment of new manager
G E Peto: return of drawings
H B Pitt: galvanised iron
H E Pocock: piece of land abutting the GWR land and approached via field known as "Vicarage"; sale of New Farm; damage to gate post; supply man for re-thatching cottages? horse at the Abbey; posible quit land for immobilised soldier; purchase of New farm
F Hart Porter: cow on footpath damaged a window
Edward Pullen: tenency
Mr Ramsbottom, Lacock Vicarage: Belgian Refugee Fund; school subscription
Mrs Reeves: storage of furniture
R T Rhodes: proposed demolition of James Hillier's house; overcrowding at Joseph Stevens house; drainage work at Cantax House
J S Ring: supply closet buckets, cowls, stoves, various repairs
Risely & Sons: possible compensation for Mr Holley; insurance for items to be sent to Christies and Mme Cassens
Rolfe & Peto: land at Whitecross
G W Rose: advertisement for letting of Cantax House sent to the Daily Telegraph.
Harry Rose: thatching
J S Ring, Mrs Ring, J Butler, C J Butler: agreements for perusal
Miss Rose: Pewsham Prisoners of War fund
W Rose: willing to pay for a man for hegework due to very acute labour shortage
W Ross: reference for Mr Thurgood
R M Rowles: larch trees, E S Slade and F Croker: account for underwood
Mrs Roxburgh: possible sale of land
The Royal Photographic Society: paper negatives
C Sartain: Farm Stock sale; rent due
W Sawyer: to make use of tree fallen onto his land
John W Self: sister, Mrs Blake, living rent free, rent due on house father occupies
William Self: pump and drain pip
Sell's Advertising Agency, R Deverell: black poplar poles for sale
T G Selman: various repairs; offer of field, Dummer's Cockley, to rent
Lady Shippard: The Angel
C Shirley Smith
Captain Herbert Smith: shooting at Inwood
Smith & Marshall: land required by the Council to erect houses for the working classes
J Smithies: concrete blocks
S Spinke: stationary
The Staniard Building Construction Co: concrete housing
Stanford Ltd: Ordnance map
James Stevens: applied for tenancy
Mrs Stewart: interest payable under W H Fox Talbot's will
Surveyor of Taxes: Miss Gilchrist-Clark in Vosges, France, working at a Cantine for French soldiers; land at Cantax House let rent free to the Belgian refugees
Mr Talbot: cheque; plaster fallen off back of E Brinkworth's house; Lady Shippard's house; E Collett and Gale applying to rent Cantax House paddock
Walter Henry Tayler; agreement bewteen the late Mr Talbot and Mr Banks; dilapidations to house at Church Street
W Tayler & Sons: coke
Taylor & Sons: sale of larch timber, Foley mentions he's working single-handed
T W Tazewell: company's ditches causing waterlogging on Mr Guley's land
Teagle & Sons: sale of timber
Mr Terrell: hospital treatment for Private Coleman; housing subsidy
Rev J L Thorold: tithe payments
Mr Tilke: problems with a windmill to pump wat
Tilley, Parry & Co: careless removal of Nethermore timber by purchaser; sale of furniture
W Trotman, Howes Esq: valuation of New Farm
T A Trotman: to photograph an oil painting
Trowbridge Water Company: increased charge for fields in Hilperton Road, Trowbridge
Harold W Waller
Ward Soames: Tithe payable by Lord Methuen
Lt Cdr Watkins RN: the Red House
H J Watson: provide bedroom paper
Mr Wauton: stonework at site of old turnpike cottage
A West: catering for 225 people
A J Whitemore, A M Slade, F G Hughes: Nethermore farm for let
Mrs Wheeler: bedroom paper and painting of front door
Mr G A H White: Mr Talbot taken ill and declining fast; matters following death of C H Talbot including tenants with outstanding rents, mention made of Hillier, a very old man who cannot read or write; old Mrs Jones of West Street
A W White: underwood
W Wilkes: fire insurance
Edmund Wilkins: matters following death of Mrs Elizabeth Jones
Mr Wilkins: possible letting of land currently occupied by Mr Austin
Mrs Williamson: Miss Talbot's donation to the Wiltshire Red Cross Society
C Wiltshire: repairs at Miss Estcourt, E Tayler, late Frank Banks, Henry Dan Webb, George Webb, G Heath, A Beer, Mark Coleman, James Stevens, Mrs Barnett, W Edmonds; John Chamberlain, Walter Bakers, E Brinkworth's stables, R Moore, Manor Farm, the Red Lion (after settlement by War Department), pond at Wick farm, Mr Guley, Miss Awdry, Mr Pocock, Bewley & Bowden Common, the Abbey yew tree; account for wood gates between the 2 gardens at the Abbey.
Captain Winsland, Officer Commanding 497 M T Co. A S C, Lt Pugh and Capt H L Piggott : damage to wall at Notton crossroads and walls and gatepost at the Red Lion
Dr Wood, Corsham
W N Ledbury, West Wilts Working Men's C B Society: certificate for Lily Bolwell
J A Fellows: poplar poles
A H Fennell, A Miles: tenancy
A Fennell: unable to be allocated cottage to his son as given to Mr Shields
The Forestry Officer: damage to Nethermore Farm
W Forgan: requesting advice dealing with Government agents for timber; shortage of labour
C Fortune: occupation of the Abbey lodge
Miss Fowler: request for Tithes
Mrs Fry: possible quit land for release to immobilised soldiers
L Gardner: remedy of smoking chimneys at new cottages; "New Victor" range for New Cottages; work regarding estate of Mr F Banks
Mr George: visit by the Workers' Educational Association -reduced rates for parties
Dudley Giles: larch and spruce plantations
Mr Gladstone:
Lord Glanely: providing a siding at Lacock Halt
Rev C R Gott: details of the Living of Lacock; accomodation for his gardener, possibly with Miss Foden
H Goodway: leazes on Bewley & Bowden Commons
J C Goodwin: cattle on Bowden Common
Mr Goodwin: Foley acting as Steward to the Court Leet with no remuneration
Gowen & Stevens: problems with water inhouse
Mrs Granville: discusses matters on the house she is to rent; fumigation
Percy Gregory: trees at Nethermore
Greyhound Motors Ltd: amount due from visitors to the Abbey
Great Western Railway: tithe
S F Haines: visit to the Abbey
William Hall: re his relative John Hall, blind and incapable of looking after himself
G Halliday: He, his wife and 3 children living in a cow shed in Wick Lane because they cannot obtain a house. consequently offered cottage at Bowden Hill, due for demolition; garden; mentions James Hillier, Mrs Elm, T Martin
Mr Halliday: plot of land on Nethercote Hill he can have rent free for a year to clear and work it.
C H Harris: visit to the Abbey
Dr Hamilton: rent Bridge Cottage
Basil Hankey: estate of the late E A Hankey, cottages occupied by Mrs Leek and Miss Bursonk
William Hann: Cantax House; various stiles; S Fortune, J Murray, E Self, R Jones, T Flower, Miss Hunt, sawing up yew tree
Mrs Harris: Mark Hood's house to be occupied by James Webb
Dr A D Hamilton: install a telephone at The Corner House
H F Hands: cottages at top Cantax Hill
E A Hankey: rent and tenancy
Mrs Hay: Belgian child not registered; interest payable under W H Fox Talbot's will; Miss Talbot's operation
C Hayter: stable clothes
A E Hicks
Mr Hill
E Hopkins: possible sale of land for a house on the Melksham Road
John Horwood: Foley will give first consideration to ex-service applicants for houses
W T Howes: dispute with GWR over piece of land; value of timber
W J Hull: The Lark's House
Mr Hunt: repair of roof
Thomas Jenkins: given notice to quit garden
F G Jones: repairs to homes of: Alfred Chivers, C E Cole, Mrs Bath, E Brinkworth, Joseph Chamberlain, J Newman, L Bird, Mrs James Coles, Miss Foden, Whitehall farm, J Jones: high charge for horse, man and cart, horses damaged hunting gate
W K Joyce: to pay rent promptly or give up the houseF G Jones: repairs to homes of: Alfred Chivers, C E Cole, Mrs bath, E brinkworth, Joseph Chamberlain, J Newman, L Bird, Mrs James Coles, Miss Foden, Whitehall farm
Mrs Jones: land for her son with mention of Albert Chivers and his brother Edward
J Jones: high charge for horse, man and cart, horses damaged hunting gate
W K Joyce: to pay rent promptly or give up the house
W R Joyce, Lady Shippard, W Hudd, James Hillier,W Spackman, W Hudd, S Taylor, R Moore, Mr Rose, Rowland Hulbert, Mrs Musty, A A Bodman, Joseph Stevens, Mrs Gough, J Bird: rent due
Mrs A Keen: removing fixtures
H J Knee & Co: offering for sale a long gallery carpet; packing of oil painting for London; paraffin wax for worm holes
F W Leaf: photograph of oil painting portrait of Henry VIII.
H W Leaf and Huntington & Leaf: probate matters; interest payable under W H Fox Talbot's will; death of Mrs Elizabeth Jones, survivor of legatee under Rosamund Talbot's will; to deal with any matters with Lady Shippard; sale of New Farm and Rectorial tithe; sale of Naish Hill farm to Lord Glanely; lease of Naish Hill farm to General Palmer; question over ownership of piece of land No 125 on Ordinance map; purchase of 3 cottages and gardens at Cantax Hill; sale of land to Miss Chester
Lacock Brewery: boundary
Mr Lambert and E H Button: visits to the Abbey
A H Lapham: gravel
E Latham: moles; possible inspection by Government authorities
S Langton: wood
Ledbury Bros and AA Bodman: damage to walls caused by their vehicles
E J Lee: water rates on Holt cottages
A W Long: repairs
The Lowden Brickworks Ltd: supply of pipes
Major Lylsey, Royal Wilts Yeomanry
Captain Mann: earth at Innwood; hounds to Innwood
Mann, Rodway & Green, Chennells, Dyer & Gallaway: sale of 60 & 62 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-Sea
Mr Mason: estate books for audit
E W Maundrell: water-wheel at Wick Farm
The Hon Paul Methuen: outstanding account for vegetables
A Miles: offer to let land in Wick lane, known as Ramsdown
W C Minty; payment of rent and tithe
Roger Money- Kyrle: owner of car AM 3825 which caused damage to gates
Mr Middlemist: clear trees at Inwood
J Mitten: chimney sweep
Mullins & Son: wind-engine, water supply at Wick farm; reservoir
Mr Newman: clearance of cess-pit, renting a house for a workman; Hicks to rent house in High Street and asking if Evans and wife need be evicted at this time of year.
Orchard & Co: timber
A Pardon, A Authonissen: birth certificates for their sons
John Patkins: wayleave for Chippenham Electrical poles
George Pegler, A Miles: tenancy agreement
J R Pinegar: Lackham Estate
Pte T Priest 202080: matters regarding his house whilst he is away and his wife is at Devizes
Prebendary Clark Maxwell: authority to obtain deeds; matters following death of Mrs Elizabeth Jones
Note on the fuel supply at the Abbey
National Bank of Scotland
Col Mozley: state of houses in Lacock, seeking advice on repair or replacement
F Holierness: the Red Lion
Thomas Selman: stable at Whitehall farm; repairs to following: Miss Kettle, Tower House, Nethermore Farm, Fred Heath, Joseph Chamberlain, Fred Wheeler, J Webb, W Foden, E self, Miss E A Hunt, Mre Clifford, R Butler, Wick Farm, James Elmes, Mr Bath, Jackson's cottage, brother's garden at Lover's Lane, Mrs Oram, Mr Attwood, Mr Cowling, F Wheeler, G Taylor,
W S Fletcher: cord-wood; damage to fences at Nethermore Farm
Ben. Reid & Co: 1300 Japanese larch trees
The Roadstone Supply Company: coarse chips
Parker Pearson, Grittleton Estate Office: land to be sold to Council for housing
Dawson, Bennett & Co: new owners of Halfway farm liable for Tithes
J J Newman: cesspit; removal of willows from river; rabbits at Inwood
J F Ringwood: opening times of the Abbey
Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries: GWR to redeem tithe rent charge
Miss L H Miller: leaving house in High Street
E J Carter Banks & Bennett: Miss Talbot not disposing of any property
J, L & E Pearce: pig shelters
N Pegler:
Sydney Perks: Abbey not open to the public
The People's Refreshment House Association Ltd: the Red Lion; Miss Talbot's input to new manager; local doctor(Hamilton) seeking assurance of his continiued use of the red Lion's coach-house for a garage with appointment of new manager
G E Peto: return of drawings
H B Pitt: galvanised iron
H E Pocock: piece of land abutting the GWR land and approached via field known as "Vicarage"; sale of New Farm; damage to gate post; supply man for re-thatching cottages? horse at the Abbey; posible quit land for immobilised soldier; purchase of New farm
F Hart Porter: cow on footpath damaged a window
Edward Pullen: tenency
Mr Ramsbottom, Lacock Vicarage: Belgian Refugee Fund; school subscription
Mrs Reeves: storage of furniture
R T Rhodes: proposed demolition of James Hillier's house; overcrowding at Joseph Stevens house; drainage work at Cantax House
J S Ring: supply closet buckets, cowls, stoves, various repairs
Risely & Sons: possible compensation for Mr Holley; insurance for items to be sent to Christies and Mme Cassens
Rolfe & Peto: land at Whitecross
G W Rose: advertisement for letting of Cantax House sent to the Daily Telegraph.
Harry Rose: thatching
J S Ring, Mrs Ring, J Butler, C J Butler: agreements for perusal
Miss Rose: Pewsham Prisoners of War fund
W Rose: willing to pay for a man for hegework due to very acute labour shortage
W Ross: reference for Mr Thurgood
R M Rowles: larch trees, E S Slade and F Croker: account for underwood
Mrs Roxburgh: possible sale of land
The Royal Photographic Society: paper negatives
C Sartain: Farm Stock sale; rent due
W Sawyer: to make use of tree fallen onto his land
John W Self: sister, Mrs Blake, living rent free, rent due on house father occupies
William Self: pump and drain pip
Sell's Advertising Agency, R Deverell: black poplar poles for sale
T G Selman: various repairs; offer of field, Dummer's Cockley, to rent
Lady Shippard: The Angel
C Shirley Smith
Captain Herbert Smith: shooting at Inwood
Smith & Marshall: land required by the Council to erect houses for the working classes
J Smithies: concrete blocks
S Spinke: stationary
The Staniard Building Construction Co: concrete housing
Stanford Ltd: Ordnance map
James Stevens: applied for tenancy
Mrs Stewart: interest payable under W H Fox Talbot's will
Surveyor of Taxes: Miss Gilchrist-Clark in Vosges, France, working at a Cantine for French soldiers; land at Cantax House let rent free to the Belgian refugees
Mr Talbot: cheque; plaster fallen off back of E Brinkworth's house; Lady Shippard's house; E Collett and Gale applying to rent Cantax House paddock
Walter Henry Tayler; agreement bewteen the late Mr Talbot and Mr Banks; dilapidations to house at Church Street
W Tayler & Sons: coke
Taylor & Sons: sale of larch timber, Foley mentions he's working single-handed
T W Tazewell: company's ditches causing waterlogging on Mr Guley's land
Teagle & Sons: sale of timber
Mr Terrell: hospital treatment for Private Coleman; housing subsidy
Rev J L Thorold: tithe payments
Mr Tilke: problems with a windmill to pump wat
Tilley, Parry & Co: careless removal of Nethermore timber by purchaser; sale of furniture
W Trotman, Howes Esq: valuation of New Farm
T A Trotman: to photograph an oil painting
Trowbridge Water Company: increased charge for fields in Hilperton Road, Trowbridge
Harold W Waller
Ward Soames: Tithe payable by Lord Methuen
Lt Cdr Watkins RN: the Red House
H J Watson: provide bedroom paper
Mr Wauton: stonework at site of old turnpike cottage
A West: catering for 225 people
A J Whitemore, A M Slade, F G Hughes: Nethermore farm for let
Mrs Wheeler: bedroom paper and painting of front door
Mr G A H White: Mr Talbot taken ill and declining fast; matters following death of C H Talbot including tenants with outstanding rents, mention made of Hillier, a very old man who cannot read or write; old Mrs Jones of West Street
A W White: underwood
W Wilkes: fire insurance
Edmund Wilkins: matters following death of Mrs Elizabeth Jones
Mr Wilkins: possible letting of land currently occupied by Mr Austin
Mrs Williamson: Miss Talbot's donation to the Wiltshire Red Cross Society
C Wiltshire: repairs at Miss Estcourt, E Tayler, late Frank Banks, Henry Dan Webb, George Webb, G Heath, A Beer, Mark Coleman, James Stevens, Mrs Barnett, W Edmonds; John Chamberlain, Walter Bakers, E Brinkworth's stables, R Moore, Manor Farm, the Red Lion (after settlement by War Department), pond at Wick farm, Mr Guley, Miss Awdry, Mr Pocock, Bewley & Bowden Common, the Abbey yew tree; account for wood gates between the 2 gardens at the Abbey.
Captain Winsland, Officer Commanding 497 M T Co. A S C, Lt Pugh and Capt H L Piggott : damage to wall at Notton crossroads and walls and gatepost at the Red Lion
Dr Wood, Corsham
W N Ledbury, West Wilts Working Men's C B Society: certificate for Lily Bolwell
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