| Description | William Higgins, 1780-1781:
1. State of Reverend Doctor Davenport's accounts at Bredon at Christmas. Includes account from John Parsons to Reverend Doctor Davenport; account from Thomas Berrington to Reverend Doctor Davenport; receipt to Reverend Doctor Davenport from Thomas Berrington.
2. Receipted bill and receipt from Elizabeth Pound for unknown items.
3. Receipted bills from John Wilkins for repairs to walls and drains (2), Thomas Spencer for meat, Randall Bird for bricks, and Paul Berrington for wages.
4. Bills to Reverend Doctor Davenport and Mrs Davenport from Thomas Higgins.
5. Note to Mr Higgins from John Darke to pay a bill for Reverend Doctor Davenport.
6. Receipts from Thomas Banks for taxes.
7. Bill from Matthew Milton to William Higgins for troughs and planks for stables.
8. Receipts from William Dudfield and Samuel Dudfield, collectors, for land tax (2).
9. Receipt from John Wilkins.
10. Receipt from Samuel Dudfield, constable, for quarter rates for freehold and copyhold estates, and Bredon rectory.
Thomas Berrington, 1779-1781:
11. Thomas Berrington's accounts of money received and disbursements (used as wrapper).
12. Letter from Mary Johnson.
13. Receipts from John Parsons (2).
14. State of account between John Parsons and Thomas Berrington with Mrs Davenport.
15. Receipted bills from Ralph Sheward for work at Bredon rectory and garden, Abraham Byrch for carriage, Charles Rickards for making and mending various household items, gates, sawing and other work, Benjamin Farmer for making heads and cleaning casks, John Wilkins for repairs at the rectory, Thomas Beale for malt, Mrs S Williams for fabric and clothes, Thomas Silvester for making clothes, John Child for soap, Thomas Makeman for carpet, Randall Bird for bricks, John Hazard for making a stable frock, Paul Berrington for gardening, Thomas Berrington for mats, Thomas Jackson for baskets, George Diaper for thatching, William Milton for bricks, William Wilkins for carriage, Esther Athrelpho for schooling, William Ricketts for lime, Robert Miles, John Wilkins, John Fryzer, and unknown for nails.
16. Measure of elm trees at Grove Close in Norton by Thomas Berrington, with a bill for board and plank.
17. Receipt from Thomas Berrington for collecting rents.
18. List of linen left in the care of Mrs Sarah Berrington at Bredon to wash; and receipted account from the creditors of the late Sarah Berrington to Mrs Davenport.
19. Bill from Joseph Peart for land tax paid, with receipt for land tax from William Dudfield and Samuel Dudfield, collectors.
Thomas Berrington, 1783-1785:
20. Receipt from Martha Davenport to Joseph Wilks.
21. Receipt from manor of Bredon to Reverend Doctor Davenport's heirs for chief rent.
22. Receipted bills from Thomas Johns for slating of Bredon rectory and other work, Thomas Berrington for expenses to Worcester and Lacock, collecting rents and salary (2) and William Clarke for improvements to Bredon church.
23. Receipts from John Pearkes for window tax, Richard Biggs for annuity, William Sowley for chief rent for Silk's, Thomas Berrington for tithe for freehold meadows, William Wilkes, overseer, for poor rate (2), Benjamin Johnson and Mary Johnson for interest, William Higgins and Thomas Berrington, collectors, for land tax for Bredon, Ann Martin for interest, and John Willetts and Joseph Davis, collectors, for land tax for Bredon (2).
William Higgins, 1781-1782:
24. Settled account from William Higgins to Mrs Davenport (used as wrapper).
25. Receipt from John Fox to Thomas Berrington.
26. Receipts from William Dudfield and Samuel Dudfield for land tax (2).
27. Bill from William Wilkins to Mr Peart for stone.
28. Receipted bills from John Wilkins for days worked.
29. Receipt from Thomas Sowley for chief rent for freehold land at Norton.
30. Receipt from J Frone for chief rent for the manor of Bredon.
31. Undated letter to Mrs Davenport from Thomas Berrington about estate affairs, including a state of accounts.
32. Receipt from George Rickards for poor rate for Bredon.
33. Receipt from Thomas Sowley and Joseph Davis for land tax.
34. Receipt from William Ricketts for poor rate.
35. Receipt from Joseph Davis and John Willets for land tax.
36. Receipted bill from Charles Rickards for making pails.
37. Receipted bill from George Diaper for thatching.
38. 1783 Thomas Berrington's account of receipts and disbursements for Bredon for Mrs Davenport.
39. 1784 Thomas Berrington's state of accounts at Bredon for Mrs Davenport.
40. 1768 Rent roll for Bredon. |