| Description | These documents were formerly in five packets, labelled as follows:
Sundry / Bills of / Parcels / 1793
Gardeners / Bill’s &c &c / 1793
M Bank Hill / Sundry Accts / pd on said Acct
Miss Mynd’s / receipts / 1793
Mr Toyes / Acct of Carriage / Settled up to / Octr 8 – 1793 / £13. 18–
They are now arranged in five corresponding sequences, as follows:
Sundry Bills of Parcels. (1-34)
Gardener’s Bills. (35-86)
Bills on Money Bag Hill Account. (87-98)
Miss Mynd’s Receipts. (99-112)
Mr. Toye’s Account of Carriage, settled up to 12 Oct. 1793. (113)
The original wrappers have now been removed and gathered together at the end of the file (114).
The Gardener’s Bills are weekly bills submitted every Saturday by John Smith, the gardener. They are mainly for workers’ wages for work done in the gardens, the common, the meadows, and the new enclosed land. The gardener himself was paid quarterly. The principal workers on the gardens in this year were Edward Bradbury and James Pitchford.
Miss Mynd’s Receipts are receipts for money paid to her for housekeeping expenses; see the corresponding entries in the Housekeeper’s Books.
The bills were not originally numbered. The page numbers in the following List refer to the corresponding entries in the Household Cash Book. |