| Description | (This notebook actually includes notes of expenses for journeys taken up to 1823)
Recording:
May-June 1815
20 May 1815: Soho-London via Hockley [Heath], Stratford [upon Avon], Shipston [on Stour], Chapelhouse,Woodstock, Oxford, Benson, Henley [on Thames], Salt Hill, Hounslow.
Total expenses £14.9s.5d. including travel £10.12s.8d., dinner at Chapelhouse 11s.1d.; bill at Oxford 16s.0d.; waiter 2s.0d.; porter at Blenheim 1s.0d.; tollgates etc. £1.2s.10d.; carriage of trunks £1.3s.10d
29 July 1815: Londo-Soho via Windsor, bedford, Swindon, Henley, Benson, Oxford, Woodstock, Chapel House, Shipston, Stratford, Hockley.
Total expenses £15.11s.9d. including travel £10.14s.10d.; tollgates 11s.0d.; bill at Henley 16s.0d.; bill & servant at Woodstock £1.16s.9d.; meals etc.,; luggage; horses ten days and coachman, £12.5s.6d.; hackney coach 20 times, £3.15s.10d.
In London 27 May-19 June 1815:
1 week's lodgings in Sackville Street, £9.0s.6d.; Mr Bertram's for 3 weeks' lodgings £23.18s.6d.; paid Hannah £11.19s.1d.; washing bills in Piccadilly £2.11s.8d.
Total expenses of trip:
Journey to and from London £30.12s.5d.; horse & coach hire in Town £16.1s.4d.; house rent in town £32.19s.0d.; 1 month's house bills £11.19s.1d.; washing £2.11s.8d. Total: £94.3s.6d.
1816 (no date)
Journey to Cheltenham & Bath : Post horses to Bromsgrove & man, £1.1s.6d.; ditto & man to Rodboro', £1.4s.0d.; ditto to Crosshands 18s.6d.; ditto to Stroud £1.5s.0d.; ditto from Bromsgrove to Soho, £1.2s.3d.; tolls to Cheltenham etc. £2.15s.7d.; bills at hotels at B.C. & servants £22.4s.8d.
Total travelling expenses: £30.11s.6d.
Lodgings 8 weeks at Cheltenham £37.16s.0d.;ditto 1 day St James St. Bath, £1.1s.0d.; ditto Milsom St Bath, £19.0s.0d.; house expenses £37.19s.6d.; letters and parcels £2.12s.6d.; own washing £2.9s.3d.; chair hire 2s.0d.; subscription to library 5s.0d.; mending umbrella 2s.6d.
Total expenses of trip:
Journey £30.11s.6d.; house rent £57.17s.0d.; house expenses £37.19s.6d.; extras £5.11s.3d. Total: £131.19s.3d.
Bills paid by W.D.B. for Cheltenham & Bath
Keep of horses £35.5s.4d.; repairs of carriage, farriers etc. £4.6s.2. Total £39.11s.6d.
1817 (no date)
Journey from Town [London] £4.3s.10d.
Ditto to & from Stafford & Thomas's expenses £6.8s.3d. Gates 17s.6d.; coach hire in London 7s.0d. Total £11.16s.7d.
29 Aug. 1818
Journey to Tew £4.13s.11s. Journey from Tew Sept. £4.15s.9d. Various tolls £1.9s.0d. Total £10.18s.8d.
1819 (no date)
Journey to Shenstone 17s.0d. Ditto to and from London £24.4s.2d. Coach hire in town £1.17s.3d. Tolls at various times £3.17s.6d. 7 Weeks lodging in Margaret Street £29.8s.0d. Total £60.3s.11.
1820 (no date)
Journey to & from London £20.10s.8d. ?Vernon for carriage 2 weeks £16.5s.0d. Hackney coaches & horses 14s.6d. Bingley 3 weeks lodging & fires £12.15s.6d. Total £50.5s.8d.
1821 (no date)
Journey to & from Town £24.1s.0d. Sparrow for carriage & horses £18.14s.6d. Hackney coaches 3 times 6s.6d. 4 weeks and one day lodging in Bond Street £26.2s.0d. Total £69.4s.0d.
July 1823
Journey from Town £11.6s.6d. Luggage & tolls &c from Town £2.2s.10d. Newman for horses & man £2.3s.6d. Sparrow for ditto £7.7s.0d. Total £22.19s.10d.
September 1823
Journey to Tew & back to Birmingham at 15d. per mile & tollgates £6.17s.10d.
Sheet pinned in back of notebook: Miss D's journey to S[oho] 1816
To Southall12 miles& boy 18s.0d.
Gerards Cross12 " 18s.0d.
Wycomb10 " 15s.0d.
Tetsworth13 " 19s.6d.
Oxford12 " 18s.0d.
Woodstock 8 " 12s.0d.
Chapel House10 " 15s.0d.
Shipston10 " 15s.0d.
Stratford11 " 16s.6d.
Hockley12 " 18s.0d.
S[oho]12 " 19s.0d.
Total 122 £9.4s.0d.
122 miles at 15d. per mile which is allowing 3d. per mile for Post Boy.
122 Miles from London
Horses & Postboy£9. 4s.0d.
Servants & greasing carriage 16s.6d.
Supper & beds £1. 5s.6d.
Breakfast 5s.0d.
Gates 12s.0d.
Total £12.3s.0d. |