| Description | Dr/Cr account. Rents paid (including cottage rents) also detailed, giving names. Some wages also included (see p.110). Entries include: costs 'for Seeds & Plants delivered to the Himley Gardens' and 'for Gilding the Pipes & Figure of the Organ in Himley Hall... for cleaning and tuning the Organ in Himley Hall' [Oct 1832] (p.85); charity subscriptions [Nov 1832] (p.88); detailed 'expenses of an Entertainment given at Himley to the Dudley Troop of Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry on occasion of their Standard being presented to them in the Park' [Nov 1832] (p.93). Also includes separate account at beginning of volume [Apr - Nov 1830].
Endorsed: '1181 Z 37' and 'Copied by J. Cooper 30th Augt 1848' |