Add MS 74648

Hardwicke Papers. Miscellaneous bills and receipts, etc., almost entirely relating to the Hardwicke (Yorke) family; 1723-1865. Lot 639 at the Phillips sale (though the items in 7 came originally from Lot 647).

Contents:

1. Bills for purchases of paintings, prints, etc., by the Earl of Hardwicke; 1764-1774; partly Fr.

2. Receipt of Charles Day, for election expenses incurred by the Hon. Philip Yorke, later 3rd Lord Hardwicke; 1780.

3. Miscellaneous washing bills and receipts for Charles Yorke; 1787.

4. Receipts for the salary of John Maule, Chaplain of Greenwich College, as curate of West Wickham, co. Cambs., and of the wages of the parish or church clerks of Wimpole [and West Wickham?]; 1782-1783, 1787-1789. For Maule 1795-1812 see main Hardwicke series. See also (5) for James Day’s wages as church clerk at Wimpole.

5. House (Wimpole and Whaddon), etc., accounts; Michaelmas 1782 - Michaelmas 1783.

6. Housemaid’s receipt for wages; 1789. Tailors’ bills for Lord Hardwicke’s and household servants’ clothes; some and possibly all are for Wimpole staff; 1829 - July 1831.

7. London bills of the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Hardwicke; 1792-1831.

8. London and country bills of the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Hardwicke for food, hops, etc.; July 1786 – 1789, 1830-1831.

9. Household clock maintenance bills and receipts; 1789, 1830-1831; and London and country household bills, for the same; 1788-1789, 1829-1831.

10. Garden and farm (?) bills; 1783-1793, 1830-1831.

11. Stable and garden, bills, including a bill and receipt from Thomas Burrell, veterinary surgeon of Great Windmill Street, 18 March 1831; 1788-1799, 1829-1831.

12. Woodmens’ bills; 1786-1789; bills for estate labour and general estate maintenance; 1787-1865.

13. Bills for brewing, drink and meat; in part at least incurred in respect to the audit and wood feasts; 1788–1789, 1858.

14. Miscellaneous medicine and other bills and receipts of the 2nd - 4th Earls of Hardwicke and of their family; 1723, 1787-1796, 1830-1863.

15. Bills of Mr and Miss Holtzapffel, possibly servants of the Earls of Hardwicke; 1832-1853.

Hardwicke family: Miscellaneous bills and receipts mainly rel. to: 1764-1865: Eng. Fr.

includes:

• ff. 1-2v Mrs Celeste Regnier, printseller: Receipted bill for prints supplied to Lord Hardwicke: 1764: Partly signed.
• ff. 1-5v Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke: Art. Miscellaneous: Bills and receipts for purchases of prints by the 2nd Lord Hardwicke: 1764; 1774: partly Fr.
• ff. 3-4 Art. Artists: Claude-Joseph Vernet, artist: Bill for prints of C.-J. Vernet's works, supplied to Lord Hardwicke: [1764?].
• f.5 Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire: Walter Shropshire, printseller: Receipted bill of prints supplied to Lord Hardwicke by W. Shropshire for Wimpole Hall: 1774: Signed.
• f. 6 Elections Parliamentary: Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke: Bill and receipt for some election expenses, of Philip Yorke, later 3rd Lord Hardwicke: 1780.
• ff. 13-15v Reverend John Maule, Chaplain of Greenwich College: Receipts for salary as curate of West Wickham, co. Camb.: 1788-1789: Signed.
• ff. 19-26r Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire: Accounts: Household etc., accounts for Wimpole Hall, Whaddon, etc., co. Camb: 1782-1783.
• ff. 115-116 Thomas Burrell, veterinary surgeon, of Great Windmill Street, Soho: Charles Newsham, formerly veterinary surgeon: Bill and receipt of Thomas Burrell for work carried out by his uncle and predecessor, Charles Newsham: 1831: Signed.
• f. 154 Maps and Plans: Haddenham, Cambridgeshire: Rough ink sketch plan of allotment drained on Manor Farm, Haddenham, co. Camb: 1865.
• ff. 155-177v, passim Manners and Customs: Bills and receipts for audit and wood feasts and entertainments at West Wickham, co. Camb and elsewhere ( ? ): 1788-1858.
• f. 168 Anthony Selfe, draper of Lombard Street: Bill and receipt of: 1723.
• f. 178 Captain Thomas Clarke: Draper's bill and receipt: 1723.
• ff. 186-187; 194-195 Medicine and Surgery: Society of Apothecaries: Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke: Bills and receipts of the Society of Apothecaries, for drugs, etc., supplied to the 3rd Lord Hardwicke: 1830-1831.
• ff. 188-190; 193 Medicine and Surgery: George Grindle, apothecary: Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke: Bills and receipts of G. Grindle, apothecary, for drugs, etc., supplied to the 3rd Lord Hardwicke: 1830-1831.
• f. 196 John Manton, and Son,gunsmiths: Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke: Bill and receipt of J. Manton and Son, gunsmiths: 1831.
• ff. 201-210 Holtzapfel (Mr - and Miss -), servants of the 4th Lord Hardwicke (?): Miscellaneous bills and receipts of Mr and Miss Holtzapfel: 1831-1835(?).