Bundle of Vouchers

Scope and Content

The bundle contains:

Receipt from [George Harry Grey (1765-1845), Lord] Grey for £900 being one quarter's annuity due under his marriage settlement, and for £100 received by him on behalf of Lady Grey, being one quarter's annuity due to her (/1).

Receipt from Joseph Hammond for £157 10s being the cost of purchasing horses (/2).

Invoices and receipts from: George B. Bostock, for medicines (/3); W. Hughes, George Inn [Knutsford], for hire of horses, postboys and ostler (/4); John Johnson, for making and repairing clothes for Lord Stamford and his servants (/5); Nichols, Son & Bentley, printers and booksellers [of London], £2 14s 6d for Illustrations of Literary History (/6); Chester hotel bill (/7).

Accounts of servants Francis Wright, Henry Hawkes, James Robinson, John Adkins [coachman], Joab Gester and Richard Plester, for travelling expenses, hire of horses, postboys, ostlers, turnpike fees, expenses at Knutsford races (/8-17).

Receipt for wages and £5 5s for waistcoats, aprons etc. from William Iscard [cook] (/18); receipt for wages from John Tyler [butler at Dunham Massey Hall] (/19).