L31/289

Account-book, 16 x 6'', 450 pp.; bd. vellum. Household, garden etc.

1701-1706

From: 1701 To: 1706

Begins (like nos. 194-5) with 'ordinaries', and (though not at first) sometimes also uses the heading 'extraordinaries'. Until p.44 it is signed at intervals 'Kent' by the 11th Earl. On p.65 is an entry 'The house account which Mr. Wm. Nevile began to pay from Dec.12 1702 by my order. Kent,' in the hand of the 12th Earl (Duke). There are regular payments to 8 poor of Flitton. For wages, see inter alia pp. 34, 44, 57, 73, 236. Mr. Faldo sells coal (p.186). The mausoleum ('toom house') occurs pp. 343-93 (1705); cf. 28/19. Some items of interest to do with park and gardens are as follows, (all from the accession of the 12th Earl (Duke):- p.79 making a place to lay the pipes from the canal in the chapel garden to the millpond; levelling the beech walk; 80 laying pipes & levelling by millpond (also 82-3,87,92,113,115-6,118,122; 83 carpenter mending copse & park pales (many later for other purposes, e.g. fencing trees); p.88 work in garden (also 90,92-3,95-6,98,100,104,106,110,113,115 etc.) felling bushes & trees by millpond; 90 about the island in the millpond; cleaning spring at Cainho; 117 work in Melancholy Walk (woodcart,felling underwood,faggots,yelming;) 121 levelling by the park pale by Cainho (also 124,128,130,132); 122 taking up roots out of Chapel Garden; levelling Lime-tree Walk (also 124,128-9,131,134,140,142,150); 124 work at the canal in Chapel Garden (also 132,135); 125 draying to let out the spring (144 draying in old park & spring; 145); building brick-kiln; 127 work at the little canal in Chapel garden; 136 planting oaks (4 men 3-6 days); 138 carrying dung to the new orchard (also 140); taking up oaks and planting them in nursery (also 140); 142 planting trees in the walks and bushing them (145); 150 stocking up ash trees in park; 153 carrying dirt from the hill to the moat (also 154); levelling by park pale; 155 making a new ditch without the park pale, & setting quick; labourers in the spring & carrying & digging gault clay to ram about the walls; 156 filling up moat and spring (157); work in spring (162); cutting bushes & stakes for planting walks, Cainho hill; 158 planting walks in Cainho hill (160-1); 159 fences for the young trees; 161 drains in Chapel Garden; work in (171); 163 carrying from the hill to the moat (166,168,174,177,180,183); 164 digging up trees & bushes going to Cainho hill; planting trees in park; making tunnel in Chapel garden, draining & levelling into Air Wood; cutting the ditch to the new orchard pale; drain,170; 167 making a ditch by the new orchard pale; levelling...cutting ditch & setting quick by Cainho pale (169); 171 earth to pond; 172 pulling down the woodyard wall & turning the arch over Limetree Walk; 2 millwrights laying the great pipe to the spring, ramming it down, & stopping the water, and his (sic) lodging 6d. a night, 8 days; cutting ditch by the park pale & quicking it & levelling; work in Chapel Garden & levelling hill (200); 178 taking down the stable, sowing stuff for the pheasant house, & planking the vault in the gt. court & mending old pales, tooky yard; 179 draining midground & orchard pale; 181 setting up the pheasant house and the house at the brick kiln; pulling down the wall & house in Chapel garden & the foundations in the old stable; 185 work in the new ground by the millpond (188,190,193,195); watering trees; 202 carrying turf (207); 204 levelling the hill (206,209,211,213,216,235,263); 220 making vaults in the canal; 221 summerhouse (229); brick wall by millpond and about spring; 238 levelling from the hill by the gt. walk (241,243,245,247,249-50,267,270 272,279,282,284,287,289,291,294,303,306,309,313,319,328,333,336, 350-88,430-45); 239 levelling the walks towards Cainho; 251 taking in the nursery in West close; 252 levelling the bowling-green walks; 256-7 levelling in the walks (263,265); 258 carrying earth from new ditch to new orchard; 263 planting elm plants in new nursery; 268 planting trees (270,272,275,277,279,287,289,377,382,385,388,390,392,400 285 6 drains in old park; 301 work in Chapel Garden (303,305,319,322); 316 work in new garden; 320 covering the great drain (326); 411 planting hornbeam & whitethorn; 419 planting Cross Walk & Cainho hill; p.422 High-pasture walk; 427 planting firs; 429 planting alder. Note: p.266 Mr. Hooper's funeral.

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Lucas,
Kent, Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of,
Nevile, William,
Faldo,
Kent, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of,
Hooper, Thomas

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