FOOTNOTES
Reading edition
£ s. d.
Licence 1 11 6
Pair of gloves 0 1 0
Mr. Burdett’s fee 1 1 0
The clerk 0 10 6
Mrs. Norwood’s maid 0 7 6
Middle Parish ringers 1 1 0
Dinner at Epsom 0 5 6
Chaise from Epsom to London 0 14 0
Driver and hostler 0 2 0
Two bottles of Lisbon at the ‘White Hart’ 0 3 4
For fifty oysters 0 0 7½
A pound of cheese 0 0 3½
A pound and a half of salmon 0 1 0
Paid Jenkins for the ring 0 6 6
[Jenkins got the ring and sent it to him with a humourous letter.]
Mr. Shrubb for a tabby nightgown 7 14 0
Ear-rings and necklace 0 14 0
Coffee with Boughton at the Lincoln’s Inn Coffee House (on the afternoon of his wedding) 0 0 5
‘We hired from friend Bryant a very good chaise, Intending thus travelling quite at our ease. James was mounted behind on a fine prancing steed, To take care of the baggage and help us if need.’
Mr. Bray wrote a particular description of Fonthill, Stourton, and other houses visited.