Note 213 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
"I take this opportunity of enclosing to you a list of the servants that I find absolutely necessary to place about my third and fourth sons; now I put two preceptors to attend them. I have very carefully brought the expense as low as the nature of the thing would permit.
£
Preceptors { Mr. de Budé Rev. Mr. Hooke 350 300
Page of the Back Stairs { Mannorlay, Meller, } each, salary £80 for mourning £20 } 200
Housekeeper 50
For keeping three housemaids, each £20 60
Porter 30
Watchman 25
Writing Master 100
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£1,115
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"The King to Lord North, August 22, 1772."
Another example of what Lord Brougham called the King's "very minute economy" is given in the present writer's The First Gentleman of Europe, vol. I, p. 105.