Sunday 15 July 2012

19th September 1764 et seq.

19th Bought of Alleyne & Roe Mercers. Nottm.
5¼yds Blue Lambskin yd.wd. at 6/6 ....£1.14s1½d
1½ yds Blue Shalloon..................................2s6d
Fustion 10½ Glazed Linen 12 thread 3.........2s1½d
3/8 oz silk 10½ 3/8 oz silk twist 10½...........1s9d
3 doz Baskett Town made buttons 14...........3s6d
½ doz small baskitts 2d 3½ Tape 1d................4½d
Buckram & Canvas..........................................6d
½yds more Shalloon  .......................................10d


20th Paid Mr Samuel Nightingale Taylor for makeing a Strait Blue Great Coat as by his Receipt ...6s

You can be sure that Thomas was not cheated by Alleyne & Roe as his own trade was Mercer.

Alleyne & Roe were a high class establishment as the only other reference I can find is that they supplied Lord Middleton with everything a mercer might supply for a funeral (pall, shroud, gloves etc) in 1774 (the document is held by Nottingham University archive.


I wonder whether Baskett Buttons is another name for Dorset Wheel buttons?

Here is a great coat of the right sort of date. Thomas is unlikely to have been described as a Macaroni as he is distinctly middle-aged by now and lives in the provinces.




Lambskin must be the body of the coat, Shalloon is a fine worsted used as lining. 

In this case "Receipt" means "Design".