18th December 1760 Richd Dale was married to Miss Dolly Drury
This was at St Peter's Nottingham, which I found using the magic of the internet - this website. Of course, the bride's proper name is Dorothy.
But the situation didn't last
20th December Paid Mr Richd Dale for two months Board and Lodging and all Demands by his Receipt and left him on this Day £2.0.0
21st December Gave Mr Newtons maid 2/6 Stay at Mr Newtons 2 Nights
22nd December Sett Forward to London in Coach and paid Coach Hire to London £1.8s
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Friday, 8 January 2010
Thursday, 19 February 2009
A Long Journey Home
Went to see the Concious Lovers 2/6
Paid Carriage of my Box to Retford 3/4
The Conscious Lovers is a play by Sir Richard Steele, first performed in the 1720s. It is of a type of comedy which is distinct from "Restoration Comedy" in that it dwells on feelings rather than bawdy action.
It seems really odd that he should travel over Christmas and without any comment at all, however there are lots of things to say about the journey and the route. However, here is the first plate of Hogarth's Harlot's Progress which shows the wagon she arrived in London on. It seems likely that Thomas's transport to Mansfield would have very similar.
18 December
Left Mr Byard and Gave his maid 2/6
19 December
Went to Mr Halls to Lye with him for three nights and spent their in Takeing leave of all my Friends 6s
21 December
Paid Mrs Landers for Shaveing Eight Months and it is in full of all Demand 14s
Gave her Boy a Shilling 1s
Bout Gingerbread & plum Cake 12d
A Bottle of Wine to Drink on the Road 20d
A French Roll 3d, Butter 7d
Spent at the Inn with Mr Hall before I sett off a Hott pot 12d
Paid to go In the waggon to Mansfield 12s
21 December
Spent at St Alborns 2s2d
There are several pubs still in existence in St Albans where Thomas's wagon may have stopped. I have no way of knowing which one he visited, But he cannot have failed to notice the Abbey.
22 December
Spend at Hooborn 2s4d
There seem to be two candidates for this location Houghton Regis and Husborne Crawley. I think it is Husborne Crawley but I need to look at maps from the right date
23 December
Spent at Northampton 2s6d
Northampton has been comprehensively redeveloped and Thomas wouldn't recognise much of what remains - This would be a good place for a rant about over-enthusiastic town planners but this isn't that sort of blog. This engraving is dated 1770 and most of what you can see would have been there when Thomas visited. The "modern" church in the centre of the picture was completed in 1701 with the addition of a portico to the seventeenth century church.
24 December
Bricksworth 2s
This must be Brixworth, though it is a bit close to Northampton. Most of the stops seem to be around 20 mile intervals and that is only 7.
Brixworth has a magnificent Saxon church which is larger and more magnificent than almost any other church of such age in England. Here, by kind permission of greentool2002, is a picture of the church today.
Perhaps the drainpipes are new but everything else looks much as it would have done when Thomas was there.
25 December
Bradmoor 2s2d
Bradmore is in Nottinghamshire.
The village was destroyed by fire in 1705 leaving perhaps one stone house and the church spire.
The church was not rebuilt but the village was.
This photograph, reproduced here by kind permission of ben-s (click the picture to visit his Flickr photostream), shows the 14th century spire.
26 December
Spent at Nottingham & Manfield 4s6d
Here is a panorama of Nottingham. I knew in my head that towns and cities were smaller but each time I see an 18th century picture of a place that I know, I am astonished.
I can't find anything suitable of Mansfield to show you. This is partly because I've never been there which makes knowing what to google rather difficult. I'll keep trying, but I'd appreciate any suggestions.
27 December
Walked from Mansfield to Retford & Spent 1s6d
That's around 19 miles and it is quite remote in places, even today.
There is still more to be added to this post!
Paid Carriage of my Box to Retford 3/4
The Conscious Lovers is a play by Sir Richard Steele, first performed in the 1720s. It is of a type of comedy which is distinct from "Restoration Comedy" in that it dwells on feelings rather than bawdy action.
It seems really odd that he should travel over Christmas and without any comment at all, however there are lots of things to say about the journey and the route. However, here is the first plate of Hogarth's Harlot's Progress which shows the wagon she arrived in London on. It seems likely that Thomas's transport to Mansfield would have very similar.
18 December
Left Mr Byard and Gave his maid 2/6
19 December
Went to Mr Halls to Lye with him for three nights and spent their in Takeing leave of all my Friends 6s
21 December
Paid Mrs Landers for Shaveing Eight Months and it is in full of all Demand 14s
Gave her Boy a Shilling 1s
Bout Gingerbread & plum Cake 12d
A Bottle of Wine to Drink on the Road 20d
A French Roll 3d, Butter 7d
Spent at the Inn with Mr Hall before I sett off a Hott pot 12d
Paid to go In the waggon to Mansfield 12s
21 December
Spent at St Alborns 2s2d
There are several pubs still in existence in St Albans where Thomas's wagon may have stopped. I have no way of knowing which one he visited, But he cannot have failed to notice the Abbey.
22 December
Spend at Hooborn 2s4d
There seem to be two candidates for this location Houghton Regis and Husborne Crawley. I think it is Husborne Crawley but I need to look at maps from the right date
23 December
Spent at Northampton 2s6d
Northampton has been comprehensively redeveloped and Thomas wouldn't recognise much of what remains - This would be a good place for a rant about over-enthusiastic town planners but this isn't that sort of blog. This engraving is dated 1770 and most of what you can see would have been there when Thomas visited. The "modern" church in the centre of the picture was completed in 1701 with the addition of a portico to the seventeenth century church.
24 December
Bricksworth 2s
This must be Brixworth, though it is a bit close to Northampton. Most of the stops seem to be around 20 mile intervals and that is only 7.
Brixworth has a magnificent Saxon church which is larger and more magnificent than almost any other church of such age in England. Here, by kind permission of greentool2002, is a picture of the church today.
Perhaps the drainpipes are new but everything else looks much as it would have done when Thomas was there.25 December
Bradmoor 2s2d
Bradmore is in Nottinghamshire.
The village was destroyed by fire in 1705 leaving perhaps one stone house and the church spire.
The church was not rebuilt but the village was.
This photograph, reproduced here by kind permission of ben-s (click the picture to visit his Flickr photostream), shows the 14th century spire.
26 December
Spent at Nottingham & Manfield 4s6d
Here is a panorama of Nottingham. I knew in my head that towns and cities were smaller but each time I see an 18th century picture of a place that I know, I am astonished.
I can't find anything suitable of Mansfield to show you. This is partly because I've never been there which makes knowing what to google rather difficult. I'll keep trying, but I'd appreciate any suggestions.27 December
Walked from Mansfield to Retford & Spent 1s6d
That's around 19 miles and it is quite remote in places, even today.
There is still more to be added to this post!
Monday, 9 February 2009
24 June 1741
a new pair of shoes Mr Davis Deverix Court 6/-
Devereux Court today seems to be packed with lawyers but in the eighteenth century there were at least some shops - Mr Davis's shoe shop and a bookseller known as "At Ben Jonson's Head" which is shown below.
4 July 1761
Bout a French Tellemicus 2nd hand 16d
What is a Tellemicus? I've tried several spellings and the proper, complete OED and I can't find it.
a new pair of shoes Mr Davis Deverix Court 6/-
Devereux Court today seems to be packed with lawyers but in the eighteenth century there were at least some shops - Mr Davis's shoe shop and a bookseller known as "At Ben Jonson's Head" which is shown below.
4 July 1761
Bout a French Tellemicus 2nd hand 16d
What is a Tellemicus? I've tried several spellings and the proper, complete OED and I can't find it.
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
19 June 1739
Bout of Mr John Browning a Flute and Cane with China Head too 15/-
(don't I wish I had those two items to take to Sothebys!!)
25 June 1739
Bought of Mr Payne and Paid him for them
7½ yds of fine Barrigon for Coat & Breeches £1.17d6d
2 yds Broad Scarlett Serge Denim 13/-
4½yds fine Shallon
30 June
Paid Mr Payne for making Coat and 2 pair of Breeches and finding all Triming £1.14s
So Denim wasn't always blue. "Barrigon" doesn't seem to mean anything in English - I need to do some more investigation of that.
16 June 1739
Spent with Mr Porter at a Baudy House in Drury Lane for funn 2/-
Although this account is rather later, it refers to a House in just the same part of London
From the “Memoirs of William Hickey 1749-1775”
Writing of visits to bawdy houses, he says.
“In these houses we usually spent from three to four hours, drinking Arrack punch, or, as far as I was concerned pretending to do so, for being a composition I had an uncommon dislike to, I never did more than put the bowl to my lips, without swallowing a drop, and romping and playing all sorts of tricks with the girls. At a late or rather early hour in the morning, we separated, retiring to the private lodgings of some of the girls, there being only two that resided in the house, or to our homes, as the fancy led, or according to the state of finances”
23 September 1739
Cupping & Bathing at the Bageno in Newgate Street 5/-
Paid for part of a Boat with Mr Ashton and Mr Genison to see all the barges on Lord Mare's Day 12d and spent 12d
The Lord Mayor was Sir John Salter, who was a director of the East India Company. Portrait from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection...
Bout of Mr John Browning a Flute and Cane with China Head too 15/-
(don't I wish I had those two items to take to Sothebys!!)
25 June 1739
Bought of Mr Payne and Paid him for them
7½ yds of fine Barrigon for Coat & Breeches £1.17d6d
2 yds Broad Scarlett Serge Denim 13/-
4½yds fine Shallon
30 June
Paid Mr Payne for making Coat and 2 pair of Breeches and finding all Triming £1.14s
So Denim wasn't always blue. "Barrigon" doesn't seem to mean anything in English - I need to do some more investigation of that.
16 June 1739
Spent with Mr Porter at a Baudy House in Drury Lane for funn 2/-
Although this account is rather later, it refers to a House in just the same part of London
From the “Memoirs of William Hickey 1749-1775”
Writing of visits to bawdy houses, he says.
“In these houses we usually spent from three to four hours, drinking Arrack punch, or, as far as I was concerned pretending to do so, for being a composition I had an uncommon dislike to, I never did more than put the bowl to my lips, without swallowing a drop, and romping and playing all sorts of tricks with the girls. At a late or rather early hour in the morning, we separated, retiring to the private lodgings of some of the girls, there being only two that resided in the house, or to our homes, as the fancy led, or according to the state of finances”
23 September 1739
Cupping & Bathing at the Bageno in Newgate Street 5/-
Thomas had visited one of the first Turkish Baths in the country, though it had actually been in Newgate Street since 1679. In 1708, the charge was 4/- so either inflation or "Cupping" (still performed by alternative practitioners today) cost 1/-.
(source)Walter Thornbury, Old and New London (Thornbury & Walford) 1878
30 October 1739Paid for part of a Boat with Mr Ashton and Mr Genison to see all the barges on Lord Mare's Day 12d and spent 12d
The Lord Mayor was Sir John Salter, who was a director of the East India Company. Portrait from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection...
Thursday, 22 January 2009
A Rite of Passage and More Shopping
June 15 1738
Treated Mr Vear Mr Inston Mr Lowery Mr Tayler as its Costomary to do When a journeyman gose to a new Place at the Sun Tavern in Ludgate Street 10/6
This is such an enigmatic entry. Is this Thomas finally doing what is "costomary" for his move to Thomas Hinchcliffe or has he moved again?
A later entry tells us that Mr Vear traded in "Black Fryers" and Thomas spent 6d there on the 7th July.
July 14
Bout of Mr Ward Linen Draper 6 yds of fine Mufling an Ell wide £1.16s0d
July18
Paid for 12 neck Clothes Making 2/6
I wonder whether Thomas was a dandy, so fussy about his neckcloth, that some were spoiled each day and had to be relaundered without being worn? "Mufling" must be "Muslin", almost the old ff for s? Thomas's spelling is a bit random at the best of times and I'm not sure that spelling was actually that fixed at this date. An Ell was not defined in English Law but seems to have been around 45".
Treated Mr Vear Mr Inston Mr Lowery Mr Tayler as its Costomary to do When a journeyman gose to a new Place at the Sun Tavern in Ludgate Street 10/6
This is such an enigmatic entry. Is this Thomas finally doing what is "costomary" for his move to Thomas Hinchcliffe or has he moved again?
A later entry tells us that Mr Vear traded in "Black Fryers" and Thomas spent 6d there on the 7th July.
July 14
Bout of Mr Ward Linen Draper 6 yds of fine Mufling an Ell wide £1.16s0d
July18
Paid for 12 neck Clothes Making 2/6
I wonder whether Thomas was a dandy, so fussy about his neckcloth, that some were spoiled each day and had to be relaundered without being worn? "Mufling" must be "Muslin", almost the old ff for s? Thomas's spelling is a bit random at the best of times and I'm not sure that spelling was actually that fixed at this date. An Ell was not defined in English Law but seems to have been around 45".
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Thomas Finds a Job
March 29 1738 - Went to Mr Paynes Silk Mercer behind St Clements by the Strand to help him in the shop until I gott a place for my vittles and stayed with him till the 13th April.
Here is a picture of St Clements as it was that day. A few years earlier and it would have had a shorter tower. Today it is the church rebuilt after World War II, but it is still in the same place and Thomas would surely recognise it.
Here is a picture of St Clements as it was that day. A few years earlier and it would have had a shorter tower. Today it is the church rebuilt after World War II, but it is still in the same place and Thomas would surely recognise it.
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Thomas goes to London
This is where Thomas’s book really begins. I think the previous pages were filled in to avoiding wasting paper!
Feb 4th 1738 Thomas Tye went up to London in Mr James Waddel’s waggon from Mansfield and cost me in expenses and carriage of box £1.8s 6d and gott to London Feb 4 1737/8
Paid Carriage of my box to my lodgings in Little Tothill Street Westminster 1s
17th Went to see St Paul’s Church Wispering Gallery & up to the Cupola 2/-
Eating 6d.
Thomas, aged 25, had come to London for business reasons. As well as visiting St Paul’s which must have been a wonder of the age, he dined in a chop house, bought books, most expensively a leather bound bible (18/6) and visited one of the coffee houses where London merchants met to do business as well as consume the then very trendy coffee. Even that was quite a journey from his Westminster Lodgings, being in Chelsea!
St Paul's is one thing which Thomas would still recognise in modern London
Feb 4th 1738 Thomas Tye went up to London in Mr James Waddel’s waggon from Mansfield and cost me in expenses and carriage of box £1.8s 6d and gott to London Feb 4 1737/8
Paid Carriage of my box to my lodgings in Little Tothill Street Westminster 1s
17th Went to see St Paul’s Church Wispering Gallery & up to the Cupola 2/-
Eating 6d.
Thomas, aged 25, had come to London for business reasons. As well as visiting St Paul’s which must have been a wonder of the age, he dined in a chop house, bought books, most expensively a leather bound bible (18/6) and visited one of the coffee houses where London merchants met to do business as well as consume the then very trendy coffee. Even that was quite a journey from his Westminster Lodgings, being in Chelsea!
St Paul's is one thing which Thomas would still recognise in modern London
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
A Book with No Title
My husband's uncle left him all his books. We had just moved house when the executor asked us to collect them and we really didn't have room for them. On the off-chance, however, I scanned the shelves for anything of interest.
I noticed a green book with nothing on the spine. Most books have a title on the spine, don't they?
I pulled out a treasure! It is mostly an account book (how dull!) but the interesting thing is the date. The book was written by one Thomas Tye. Thomas was born about 1712. He was in business, mostly in the City of London and he recorded all expenditure with great care. He also recorded tit bits of news and information. Some of this is fascinating. I will transcribe selected entries here.
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I noticed a green book with nothing on the spine. Most books have a title on the spine, don't they?
I pulled out a treasure! It is mostly an account book (how dull!) but the interesting thing is the date. The book was written by one Thomas Tye. Thomas was born about 1712. He was in business, mostly in the City of London and he recorded all expenditure with great care. He also recorded tit bits of news and information. Some of this is fascinating. I will transcribe selected entries here.
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