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General Estate Accounts - Housekeeper’s monthly accounts (D1610/A108)

This comes from Dodington’s Housekeeper’s monthly accounts and is the summary total for the month of March 1815.

            Total for soaps, candles, turnery, lamp oil, sundries                          £191 1s 8d

            Total for Kitchen as per opposite page                                              £446 8s 7d

            Total amount of servants wages to April 1^st                                       £314 2s 5d

            Ditto       do       Board wages        do        do                                    £28   4s 2d

            Ditto    do job servants & travelling expenses                                   £30    -  11d

                                                                   Total for the month of March      £1009 17s 4d

This is approximately £52,000 in today’s money!