Chippenham
22 Jan. 1864
Dear Sir,
I have paid Mr Blomfield <1> your own & Mrs Talbots <2> Subscriptions to the Schools – £10.–
and your annual | |
donation towards | s15/– |
warming the Church |
though you did not expressly mention it in your Letter as I have paid it before for you. I have also paid (probably for the last time) your usual Christmas box – s10/– to poor old Hayward <3> who is now bed-ridden – I have remitted £150 to your Account at the Bank of Scotland <4> at Edinburgh as you request – tho’ Croker <5> is still something in arrear as usual I presume you have not yet decided any thing about the Living of Lacock.
I remain Yours obliged
West Awdry.
Notes:
1. Arthur Blomfield (b. 1827), curate of Lacock.
2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
3. Thomas Hayward (1781-1865?), former inn keeper in Chippenham, manual laborer, and pensioner - see Doc. No: 06568.
4. Archibald Kennedy, of the Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh.
5. Joseph Crocker, of Nash Hill.