| Description | After five pages of prayers, invocations, pious sentiments and drawings of charitable hearts, the first numbered page tells us that the book is intended to contain 'all the business of this House of Charity established for poor French refugees in Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, - both the contributions received and the payments made to butcher, baker and expenses in general'. It is, in fact, a running record of receipts and expenditure, which were doubtless intended to be carried into a ledger, though there is no evidence that any such book was actually established. Names of contributors, with the amounts contributed, are entered in detail, but not payments to tradesmen. Servants' wages and occasional payments for repairs and casual purchases are, however, recorded. The names of the Treasurer (Daniel Lions), Receiver (De La Pommeraye), 'Payeur' (Fruschard) and Administrator (Charles Lombard) figure constantly.
Thirty unnumbered pages after p. 71b have been used for the general house expenses of Abrahm Lepiquais, as Administrator, form September 1724 to February 1726, noted monthly as checked by Mr Baronneau, a Director (H/M/2/2).
Loose between pp. 71r and 71v: memorandum giving calculations about supply of meat, July 1694, in same hand as the accounts preceding. |