| Description | This volume follows from H/M/2/5, on unnumbered pages. Some lists are headed 'Brick Lane' (District) and 'Artillery Lane' (District). There are also some interesting memoranda, including a detailed inventory of furniture, etc. at the 'Maison de Charité', taken by order of a General Meeting on 10 July 1739 when the Administrator or Steward, Abraham Lapiquais, had died and his successor Jean Deplanche had taken over. This shows that the house then used contained a parlour and kitchen, a room upstairs where the Directors held their meetings, and a bedroom for the Steward, besides an attic containing an old chest and a flock bed. The Steward enjoyed a feather-bed, with sheets and striped bed curtains. Equipment included a great couldron holding 18 bucketsful, scales and large weights, one of 28lb, and two two-handled knives for cutting up the bread. At the end of the inventory is a valuable list of the Charity's record books in the Steward's charge.
After the receipts for April 1740 there is a memorandum to the effect that from Midsummer 1740 a cellar below the house had been let to one Louis David, 'chaudronnier'. On the inside front cover is a note about the Bosanquet bequest. |