| Description | This fairly detailed quarterly abstract of expenditure is neatly set out, in English, although the title on the front cover reads: 'Recepte et dépence du Maistre pour l'Ecole pour chaque quartier, 1794'. Weekly expenditure is listed under the headings: bread, meat, butter and cheese, milk, garden stuff, beer, shoes and breeches, soap and candles, - or soap, starch, etc. (1798-1800 only) - and sundry articles. These last are specified under numerous and varying heads, including for example servants' wages, water and paving rates, chimney-sweeping, postage, 'reward for children', hair-cutting, school requisites such as quills, slate-pencils, paper, spelling-books, copy-books, and all kinds of food, household requirements, and repairs. On one occasion a bottle of wine is bought for the Directors, on another 'wine and oranges, etc., for the sick', and on a third 'ribbons and nosegays for children', doubtless for some festival. Clothing does not appear. A separate quarterly list of 'Money receiv'd' records weekly or fortnightly cash payments, evidently from the Treasurer to the Schoolmaster. |