Catalogue description Vouchers to stable accounts from Aug. 1824 (after death of elder bro. made him...

Vouchers to stable accounts from Aug. 1824 (after death of elder bro. made him Titchfield) to April 1854 when he succeeded to Dukedom. Cover all items of stable expenditure:- food, grazing at Clipstone Park farm, stud, cleaning materials, fuel, farriery and smith's work, etc.; Wages and expenses of servants travelling with horses (later by railway), their liveries, etc., and medical attendance; dogs; stakes and lists of races (Doncaster, Nottingham); rents and payments for planting, etc., at fox cover at Babington Springs in Marnham and at Laneham; also. e.g. umbrella repaired 1843; contribution to debt of Wellow Hospital, 1847, riding habit for Lady Emily de Burgh, 1847. Several illustrated bill heads (e.g. for Red Lion at Worksop); mostly local, but also London, Edinburg, Sheffield, York, etc.

In annual bundles; paid by John Fisher, 1824-1826; D. Aitken, 1827-1837; G. Kelk, 1837-1846; G. Kelk, jun., 1846-1854.