1887 02 09 : Head gardener’s salary

Update on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 9:09PM by Petra Mitchinson

09 Feb 1887. HEAD GARDENER’S SALARY. A neat and clean printed receipt with a Postage & Inland Revenue one-penny stamp. 4” x 7”. Hand written entries into this printed form are transcribed in italics. Estates’ Office, Edenhall, Penrith, Feb. 9. 1887. Received from the Trustees of the late SIR R. C. MUSGRAVE, BART., M.P., by payment of Mr. Thos. BOWSTEAD, the Sum of Twenty Pounds, – Shillings, and – – Pence, being one quarter’s Salary due to me on the 1st. inst. as Head Gardener. £ 20 . 0 . 0 . [signed] T R CUCKNEY