including: Parker (William, ?contractor/builder, fl. 1783-93) [Account book of work at Buckland (Berkshire), Hamels (Hertfordshire) & Wimpole Hall (Cambridgeshire)], manuscript, signed in several places by William Parker at end, 100pp. excluding blanks, 1f. loose, others working loose, some slight damp-staining at end, stitched as issued, unbound, slightly soiled and browned, ink stamp: "Earl of Hardwicke MSS" on upper cover, ledger folio, 20th October 1783 - 28th December 1793 § Soane (Sir John, architect, 1753-1837) Autograph Letter signed to the Earl of Hardwicke, 2pp., with conjugate blank, sm. 4to, [12-14] L[incoln's] I[nn] F[ields], 21st August 1806, "I... am sorry I have been misunderstood:- it was not my mistake to put your lordship to any expence by my visit to Wimpole Lodge" and blaming his clerk of works for the mistake, "Businesess obliges me to pass the Lodge... & unless I am told to the contrary I shall take the liberty of looking at it" and mentioning Hardwicke's house in St. James Square, folds; and a quantity of other papers, including: numerous receipts for work done at several properties; letters of William Custance, Christopher Pemberton (1765-1822), physician; Joseph Clarke nightsoil man Goswell Street, London; Nathaniel Kent (1737-1810), land agent and writer on agriculture; Earl of Eglinton - Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, [early 19th century]; Richard Bankes Harraden (1778-1862), artist and printmaker; receipt for 20 guineas signed John Newling in support of Addenbrooke's Hospital, 1790; a engraved receipt for St. George's Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner, 1777; 17th century bill made out by Mr. Rouse to Lady Inglefield, "For... altering ye flowerd taby [silks]... making new skirts...", 30th May 1665; commission of sewers, [18th century]; document signed 3 times by Thomas Honywood, 1604; Estimate of the Charge of the Office of Ordnance for the Tear 1762 etc., v.s., v.d. (qty). *** Work at Wimpole Hall. First mentioned, includes: ""Wm. Parker Come to Hamells Oct 20 1783"; "Sep 4. To 7 days my self and 2 men and 4 days... makeing a bee house and putting up coloums and other new work in the Hot house... £1 15s 0d"; "1785 Work done in the Gardens &c"; "Rec.d on Acct. of Buckland worth by an order from Mr. Wolfe on Mrs. Foster £10 0s 0d"; "1790 Account of Work at Wimpole"; "24 [Nov 1791] To 2 Days Richd Parker takeing down a Bedstead Removing some furniture putting up the bedstead... 0 5 5." Sir John Soane worked on all three properties (albeit unfinished drawings at Buckland) and it is likely that Parker acted as some sort of contractor. Much of the work includes, providing nails, brickwork, carpentry, tiling paths, mending hurdlesmaking gates etc. Mentions Henry Provis, one of Soane's workmen, or one of the clerk of works at Wimpole Hall, and probably a relative, Richard Parker a carpenter. The accounts record numerous bills being settled by the Earl of Hardwicke. Provenance: "The Hardwicke Papers, chiefly those of the eighteenth-century lord chancellor, were auctioned later, in February 1899." - Oxford DNB.
including: Parker (William, ?contractor/builder, fl. 1783-93) [Account book of work at Buckland (Berkshire), Hamels (Hertfordshire) & Wimpole Hall (Cambridgeshire)], manuscript, signed in several places by William Parker at end, 100pp. excluding blanks, 1f. loose, others working loose, some slight damp-staining at end, stitched as issued, unbound, slightly soiled and browned, ink stamp: "Earl of Hardwicke MSS" on upper cover, ledger folio, 20th October 1783 - 28th December 1793 § Soane (Sir John, architect, 1753-1837) Autograph Letter signed to the Earl of Hardwicke, 2pp., with conjugate blank, sm. 4to, [12-14] L[incoln's] I[nn] F[ields], 21st August 1806, "I... am sorry I have been misunderstood:- it was not my mistake to put your lordship to any expence by my visit to Wimpole Lodge" and blaming his clerk of works for the mistake, "Businesess obliges me to pass the Lodge... & unless I am told to the contrary I shall take the liberty of looking at it" and mentioning Hardwicke's house in St. James Square, folds; and a quantity of other papers, including: numerous receipts for work done at several properties; letters of William Custance, Christopher Pemberton (1765-1822), physician; Joseph Clarke nightsoil man Goswell Street, London; Nathaniel Kent (1737-1810), land agent and writer on agriculture; Earl of Eglinton - Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, [early 19th century]; Richard Bankes Harraden (1778-1862), artist and printmaker; receipt for 20 guineas signed John Newling in support of Addenbrooke's Hospital, 1790; a engraved receipt for St. George's Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner, 1777; 17th century bill made out by Mr. Rouse to Lady Inglefield, "For... altering ye flowerd taby [silks]... making new skirts...", 30th May 1665; commission of sewers, [18th century]; document signed 3 times by Thomas Honywood, 1604; Estimate of the Charge of the Office of Ordnance for the Tear 1762 etc., v.s., v.d. (qty). *** Work at Wimpole Hall. First mentioned, includes: ""Wm. Parker Come to Hamells Oct 20 1783"; "Sep 4. To 7 days my self and 2 men and 4 days... makeing a bee house and putting up coloums and other new work in the Hot house... £1 15s 0d"; "1785 Work done in the Gardens &c"; "Rec.d on Acct. of Buckland worth by an order from Mr. Wolfe on Mrs. Foster £10 0s 0d"; "1790 Account of Work at Wimpole"; "24 [Nov 1791] To 2 Days Richd Parker takeing down a Bedstead Removing some furniture putting up the bedstead... 0 5 5." Sir John Soane worked on all three properties (albeit unfinished drawings at Buckland) and it is likely that Parker acted as some sort of contractor. Much of the work includes, providing nails, brickwork, carpentry, tiling paths, mending hurdlesmaking gates etc. Mentions Henry Provis, one of Soane's workmen, or one of the clerk of works at Wimpole Hall, and probably a relative, Richard Parker a carpenter. The accounts record numerous bills being settled by the Earl of Hardwicke. Provenance: "The Hardwicke Papers, chiefly those of the eighteenth-century lord chancellor, were auctioned later, in February 1899." - Oxford DNB.
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