MOVED TO BC/22 Receipts of payments made by the Bath Improvement Commissioners, empowered by the 1789 Bath Improvement Act, together with related papers
Reference Number
BC/3/2/23
Level of Description
Item
Title
MOVED TO BC/22 Receipts of payments made by the Bath Improvement Commissioners, empowered by the 1789 Bath Improvement Act, together with related papers
Date
1797-1820
Extent
Extent: c. 350 items in 11 small bundles
Description
A large collection of signed receipts for payments made by the Bath Improvement Commissioners under the Bath Improvement Act and distributed by Joshua Seeley [or Sealey] Lawton who was the treasurer to the Commissioners. The majority of them are signed by the recipients and several are signed by John Jefferys and Philip George. These bundles of receipts are divided into book and folio numbers and relate to Book 2, folios 1-39 and 50-69 (June 1797-November 1799); Book 3, folio 58-60 and folio 65 (January-October 1810) and Nos. 9-12 and 14. The majority of the receipts are for half yearly interest paid on bonds, together with receipts for property taxes and several for mortgage bonds. Several lists of quit rents and prescriptive payments made to Dr. Phillott, Rector of Bath Abbey, are also included. Bills are included with some of the receipts and give details of damage sustained by Mr Martin of The Lanthorn in White Hart Lane and repair work to Ann Chapman's house in Abbey Church Yard, and masonry work at George's Coffee House by the Pump Rooms. Bills from tradesmen and women are for printing (including several bills from Richard Cruttwell), painting the new Pump Rooms (from Sarah Lloyd) and the building of the Corinthian columns and capitals around the Pump Rooms, by William Briggs, at a cost of £55.3s. Other receipts are for Daniel Kingscott for his job as Inspector of the Turnpikes, for J. Mayer for collecting the books from Thomas Baldwin and making up the accounts, and for Joshua Lawton's salary. Several are for part payment for the purchase of houses, including one made to the late Charles Brett for part of his house on the south side of Cheap Street. A number of receipts relate to the cost incurred during a case heard in the Court of Chancery between Joshua (also known as John?) Sealey Lawton, and others (defendants) and Henry Phillott, and others (plaintiffs), including costs for valuing the Bear Inn, Bath, and a list of itemised meals and drinks, with costs.
A small bundle of papers relate to Elizabeth and George Frappell who set up George's Coffee House next to the Pump Rooms. George Frappell had previously run the Grove Coffee House and died shortly after setting up George's Coffee House. The papers include a demand from John Palmer to the executors of George Frappell for the fitting out of the new coffee house, receipts for wages for Elizabeth Frappell, a water rate receipt dated July 1797 and a catalogue of household goods belonging to Mrs Frappell which were removed from George's Coffee House and sold by auction by Charles Trimnell 22-23 June 1797.
Other related papers include a bill for £3031 from Clement Tugwell & Co. of Bath, two detailed bills summarising conveyancing work done for the Commissioners by R. Clarke and Son, payment to William Clark drawn on a cheque by Messrs Clement & Tugwell. Also two separate account sheets with the names of those who have lent money to the Commissioners and with a list of monies due to the Commissioners, dated 1809 and 1810. Together with draft conditions for letting Bath Turnpike Tolls which were to be put up for auction, dated 1818 (BC 134/14b).
For more records relating to Bath Improvement Commissioners see BC/22
Previous reference number BC 134/14, BC 134/14a and BC 134/14b
