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- 30th November 1759 (Creation)
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Received of Mr Newton. Paid the sum of £20 5s 6d including the Audit Dinner, the Rustat Dinner, the Gravely Court Supper, the Masters of Arts Dinner. Also including Lady Day, Midsummer and Michaelmas, 2 water pails for the kitchen and salary wages. Signed by B. Fuller. [more details below]
Audit Dinner (13th November): Paid £1 13s for 4 boil fowls bacon, dish greens, 1 pudding, 1 chine mutton, a salad, mince pies, brawn [jellied head meat], a boiled turkey, a fillet veal, a 'hunting' pudding, goose.
The Rustat Dinner (19th April 1759): paid 3£ for a dish fish, 1 calves head hash, a sir loin beaf, a salad, 1 lemon pudding, 6 chickens, 1 dish asparagus, 4 lobsters, 1 'tansey' [?], ducklings [flowers].
Gravely Court Supper (5th June): paid £1 1s 3d for 4 chickens, lamb, a salad of cucumbers, 1 dish peas, a goosberry pie, custards.
Masters of Arts Dinner (2nd July): paid £6 6s 6d for 1 turbot with lobster sauce, 1 breast veal ragout, 1 ham, 1 dish French beans, 1 dish chickens, marrow pudding, cauliflowers, carrots, 1 rump beaf, a carp stew tench, rabbits fricassee, 1 dish artichokes, 1 dish lobsters, 1 dish rasberries, jellies and syllabubs, strawberries and 'Howboys' [?], 4 ducklings [flowers], 1 dish fruits.