This book of useful cooking instructions and recipes was in the house at Southwell. It must have been from either the Beaumonts or the Bechers, I don't know which.
It has lost its covers and end papers so I don't know its age or correct details. It might well not be complete. It might have a different title. I think it may date before 1800. The paper is very soft and fragile. If anyone knows could they please post a Comment.
Item: Printed material BA Box 1.031 (part)
I scanned it in 12 page sections
here
Chapters
1 - Boiling
2 - Roasting (p.20)
3 - Frying (p.33)
4 - Broiling (p.43)
5 - Gravies & Sauces (p.46)
6 - Stewing (p.54)
7 - Hashes (p.66)
8 - Soups (p.70)
9 - Fricassees (p.81)
10 - Ragouts (p.90)
11 - Pastry - pies (p.94) - tarts (p.103)
12 - Cakes (p. 106)
13 - Puddings (p.115)
14 - Dumplings (p.122)
15 - Syllabubs, Creams, and Flummery (p.123)
16 - Jellies, Jams, and Custards (p.126)
17 - Potting (p.128)
18 - Collaring (p.129)
19 - Preserving, Drying, and Candying (p.131)
20 - Pickling (p.137)
21 - Made Wines (p.140)
Friday 31 January 2014
George Beaumont's Executors and his children's Guardians, 1736-1741
Frances died in April 1735. George made a new Will in September. His executors - in the words of the will itself "Administrators" until his eldest son should be old enough to prove the Will - were to be William Wrightson Esq (of Cusworth near Doncaster), Rev. Thomas Hall (of Westborough, Lincs), Henry Wentworth, Gent (of Hoyland), and Rev. Thomas Cockshutt (Vicar of Cawthorne).
These four were to be guardians of the children - aged from 11 down to 8.
Here is the portrait of George. It will be for another post one day to consider the question of who painted it, when, and where:
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George did die towards the end of January. This was before the change of calendar, so it was still 1735. In modern parlance he died in January 1736, though we could add "NS" for New Style.
An Inventory of his goods and possessions was promptly prepared. It was signed on 6th February by John Rimington, Jonathan Heron, John Archer, and John Green. John Green, who was George's servant and was left £5 by the will, continued to work for the family at Darton for several years. He provided horses to go to Nottingham in 1741, whilst on another occasion a messenger was paid 3d to go "to Darton to John Green to get him to go to Whitley for some linnen."
George junior's Accounts (Box 1.001) show that Henry Wentworth took charge of things but that he too died before the end of 1736. Mr Wrightson and Mr Cockshutt proved the Will as "testamentary tutors" in June 1737. Mr Cockshutt lived nearest. He was also very well acquainted with all the people involved, as George Beaumont had been, in financing the iron works locally.
But Mr Cockshutt was elderly and his own health was poor. He no doubt did his best. He arranged for the boys to have stays with some of the local gentry, and there were occasional visits to their uncle (their mother's younger brother) at Whitley, and to Nottingham, where the clergyman uncle Thomas Beaumont lived, and two aunts, Elizabeth Beaumont and Jane Smith.
Mr Cotton of Haigh sent word in December 1739 (the boys were then staying in his house) that they had "ye itch, for ye curing 'em of which he [Mr Cotton] supposes some speedy care will be taken by me [Mr Cockshutt] upon ye notice he has now given me of it. I know no better way than to send 'em to your House...." (Letter to John Margetson at Heath near Wakefield - in YAS DD/70/93/3).
Indeed the boys were now spending much of their time lodging with Mr Margetson at Heath and being educated there. Mr Margetson was really, the most hands-on guardian. A Mr Hyde was paid for schooling, and a Mr Randal for teaching French.
Then - two more deaths. Mr Cockshutt early in 1740 and Mr Margetson himself later that year!
Now, William Wrightson had been a friend of the Whitley Beaumonts for years, but I get the impression that his input was somewhat impersonal. Mr Hall perhaps was too far away. Anyway Mr Cockshutt's son (also a clergyman) sent everything to Mr Wrightson and thereafter the money side of things was now left to a lawyer in Barnsley called William Marsden.
One can only feel sorry for these children, wealthy though they were. Much of my knowledge comes from the Accounts, very correctly kept, detailing pocket money and the cost of things like new breeches, shoe-mending, and French books.
After Mr Margetson's death the boys spent more time at Nottingham. I am not sure if they both went to live there but I think George certainly did. Payments were made to the Revd Mr Beaumont there in autumn 1741 on behalf of both of them. Payments for George are detailed in the Account Book in this archive (Box 1.001), and for Thomas, in one now in Doncaster archives (DD/BW/T/3) which must have come from Mr Wrightson's house. Both of these were prepared by William Marsden.
These four were to be guardians of the children - aged from 11 down to 8.
Here is the portrait of George. It will be for another post one day to consider the question of who painted it, when, and where:
George did die towards the end of January. This was before the change of calendar, so it was still 1735. In modern parlance he died in January 1736, though we could add "NS" for New Style.
An Inventory of his goods and possessions was promptly prepared. It was signed on 6th February by John Rimington, Jonathan Heron, John Archer, and John Green. John Green, who was George's servant and was left £5 by the will, continued to work for the family at Darton for several years. He provided horses to go to Nottingham in 1741, whilst on another occasion a messenger was paid 3d to go "to Darton to John Green to get him to go to Whitley for some linnen."
George junior's Accounts (Box 1.001) show that Henry Wentworth took charge of things but that he too died before the end of 1736. Mr Wrightson and Mr Cockshutt proved the Will as "testamentary tutors" in June 1737. Mr Cockshutt lived nearest. He was also very well acquainted with all the people involved, as George Beaumont had been, in financing the iron works locally.
But Mr Cockshutt was elderly and his own health was poor. He no doubt did his best. He arranged for the boys to have stays with some of the local gentry, and there were occasional visits to their uncle (their mother's younger brother) at Whitley, and to Nottingham, where the clergyman uncle Thomas Beaumont lived, and two aunts, Elizabeth Beaumont and Jane Smith.
Mr Cotton of Haigh sent word in December 1739 (the boys were then staying in his house) that they had "ye itch, for ye curing 'em of which he [Mr Cotton] supposes some speedy care will be taken by me [Mr Cockshutt] upon ye notice he has now given me of it. I know no better way than to send 'em to your House...." (Letter to John Margetson at Heath near Wakefield - in YAS DD/70/93/3).
Indeed the boys were now spending much of their time lodging with Mr Margetson at Heath and being educated there. Mr Margetson was really, the most hands-on guardian. A Mr Hyde was paid for schooling, and a Mr Randal for teaching French.
Then - two more deaths. Mr Cockshutt early in 1740 and Mr Margetson himself later that year!
Now, William Wrightson had been a friend of the Whitley Beaumonts for years, but I get the impression that his input was somewhat impersonal. Mr Hall perhaps was too far away. Anyway Mr Cockshutt's son (also a clergyman) sent everything to Mr Wrightson and thereafter the money side of things was now left to a lawyer in Barnsley called William Marsden.
One can only feel sorry for these children, wealthy though they were. Much of my knowledge comes from the Accounts, very correctly kept, detailing pocket money and the cost of things like new breeches, shoe-mending, and French books.
After Mr Margetson's death the boys spent more time at Nottingham. I am not sure if they both went to live there but I think George certainly did. Payments were made to the Revd Mr Beaumont there in autumn 1741 on behalf of both of them. Payments for George are detailed in the Account Book in this archive (Box 1.001), and for Thomas, in one now in Doncaster archives (DD/BW/T/3) which must have come from Mr Wrightson's house. Both of these were prepared by William Marsden.
Sunday 26 January 2014
About Boxes 1, 17 and 18
Box 17
contains items formerly at Nottinghamshire Archives with reference PF/143.
These, I think, remained at East Bridgford Hill until its sale in 1908 when they must have gone to R.H. Beaumont’s office in Nottingham and thence to Southwell. They then seem to have gone to Perry Parr & Ford, the firm of solicitors, back in Nottingham, in which R.M.Beaumont was a partner. They were deposited by R.M.Beaumont in 1952. These were personal papers belonging to him. They remained at Nottingham Archives until June 2006 when I withdrew them.
The numbering system in Box 17 is that (for example) 143/76 is now Box 17/76.
Box 17 contains about 80 items. These begin from the late 17th century (copy leases etc) and contain a number of 18th century items concerning the Chapelthorpe (near Wakefield) lands, which eventually came mostly to Rev. Thomas Beaumont of East Bridgford, who I think sold most of this by c.1800. But Box 17 also contains some late 19th century items mostly relating to my grandfather R.H.Beaumont 1865-1952.
Box 18
contains items formerly at Nottinghamshire Archives with reference PF/2184. These items were in R.M. Beaumont's desk and cupboards at Southwell and in a box in the loft when he died in 1998. I think that from East Bridgford my grandfather must have taken them to Nottingham and thus they ended up in Southwell but did not go to PF&F. I deposited them and they remained at Nottingham Archives until June 2006 when I withdrew them.
The numbering system in Box 18 is that (for example) 2184/3/4 is now 18/304 and 2184/5 is now 2184/500.
Box 18 contains about 60 items, roughly between 1790 and 1935, relating mainly to the family in Nottinghamshire.
Box 1
contains the oldest Beaumont items that I found in the houses at Southwell and Fishbourne (mainly Southwell). These have never been lent or deposited with any public archive. Box 1 contains just over 200 separate items, many very small. Generally these are of the nineteenth century and earlier. This collection includes some early photographic images.
The Box 17 and 18 items are in fact now stored in one box. Box 1 is a whole box.
I hope to put posts in this blog soon showing my full catalogue for at least Boxes 1 and 17. The Box 18 (2184) items are still listed in the Nottinghamshire Archives catalogue (as at today), so they are already accessible in that way. That Nottinghamshire catalogue also contains a series (2126) of photographs of the family pictures. I had the pictures photographed in 1998 and gave the copies to Notts. Archives.
George Beaumont's dog Pickle (1816)
Details:
Item: BA Box 1.084 (There is also a kind of soliloquy between Master and Dog (George and Pickle - a spaniel - referring to November 1816).
Provenance: Southwell (from East Bridgford).
Comments:
This is George Beaumont 1796-1882. The incident with the cat presumably occurred at Ashted.
Lock of Pickle's hair, the enclosing
paper is marked:-
Pickle. This was cut from his tail
and leg by me Octr. 7, 1816, the day after he had worryed our
neighbour Waldron's cat, for which all our house was incensed against
him. But I by my dextrous pleading for the dumb animal re-instated
him in favour with his bones whole. G.B..
And on the packet:-
Pickle. The
faithful and affectionate friend of my youth, who has hazarded his
life for me and whose sagacity I shall always remember.
Item: BA Box 1.084 (There is also a kind of soliloquy between Master and Dog (George and Pickle - a spaniel - referring to November 1816).
Provenance: Southwell (from East Bridgford).
Comments:
This is George Beaumont 1796-1882. The incident with the cat presumably occurred at Ashted.
“Pickle” was the name of the ship that brought news of Trafalgar to England in late 1805 – George put a cutting about that into his scrapbook.
Commission to Richard Beaumont (Derbyshire Militia, 1782)
Transcript:
Item: Original document BA Box 1.121
Provenance: Southwell (from East Bridgford)
Comment: I think he was christened in February 1761, so at this date he was just, or about to be, 21. It appears likely that he will have gone, with the Derbyshire Militia, to Devon in 1782 (see newspaper reports, Derby Mercury). It also seems that the Militia was stood down or "disembodied" early in 1783, assembling most years thereafter for four weeks training. He remained in it until at least 1789, when he was promoted to Lieutenant shortly before that year's assembly (London Gazette, Derby Mercury). He lived, later in his life, in Birmingham (lots of evidence in this Archive), and it seems that he is the RB who was living there from 1784. There are various puzzles about him, including in particular about his marriages, which I intend to bring up in later posts.
The
Right Honourable George Cavendish Esquire commonly called Lord George
Cavendish Lord Lieutenant and custos rotulorum //
of
the county of Derby; and one of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy
Council,//
To
Richd. Beaumont Gent.://
I
reposing special trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and
Conduct to do His Majesty good and faithfull service, by virtue of
the power and authority to //
me
given by the King's most Excellent Majesty under the Great Seal of
Great Britain, as Lord Lieutenant of the said County of Derby and in
pursuance of an Act//
of
Parliament made and passed in the Second year of His Majesty's reign
entitled an Act to Explain, Amend and Reduce into one Act of
Parliament the several//
Laws
now in being relating to the raising and training the Militia within
that part of Great Britain called England and of all other laws now
in being relating to//
the
said Militia; have nominated, constituted appointed and given
Commission to and by these Presents do nominate, constitute, appoint
and give Commission to you//
the
said Richard Beaumont to be Ensign in a Company of the Militia of the
said County of Derby under my command whereof His Grace the Duke of
Devonshire//
is
Colonel, you are therefore to take the said Company into your care
and charge as Ensign thereof; and duly to train, exercise, and
discipline the inferior Officers and//
other
persons armed and arrayed or to be armed and arrayed in the same
according to the rules and discipline of War and the direction of the
said Act of Parliament.//
or
any other laws now in force relating to the said Militia; and I do
hereby command them and every of them to obey you as their Ensign and
you are to observe and//
follow
such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive
from His Majesty, myself, my deputy Lieutenants, your Colonel, or any
other your superior//
officer;
pursuant to the trust hereby reposed in you and your duty to His
Majesty. Given at London under my hand and seal this twenty fifth day
of January in//
the
twenty second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King
Defender of the//
Faith,
&c and in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty two.
George
Cavendish Lieutenant
Stamps
and seal
Provenance: Southwell (from East Bridgford)
Comment: I think he was christened in February 1761, so at this date he was just, or about to be, 21. It appears likely that he will have gone, with the Derbyshire Militia, to Devon in 1782 (see newspaper reports, Derby Mercury). It also seems that the Militia was stood down or "disembodied" early in 1783, assembling most years thereafter for four weeks training. He remained in it until at least 1789, when he was promoted to Lieutenant shortly before that year's assembly (London Gazette, Derby Mercury). He lived, later in his life, in Birmingham (lots of evidence in this Archive), and it seems that he is the RB who was living there from 1784. There are various puzzles about him, including in particular about his marriages, which I intend to bring up in later posts.
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