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An Intriguing Patronage?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2016
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At Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire there survives the ‘House Account’ Book, kept between March 1862 and November 1895. In it are recorded for every day of the year the number taking meals in the house (divided between ‘parlour’, ‘Nursery’ and ‘Hall’), the food ordered in for their consumption (almost all off the estate) and the arrival and departure of all visitors — and some servants. This fascinating social document also provides the bare bones of a story of architectural patronage.
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1 Newstead Abbey Collections NA695/A.
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4 A. Z. Fraser, op. cit., p. 2, Pepper Hall, Northallerton was only leased by Mr Webb for a period during the 1850s. The house still exists but is now called Pepper Arden Hall.
5 The Builder, xix (1861), no. 975, 12 October, p. 708; ibid., no. 982, 30 November, p. 823.
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8 A. Z. Fraser, op. cit., p. in.
9 Mr C. E. A. Cheesman, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant at the College of Arms, confirmed that neither W. F. Webb nor his father attempted to regularize their heraldic position.
10 These plans and drawings are in the Sheffield Archives in the Series HCD 99/2/1-9 and 99/2/10-12.
11 MissWebb, Ethel is accepted as the source of much of the information contained in A Guide to Newstead Abbey and Gardens by Lloyd, A. J. (Mansfield, 1916)Google Scholar. The Statement re Hardman is on p. 82.
12 Birmingham City Archives, Hardman Glass Order Book 1857–63 (‘No. 74’), pp. 217, 217 & 218Google Scholar, 16 June 1862 and Hardman Glass Order Book 1863-66 (‘No. 37’), p. 136, 24 March 1864.
13 Birmingham City Archives, Hardman Archive Clients’ Correspondence (W). The Hardman archive is as yet uncatalogued, the above references, as written, were supplied by the Birmingham City Archivist, whom I thank for all the assistance I was given.
14 See n. n.
15 I am extremely grateful to Mrs J. Shaw Browne for her permission to see and quote the Memorandum and to examine her collection of Webb family papers and correspondence.
16 Dr John Martin Robinson, Librarian to the Duke of Norfolk, has given me much assistance in assessing C. A. Buckler’s contributions at Newstead and their relationship to his work at Arundel. I thank him also for accompanying me on a detailed tour of all Buckler’s interiors at Arundel.