Oct. 16. Bought a china figure for Mrs. McNally, 4s.
Painting do., 1s. 3d.
Treating Mrs. McNally, wine, 1s.
Went to see her home from the play, 1s.; purl, 2d.
(This lady was a good customer of the firm: on referring to the cash-book, we find she paid, on Oct. 16th, £18 13s. 9d.)
Nov. 27. At Bow. Observed in the burning of the bisquit ware that dishes and plates should be burnt in new cases, and only one in each case, as when two are burnt in one another it is certain that one is always bad.
All handled chocolates and coffees and handled teas to be burnt with covers.
Dec. 26. Dined with Mr. H. Frye and family at Stratford.’
“In the front of this book is a note in pencil, written in 1866, stating that—
“‘One hundred years since, John Bowcocke died, Tuesday, Feb. 26th, 1765, at 6 o’clock in the evening, of lockjaw. He was brother to William Bowcocke, of Chester, painter, my mother’s father.—Thos. Bailey.’