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MANUSCRIPT. LEE-ANTONIE, William. An Estimate of Bricklayers and Plasterers Work propos'd to be done for Lee Antonie Esq at his Farm at Edgware. Joseph Chapman. 1807
A detailed single sided schedule of the work to be carried out, with an estimate of £54.10s, dated June 1807. With an accompanying smaller handwritten bill, also dated June, for £7.5s for repairing plastering and whitewashing all the inside of the house and cellars. 31 x 20cm.

¶The work was for a comprehensive refurbishment, including underpinning, retiling, making good hearths, new steps to the cellar, repairing chimneys, repointing, and painting. William Lee-Antonie, 1764-1815, inherited Totteridge Park, Colworth House, and Edgware Boys, on his father's death in 1778, when he was just 14. His uncle and brother-in-law acted as trustees during his minority, and acquired in his name the Medmenham and Little Marlow estates in Buckinghamshire, which gave a controlling interest in the Parliamentary representation of Great Marlow. At the first opportunity after he came of age, William was duly elected to Parliament for Marlow, but he showed no interest in politics to the dismay of his trustees, and was much keener on making improvements to his house at Colworth and in hunting. He was unmarried and without issue, but brought back a French mistress, Catharine Rosalie Duthé, from his Grand Tour and installed her at Colworth, to the scandal of his relations; she lived with him until his death. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.
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