CollectionGeorge IV Bills
ReferenceGEO/MAIN/30131-30151
Record TypeFinancial records
TitleGeorge IV's Privy Purse Accounts for subscriptions to charities, funds, theatres and clubs
Date23 June 1821-10 January 1828
DescriptionGEO/MAIN/30130A: Letter from James Allett Leigh (Minister), Thomas Mills and C.S. Cantrell (Churchwardens) to Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, requesting that the annual bounty continues to be paid the National Free School at Old Windsor (established by the late Lady Onslow); with a receipt for the subscription payment (to the Master George Bailey), 23 June - 24 July 1821. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30131: Receipt for payment from Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, Keeper of the Privy Purse, for salaries and allowances at the Royal Observatory, Richmond (to Reverend S. Demainbray and S.P. Rigand), 1 February 1822. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30132: Note from B. Leigh Lye to Robert Gray, requesting that George IV's subscription to the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society be paid to B. Hobhouse, 10 January 1822. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30133: Receipt for a payment from Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, Keeper of the Privy Purse, for a one guinea Christmas gift to M. Martin, Clerk of the Library of the Antiquarian Society, 14 January 1822. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30134: Letter from Lord Robert Seymour to Sir William Keppel, regarding George IV's Patronage of the Middlesex Hospital and an anniversary dinner, which will be Chaired by the Duke of Northumberland, 1 May 1822. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30135: Letter from Robert Gray to Lord Robert Seymour, regarding payment of George IV's annual donation to the Middlesex Hospital and his wishes for the success of the institution, 8 May 1822. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30136-30136A: Letter from Lord de Dunstanville to Robert Gray, expressing thanks for George IV's annual subscription towards repairs of the Royal Cornwall Lunatic Asylum and requesting that payment be arranged through Messrs Praeds; with a receipt for payment from Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, Keeper of the Privy Purse, 25 - 29 July 1822. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30137-30138: Letter from John Lincoln to Benjamin Tucker (Surveyor General of the County of Cornwall) regarding the Marine School, Mounts Bay, Cornwall (for the children of sailors and fishermen), including a list of donors and subscribers and the provisional Committee, undated. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30139: Receipt for a payment from Sir William Knighton, Keeper of the Privy Purse, of one quarter's allowance, to Reverend S. Demainbray (Keeper of the Observatory at Richmond), 13 January 1823. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30140: Letter from E.D.W. Mitchell to Robert Gray, conveying the Committee's thanks for an annual subscription payment to the Windsor Royal General Dispensary, 7 May 1823. 1 document
GEO/MAIN 30141: Receipt from the President of the Royal Society of Literature for a Royal Endowment for the year 1824 (signed by A.E. Impey), 22 April 1824. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30142: Receipt for payment of an annual donation to the Ladies Royal Benevolent Society, from Sir William Knighton (signed by Sarah Robertson), 7 July 1824. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30143-30144: Letter from Gabriel Steward to Frederick D. Danvers on behalf of the sufferers in the Island of Portland from the late storms, regarding a Royal Bounty, 20 January 1825. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30145: Letter from William Freeman (Honorary Secretary of the Committee) to Charles Arbuthnot (First Commissioner of Woods) thanking him for his letter communicating George IV's intention to contribute towards the relief of the poor sufferers in the Island of Portland, 26 January 1825. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30146: Letter from the First Commissioner of Woods to the Earl of Liverpool, enclosing a letter from the Honorary Secretary of the Committee acknowledging George IV's donation towards the relief of the sufferers, by the effects of the late storms, in the Island of Portland, 29 January 1825. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30147-30148: Extract from a report of a Committee meeting of the Society for Promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels (Chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury), where George IV's donation towards the funds of the Society was discussed, 2 May 1825. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30149: Letter from W. Johnson Rodber to Sir William Knighton, on behalf of the Committee of the Society for Promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels, regarding an unpaid donation from 1825, 4 January 1828. 1 document
GEO/MAIN/30150-30151: Letter from Sir William Knighton requesting that a message be conveyed to W. Johnson Rodber, Secretary of the Society for Promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels, that they should contact the First Lord of the Treasury about the unpaid donation, 10 January 1828. 1 document
LanguageEnglish
Extent18 documents
Physical DescriptionLoose manuscript papers
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