5 Jun 2007

Household economy:

Madam's pocket expenses throughout the year, for waterage, coach-hire, chair-hire, for visiting, and for going to operas, balls, plays, concerts, publick shews and spectacles, publick feasts,Vauxhall, Ranelagh, &c.

30 pounds
From: The Batchelor's Advocate: being, a Modest Estimate of the Expences attending the Married Life, Edward Ward 1729

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