1820 07 29 : Pay receipt for mowing & winning clover

Update on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 1:02PM by Petra Mitchinson

29 Jul 1820. PAY RECEIPT FOR MOWING & WINNING CLOVER. A fresh, very neat and clean receipt. 4” x 6”. “Winning” in this context is a Scottish and Northern English word for “drying by exposure to air and sun”. July 29th. 1820. Received of Sir Philip MUSGRAVE Bart. by payment of L S DIXON Eleven Pounds 2s/-d for Mowing & winning 37. Acres of Clover (part of the allotment called Wallace’s) at 6s/- per acre by me ——————- [signed] James TODD £ 11 ~ 2 ~ 0 ——————-