The complete servant; being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants ... With useful receipts and tables / by Samuel and Sarah Adams.

  • Adams, Samuel, servant
Date:
1825
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Credit: The complete servant; being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants ... With useful receipts and tables / by Samuel and Sarah Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We have been favoured with the following as the present Household Establishment of a respectable Country Gentleman, with a young family, whose Net Income is from 16,000l. to 18,000]. a Year, and whose expenses do not exceed 7OOOl.; viz.— ie Guineas, House-Keeper = b vbeace , 24 Female Teacher ° : ; 60 Lady’s-Maid . 2 ; ° ° 20 Head Nurse . : 4 ‘ : 20 Second Ditto : ais Z 10 Nursery-Maid ° . R a 2 Upper House-Maid : : iy hee Under House-Maid : > . 14° Kitchen-Maid * ‘ .“ o | «14 Upper Laundry-Maid . . |. 144 Under Ditto. . qctehts . 10 Dairy-Maid ° ‘ ‘ . 8 Second Ditto anes ‘ . 7 Still-Room Maid . AB te ; i) Scullion — A ‘ . . 9 A French Man-Cook ¢ ; . 80 Butler. 5 ee ‘ A : 50 Coachman .. ; : yA 28 Footman . 3 ree a . , 24 Under Ditto . ‘ . : 20 Groom.—His Liveries and a Gratuity. Lady’s Groom ‘ 12 Nursery-Room Boy, Clothesand a attuality: Head Game-Keeper 70 Guineas a year, and 13s, per Week for Board-Wages ;—a Cottage and Firing, Under Ditto, one Guinea per Week. Gardener 40 Guineas a year, and 13s. per . Week for Board-Wages ;—a House and Firing. | _ . Assistant Ditto, 12s. per Week.