Fox, Deveareux, address unrecorded, joiner, carver and gilder (1764). Commissioned by Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks., to make three chimney pieces. His bill for work done between 26 May and 9 June 1764 described them in detail. The first, costing £12 9s 9d, had an ogee cornice carved with three mouldings of ‘leav'd grass’, ‘Eggs and tongs’, and ‘flowers and Double Tongs’. The ‘tirms’ were ‘Work'd with scrolls foulladge leaves swags of fruit and flowers’, and the ‘Cove frezes Work'd with Husks and foulladge leaves and a swag of fruit and flowers.’ The second, or ‘Gilt Chimney Peice’, costing £26 5s 6d, had freezes enriched with astragals, and ‘tirms Work'd with scrolls foulladge leaves &c, the freze with a Floras Head in the Middle and Drapery with swags of fruit and flowers — To joiners Work Carving Gilding’. The third chimney piece, costing £14 16s 1d, had an ogee cornice enriched with ‘7 leav'd grass’, flowers, and ‘Tongs’, ‘the tirms Work'd with scrolls foulladge leaves flowers &c.’ The freeze was ‘Work'd 2 Boys in the Middle with a bird, and french work treework swags of fruit and flowers &c all According to Drawing.’ The bill totalled £53 11s 4d, and was receipted on 6 August 1764 by Samuel Butler. [Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts DR 18/5]