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Mason, — (1732)

Mason, —, address unrecorded, gilder (1732). Named in the accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter, on 7 April 1732 receiving £3 12s for ‘gilding the two chimney pieces in the N.E. rooms’ chief apartment’; on 29 April £1 7s ‘for gilding the frame of the table in the Picture Room and the medal and in full for gilding to this day’; and on 25 September, £2 12s 5d ‘for gilding the chimney piece in the drawing room & in full of all accounts for gilding to this day.’ [A. C. Edwards, The Accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter, pp. 46 and 48]

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.