General bills and receipts, comprising clothing bills 1639-1675, followed by files of bills, receipts and occasional correspondence kept by Samuel Sidebotham resulting from the routine domestic management, landscaping and extravagant personal expenditure of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th Baronet. Recurrent expenses include travelling and accommodation, labour, taxes, insurance, ground rent and public services in London, works of art, fabrics, foodstuffs, drink, clothing, jewellery, silver plate, furnishings, books, plays, and susbcriptions to charities and clubs. Another file concerns exclusively the renovations of the town house in St James’s Square. The contents reflect the baronet’s indulgence of his cultural interests at Wynnstay and in London, and include bills from high-quality artists, craftsmen, musicians and London tradesmen. The files are as follows: clothing bills, 1639-1675; bills and receipts (personal, household, estate), 1746, 1770-1783; bill of Rysbrack the sculptor, 1751; bills and receipts (personal, household, estate), 1769-1782; bills and receipts for arts and architecture, 1770-1775; bills and receipts (personal, household, estate), 1770-1782; bills and receipts (coming of age, household and estate), 1770-1782; bills and receipts (personal, household, estate), 1770-1789; bills, receipts and accounts (tour of North Wales), 1771; bills, receipts, etc. (renovations at 20, St James’s Square, London), 1771-1783; apothecary’s account, 1778; and bills for park labourers, 1779-1780.