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Cash book recording estate accounts
Title
Cash book recording estate accounts, 1775 Jan 1-1787 Dec 31.
Physical Description
1 v. (ca. 410 p.) ; 34 cm
Language
English
Notes
With ms. title on front cover: Cashbook beginning the 1st Jamuary 1775
Bound in contemporary vellum
With label pasted in lower left corner of front pastedown: MS RCF49K.
Small 20th-century pamphlet laid in: General rules for the Wymondham and District Homing Pigeon Club.
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Samuel Gedge, November 2016.
Access and use
This material is available for research.
Summary
A manuscript cash book recording various estate expenses and income between 1775 and 1787 for Sir Armine Wodehouse (1714-1777) and then his heir Sir John Wodehouse (1741-1834) who inherited the property upon the death of his father in 1777. The monthly accounts include: wages to farm laborers (carpenters, farm workers, etc.) and household servants; rents from properties including Kimberly Hall; taxes and disbursements to charities; payments for or income from livestock (lambs, rabbits, horses, etc.) and crops and seeds, the sale of timber, and other estate related business.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 15, 2017
References
Cash Book Recording Estate Accounts. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Cash Book Recording Estate Accounts. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Accounts.
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