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Accounts, bills and receipts relating to estates at Hodsock, Blyth, Ranskill, and...

Catalogue reference: Me E 59-63

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This record is about the Accounts, bills and receipts relating to estates at Hodsock, Blyth, Ranskill, and... dating from 1813-1829.

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Reference

Me E 59-63

Title

Accounts, bills and receipts relating to estates at Hodsock, Blyth, Ranskill, and Torworth, Nottinghamshire

Date

1813-1829

Description

The papers concern the estates run by Mrs Anne Chambers with John Horncastle. The bulk of the bills and receipts fall mainly under the following heads:-

Bank receipts, carriage of goods (including canal freightage), entertainment (accommodation and meals), farm produce, household supplies (brewing, cereals, coal, dairy produce, drapery, kitchenware, medicine, meats, milling, poultry, vegetables, wine), repairs and maintenance of the house, church, farms (brick making, carpentry, culverts, drainage, fencing, gardens, glazing, nails, masonry, painting, paving, plastering, plumbing, roofing, ropes, scaffold, timber, well digging), roads (repair, tax tolls) school fees (pupils, teacher, Sunday school), stamps, taxes (excise duty, poor levies), wages and board.

Held by
Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
Language

English

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1c53017e-0dd8-4dcf-8f7d-961f7a7a5bcf/

Series information

Me E 1-82

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Accounts, bills and receipts relating to estates at Hodsock, Blyth, Ranskill, and Torworth, Nottinghamshire