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AUDIT BOOKS
Catalogue reference: E/A/Au
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- E/A/Au
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Title (The name of the record)
- AUDIT BOOKS
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Audit Books 1707 - c 1920
Audit Notebooks 1766 - 1876
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- Holkham Hall
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- English
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The annual Audit Account, 'a lucid form of estate account', appears to have been introduced by the guardians of Thomas Coke in 1707, and improved in 1711 (R.A.C. Parker, Coke of Norfolk, Oxford 1975, p.6). There are, however, references to earlier audit books, although none has survived.
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