Text set / Account book from Unthank Hall, Derbyshire.

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Title: Account book from Unthank Hall, Derbyshire.
Creator: Lowe, John, 1763-1837.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1775-1815
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Account book kept by John Lowe of Unthank Hall, Derbyshire. The volume mainly consists of farm accounts for things such as rents, sheep raising, livestock feed, laborers' wages, building supplies and other miscellaneous transactions. It also includes some family birth and death information, including the burial expenses for John Lowe (d. 1793), as well as some medical recipes. One 1814 itemized bill for payment by John Lowe is laid in at the front of the volume and appears to be from a merchant named Hill.
Condition: Bound in original vellum, worn and stained but sturdy; vellum torn at foot of spine, but with no damage to text block.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Account books
Extent: 184 pages, bound ;41 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1sp61
f MS.2015.012
Language: English
eng
Subject: Agriculture--Accounting--Early works to 1800.
Place: England--Derbyshire--Holmesfield
Location: CLUW

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