Manuscripts

Elisabeth Broadbent account book

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Description: Elisabeth Broadbent's account book of her expenditure on clothes, shoes and jewelery; including her particularly heavy expenditure in 1771 for wedding clothes. Evidently keen to follow the latest fashions, Elisabeth Broadbent makes do, having her dresses dyed and mended, shoes recovered, etc. Original wallet-style vellum with fold-over flap, brass fastener with leaf engraving, 15 x 11 cm., 60 pages with additional blank pages lined but not used.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1761, September - 1776, February.
Call number: mssHM 82609
Creator: Broadbent, Elisabeth(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from John Hart Antiquarian Bookseller, June 2015.

Abraham Duryea (1742-1802) & Stephen Duryea, Account book; Stephen Duryea, Court docket book

Manuscripts

Bound volume with paper covers; loose legal pages laid into the back of the volume. Account book includes the years 1771-1773; Court docket book, 1775.

mssDuryea

Account book recording expenditure on the building of Newgate prison in Bristol, 1690-1693

Manuscripts

This manuscript account book records expenditure during the course of the building of the Newgate prison in Bristol. A special levy of sixpence was imposed on Bristol householders to cover the cost of the building works. The monies collected from different parishes are recorded here, together with details of loans from different private citizens. The volume includes a record of individually itemized expenditure on all manner of building materials including lime, timber, marble and nails, as well as lists of artisans and laborers, among them lime burners, masons, plumbers, carvers and others.

mssHM 81171

Midwife's Account Book

Manuscripts

This small volume is made up of pages sewn together between two sets of marbled covers, with some damage. The midwife was based in Towcester, a market town in southern Northamptonshire, England).

mssHM 83509

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Manuscript account of George Clymer

Manuscripts

The first 13 pages of Clymer's manuscript contain notes from his journals, with random observations, about his time in Southern California, including Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Monterey. Clymer talks about the people he sees, their clothes, customs, dwellings, etc. He also describes California's weather, landscape, agriculture and crops. The remaining 83 pages are written in a narrative style and concern Clymer's time in South America, including Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Clymer also briefly discusses the political history of the area, touching on the Peru-Bolivian Confederation in the late 1830s, and mentioning the lengthy string of wars fought in Peru and elsewhere since independence from Spain; as well as, the effects of civil war in Bolivia. He also talks about his voyage in the Pacific, the sea creatures he sees, the calmness of the Pacific Ocean, etc. The manuscript has numerous corrections and additions, indicating that Clymer perhaps intended it for publication, or at least for a more personal public audience.

mssHM 72090

William Davenport & Co. account book relating to ship voyages, 1777-1784

Manuscripts

An account book of William Davenport & Co. relating to voyages made by the ships Ann, Liverpool, Hero, Swift, and Hector, trading between Liverpool, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone, Dominica, Antigua, and Kingston, Jamaica. A huge variety of different articles shipped out on these voyages are recorded, among them clothing, fabrics, beads, foodstuffs, tools, cutlery, wine, guns and gunpowder. These items presumably were intended for sale both in Africa and the West Indies. Also listed are various sales of slaves in Jamaica, Dominica, and throughout the West Indies. The volume is written in two directions with the text beginning at one cover then turned over and beginning again (tête-bêche style) and contains entries written in several hands; with original paper labels titled in manuscript pasted to the center of each cover. Pages 1-11, 24-50, 52-77 record accounts for the Hector, Liverpool, Hero and Swift (with pages 12-23 sometime excised and p. 51 omitted); then reversed and beginning at the other end of the volume, the remaining 93 pages record accounts for the Ann and cutter Bee, with 10 blank pages between the two sections.

mssHM 82854

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Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford, account book

Manuscripts

A manuscript volume containing the current accounts for Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford, covering the years 1850 January 1-1858 December 31, with his bank Child & Co., London, England. The volume is divided into incoming funds on versos and sums paid on rectos and in some cases very large sums of money are recorded (£ 259,431); entries include, for example, income from Covent Garden Market and payments for kitchen gardens. The entries provide insights into the life of one of England's highest ranked peers. The volume is in very good condition, with contemporary vellum covers; the pages are ruled in red with entries mainly in one hand. The covers contain the title: "His Grace / the Duke of Bedford / Current Account / From 1st Jany / To 31st Decr 1858."

mssHM 83789

Elisabeth Broadbent account book

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