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Reference Number705:73 BA14450/173/9 (a-u); 10
Hierarchy Browser Number350/5/1/1/46
TitleHousehold account book
DescriptionBound volume detailing the amounts expended on household items, including provisions of food and drinks, fuel, occasional repair work and labouring, servants wages and expenses, board wages, payments for travel and turnpike charges, clothing and personal items, tradesmen's bills, donations given and other related expenses incurred by the Coventry family.
Entries relate to the Coventry family's various properties including Croome Court, Worcestershire, Coventry Hall, Streatham and Piccadilly House, London.
Volume includes 22 loose sheets, now stored in a separate folder at 705:73 BA14450/173/9 a-). These items include additional accounts, an account for carpentry work done, a bill for Lady Coventry's drawing up of a will (705:73 BA14450/173/9-h) and a memorandum regarding Lady Coventry's accounts with the late Mr Barbaroux, August 1836 (705:73 BA14450/173/9-q).
Folder 705:73 BA14450/173/10 contains 10 additional sheets that were separated from this account book whilst in the custody of the Croome Estate Trust. These include: a note on Thomas Coventry, Baron Coventry of Allesborough's properties, an 'Epitaph on one who never forgave', a list of 'things I have' by Anne Margaret Wright, an extract from 'Mr W. Rasen's letter to Mr Blackaston', regarding provisions for Miss Kitching; notes of servants wages, an account of linen purchased and several poems, including one submitted to the Morning Herald on death [person not named].
DateMay 1831-Dec 1836
Physical DescriptionBinding has become detached. Paper has suffered very badly from damp and is very weak and crumbling. Very fragile, to be handled with care
Access ConditionsToo fragile for handling, not to be issued.
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