A Collection of Irish Rentals, etc., Early seventeenth century
Scope and Contents
(1) ff. 2-12. Accounts, taken weekly, from 28 December, 1638, to 26 December, 1630, of Remaines of bread, flower, ale, oxen, steeres, cowes, fatt sheepe, gamons of bacon, dried tongues, sturgeon, hoggs and porkers, capons and pullatts, turkies, hogsheads of Mozell wyne, etc, at Hanworth. The manor of Hanworth was at that time the property of Lord Cottington, see Lysons' Environs of London, V. 95. The following are in a handwriting of the time of Elizabeth. (2) ff. 14-21. Rentale 'Ville de Colerane' (3) ff. 22-24. Rentale 'Maner de Killreagh.' (4) ff. 24, 25. Rentale 'Maner de Killowen.' (5) ff. 26, 27. Rentale 'Maner de Macosquin.' (6) ff. 27b-29. Rentale 'Maner de Aghive.' (7) ff. 29, 30. Rentale 'Maner de Lisneycourt.' (8) f. 31. Rentale 'Maner de Maherafelt.' (9) f. 33. In the same handwriting as (1). 'The Corne Accompt taken the 29 of December, 1638, att Hanworth', and ' Corne sold out of the Graynyard,' in part of 1639. On the first fly-leaf, in the same handwriting as the Hanworth accounts, is the memorandum, 'called uppon by Mr Margetts.'
Dates
- Creation: Early seventeenth century
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Extent
1 volume(s) (37 leaves and 14 blanks)
Language of Materials
English
Latin
Custodial History
In the library by the mid 1750s.
Physical Description
Paper
Repository Details
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