James Essex: Personal professional accounts
Scope and Contents
Account book. Includes references to work at, and visits to, the cathedrals of Ely, Lincoln and Winchester., and all three occur in this account book. The volume contains references also to Essexs money-lending activities. Also includes credit and debit accounts, 1769-76, mixed personal and professional transactions. Miscellaneous later notes in two different hands. From the back: Account of all the land wch I occupy, some apparently at Boxworth, Cambs.
Dates
- Creation: 1769-1776
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume, paper) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
purchased 1997
General
In rubbed calf backed boards, with tooled decoration and metal clasps.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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