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...

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'The accompt of Richard Pulley gent. receiver of the revenue of William Lord Peter [William Petre] within the counties of Essex and Cambridge sequestered and assigned for the use of his highnes Charles Lodwick, prince elector, count Palatine &c, of the Rheine by virtue of an ordinance of parliament ... for one whole year ending 29 day of September 1645'.

Scope and Contents Comprising: (p. vii) the revenues of the bishop, dean, archdeacons etc.; (p. 5) a list of benefices with their respective values, patrons and incumbents arranged alphabetically under deaneries and archdeaconries; (p. 241) list of benefices in the diocese in the presentation of the bishop of Ely; (p. 259) copy of appropriation of Ludham Church, Norfolk; (p. 260) copy of deed of union of vicarages of Ormesby and Scratby, Norfolk. Also including: (p. i) copy of declaration against the Solemn...

Scope and Contents Includes: (fo. 1) note upon work and wages in the mills at Knutsford; (fo. 2v) various notes upon domestic matters; (fo. 15) notes upon certain payments and allowances; (fo. 16) general accounts, kept daily, January 1831 - December 1834; (fo. 64v) accounts of sums spent upon particular objects, 1835-1838; (fo. 120) drafts and receipts, 1831-1836; (fo. 129) rough notes and accounts for 1837. On the fly-leaves at the end are rough pencilled notes and accounts. On the fly-leaf at the beginning...

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Statement of the accounts of the estate of Sir William Pole, written in various hands, 185 folios. There are indexes on fos 114-117. Attached to fo. 1 is a letter from W.H.H. Rogers to S.G. Perceval, 25 February 1888. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Sektor Library, with the arms of Davidson of Curriehill, Co. Midlothian, and the writing 'Presented to the British Museum by Spencer George Perceval'. Fos 1v, 30-50, 62, 63, 70, 97-100 and 118-185 are blank.

Scope and Contents Covering dates Easter 1770-Easter 1795. Includes further material: (fo. 84) copy returns of population at Foxton, 27 May 1811; (fo. 85) adjudication of JPs in case of Eliza Barns, pauper, 4 Oct. 1828; (fo. 86) letter from Edward Hawke Ness to Swan Hurrell, 21 May 1834; (fo. 88) letter from Phelips Hanham to Rachel Allen, 28 Aug. 1834; (fo. 90) copy letter from Allen Hurrell to unidentified, 9 Sep. 1834; (fo. 92) Swan Hurrell, accounts re illegitimate child of Sir Alexander Cockburn, 1833-5;...

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A computus of the revenues of King Charles in the county of Lincoln, for the year ending at Michaelmas 1649. This is followed by nine similar accounts of the revenues of that king and of Queen Henrietta in the year 1648, in the counties of Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln and Chester; and of the possessions of the then lately deceased Mathew and Margaret Earl and Countess of Lenox in the county of York, for the year 1648.

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The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.