Reference
X171/208
Title
Account-book and diary of Jn. Blundell of Meppershall
Date free text
1762-1774
Production date
From: 1762 To: 1774
Scope and Content
208 pp. 6 x 4 bound in green leather
Includes -
medical recipes
farm payments (threshing, harvesting, dung, a plough, hockling haulm, harness, cutting chaff, thatching (details), rick-making, rent etc.);
clothes (making shirts, waistcoats, hose, shoes, wig, gloves at Silsoe fair);
household (coal, meat, making elder wine);
land tax;
statute duty on the highways, etc.
Archival history
Found by T.W. Bagshawe before 1948 in a cottage at Meppershall, and deposited by him in January 1967.
Level of description
item