• Reference
    TW809
  • Title
    Book of account of William Boteler V with his ?bailiff or servant
  • Date free text
    Nov 1661-Aug 1663
  • Production date
    From: 1661 To: 1663
  • Scope and Content
    Farm stock bought and sold, wages paid, goods bought, expenses at fairs or on journeys. Periodical balances signed William Boteler Mention of boats and boatman, turnip seed, garden seed, cabbage plants, wash balls, curry combs, “drag-rake”, “thekropes”, “prads”, “yelming”, powder and shot, tobacco and pipes, aniseed, brimstone, oil of spike, tar, ratsbane, and fairs at Elstow, Newport, Northampton, St.Leonards and Woburn. This seems to relate at least partly to Harrold The cover is part of a lease for 3 years at £15 per annum dated 1652 by Sir William Boteler to Anthony Clerke, Harrold, yeoman ... rectory, parsonage of Harrold, and tithes of ... oats, peas, corn and grain ... 2 barns for grain ... as much of yard within great gates next church lane for a rick of peas Rent to be paid at Kirtons
  • Level of description
    item