| Title | Volume labelled 'Day Book Jan 6' 18 [Very little used]:
A sum lent to the Melbourne Committee, followed by miscellaneous payments for levies, land tax, purchases of farm animals, wages, clothing 1801-1809 and receipts, often on balancing the account, 1804-1810;
Later entries on the inside of the front cover, interspersed with, the accounts of 1801-1810 relate to sales of grains, receipt of rents and entries relating to Blackfordby [Leicestershire] which are perhaps also rent receipts, 1822-1826;
Miscellaneous memoranda eg "first newspaper" brought, servants hired with wages, price of cheese, 1840-1842, entry to land and rent 1843, money spent 1840, money lent to servants and potatoes and thatch sheaves sold 1841, and note 'James Newbold His Book Apr 21st 18?40';
At Rear - cash paid for building new house, wages paid, hair purchased, payments to Godfrey Barton by measure, received by Mr Knifton for work done, sales of grain, etc 1813.
Receipt for ?loan from William Knifton to John Robinson, 1817, receipts 1814, sales of sheep 1809, money sent to London to brother W Knifton. |