| Description | Written on cover "The Book of Accounts for the Coleminers in Stavely from ... 1665"
Memorandum on court baron of Sir John Rodes with names of jurors, 23 June 1698; memorandum on Nichola Lenthal being made a parish apprentice, being 8 years old and born in Nottingham, 6 Aug 1711; memoranda on births and deaths of the Bowdon family, 1728-1764; survey of lands of Henry Bowdon in Wheston and Tideswell, 30 Dec 1691 (8 pages); accounts (monthly totals) of coals got and sold at Toadwick Moor for years 1721-1734; memoranda on Bowdon family deaths, 1779-1781; note of addresses of Henry Bowdon and John Bowdon of Southgate House, Chesterfield, 6 March 1835, with caricature head and shoulders of man in profile; account of money laid out at Shuttlewood and Clowne Moor, July 1722-Dec 1733; draft pedigree of the Bowdon family of Bowdon, with caricature drawings of Fanny, including "saying her prayers" and of man; drawing of Southgate House, Clowne; account of money received at Beighton Fields, Nov 1691-Sep 1694; account of money spent in getting coal, Jan 1698-June 1708; accounts for Beighton Fields for year 1723; accounts of Mary Bowdon received from Mrs Goodlad, Nov 1778-Nov 1779; accounts of Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire rents, 1773-1784; catalogue of books brought from Wheston or found at Beighton Fields, 1695, with additions; account of "the coals my Lord Oxford has to Welbeck, undated [mid 18th cent]; accounts for building of barn at Wheston, 1703; accounts for sinking new pit, Mar-Apr 1714; list of clothes left at the death of wife, 10 Oct 1728; list of plate laid up in box in closet belonging to a son [mid 18th cent]; memorandum on John Turner, glover of Staveley Netherthorpe, on turning down of stone and receipt of a halfpenny as acknowledgement of trespass, with list of 8 witnesses, 29 July 1728 |