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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D6967/7/1
Former ReferenceD6967/4/5
TitlePersonal account book of William Wyatt of Foolow
DateApr 1783-Jan 1802
DescriptionIndex at front, pages numbered as folios. Records income and expenditure, giving dates, names and sums paid or received. Payments are often for goods (e.g. coals, spade shafts, fol.8, or 8 long poles to the mine fol.10), but also include e.g. expenses appointing a new constable, or for men when the militia was at Bakewell. Some of the entries record moneys received on someone's behalf, e.g. folio 19 records a payment received from John Nailer for William Roberts. This may be the John Naylor who kept a lead-mining diary c1789-1810, referenced D7812/1.

The volume itself is numbered D6967/4/5 (i), with its loose front cover and inside page being numbered (ii) and (iii).
Loose papers inside the volume are numbered D6967/4/5 (iv) to (xviii) and include:
Water Grove accounts;
Promise to pay slips made out to William Wyatt;
Turnpike subscription receipt;
A Reckoning of Chappell Dale Mine from October 7th 1788 to Oct 7th 1801;
Profits from the Old Belland measured from the Chappell Dale Mine;
Chappell Dale partnership document, dated January 1770, with a list of names, including the Duke of Devonshire, and the proportions subscribed.
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorPeak District Mines Historical Society
Archivist NoteThis item was re-catalogued in July 2018, BS
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