Pièce MFP/1/1/5 - Housekeeping account book of John Forth and Elizabeth Forth, 1792-1793

1 volume

Includes notes of general and family interest. Most payments are for food and there are references to employment of servants and wages.

Extracts:
21st Dec. 1793:
“A little Boy of Walches Wife’s Swept our Kitchen Chimney, the Parlour, the Nursery, & the best Lodging room. Mr F. was at York that day & I did not pay the Boy but thought it better to pay his Mistress when she call’d. I gave him 2d for himself.”

December 1792,

Poor Man 2d”, “to sundry Boys 1s 7d” ,

January 1793,

“Gave the Children on New Years day 1s 9½d”, “Given to Natty Forth 1s 0d”.

25th Feb.,1793

“Lost at Cards 1s 0d.”
“Poor Man 2d”. Another poor man received 1d on the 16th Oct.

31st Oct. 1793

“Paid Mrs Leathem for one Fourth share of an Irish Lottery Ticket Number 22,856 for the year 1793 £1.2.6d”

In the reverse of the account book:
Duties of underservants; recipes for lip salve, cough cures, ink, shoe blacking, various puddings, cakes, “Minch’d Pyes” [mince pies], and wines.
Prescription for preventing miscarriages (this is written in a different hand and dated 1804). Note: “Lady Carlisle gave the following Prescription to Mrs Forth, w’ch was sent to her Ladyship for that Purpose by Lady Morpeth as having been of great Service to the Duchess of Devonshire & many others in preventing Miscarriages”.
Corn & meat accounts

[Extracts provided by a volunteer.]

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