Item MFP/1/1/7 - Housekeeping account book of John Forth and Elizabeth Forth, 1798

1 volume

Includes notes on servants engaged, their conditions and wages.

Contents:
Folio 1 Casual Payments
Folio 50 Butcher’s Account

Folio 65 Corn Account
Folio 70 Coal Account
Folio 75 Accounts about Cows
Folio 78 Ale & Beer Account
Folio 80 Stock Account
Folio 85 Casual Remarks
Folio 87 Yest Account

Extracts:
Folio 0b. Jan. 1799.
“Jane Thirk was engaged as under Servant on the 3rd of last Dec. & came here on the 6th of that Month. She returned Home on Saturday the 5th of Jan. being very ill. … She was too young & weak for our Place.”

Folio 1b. 10th Jan. 1799.

“All our Copper Pots & Pans were new Tinned …”

Folio 19a. 21st June 1799.
“Mr & Mrs Forth gave Emma Forth in Consequence of her having lost two Guineas out of her Pockets … £2.2.0d”

Folio 26b.

“From last Martinmas up to this Martinmas we have used either 6½ Stone of yellow Soap or 7
Stone & Two Dozen Pounds of Candles, One Dozen pounds of Stable Mould Candles, & about 7
Dozen of Kitchen Do.”

Folio 27b. 22nd Nov. 1799.
“(Martinmas) Tom has been one year with us up to this Date & we have found him with every thing he has in wear – We find he has Cost us since last Nov. 1798 to this Nov 1799, about £6.10.0d. All the Bills for his expences will be found in our accounts …”

Folio 31b. 23rd Dec.

Sold easy chair, previously bought at Miss Fairfax’s sale. £1.1.0d. (See Acc. 54.3. June 1793)

Folio 77b. (Folio 78 in Contents list)

Tapping ale barrels and barrels of porter

Folio 79b. (Folio 80 in Contents list)

Stock includes a black “crosst” mare, a bay mare. a grey “poney”, a brood mare, a colt foal rising
one year. Cows – one black and white, one red, one black and white heifer, two young heifers rising
two years and two rising one year, 14 Scotch heifers.

[Extracts provided by a volunteer.]

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