| Description | An account book largely covering expenditure on labour and purchases.
Summary of items recorded in volumes MS 2126/3/5g/2 - 6a.
Initially arranged by location of work undertaken and giving detailed accounts (quarterly, half-yearly, yearly and extraordinary (e.g. folio 59 account re a burnt hay rick on 29 December 1812) of wages and expenses incurred.
Includes farm labour and jobbing (Thomas Toy's, Richard Bayliss's, William Harrison's, John Edward's, Samuel Harrison's, Thomas Richards's, John Harrison Senior's and Metchley Park), pool and other estate repairs and improvements (including named roads), produce accounts (hay, timber, potatoes and sand) and purchase of implements, seeds and stationary.
Arranged chronologically and becoming increasingly classified under headings such as:
Nursery and Plantation/Sandpits/Sundry Labour and Team Work/ Landlords improvements/Sundry Bill and Expenses/Drawing/Foreman's Wages/New Roads. |