| Description | This bundle of nine accounts covers 1819 to 1827. There is a separate account for general expenditure and a separate London account for each year.
The general expenditure and income accounts are balance sheets which list expenses connected with Miss Boulton's estates (repairs to tenanted farms, etc.), taxes and levies, and running costs of Thornhill (furniture, repairs, garden, housekeeping, servants' wages, stable expenses, etc.). They list income from various sources including rents, annuities, interest on mortgages and from time to time sales of the produce of the estate, such as timber.
The London House accounts reflect the state of Miss Boulton's account with M.R. Boulton, J.Watt & Co., the firm's London agency where an account was opened for her in January 1810. They show some London expenditure (sherry, duty paid thereon, items of furniture, etc.) and income from dividends etc. The London House balance due to Miss Boulton each year is carried forward in the 'Receipts' side of the general accounts.
An example of the information contained in the accounts is given below in a transcript of the accounts for 1819. Items noted in other years include the following: in the general account for 1820, receipts include the sale of deal for packing cases, £10 8s.4d., grazing for cows £2.10s., and exchange of candlesticks, 10s.6d. In 1821 grass, trees, pea-sticks, bundles of faggots and old chimney pots were sold for a total of £15.2s.0d.
See also: MS 3782/14/63 to 64, which are small account books for her "London House Account", 1814-1827; and MS 3782/14/65 to 66, which are small account books for her "Own Account", for 1815 to 1825. |