Selections from the Disbursements Book, 1691-1709 of Sir Thomas Haggerston, Bart

Bok av M. C. (EDT) Forster
Accounts of Catholic country gentleman's household, detailing costs of food, clothing, domestic and estate items, wages, gifts and allowances etc. Provides insight into the functioning of a family and estate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the state of the local economy. Household accounts: Social and economic history, 17-18c.