Naworth Estate and Household Accounts 1648-1660

Household books kept by the steward of Charles Howard, later first Earl of Carlisle, who had recently joined the Parliamentarian cause. Includes receipts and disbursements, and bailiffs' accounts for the Cumberland manors. Details rents from properties in Cumberland, Northumberland and Yorkshire and gives evidence of increasing revenues from the Cumberland estates. Also reveals arrangements for entertaining figures such as Cromwell. Transcribed in full. Household accounts: Social and economic history, 17c