[Household expense records].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Doughty, Anne, active 18th century.

Contributor:

• Fiske, R. C., former owner.

Language:

English

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• account books
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by R. C. Fiske, Morningthorpe (Norfolk; bookplate, inside front cover).
• Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Norwich, England), 2016.

Physical Description:

140 leaves : paper ; 200 x 156 mm bound to 210 x 170 mm

Place of Publication:

[England], 1767-1772, 1776-1787, 1794.

Biography/History:

Daughter of Thomas Powys of Lilford Hall (last signing the records as Anne Powys, f. 51v), married Robert Lee Doughty of Hanford Hall in 1777 (receipts written to Mrs. Doughty, f. 111r-112r, 136r-140r).

Summary:

Expenses for food and drink; household items such as soap, candles, and charcoal; household equipment such as dishes, decanters, pudding pans, and a carpet broom; services such as washing and transportation; and wages for servants. These are recorded at the item level chronologically from 1767 to 1772 and again in 1776 (f. 2v-64r). Starting in 1777, expenses are recorded at the level of bills paid to vendors, grouped by category, with sections, often starting on new pages, for butter, eggs, fish, poultry, charwomen, house, rabbits, lemons, baker, fishmonger, greengrocer, oil man, tallow chandler, washing, brewer, milk and cream, coal merchant, confectioner, and servants' journey (f. 64v-134r). The last pages of the volume are used for records of wages and include repeated signatures by women servants to acknowledge receipt of wages.between 1776 and 1785 (f. 134v-140r), with one receipt from 1794 noted on the last page (f. 140r).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper, 140 leaves; 1¹⁰ (leaf 1 front pastedown) 2-3¹² 4¹⁰ 5-9¹² 10¹⁴⁺¹ (leaf 9 is singleton) 11¹² 12¹²⁻1 (leaf 11 end pastedown, missing leaf 12); modern foliation in pencil, [1-140], upper right recto.
• Layout: Ruled in 5 columns in faint red ink, one narrow column for dates on the left, a wide center column for notes, and three narrow columns on the right for amounts in pounds, shillings, and pence; quarto format.
• Script: Written in cursive script in the hand of Anne Doughty.
• Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) vellum; blind-tooled borders on covers.
• Origin: Written in London (f. 21v); Tunbridge (f. 39r); Lilford Hall, Northamptonshire (f. 45r); Henley (f. 45r) between 1767 and 1772 (f. 2v-56r) and in Hanworth Hall, Norfolk (f. 57v); and London (f. 59r) between 1776 and 1787,

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 2025.

OCLC:

1126242945