Item genre: Accounts

The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 10 (Accounts), fol. 5r


John Sibthorpe (Author)

[Military account of John Sibthorpe, dated 6 February 1588.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 13 (Accounts), fol. 6r-v


John Sibthorpe (Author)

[Several military accounts of John Sibthorpe, various dates in 1587 and 1588.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 58 (Accounts), fols 62r-65r

Accounts written by John Sibthorpe, probably wages of servants

[One item is dated 1588. Fol. 64v contains the end of the book list (see msItem 59).]

[Fols 62v and 63v are blank.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 65 (Accounts), fols 71r-72v

Receipts from Robert and Ann Johnson (and witnessed by others) for rent payments for tenements in Acton by Southwell and Sibthorpe, from 1632- 1636

[Fol. 72r contains notes from a funeral sermon on Robert Johnson (see msItem 66). After Robert Johnson's death Ann Johnson continued to rent out tenements to the Sibthorpes. The witnesses to the receipts are Thomas Warburton, Samuel Rowson, Mary Phillips, and Joseph Hopton.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 46 (Accounts, Autobiography, Diary entry, Meditation, Religious writing), fols. 52r-53r (fol. 52v is blank)

Upon lending Mr C. money

His abominable rudeness for my kindness to him, I may learn a lesson from.

...

And thus I may be glad I have met with some to prevent more.


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 143 (Accounts, Autobiography, Meditation, Religious writing), fols. 99v-100r

A meditation on the hardships Austen has endured over six years, focusing on her financial hardships, into which is embedded a list of monies she has lost or loaned to other parties between August 1664 and Michaelmas 1665.

Meditations on the sickness and of Highbury.

Through six afflictions God has promised to carry his children, and in the seventh they shall be delivered.

...

At this time is arrived that most bounteous blessing of Highbury, which I hope will wade me through the residue of my expensive buildings and disappointment of rents from a general cause / stroke.

[For the significance of the six-year period, see biographical article.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 165 (Accounts, Autobiography), fols. 109v-110r

A prose description of Austen's numerous financial losses and hardships.

March 20 1665 [1666].

Our estate is sunk now almost to half it was, which seems to be a paradox.

...

There is nothing but has interruptions and these little things may blow away.


Folger Library: MS X.d.177
Jests and poems, compiled c.1595, with later additions (c. 1595-c. 1660)
Elizabeth Clarke (scribe)

Item 4 (Accounts, Arithmetic), fols 4r rev.-7v

[On fol. 4r rev. are two accounts the first of which relates to the price of a pair of shoes for the scribe's brother, for which he paid the shoemaker at Bristol. The second item is an amount given to someone at the church at Babcary to pay Hugh Younge. These accounts were perhaps added after the main list of accounts on fols 6r-7v. Fol. 4v rev. contains mathematical calculations relating to money. Fol. 5 is badly torn and still joined along the top edge to another leaf. This attached leaf is not foliated. Perhaps the scribe tried to cut the pages apart but having torn them decided to start his accounts on fol. 6r instead. Fol. 5r is blank. A few letters are visible on fol. 5v (""is"", ""t"" and ""t""). Fols 6r-7v contain a list of accounts relating mostly to funeral arrangements. The heading, in which not all of the words are clear, on fol. 6r is ""A note wt I haue Lane forth since the ny[superceded by

"O"

] Lottishau's death being the xxix day of may"". Two churches are mentioned, St. Dunstan's and the Temple Church, both of which could be London locations. On the other hand three towns within 50 miles of each other are also mentioned, suggesting a Somerset origin for the accounts: Babcary and Bristol, as noted above (also in Bristol the scribe paid for the scrivener's bill at the Bear, presumably a pub or inn), and Frome , where the scribe paid the farrier's fee.]


(scribe)Hand B

[Fol. 5 is blank.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F35
Diary, Volume 7 (1713-1716)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 5 (Accounts, Household writing), p.[3][rev]

Memorandum. In the year 1713.

Expended in the kitchen------- 128.12.0.

...

Laid out upon myself for clothes - 12.18.8.


East Sussex Record Office: ASH 3501
Religious meditations and prayers, 1625, for the author's daughters (1626-1635)
Elizabeth Richardson ( author, scribe)

Item 16 (Accounts), fols 30r-35v

A promisory note for 100 pounds

July the 15th, 1766

I promise to pay to Mr Richard Westmacott the sum of one hundred pounds on the fifteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and seventy one

...

and upon delivery of the aforesaid indenture this obligation to be sold. John Walsh [witnessed by] Richard Bower and James Jinnold

[This account is on fol. 30r, a cropped leaf. At the top of fol. 30v the following is visible, ""I Promise..."", the first two words of the above account. On folio 31r is another attempt, reading ""I promise to pay to Mr Richard"". James Walsh (Hand F) seems to have practised writing this indenture (relating to a five-year loan; see the two dates) several times, using this manuscript as a source for blank paper.]


(scribe)Hand F

[Fols 31v-35v are blank.]


Folger Library: MS E.a.1
Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590)
Anne Denton (scribe)

Item 23 (Accounts), fols 48v, rev.-49r

Money laid out by me sithence the xxiii th of December 1573 Regine Elizabethe xvi to.

[This section of accounts contains a note of money spent on 24 December for shoeing a gelding, and for two drinks for the ""glannders"".]

[Fol. 49r is blank.]


Folger Library: MS E.a.1
Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590)
Anne Denton (scribe)

Item 26 (Accounts, Back matter), fol. 50v

Account

[A note about Gibbons's usage of the Barton and how the rent is paid. Some provenance information has been written on the back pastedown.]


Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Lt q 32
Poems, emblems and an unfinished romance ( 1655-1678)
Hester Pulter (Author)

Item 124.1 (Accounts), fols. [165v-165v]

[This is a reversed section. Actual foliation (from back)fol.2r. This note in an unknown hand]

delivered unto my daughter Forster for goodwife Jacobfor nursing James Dec. 6th 1661 02-00-00


Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Lt q 32
Poems, emblems and an unfinished romance ( 1655-1678)
Hester Pulter (Author)

Item 124.3 (Accounts), fols. [166v-166v]

Moman Malls maide Mary Chapmanwages is 2-5-the yeare due to her at Midsummer 1660 three years wages payde to her this 20 of April six pounds

...

washmaide Susan Hankinwages is forty five shillings the yeare she is paide to this presant 25 of March 1661

[This is the verso of the flyleaf in the reversed section of the MS, but was transcribed before the reversed section was started, so the orientation of the hand (probably Pulter's own) is the same as the main part of the MS. ]