Leicestershire. The Dadlington manor account or memoranda le...

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Leicestershire. The Dadlington manor account or memoranda ledger, dated 1757-1783, probably kept by the lord of the manor William Hurst of Hinckley Castle, hosier and later High Sheriff of the county (1778), or his manorial steward/agent in his employ, approx. [214]ff of manuscript in various hands, some tipped-in MS receipts and further ephemera in places, the contents include miscellaneous mercantile accounts, partial inventories, but mostly agreements and payments of a somewhat parochial nature, comprising a part-inventory of textiles, the 1757 fine of William Hurst's for undisclosed reasons, harlequin food wines and spirits, Bros. Grundy 3 Bottles Port [&] 20 Oranges, a few accounts for sending orders to Mr Robert Wright of Nottingham, labouring accounts, one n.d. for the Overseers of the Highways including 4s 3d for load gravel, 6d for drink,  4 soldiers at 2s 6d, ale for 3 labourers 2d, the Bill at Monthly meeting 1s, strike lime 5s 10d, carriage of 850 Bricks 2s 2d, 1700 Bricks £1 2s 8d, the aforementioned Highway Bill again at 1s, etc., an agreement viz. building work between William Hurst of Hinckley and Samuel Robinson of Nuneaton, dated July 22 1758 and signed by both parties, 3pp on the antiquities of Dadlington, Higham and Stoke, some rents and enclosures, a handful of receipts and recipes, mostly medicinal, etc.,  almost every leaf archive repaired to varying degrees, however, almost always marginal and never affecting the legibility of text and without apparent loss, later parchment over boards, contemporary to the archive repairs, and preserving fragments of the original vellum binding on each cover, the spine lettered and dated 1759-1776 (though some material within the account is of both an earlier and later date), slipcase, foolscap (42 x 18cm)