Ernest Augustus Perceval: Account book

Scope and Content

Includes: (fo. 1) note upon work and wages in the mills at Knutsford; (fo. 2v) various notes upon domestic matters; (fo. 15) notes upon certain payments and allowances; (fo. 16) general accounts, kept daily, January 1831 - December 1834; (fo. 64v) accounts of sums spent upon particular objects, 1835-1838; (fo. 120) drafts and receipts, 1831-1836; (fo. 129) rough notes and accounts for 1837. On the fly-leaves at the end are rough pencilled notes and accounts. On the fly-leaf at the beginning is the autograph of Ernest Augustus Perceval, 1 January 1831.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Spencer George Perceval, 1921.

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