Petty Cash Book of John Spencer Stanhope

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  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 105
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1818-1822
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. (94 ff) bound in 8 quires of 12 leaves Lines ruled in red for date and cash. First and last leaves pasted on to boards. Ff.23-89 are blank. Written in a large flowing hand, the author's autograph. Inscription inside front cover: "J. Spencer Stanhope / Paris Jany. 1818 / Rue de la Chause d'Autun / 58." Stationer's name and address on label pasted inside front cover: "Charpentier, Rue du Mont-Blanc, No.6." Bound in red-covered boards, green spine.

Scope and Content

Begins: 10 in Pocket (f.1a); Accounts, 1 January 1818-1 January 1820 (ff.2b-19b); Pencilled account of weights of 460 fleeces totalling 98st. 12lb. (ff.20a-21a); "Acct. of Wines." 10 December 1822 (ff.22a-22b); Drafts, 1818-1819 (ff.90b-92a); "Hugh's account." Amounts totalling 25.4.6 (f.93a); "In hand 26 1/2" (f.94a); Notes and mathematical calculations (f.94b and inside back cover); Ends: In hand...25 (inside back cover).

Administrative / Biographical History

John Spencer-Stanhope, 1787-1873, of Cannon Hall, Barnsley and Horsforth Hall, was the son of Walter Spencer-Stanhope and his wife, Mary Winifred, daughter of Thomas Babington Pulleine. In 1822, he married Lady Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, daughter of the Earl of Leicester. For a number of years he acted as a Justice of the Peace in Horsforth

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of the Hon. Mrs Spencer Stanhope of Cannon Hall, Cawthorpe, 1946

Note

In English

Bibliography

See A. M. W. Stirling, Annals of a Yorkshire house, London 1911