James Essex: Personal professional accounts

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Scope and Content

Account book. Includes references to work at, and visits to, the cathedrals of Ely, Lincoln and Winchester., and all three occur in this account book. The volume contains references also to Essexs money-lending activities. Also includes credit and debit accounts, 1769-76, mixed personal and professional transactions. Miscellaneous later notes in two different hands. From the back: Account of all the land wch I occupy, some apparently at Boxworth, Cambs.

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Acquisition Information

purchased 1997

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Additional Information

In rubbed calf backed boards, with tooled decoration and metal clasps.