Solicitor's account book,

An incomplete day-book containing professional, personal, and domestic financial accounts of R. Phillips of ---, co. Salop, 1750-3. The accounts relate to professional fees for the preparation of legal instruments; the receipt of rents (with references to Great Dawley Chapel and properties in Hadley Common, etc.); the hiring of servants and of horses; the payments of legacies and annuities; housekeeping allowances; the bottling of beer and wine; and the purchase of books, butter, meal, malt, coals, etc. Several entries refer to visits to, or transactions with residents of, Bridgnorth, Shiffnal, Shrewsbury, Wellington, Wrockwardine, Brockton, Newport, Madeley Wood, etc. At the beginning and the end of the manuscript are answers to algebraical problems, and recipes for inks, etc.

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Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11057D

December 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

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