Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminste...
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Chitty family. and Chitty, Thomas.
Subject (Topic):
Amusements, Cost and standard of living, Family, Domestic relations, Home economics, Accounting, Luxury, Middle class, Economic conditions, and Social life and customs
Holograph of a diary recording primarily family comings and goings and routine social activities of the East family, including visits from friends and family, tea drinking, dining, races, plays, and balls; as well as traveling by the family and neighb...
Description:
Lady East, née Hannah Casamajor (1746-1810), was the wife of Sir William East, 1st. Bart. (1738-1819), of the Hall Place in Hurley, Berkshire; they married on 29 June 1763. Their daughter, Mary East (1765-1833), married Sir William Clayton, 4th Bart...
Subject (Geographic):
England, England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Clayton family., Clayton, William, Sir, 1762-1834., East, Lady, fl. 1776-1785., and East, William, Sir, 1737 or 8-1819.
Subject (Topic):
Family, Domestic relations, Households, Inheritance and succession, Land tenure, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Weather
Collection of correspondence, financial records, and documents relating to members of the Saunders and Sebright family. Material relating to Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) includes correspondence discussing personal debts, agriculture, and ...
Description:
Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) studied law in London and served as agent for the Committee for Sequestration in the 1640s. He inherited Beechwood Park, near Markyate, Hertfordshire, England, in 1628. His son was Thomas Saunders (1631-1698) ...
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, Great Britain., Herefordshire., Beechwood Park (England), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, Charles Lyttelton, Baron, 1628-1716., Saunders family., Saunders, Thomas, 1631-1698., Saunders, Thomas, approximately 1600-1667., Sebright family., Sebright, Thomas Saunders, Baron, 1692-1736., England and Wales. Parliament. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents., and Great Britain. Privy Council.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Families, Domestic relations, Formulas, recipes, etc, Household supplies, Law, Study and teaching, Manors, Medicine, Wine and wine making, History, and Social life and customs
