| Description | Originally a wooden chest containing quantities of rotten and disintegrated estate pay vouchers, accounts, bills, receipts and account books, c.1800-1860, so damaged by water as to be quite useless. These remnants were destroyed. The remainder include: two bundles of estate vouchers, 1800s. Properties of Great Northern Railway, London, York, Cambridge, Lincoln, Selby, 1838. Papers relating to the death of Millicent Duchess of Manchester, 1848. Household accounts, 1856. Farm account notebook (fragment) 1756. Three estate labourers pay books 1838, 1847, 1856. Other estate notebooks and account books, 1850-1860. |