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Estate records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents relating to the management of all aspects of a landed estate, which is to be considered property of notable extent which may include, as general examples, any of the following: dwellings; outbuildings; grounds; pasturage; arable land; woodland; water courses. For papers concerning the administration of personal estates, in the narrow legal sense, on death see 'Estate inventories', 'Probate records'' and 'Probate accounts'.

Found in 1259 Collections and/or Records:

Gosford estate accounts., 1703-1746.

 File
Identifier: MS.6456
Scope and Contents This bound volume is arranged on the crop year system, generally estimated from Whitsunday to Whitsunday. Thus, Whitsunday 1705 to Whitsunday 1706 equals Crop 1705. It contains the charges and discharges of the Gosford rent. Apart from entries relating to agriculture there are miscellaneous items concerning dress, housekeeping, education, and other matters. The volume was kept by Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (created 1697), formerly Wedderburn, during whose life-time the estates...
Dates: 1703-1746.