Copies of Summary Accounts (A)

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Record title: Copies of Summary Accounts (A)
Repository: William Salt Library
Shelfmark: S.MS. 366/1/A
Repository location: Stafford

This is a collection of brief annual summaries of receipts and expenses for the schoolwardens, churchwardens, chamberlains, and bailiffs. Not all years are represented, nor all officers within a given year. Near the beginning of the volume there occur some more detailed accounts, in which the transcribed record is found.

1520–1628; English; paper; ii + 92 + ii (modern fly-leaves); 360mm x 240mm; paginated 1–92; pages preserved, mounted and bound into modern green cloth guard-book, no title on spine.