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RefNoKMAN1/A/5/4a
AltRefNoM5/4/1
TitlePersonal account book, possibly kept by Sir Francis St John 1st Baronet
DescriptionWith expenses at the front and income at the back.

Includes payments for a variety of personal expenses such as clothing for himself and his children, books for the library, Christmas presents, charity, food, furniture, travel, wigs, guns etc. There are also payments for the upkeep of his estate, for farm stock, land taxes and rates, salaries for servants and the maintenance of his household.

Includes entries for a surgeon to treat his daughters when they had smallpox (1729).

The keeper of the accounts is not identified anywhere in the volume but can be assumed by reference to family members (e.g. "sister Cook", "my sister Betty", "my late brother Walter" etc.).
Date1722-1730
CreatorNameThe Montagu family of Kimbolton Castle: estate and family papers
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives

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CodePersonNameDates
P/0088St John; Sir; Francis (1677-1756); 1st Baronet; of Longthorpe [Northants]1677-1756
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