| Title | Part of an account book kept by Thomas Farr, [prob. servant to John Benett, who died Feb. 1677], recording receipts and disbursements of a miscellaneous nature between 1673 and 1677.
Income derives in part from a number of Arundell lands including Semley, Donhead [?St Mary], ‘Fontmell’, Melbury, ‘Hamperston’, Compton, Ashgrove, ‘Kingsdon, Tisbury, ‘Warder’ [?Wardour], ‘Ber[ry] Court’ [in Donhead St Mary], East Grove, ‘Austy’, ‘Petherton’ and East Orchard, Annual Crown rents comprise the largest single item [£833-9-1, 1675, £766-18-7, 1676], mention is made of the Crown rents for Somerset and Dorset, and of the king’s rent for Bath [£50, 1673].
Expenditure ranges from payments to boot boys and washerwomen to the loan of £1,000 to the Earl of Shaftesbury [Apr.-May 1675], and includes a ‘Byll of Expences in ye time of yor: Election £232-19-0’ [Mar. 1676/77], as well as seven payments made to collectors of ship-money in various places [1677]. 16ff. |