File 11. - Housekeeping Accounts consisting of :-,

(A) records of weekly payments, 1763-91, in respect of a wide variety of purchases, such as meat, fish, poultry, eggs, oysters, rabbits, hares, butter, sugar, tea, fruit, salt, flour, tallow, pots and pans, ink, paper, and for washing, carriage of goods, journies to Carmarthen, etc., weaving of blankets and rugs, taking of kites, nests, and to the fiddler, etc. The housekeepers recorded in the volume include Mary Lake, Mariemna Jones, Mary Harris, Margaret Dalton, Mary Jones, and M. Edwards. Some of the accounts, and records of weekly settlements with the housekeepers, are in the hand of B. Hodgkinson. (B) 'House Book' or records of similar payments by Daniel Price, 1807-12. Enclosed is an incomplete statement of account, settled on 31 Oct., 1782, between Robert Banks Hodgkinson, Esq., and the estate, including particulars for the period 1781-2 of payments to tradesmen and labourers, disbursements 'about the farm', expenses at Edwinsford, money paid R.B. Hodgkinson and to his order, money received for 'various Things from the Farm', and one year's rental of the estate and rental of the tithe.