Series EG1 - Stewards' journals,

The series comprises the first, and apparently the only surviving, journal of a series of journals which, according to internal evidence, comprised at least six volumes. It gives details of the sums received and expended by Thomas Wingfield and Caleb Powell, stewards, respectively, of the Shropshire and Irish estates. Although the details pertain officially to the two years from December 1766 to December 1768, the earliest entry refers to an account dating back to 1764. The accounts relate to rents and outgoings, annuities (annuitants named), repairs (tradespersons named), taxes, general expenses, tenants' arrears and general books. The journal includes two loose accounts, the one of rents of the Shropshire estates, 1763-1767, the other of receipts and expenses, 1766-1767, connected with Walcot mansion and demesne submitted to Mr. Wingfield by John Coston".