GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-
1516
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1691)
Title
Account Book of Elizabeth Bourne
Shelfmark
U522/A1
Creation Date
ca. 1629 - 1633
Repository
Contents Note
An account book kept by Elizabeth Bourne. Her accounts include prices paid for clothes, flowers, servants’ expenses, food, jewellery, and husband’s allowances. At the end of the volume, written in reverse, are notes for several sermons. Each consists of a few lines running to a maximum of one paragraph. The first three sermons can be found on the first leaf, while the fourth sermon is split over two pages. The fifth sermon follows the fourth sermon.
Material Features
Modern cardboard binding. No pagination. Oblong book, approx. 29 cm in length.
Associated People
Acquisition
Part of the Dalison Manuscripts.
Source of Data
Kent History & Library Centre online catalogue; Hannah Yip.
Sermons Contained
URLs
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13850919 TNA catalogue entry for Kent History & Library Centre, U522.
GEMMS record created
February 22, 2023
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024