| Description | Give daily wages account and details of sales and purchases of live and dead stock, corn, coal, costs of hiring carts and horses, etc. Some of the early volumes contain at the beginning particulars of land in hand with state of tillage, inventories of stock, details of corn sown and potatoes planted, and an account of work done on highways. /3 concerns the estate at Winnington, all others presumably the Alderley Park estate though this is not specifically stated. Difference in lay-out probably accounts for the contemporary descriptions "Farm Account" and "Day Book" side by side in the 1830s. |