File NLW MS 11057D - Solicitor's account book,

An incomplete day-book containing professional, personal, and domestic financial accounts of R. Phillips of ---, co. Salop, 1750-3. The accounts relate to professional fees for the preparation of legal instruments; the receipt of rents (with references to Great Dawley Chapel and properties in Hadley Common, etc.); the hiring of servants and of horses; the payments of legacies and annuities; housekeeping allowances; the bottling of beer and wine; and the purchase of books, butter, meal, malt, coals, etc. Several entries refer to visits to, or transactions with residents of, Bridgnorth, Shiffnal, Shrewsbury, Wellington, Wrockwardine, Brockton, Newport, Madeley Wood, etc. At the beginning and the end of the manuscript are answers to algebraical problems, and recipes for inks, etc.