(Scotland, Estate Houses, Landed Estates.) An 19th Century m...

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£460

(Scotland, Estate Houses, Landed Estates.) An 19th Century manuscript account book, probably Fairholme/Pringle family of Greenknowe, Berwickshire, Scottish borders, 90 pages of manuscript pen & ink entries c.1716-1771, entries include for wages paid on Whitsunday & Martinmas to various individuals, accounts for various goods services "To Ms Pringle for washing..To Mr Sandilands for lint..Patrick Crightoun for discharge..To James Mitchelson...To Robert my gardiner.." etc etc, entries for crops, produce including wheat, oats, hay, rye grass etc., "books lent out as to whome. Mr Archbald Stewart stairs institution. Mrs Cleghorn first vol. of Kidderpop's Miscellanys, Ray's ... Theologi. To my brother Thomas - Boyers French and English dictionary vol. first...The Laird of Marjoribanks Bangors answer to the convocation", etc etc, contemporary calf worn (19 x 8cm). From the estate of George Fairholme of Greenknowe (1789-1846), provenance by descent.