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Accounts of % o^u i&agsijato of ^frteg grange, 

 tn \\)t lUtgn of ^covgc K. 



By Alfred Hughes, M.A. 



HE library of the Manchester University (formerly 

 Owens College) was recently the recipient of an old 

 volume, which is of considerable interest as showing 

 the daily life and associations of a Peakland farmer 

 nearly two hundred years ago. The donor was Mr. Henry 

 Bagshaw, of Moor Grange, near Taddington. He is descended 

 in the fifth generation from the writer of the work, John 

 Bagshaw, who lived at Abney Grange in the latter half of the 

 seventeenth century (certainly from 1667 onwards), and died 

 there in 1732. The book contains full accounts — income and 

 expenditure — of the Old Farm at Abney Grange for a period of 

 about ten years — viz., the last ten years of John Bagshaw's 

 life. The first page may serve as a typical specimen, for the 

 work is far too voluminous to reproduce in full : — 

 MAY THE 12 ACCOUNT OF MEAN CHARGES, 1720. 



paid for 

 for ter and oile ... 

 for talors 



for a pigg 



for spenses at Chappell fair 



for smith worke 



for a Calfe 



for Coles 



easter dues 



for Land tax 



s. 

 o 



3 

 18 



o 

 6 



1 c 



3 



5 A 



1 2 

 1 n 



qr. 



o 



o 



o 



o 



2 



o 

 o 

 o 

 o 



