2l6 ACCOUNTS OF JOHN BAG SHAW OF ABNEY GRANGE. 



paid for 

 for Land tax 



s. 

 9 



d. 



5 



3 



for lether 



2 



6 



o 



for sadell trees 



2 



6 



o 



for flannell 



4 



2 



o 



for wheel wood 



i 



O 



o 



for Lether 



i 



2 



o 



for Coles 



o 



8 



o 



for bee hifes 



o 



8 



o 



for sythes stones 

 for hay rakes 



o 

 o 



5 

 8 



o 

 o 



for a sythe 



... 2 



8 



o 



for a bridle of lether 



... 2 



2 



o 



for wheat 



12 



O 



o 



for talor 



O 



8 



o 



Carpenter work 

 Headborrow score 



I 

 I 



6 

 8 



o 

 o 



Poore score 



7 



o 



o 



for Coles ... ... 



o 



8 



o 



for Coles 



o 



8 



o 



for pining 



o 



6 



o 





£ 



4 6 



7 



I 



The addition, here and elsewhere, is absolutely correct. 

 Different parts of the account illustrate one another. For 

 example, the double entry of Land tax is due to the fact that 

 while Abney Grange is itself in the parish of Hope, Bretton 

 Clough, where some of the lower fields were situated, is in the 

 parish of Eyam ; for a similar reason double entries of rent 

 occur regularly, the Grange rents going to the Bradshaws and 

 the Clough rents to the Eyres. Another regular charge on the 

 farm is represented by the Easter dues. Vol. xi. of this Journal 

 contains details of the Easter dues for 1658, and for purposes 

 of comparison it may not be uninteresting to note that in 1689 

 John Bagshaw was himself one of the churchwardens of Hope, 

 and he has recorded the amounts received in that year: — 



