Itemised manuscript accounts of an early eighteenth-century Derbyshire wine merchant, for customers including William Cavendish of Dovebridge, Thomas Stanhope, William Sacheverell, Reginald Cynder.

15 pp, narrow folio (14.5 x 38 cm), in the remains of a volume which has been reused and cut up (see below). Although aged and dogeared, the eight pages carrying the accounts are in reasonable condition, with all texts clear and complete, although the last leaf of the eight has the lower third cut away. In remains of original vellum binding, with '17 Maij j683' on front board. The pages are variously paginated in a contemporary hand between 245 and 274. Among the accounts are those of Thomas Stanhope; William Sacheverell; Samuel Chase, churchwarden of Strapton; Alderman Carter; Reginald Cynder; Captain John Every; William Cavendish of Dovebridge; Mr Beaumont of Barrow; churchwardens of Feston; John Harpur; Brooke Boothby; Mr Moseley of Roulston; Samuel Orme, churchwarden of Broadfall; Mr Charles Cogge of Yeildersley; Hill Francis of Derby; Henry Keys; 'ffor ye funerall of Mr James'; John Bainbrigge; 'ffor ye: funerall of Mr Sheppard'; Mr Mellor of Ashborne; 'ffor the funerall of Mr Burton of Weston July 9o: 1710:'; William Gilbert; Robert Bingham; Captain Hopkinson; William Chambers; Simon Dogg. The itemised entries include charges for 'Lisbon', 'Canary', 'wt: wine', 'french wine', 'Vinegar', 'Rhenish', 'Lemons' and 'Galetia wt: wine'. Substantial sums are spent, with a couple of accounts totaling around £40, and one containing about fifty items. A great number of other pages of the volume have been cut out, and the eight surviving leaves of accounts are followed by one complete leaf and three parts of leaves, on which the semi-literate family of John Smith, whose signature is on the back cover, has recorded births and other family events between 1772 and 1821. The first entry reads 'Joseph Smith Build [sic] my House In the Year of our Lord 1772 Paid Mr. Ford For Bricks 16 Thousand At 18 Shillings Per Thousand £8 18s 0d Flour Bricks £1 1s 0d In Total All £40 0s 0d'.