William Bowles Expense Ledger (MS 73) 1723-44

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William Bowles Expense Ledger (MS 73) 1723-44

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Account book with detailed figures for the years 1723-1744, covering the time Bowles was a Fellow of New College and later a parish rector in Dorset. Manuscript ledger of household and miscellaneous expenditures including titles and prices of books purchased by Bowles. Also includes a brief summary of accounts for the years 1720-1744.

1 book

lat,

eng,

University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Bowles, Vice-Admiral (William), 1780-1869

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Sources for this biography accompany the account book. Some information is contradictory. Letters were written to Reverend H. A. Watson of Bradford Peverell, Dorchester, apparently as he was researching the book's history. From a letter written by the Librarian and Keeper of the Archives, New College, Oxford, 12.1.1924 [name illegible]: “William Bowles was son of Matthew Bowles, Record of Donhead St. Andrew in Wiltshire and was educated at Winchester College....