A booke of accompts of my Lady An[ne] Clifforde, 1600-1602.

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A booke of accompts of my Lady An[ne] Clifforde, 1600-1602.

Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of personal accounts on behalf of Lady Anne Clifford. The manuscript records gifts from various sources, such as gold "geven by my Lady of Warwick to my La. Anne at the court," and money allowed by her mother, Lady Cumberland, as well as its expenditure on clothes, charity, and play. Entries include sums "Given by my La. Anne for a reward to a poore woman that brought her Lap. apples & cakes," "for half a thousand of pynnes," "delivered to Mrs. Taylor for buying a white parchmt fanne for my Lady Anne," "geven by my Lady Anne to ii poore men in the fields," and "lost at cardes." The manuscript also records sums borrowed by Lady Anne, and the names of her creditors.

1 v. (62 p.) ; 20 x 14 cm.

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Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676

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