Records estate and household receipts and disbursements between 20 December 1757 and 1 August 1758 (the day before George Booth's death). The account book appears to be a draft or working copy, made for George Booth's personal use, as entries are made in a rough, untidy, sometimes illegible, hand. Most entries are struck through with a single horizontal line. The date of each transaction is recorded, together with a brief description of the transaction, and the sum involved.
Receipts include heriots, entry fines and rents from leases for lives and leases for years of demesne lands, leasehold tenements, mills etc.; purchase money from sales on chief rent; tithes; receipts from sales of timber, bark, sheep skins, cow hides; interest on loans and government securities.
Disbursements comprise: gifts to the poor, subscriptions to charities and donations to funds established for the relief of persons who have suffered losses through fires; land taxes and highway rates; rent to the Bishop [of Chester, for the lease of Bowdon Glebe]; servants' wages; bills for servants' livery; purchase of household provisions such as tea, oysters, beef, candles; bills for carriage of goods; purchases of livestock such as sheep and cattle; purchases of corn, malt and straw; farming expenses such as weeding corn, mole-catching, spreading molehills; miller's bills; blacksmith's bills; bills for labourers, bricklayers, glazier; Mr Poole's accounts and Mr Cooke's accounts; sums given at the Sacrament.
Written in the hand of George Booth.