| Disgrifiad | Almost altogether in the fine clear script of Mrs Morgan.
(i) Inventory of linen and house-furniture made between 1732 and 1735 (p.p. 1.18). She married Henry Morgan on 3 August 1732.
(ii) Transactions with servants - wages, comings and goings, earnests, gifts - from 1737 to 1741 (p.p. 19-22).
(iii) Monthly household accounts from 1732 to February 1738-1739 (p.p. 23-83).
(iv) Transactions with servants from 1753 to 1763 (p.p. 84-102). Esceedingly interesting entries which deserve careful analysis.
(v) Ditto from 1756 to 1775 (p.p. 107-158). These accounts require meticulous collation with (iv), as it was not possible owing to the confused state of the ms. to arrange them with precision. Mrs Morgan died in 1773; another hand has made the entries on p.p. 47 (foot), 153 (foot), 154-158. Mr J. E. Griffith ('Pedigrees', 122) states that Mrs Morgan was buried on 'August 9', 1773; but it appears from entries on p. 147 that she wrote one entry as late as 'November 27' in that year. On p. 152 there are several piquant notes about a rebellion amongst the servants ' without cause given by either Master or Mistress'.
(vi) Miscellaneous accounts, concernong servants chiefly, from 1737 to 1753 (p.p. 163-178). At the foot of p. 165 is a truncated recipe. Much of
(vi) was either mutilated or moth-eaten.
(vii) p. 179. A bill for £2.17.0 due from Mr Wright to John Roscoe, a leading hosier (of Liverpool?). It is practically certain that this Wright was the brewer and distiller named Fortunatus Wright who married Mary daughter of William Bulkeley the diarist (see mss 18 & 19). This bill is dated January, 1738-1739.
For further particulars about the romantic Wright see 'Morris Letters', i. 116-117 |