Record title: Mayor's Accounts
Repository: Southampton City Archives
Shelfmark: SC5/3/11
Repository location: Southampton
Titles on original covers identify these as the mayors' books of 'casualties': here
meaning fines and payments for a variety of civic expenses as well as
accounts of poor relief, the last often taking up the largest part of
the book. These books, each covering a single accounting year from
Michaelmas to Michaelmas, appear to be rough accounts which were copied
into the Books of Fines at the end of each accounting year. Some have
their original parchment covers, others have replacement paper covers of
the late eighteenth century.
1603–4; English; paper; 6 leaves; modern pencil foliation; original parchment cover, top half of front cover torn away, so that only bottom line of title remains: '1603.'