43.
32.
43.
The entries on f 125v actually made on 7 November 1608, when accounts for previous year were audited.
Record title: Second Book of Debts
Repository: Southampton City Archives
Shelfmark: SC5/2/2
Repository location: Southampton
Folios 1–82 contain an account of debts similar to those
in the First Book of Debts. The first twenty-four leaves contain an
alphabetical index of debts. Annual audit accounts begin at f 84 and run
to f 241, covering the years 1603 to 1617. The accounts of the auditors
cover the whole range of the city's finances, including those recorded
in the stewards' accounts and in the mayors' accounts. The accounting year
runs from Michaelmas to Michaelmas. For the years 1603 to 1615 items of
both receipt and expense are each entered twice, once as credits and
once as debits, with folio numbers and marginal reference numbers making
cross-referencing easy. Many items are entered in great detail – such as
rents, scavage receipts, fees and expenses for town officials, loans,
and loan payments. Others, however, are not entered in nearly the same
detail as in the stewards' and mayors' accounts, notably gifts and
rewards, as well as the costs of construction and repairs. Thus some
years covered by these accounts that yield no references to itinerant
entertainers may have seen visits that
were lumped with other gifts and rewards in the audit
accounts.
November 1591–November 1617; English; paper; xxiv + 321 + iii; 424mm x 297mm; original ink foliation (versos have folio numbers corresponding to the facing rectos, ff 242–319 unfoliated and blank); good condition; original brown leather binding intricately tooled with pattern of flowers and leaves, no title.