Description:The image above shows a page from accounts made by Thomas Doody relating to agricultural work on the Trentham Estate in the late seventeenth century. Doody’s accounts describe payments made by the estate to men working in the gardens at Trentham Hall and in the fields on the Trentham estate. The accounts feature payments for tallow, coal and work on the hedges in the gardens. Four shillings were paid to Thomas Bolton ‘for 6 days Hedging’. Expenditure on crops and animals is also listed, including payments for oxen, pigs, calves and expenditure relating to horses and hunting hounds.
Click on the images on the left to learn more about Doody’s agricultural accounts for Trentham.