Detailed accounts of the Godinton estate (west of Ashford), owned by the Toke family. Generations recorded in minute detail farm business accounts, labourers and farm-hands names, wages and work done. Details of every expenditure and income, rents, taxes, sales of produce, purchase of equipment and provisions. Hundreds of ordinary working people mentioned, all easy to find due to the excellent index. Contains estate maps and plans plus a pedigree of the family. Also interesting to see the impact of the Civil War in enormous increases in land taxes.
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