The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674 Falconer J. R. D.
Edition of a wealthy merchant's accounts sheds fascinating insights into life at the time.The household account book of John Clerk of Penicuik, a Montrose-born merchant who honed his skills in Paris…
Specifikacia The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674 Falconer J. R. D.
Edition of a wealthy merchant's accounts sheds fascinating insights into life at the time.The household account book of John Clerk of Penicuik, a Montrose-born merchant who honed his skills in Paris and brought home to Scotland a small fortune which he used to purchase the barony of Penicuik in 1654, provides an opportunity to explore the multifaceted life of a seventeenth-century merchant, moneylender, and improving landlord. This volume presents for the first time a full scholarly edition of the accounts. A prodigious bookkeeper, Clerk maintained incredibly detailed, and personally annotated, accounts which support the contemporary assessment that held him to be a man of great sense and great application to busines'. Uniquely, Clerk's tendency to add emotive statements or direct commentary to his detailed accounting of household expenditures sets these accounts apart from similar
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