Manuscript account book

Item author: Sir John Cope
Item date: 1691-96
Grant Value: 90
Item cost: 360
Item date acquired: 1980
Item institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Cope was MP for Oxfordshire and for Banbury, and he also owned the Bramshill estate in Hampshire which became the family seat after his death. The book details the households living expenses in London and the country, puchases of pictures and books and shows that Copes income was largely derived from rents and government stocks

Item Provenance
Sothebys, no sale date given