Excerpt from Extracts From the Earliest Book of Accounts, Belonging to the Town Trustees of Sheffield: Dating From 1566 to 1707, With Explanatory Notes

The following pages have appeared from week to week during the past twelve months in the Local Notes and Queries column of the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent. The earlier years are copied in full, as well as the memoranda of general interest, but there was so much sameness about many of the entries, occurring year after year, that I contented myself with extracting only what seemed the more instructive or the more curious items. The notes illustrative of the entries might with advantage have been largely extended, but I had to deny myself the pleasure of the research that would have been involved. I am under great obligations to the Town Trustees, and to Messrs. Vickers & Son, their clerks, for granting me the use of this most interesting volume, to Mr. B. Bagshawe, for assistance in decyphering some of the old writing, and to Mr. Alfred Scott Gatty, for notes from the Sheffield Court Rolls.

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