Catalogue description Book of accounts of Sir Christopher Lowther during his lifetime of Sir Richard, his father 1604-1607 and from his succession to his death, 1607-1617. Sir John Lowther I 1617-1637. Sir John Lowther III 1637-1655

Note on reverse of 1st. flyleaf in handwriting of Sir John Lowther III later Viscount Lonsdale, (1675-1701)

'A Booke considerable to be Kept, beginninge in the tyme of Sir Christopher Lowther and continued by Sir John Lowther his son and by Sir John Lowther, bar. the grandson'.

fols. 2v, 3v & 4v subject index 'of the most materiall thinges in this booke'

fol. 5 note of duties and services of tenants of Lowther, Hackthorpe and Helton, n.d.

fol. 6, provision for John Lowther when he went to Hackthorpe house, 1629.

fol. 7, valuation of Lowther, Hackthorpe, Helton, Newton, Meaburn and Penrith lands, measured by a 7 yard pole, n.d. c. 1617.

fol. 8, receipts, 1617; measurement of part of Reagill Grange bought in 1624.

fol. 8v. valuation of Sir Henry Curwen's estate, 1624.

fol. 9, estimate of income and expenditure, 1618.

fol. 10, rental of Plumpton, 1653

fol. 11, leasehold rental 1618

fol. 11v, rental of Plumpton, n.d.

fol. 12, leasehold and customary rental, 1619

fol. 12v, land bought, n.d. c. 1619

fol. 13, land unlet, 1619

fol. 13v, estimates of personal and real

fols. 14-15, leasehold rental, lands unlet, estimate of stock, land bought, 1621.

fols. 15v. calculation of value of real and personal estate, 1653.

fol. 16 missing

fols. 17-23, fines and rents, Lowther, Hackthorpe, Whale, Helton, and Newton, 1608.

fol. 24v. Valuation of Sir John Lowther's household goods and of household goods bought from his sister at time of their father's death. n.d. [1617]

fol. 25, Sir John Lowther's statement of how he administered his father's estate, 1617.

fol. 26, list and valuation of stock, 1617.

fol. 27, cattle and sheep bought and sold or killed 1617-19. See also un-numbered folios below.

fols. 27v-33, general fine assessed, Newton, Lowther and Whale, Hackthorpe, Helton, Crosby, 1617-1620.

fol. 33v, rental of Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, n.d.

fols. 34-36v, licences and admittances of tenants c. 1617-1635.

fol. 37, list of rents and carriage services of tenants of Rosgill, c. 1655.

fol. 38-39r. admittances of tenants, Helton, 1617-1628.

fol. 39r, list of rents and boon ploughs at Helton, 1654.

fol. 39v, estimate of value of Lowther parsonage 1656.

fol. 40 & fol. 39a. admittances of tenants Crosby, Thwaites, Thrimby, 1621-1659.

fol. 39a.v, list of boons and rental of Little Strickland, n.d.

fol. 40a, admittances of tenants, Bampton, 1620-1629, Melkinthorp rental, 1654.

fol. 41, Hackthorpe rental, 1654.

fol. 41v-43, leasehold rentals, calculations of stock, land bought, 1621-1623.

fol. 44, Lowther rental, 1654.

fol. 44v.-49, rentals and notes on land bought 1623-1630, including leasehold rental, 1624.

fol. 50, rental of Bampton, 1641.

fols. 51v. - 102, acreages, rentals, agistments, sales of cattle, mortgages, leases, farm stock in horses, sheep, and cattle, corn sown and harvested, list of number and prices of cattle sold, notes of estates bought, calculations of improvement of revenue and augmentation of the family fortune made at intervals, 1625, (f.54) 1627/8 (f.67), 1633/4 (f.91), 1635/6 (f. 92v.-93), 1624-1637. Includes list and valuation of lands bought, 1633/4.

fols. 102v.-146, similar entries, especially fols. 102v.-110 which record purchases, improvement of income and growth of fortune of Sir John Lowther II, during his father's lifetime and after his succession in 1637, 1629-165637.

Un-numbered folios: note of money received for sale of wood, 1604, notes of rents unpaid, letting Newton Mill and cost of its repair, weights of corn and beasts, 1607, additional store cattle and sheep accounts, 1618-19, precept and assessment of subsidy, 1621, note on subsidy or forced loan of 1626/7, copy rating of demesnes, East, West and Middle wards of Westmorland, 1634/5, bridge rate in Kendal barony, 1634/5, list of freeholders in Westmorland, n.d.