Document of the Month October 2008
PD5 - Account book of William and Robert Ross of Easter Beltie, Kincardine O'Neil (1683 - 1780)
Ane Compt
Book
Belonging to me
William Ross
Being Composed [th]e 13 day
of Febrawary and year
of God 1683
Containing every remarkable
[th]ing till him wi[th] a full content
wretten befor
Hujus si cupias dominum
Cognoscere libri post hoc verbiculum
Nomen habebis ibi
Gulielmus Ross
[translation: If you might desire to know the master of this book after these small words you will have there the name William Ross]
This month’s featured item is a small leather-bound account book used by William Ross of Easter Beltie farm from 1683 until his death in 1732, and later by his son Robert Ross. Despite being called an account book by its owners, it was used for far more, ‘containing every remarkable thing’ to them, as the title page states.
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