MANUSCRIPT. HUNT FAMILY OF BOREATTON HOUSE, Baschurch, Salop. Rent book 1711 - 1750 and household inventory and valuation, 1811. Folio. Rent roll lists tenants in Baschurch, Plaish, Ratchup, Vennington and Trevenant. Rent is payable in half-yearly instalments. 136 pages. Bound with an Inventory and Valuation of all the household goods, furniture, plate, linen, china and other effects at Boreatton, taken August 1811. This copy made in 1835, with additional notes, 46 pages. The contents of the rooms are listed in great detail. Bound up with 6 newspaper offprints or broadsides, a plan of part of Boreatton House by local architect Edward Edgecombe, and two letters in the hand of Rowland Hunt, one an election speech in 1796 (6pp) and the other a speech at a dinner at the Craven Arms Inn in 1793 (4pp). The latter speech ends with no less than 22 toasts, the last of which is 'The Barber's Blessing, may all the enemies of King George be shaved with a bad razor'. Bound in mid 19th century half calf.

Provenance: Probably purchased at the sale of Boreatton House in 1884, and thence by descent