Rev George Beaumont's Accounts 1736-1754

This small notebook is a mine of information about George's early life, his inheritance, education, move to Nottingham, and so on.

Here is a sample page

Here is a link to the old transcript, made some years ago and containing a few errors (mea culpa!).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxEJg04fqwkibnlxZk9HU09scUk/view?usp=sharing

(I fear the transcript will display single pages, you may be able to get it to display two pages at at time. The odd number pages are on the left and the even on the right)

The notebook is in this archive Box 1/001. George is "you" in the accounts, as they are addressed to him.

At the end are some notes which I wrote in 1999 and annotated in 2008. There has been some more recent work, for example it is now clear that George went up to Cambridge (Trinity Hall) in April 1742 (he was sixteen). It would seem that he was not given access to his money at that time.

He got married, at Leeds, on 30 July 1753. He had, as the accounts show, been in Yorkshire a few times. In fact he had preached at Chapelthorpe, or in the mother church at Sandal Magna, on more than one occasion including that July. This is shown by notes in the parish register.

The accounts show that he was apt to spend somewhat faster than his income flowed in. Thus it was no doubt very helpful that his uncle Abel Smith, the banker (who knew everyone) fixed him up with a short term curate job at Tollerton (the one near Nottingham, not the one near York) shortly after his marriage.

Here he is, in the portrait which has come down through the family.

I hope to write something about the portraits one day and will just say for now that I begin to suspect that this portrait, and the one of Betty, the young woman he married (both of which are dated 1753) may have been wedding presents from Abel Smith. Who knows?