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K046 - Records of the Congreve family of Congreve and Stretton, p. Penkridge
- 13 - Personal papers
  - 3 - Diaries and Commonplace Books
    - 1 - Thomas Congreve (1551-1617)

Located At	Staffordshire Record Office
Level	Item
Alt Ref No	D1057/O/1 A-B
Title	Commonplace Book of Thomas Congreve, with typescript copy
Date	1585-1611
Description	Including notes of births, marriages and deaths of Thomas' children and relations, detailed receipts and payments for estate business, lewns and levies inc. House of Correction at Stafford, Aug 1598; payments of wages to servants etc; memoranda of orders re trained bands etc. 1589; agreement to provide board and lodging for Ralph Shirley for £20p.a. from 1598 with notes of his absences from Stretton; purchase of millstones for Stretton Mill, 1599; journeys and transactions concerning the wardship of the infant son of Isabel Benyon nee Congreve, 1610-1611, etc.