| Description | Items FC/AB1-15 are ledgers containing accounts of the school and surveying business. The rest are small and often almost empty cash books.
These have been searched page by page for items which would throw any light on the dating or purpose of plans, and some have been dated with reasonable certainty by this means. In a few cases references have also been made to entries which show who commissioned the plan, or for what purpose.
Nos. 1, 2, and 3 contain accounts, for the period 1753 to 1774, of the school kept by William Fairbank, and some personal accounts of interest. |