Account Book and Memorandum Book of Thomas Sharp

Résumé du livre

The account book of Thomas Sharp, clockmaker of Stratford, continued by his successor, Thomas Gibbs. Most of the entries are of contracts which Sharp made to keep clocks and watches in order. Family births and deaths are entered on p. 84-86. On page 186 is a statement that his former assistant, Thomas Gibbs, had bought from Sharp's widow the remaining wood from the mulberry tree said to have been planted by Shakespeare and that she would take an oath that it was "the Royal [sic] wood." This book and a portion of the wood were later purchased at Gibbs's sale by J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps