Draft legal documents relating to Philip George's (senior and junior) legal practice

Reference Number

BC/3/2/32

Level of Description

Item

Title

Draft legal documents relating to Philip George's (senior and junior) legal practice

Date

2 Feb 1808-15 Dec 1808

Extent

Extent: 1 bundle

Description

Papers relating to legal work undertaken by Philip George (senior and junior). Included are the draft wills of Mrs Flower Collins and Thomas Naghten; draft leases for premises in Wades Passage and New Bond Street, Bath; draft mortgages of freehold premises of Samuel Day estate in parishes in Charterhouse; draft power of attorney from Robert William Powell to Nathaniel Russell to sell property in Charleston, South Carolina; and documents relating to cases against several prisoners being tried at Wells Lammas Assizes in August 1808.

Previous reference number BC 134/21.

Contents

• BC/3/2/32/1 - Draft Brief for the Prosecution for William Vowles (plaintiff), private in the 2nd Somerset Militia, quartered in Bath, against Thomas Bryant (defendant) for stealing from Vowles at the Crown Public House in Market Place, Bath, heard at Somerset Epiphany Sessions at Wells
• BC/3/2/32/2 - Draft will of Thomas Naghten of Upper East Hayes, Bath
• BC/3/2/32/3 - Draft Agreement relating to an annual sum for leave to build against a wall adjoining and belonging to a premise in Horse Street
• BC/3/2/32/4 - Draft Affidavit to prove debts under commission of bankruptcy
• BC/3/2/32/5 - Draft Power of Attorney to sell certain property in Charleston, South Carolina, America
• BC/3/2/32/6 - Draft Reassignment of two leasehold premises and two mortgages in Wade's Passage
• BC/3/2/32/7 - Draft Affidavit of Writ of Latitat
• BC/3/2/32/8 - Draft Order to deliver up certain articles in lieu of debt
• BC/3/2/32/9 - Draft will of Mrs Flower Collins of Timsbury
• BC/3/2/32/10 - Draft Lease of a messuage and premises adjoining the Castle Inn, on Northgate Street, Bath
• BC/3/2/32/11 - Draft Lease and Mortgage of freehold of property belonging to Samuel Day's Charterhouse Hinton [Hinton Charterhouse] estate
• BC/3/2/32/12 - Draft Affidavit confirming the marriage of George Coppock and Elizabeth Robins of Walcot parish, Bath, on 12 August 1781
• BC/3/2/32/13 - Draft papers relating to the case brought by William Bendall (plaintiff) against Lawrence Painter and Robert Perrott (defendants) for felony, heard at the Somerset Summer Assizes, Wells
• BC/3/2/32/14 - Draft papers relating to the case brought by Richard Sheldon Collicott (plaintiff) against John Taylor (defendant) for felony, heard at the Somerset Summer Assizes, Wells
• BC/3/2/32/15 - Draft Papers relating to the case brought by James Cottle (plaintiff) against James Poulson, also known as Scrammy Jemmy (defendant) for felony, heard at the Somerset Summer Assizes, Wells
• BC/3/2/32/16 - Draft Papers relating to the case brought by James Grant Smith (plaintiff) against Joseph Evans and Robert Perrott (defendants) for felony, heard at the Somerset Summer Assizes, Wells
• BC/3/2/32/17 - Draft papers relating to the case brought by Colonel Thomas Shaw (plaintiff) against James Selway (defendant) for misdemeanour, heard at the Somerset Summer Assizes, Wells
• BC/3/2/32/18 - Calendar of the prisoners, for Lammas Assizes, to be held at the City of Wells, on Wednesday 24th August, 1808
• BC/3/2/32/19 - Draft Lease of a messuage in New Bond Street, Bath
• BC/3/2/32/20 - Draft Affidavit of Latitat
• BC/3/2/32/21 - Draft Affidavit of Deponent
• BC/3/2/32/22 - Draft Assignment of apprenticeship
• BC/3/2/32/23 - Draft Mortgage of premises in Wade's Passage, Bath, to secure the payment of £400 and interest