Correspondence related to Town Clerk duties, Philip George senior and junior private legal practice and personal papers
Reference Number
BC/3/2/33
Level of Description
Item
Title
Correspondence related to Town Clerk duties, Philip George senior and junior private legal practice and personal papers
Date
7 Jan 1808 - 20 Dec 1809
Extent
Extent: 1 bundle
Description
Correspondence relating to:
1. Duties as Town Clerk including leasing a corporation-owned house at 36 Milsom Street; a complaint from a Madame Catalan about the roughness of property tax collectors; and renewal of Bath Turnpike Act.
2. Private practice as a solicitor, including many requests from solicitors in London and other towns to search for or conduct legal business with people visiting Bath, mainly relating to cases of debt and conveyancing. Cases include Kingdon vs. Richardson; Brown vs. Forster; Cotton vs. Bennett; Thorp vs. Burton; Tart vs. Barber; Foster vs. Williams; Jacuad vs. French; Gardiner vs. Bailey; Gatliffe vs. Hathaway; Coppeck vs. Kennett; Blake vs. Forbes; Evans vs. Barber. A circular from a committee of Exeter barristers and attorneys seeking to regulate professional standards and practice, requesting information about legal practice in Bath, with responses.
Other letters concern the deeds of the Stockwood Estate; a request for a copy of an entry in the birth register to procure the discharge of George Burt from the Royal Navy on the grounds of being under 18; and a letter and prospectus from Mrs Curties' and Miss Grint's Abbey House School for Young Ladies in Reading asking Philip George to assist with an unpaid bill.
3. Personal correspondence relating to orders for a fashionable coat, a hat from Jupp of 3 Old Bond Street London, and boots from Hoby of St James' Street London, famous as bootmaker to the Duke of Wellington.
