Papers related to Town Clerk duties and private legal practice

Reference Number

BC/3/2/38

Level of Description

Item

Title

Papers related to Town Clerk duties and private legal practice

Date

January 1809-December 1809

Extent

Extent: 1 bundle

Description

Legal papers and correspondence relating to Philip George junior's private practice as a solicitor, including draft affadavits, leases, apprentice assignments, grants of power of attorney, prosecution briefs and details of cases heard at Taunton Quarter Assizes. Together with legal papers relating to the Bath Turnpike Trust.

Previous reference number BC 134/26.

Contents

• BC/3/2/38/1 - Draft Power of Attorney to receive debts in the East Indies
• BC/3/2/38/2 - Draft Affidavit of due acknowledgement of a fine
• BC/3/2/38/3 - Draft Assignment of George Woodward, an apprentice, for the remainder of a term of 7 years
• BC/3/2/38/4 - Draft Assignment of a property in Great Bedford Street, Walcot, Bath
• BC/3/2/38/5 - Draft Brief for the Prosecution for Benjamin Shaw (plaintiff) against John Chivers (defendant) for felony, heard at the Somerset Easter Sessions, Wells
• BC/3/2/38/6 - Draft Brief for the Prosecution for George Moger and John Nicholson (plaintiffs) against Ann Daniel for felony, heard at the Midsummer Quarter Sessions for Somerset at Bridgewater
• BC/3/2/38/7 - Draft Brief for the Prosecution for John Curry (plaintiff) against Mary Harris for felony, heard at the Somerset Quarter Sessions, Bridgewater
• BC/3/2/38/8 - Draft Affidavit of Debt under a common of Bankruptcy
• BC/3/2/38/9 - Draft Lease of a messuage in Wade's Passage for 21 years from September 1809
• BC/3/2/38/10 - Draft Case under the Pawn-Broker's Act, for the opinion of Mr John Lens
• BC/3/2/38/11 - Draft Notice to quit 43 St James's Square, Bath
• BC/3/2/38/12 - Draft Renunciation of Executorship under the will of Thomas Harding, deceased
• BC/3/2/38/13 - Draft Affidavit of Messrs Pearce and Fricker to prove interlineation etc in the will of Thomas Harding
• BC/3/2/38/14 - Draft Lease of a messuage and premises in Barton Court and Ladymead, Bath for 21 years
• BC/3/2/38/15 - Draft Brief for the prosecution for John Benwell and William Taggart (plaintiffs) against Charlotte Lockett and Mary Phipps (defendants), heard at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions for Somerset in Taunton
• BC/3/2/38/16 - Draft Case for the Opinion of Mr Lens relative to 18 Turnpike Bonds now in the possession of Dr Harrington
• BC/3/2/38/17 - Draft Case for the Opinion of Mr Goodden on the legality of selling a part of the Old Wells Road from the Red Lyon on Odd Down to Combe Hay Lane, Bath
• BC/3/2/38/18 - Draft Handbill offering a 10 guinea reward for the discovery of the person who pulled down the toll bar at Cross Keys Farm, Warminster Road
• BC/3/2/38/19 - Draft Advertisement for the Bath Turnpike Trust requesting to borrow £3050 from individual lenders
• BC/3/2/38/20 - Draft papers relating to the case between the Bath Turnpike Trust and the inhabitants of the parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe regarding who was responsible for repairing the Turnpike Road between Greenway Lane towards Crossway Quarry in the village of Midford
• BC/3/2/38/21 - Draft Papers relating to the Case between the Bath Turnpike Trust and the parish of St Michaels, Bath, regarding who is responsible for the cost of repairing a section of the Turnpike Road
• BC/3/2/38/22 - Draft Case for the opinion of Mr Goodden as to the mode of proceeding by the Bath Turnpike Trust against the late Way-Wardens of Weston for composition money
• BC/3/2/38/23 - Draft Case for the Bath Turnpike Trust regarding the impact of defective wheels on turnpike roads for the opinion of John Lens