Papers related to Town Clerk duties and private legal practice

Reference Number

BC/3/2/40

Level of Description

Item

Title

Papers related to Town Clerk duties and private legal practice

Date

Mar 1810-12 Jan 1811

Extent

Extent: 1 bundle

Description

Legal papers and correspondence relating to:

1. Duties as Town Clerk including correspondence with Bath Turnpike Trustees; documents relating to the procuring stone for building; cases for counsels' opinion on liability for managing springs and assessing highways rates; and management of property owned by Bath Corporation. Includes papers from Philip George's senior and junior's private practice as a solicitor including briefs for prosecution of James Phelps for felony, Thomas Bailey for assault with intent, and Thomas Evans for assaulting a Tolls Collector; denization of Conrad Mathieson; the case for Lord Manvers' right to break up pitching at Abbey Gates and lay a water pipe to his house in Philip Street; petition from Sarah Darke to the Director of The Honourable East India Company to receive money due to the estate of her late son Captain Darke; affidavit of subpoena served on Paget Bayley on behalf of the Attorney General; legal documents related to management of property and estates of clients including Samuel Skurray Day; affidavits; bonds; and a small bundle of papers relating to Pomery Farm, Wingfield, the estate of Eleazer Pickwick.

Previous reference number BC 134/28.

Contents

• BC/3/2/40/1 - Draft Affidavit to prove debt under commission of bankruptcy
• BC/3/2/40/2 - Draft Affidavit of Service of Latitut
• BC/3/2/40/3 - Draft petition from Mrs Sarah Darke to the Director of the Honourable East India Company to be allowed to receive from their Treasury in England the monies due to the Estate of her late son Captain Richard Darke, deceased
• BC/3/2/40/4 - Draft of Affidavit of Service of Subpoena
• BC/3/2/40/5 - Draft notice to George Toghill to quit Charmydown
• BC/3/2/40/6 - Brief for the prosecution for James Morgan (plaintiff) against Thomas Bailey (defendant) for assault with intent, heard at the Somerset Summer Assizes, Wells
• BC/3/2/40/7 - Draft Deputation of Gamekeeper to the Manor of Pomrey, Wiltshire, and Keeper of the Fishery
• BC/3/2/40/8 - Draft Affidavit to prove debt under Commission of Bankrupt
• BC/3/2/40/9 - Draft notice to Benjamin Vowles to quit the Bath Common
• BC/3/2/40/10 - Draft Notice to quit the farm at Hinton, Somerset
• BC/3/2/40/11 - Draft Notice to quit the farm at Woolverton, Somerset
• BC/3/2/40/12 - Draft Notice to quit a property in Walcot Street, Bath
• BC/3/2/40/13 - Draft Notice to quit a property in Boatstall Lane, Bath
• BC/3/2/40/14 - Draft Notice to quit a property in Boatstall Lane
• BC/3/2/40/15 - Number not used
• BC/3/2/40/16 - Draft Notice to quit a property on North Parade, Bath
• BC/3/2/40/17 - Draft Affidavit previous to Conrad John Matthiesson obtaining letters of Denization
• BC/3/2/40/18 - Draft Lease of a messuage and lands at Burnett
• BC/3/2/40/19 - Draft Bond for security between John Kitson, Belmont, Bath, apothecary, and his son George Kitson
• BC/3/2/40/20 - Draft Affidavit of Debt under commission of bankruptcy
• BC/3/2/40/21 - Draft Lease of farm and lands in Braydon Forest, Wiltshire
• BC/3/2/40/22 - Draft Assignment of leasehold premises in Horse Street, Bath
• BC/3/2/40/23 - Draft briefs for the prosecution for Mrs Mary Gye (plaintiff) and Thomas Hobbes (plaintiff) against John Phelps (defendant), for felony heard at the Michaelmas Sessions of the Taunton sessions
• BC/3/2/40/24 - Draft Brief for the prosecution for George Smith (plaintiff) against Thomas Evans (defendant) heard at the Michaelmas Sessions, Taunton
• BC/3/2/40/25 - Draft Rental Agreement between James Field, Bathwick Street, Bath and Catherine Nott, Bath, for 13 Axford Buildings
• BC/3/2/40/26 - Draft Assignment of leasehold property in Corn Street, Bath, for the remainder of a term of 900 years
• BC/3/2/40/27 - Draft Assignment of leasehold premises in Culverhouse Lane, also known as Bridewell Lane, Bath
• BC/3/2/40/28 - Draft Affidavit to recover spoiled parchments containing stamps to the value of £9
• BC/3/2/40/29 - Draft advertisement for the contract for providing stone for the toll roads
• BC/3/2/40/30 - Draft Bond for further security of an annuity of £660 charged on certain lands in the parish of Charterhouse Hinton and Norton St Philip
• BC/3/2/40/31 - Draft Abstract of Title and Mortgage of Leasehold for 43 St James's Square, Bath
• BC/3/2/40/32 - Draft case for the opinion of Mr Lens on the liability of the springs in the parish of Widcomb to be rated to the Highway and Poor rates
• BC/3/2/40/33 - Draft Case relative to Lord Manvers's right to break up pitching etc from the Abbey Gates to lay a pipe for supply of his houses in Philip Street, for the opinion of W. Goodden
• BC/3/2/40/34 - Draft Extract of title to lands formerly Mr Saunders's in the parish of Walcot, Somerset
• BC/3/2/40/35 - Oath of George Bush, Bath, Gentleman, that he issued a sub poena to Francis Taunton (defendant) on behalf of Richard Wilkins (plaintiff) commanding him to appear in court
• BC/3/2/40/36 - Draft Letter to Benjamin and J. Blandy requesting that they pay the arrears owed by their brother Edward for leasing the tolls under the Bath Trust
• BC/3/2/40/37 - Small bundle of papers relating to Pomery Farm, Wingfield, the estate of Eleazer Pickwick