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Small bundle of papers relating to Pomery Farm, Wingfield, the estate of Eleazer Pickwick

Reference Number: BC/3/2/40/37
Level of Description: Item
Title: Small bundle of papers relating to Pomery Farm, Wingfield, the estate of Eleazer Pickwick
Date: August 1810-December 1810
Extent: Extent: 1 bundle
Description: A collection of papers relating to the leasing of the Pomery Farm and estate owned by Eleazer Pickwick (bap. 1749, d.1837). The majority of the papers relate to the distress sale of the farming stock of William Batchelor Moger who was tenant of Pomery Farm but had failed to pay the rent. Included are draft agreements for the quitting of the Farm and relinquishing a distress for rent; a valuation of the farm lands; the bill advertising the auction of Moger's farming stock, together with Richard Crutwell's invoice for printing 300 copies of the Auction bill; a number of draft printed copies of a notice to trespassers not to hunt or shoot on the estate. Also includes a draft agreement for the lease of Pomery Farm between Eleazer Pickwick and William Dyer the younger and a longer draft lease of the Pomery Farm between Eleazer Pickwick and John Taylor for 8 years.

Eleazer Pickwick was a very successful stagecoach proprietor in Bath. He was a freeman of Bath, a member of the common council and a turnpike trustee. He owned a number of properties, including a manor house and land in Bathwick, Hartley Farm in Batheaston, the manor house and lands in Wingfield (which included Pomery Farm), a freehold in Bath Street and 10 Queen Square. Dickens, having seen the name of Pickwick on the stagecoaches when in Bath, used the name for his protagonist Samuel Pickwick in his first novel, Pickwick Papers.