Draft papers relating to Town Clerk duties and private legal practice

Reference Number

BC/3/2/45

Level of Description

Item

Title

Draft papers relating to Town Clerk duties and private legal practice

Date

02 January 1812-29 December 1812

Extent

Extent: 1 bundle

Description

A collection of papers relating to Bath Corporation property management; Bath Turnpike Trust business regarding tolls, erection of tollgate on Warminster Road, use of statute labour, appointment of surveyors; case for counsel's opinion relating to setting the price of bread; draft memorial of the Freedom of the City of Bath for Lord Wellington following series of victories in the Peninsular Wars. Together with a number of papers relating to Philip George junior's private legal practice including papers relating to debt recovery, property management; prosecution briefs including a large bundle relating to the trial of William Stordy for felony; agreement for use and occupation of two lime kilns on Upper Bristol Road, Weston.

Previous reference number BC 134/36.

Contents

• BC/3/2/45/1 - Draft Affidavit of Debts
• BC/3/2/45/2 - Draft Notice for a meeting of the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads for revoking an order respecting Mr Giller's wall
• BC/3/2/45/3 - Draft Affirmation of Debt
• BC/3/2/45/4 - Draft Note to move the Court for leave to file orders of magistrates for diverting a Highway in the parish of Charterhouse Hinton, Somerset
• BC/3/2/45/5 - Draft Brief for the prosecution for Mr Minifie (plaintiff) against Elizabeth Hilliar (defendant) for felony heard at the Epiphany Sessions, Wells
• BC/3/2/45/6 - Draft Affidavit of service of Latitut
• BC/3/2/45/7 - Draft Case brought by the Bath Turnpike Road Trust regarding the apportionment of the tolls and calling out the statute labour
• BC/3/2/45/8 - Draft Affidavit of Service of Quominus in the exchequer
• BC/3/2/45/9 - Draft Bond from Charles Ollier, Bath, haberdasher, William Meyler, Bath, printer and bookseller, and George Stothert, Bath, ironmonger to the President and Governors of the Hospital or Infirmary at Bath
• BC/3/2/45/10 - Notice to Quit served by Phillott to John Read
• BC/3/2/45/11 - Draft Agreement between William Evelyn and Collett Mawhood to pay an additional rent of £10 for a house in Belmont, Bath
• BC/3/2/45/12 - Draft Brief for the Prosecution for Thomas Ashmore (plaintiff) against James Harper (defendant) for felony, heard at the Somerset Lent Assizes, Taunton
• BC/3/2/45/13 - Bundle of papers relating to the case brought by William Hilton (plaintiff) against William Stordy (defendant) for felony, heard at the Wells' Assizes
• BC/3/2/45/14 - Draft Case for the Opinion of Mr J Lens on the mode of setting the price of bread, in blending the wheat with the flour as returned from the Bristol Market
• BC/3/2/45/15 - Draft Brief for the prosecution for Thomas Hawkins (plaintiff) against James Parsons (defendant) for felony
• BC/3/2/45/16 - Draft Affidavit of Debt
• BC/3/2/45/17 - Draft Affidavit of moneyed costs
• BC/3/2/45/18 - Draft Affidavit of Service of Attachment of Privilege and draft Affidavit of Service of Sums
• BC/3/2/45/19 - Draft Agreement from Thomas Leir appointing Charles Robinson as bailiff to Leir's lime works on the Upper Bristol Road, Bath
• BC/3/2/45/20 - Draft copy of Abstract of grant from the Commissioners under the Bath Improvement Act to the Corporation of springs of hot and cold water on the north side of Bath Street dated 15 Apr. 1793.
• BC/3/2/45/21 - Draft Notice of a meeting of the Bath Turnpike Trust
• BC/3/2/45/22 - Articles of Agreement between Revd Robert Jacomb and Robert Lowndes to let 6 Widcombe Crescent, Bath
• BC/3/2/45/23 - Draft Affidavit of Debt
• BC/3/2/45/24 - Draft Bond for the repayment of £100 in the event of a messuage and premise (later The Greyhound Inn) at the corner of Claverton Street being required for the purpose of the Bath and Bristol Canal Act
• BC/3/2/45/25 - Draft Affidavit of Major George Robinson to prove Benjamin Hobhouse was and continues to be one of the treasurers of the Bath City Dispensary and Asylum for the sick poor, commonly called the Pauper Charity
• BC/3/2/45/26 - Draft Memorial relating to the giving of the Freedom of the City of Bath to Lord Wellington
• BC/3/2/45/27 - Draft Deputation of gamekeepers on manors of Road [Rhode], Langham, Woolverton and Monkton in the counties of Somerset and Wiltshire Samuel Day to John Puckstone.
• BC/3/2/45/28 - Draft Notice of a meeting for borrowing £1850 for the purpose of the Bath Turnpike Act
• BC/3/2/45/29 - Draft Mortgage of Tolls for £50 and interest granted by the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads to Rev. Thomas Fothergill, Parish of Twerton, Somerset, Doctor in Divinity
• BC/3/2/45/30 - Draft Mortgage of Tolls for £50 and interest granted by the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads to Alex Luders, Parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe, Somerset
• BC/3/2/45/31 - Draft Notice of a meeting of the Bath Turnpike Trust to consider the letting by auction of the several tolls under the Trust
• BC/3/2/45/32 - Draft Notice of a meeting of the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Trust to erect a Gate on the Warminster Road near The Red Lion or Cross Keys Inns
• BC/3/2/45/33 - Draft Assignment of Mortgage of Bath Turnpike Tolls for £50 and interest
• BC/3/2/45/34 - Draft Affidavit of Service of Rule of Court relating to the case of the King against Thomas Wildey
• BC/3/2/45/35 - Draft Mortgage of Tolls for £50 and interest granted by the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads to Charles Wilkins, parish of Twerton, Somerset, gentleman
• BC/3/2/45/36 - Draft Mortgage of Tolls for £50 and interest granted by the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads to Paul Rose, Bathwick, Somerset, coal merchant
• BC/3/2/45/37 - Draft Mortgage of Tolls for £50 and interest granted by the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads to John Dafter, parish of Twerton, Somerset, gentleman
• BC/3/2/45/38 - Draft Mortgage of Tolls for £50 and interest granted by the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads to Francis Nash, parish of Twerton, Somerset, esquire
• BC/3/2/45/39 - Draft Mortgage of Tolls for £50 and interest granted by the Trustees of the Bath Turnpike Roads to Paul Rose, parish of Bathwick, Somerset, coal merchant
• BC/3/2/45/40 - Draft Advertisement for a meeting of the Bath Turnpike Trust on the 19th December 1812 respecting the Bath Improvement Act
• BC/3/2/45/41 - Draft Assignment of William Amesbury an apprentice for the remainder of a term of 7 years from Thomas Eyles to Robert Mattocks.
• BC/3/2/45/42 - Draft Release of a messuage and premises in Cross Bath Lane, Bath held on lease for 3 lives held under the Master and Co-Bretheren of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalen in Holloway, parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe, Somerset
• BC/3/2/45/43 - Draft Agreement for Freshford Cottage for 3 years from 25 October 1812
• BC/3/2/45/44 - Draft Notice for a meeting of the Bath Turnpike Trust to appoint two general surveyors
• BC/3/2/45/45 - Draft Bond of Indemnity in the penalty of £500