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Reference BC 134
Covering dates 1710 - 1888
Held by Bath and North East Somerset Record Office
Extent 232 bundles


No further details   Case and Opinion of Mr. Fearne re. James Abraham's estate, "Cowdery's" [? co. Hants]  BC 134/2  1781
No further details   Case and Opinion of Mr. Comyn re. lands in co. Monmouth  BC 134/2a  1767
No further details   Case and Opinion of Mr. Burland re. Solomon Hutchings' settlemen  BC 134/3  1762
No further details   Letter from Captain Tucker to Mr. Vernon re. legacy  BC 134/4  1769
No further details   An Act for the development of Bathwick: Pulteney trustees.  BC 134/4a  1769
No further details   Appointment of Bankruptcy Commissioners: Charles Milsom, bankrupt  BC 134/4b  1772
No further details   Mayor's certificates of execution of deeds.  BC 134/5  1773 & 1777
No further details   An Indenture to which the Affidavit of Philip George was amended (Ann Watkins).  BC 134/6  1777
No further details   Fine: sale of messuage in parish of St. Peter and St. Paul.  BC 134/6a  1778
No further details   Will of Dr. Abel Moysey  BC 134/7  1778
No further details   Case and Opinion of the Attorney General re. riots in Bath.  BC 134/7a  1781
No further details   Letter from A. Popham to John Morris re. the election of the mayor at Taunton.  BC 134/8  1789
No further details   Letters from Lords Camden, Lansdown, and Wycombe to John Morris re. election of members to Parliament.  BC 134/9  1790-1792
No further details   Payment to Mr. Jefferys on account of Town Clerk's business.  BC 134/10  1791
No further details   Letter from John Mayor, clerk to Mr. Baldwin, to John Jefferys, Town Clerk; Rent of Gally's in Broad Street due to Churchwardens of St. Michael  BC 134/11  1791
No further details   Mr. Jefferys' declaration of receipt of £1,600 from Mrs. Gallaway in part of £3,000 owing to him on mortgage  BC 134/11a  1791
No further details   Copy Declaration of Trust of £12,000, part of Lord Oxford's Security (Henry Hoare to Abel Moysey.)  BC 134/12  1792
No further details   Notice to John Jefferys as a Governor of the Bath General Hospital.  BC 134/12a  1792
No further details   Memorandum of Council resolution re. licence for garden doors onto the Common, rear of Marlborough Buildings.  BC 134/13  1796
No further details   Interest receipts  BC 134/14  1796-1810
No further details   Property tax receipts  BC 134/14a  1804
No further details   Conditions for letting the Turnpike tolls.  BC 134/14b  1818
No further details   Miscellaneous papers.  BC 134/15  1797-1866
No further details   Subscription book "for the benefit of the public charities of this city instead of illuminating, on account of the arrival of the definitive Treaty of Peace, 31 March 1802". (one page only.)  BC 134/15a  1802
No further details   Case for Opinion re. Mayor taking oaths at Sessions.  BC 134/16a  1798
No further details   Draft Hall Notices, 3 & 13 May 1805, also draft Petition 25 May 1805.  BC 134/17a  1805
No further details   Miscellaneous bundle inc. draft leases, bonds, briefs, draft agreements etc. (inc. Donhead St. Mary)  BC 134/19  1806-1807
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/20  1807
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/22  1808-1809
No further details   Town Hall accounts  BC 134/25  1809-1817
No further details   Letters, mainly to do with Census  BC 134/27  1809-1898
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/30  1810
No further details   Numbers not assigned.  BC 134/31-32  [n.d.]
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/34  1811
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/37  1812
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/41  1813
No further details   Copy will of William Harr, 14 March 1814.  BC 134/43  1814
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/44  1814
No further details   Kings Bench, Leedham v Graves; Kings Bench, Hobhouse and others v Lowther M.P.  BC 134/45  1814-1815
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/47  1815
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/49  1816
No further details   Papers re. examination of B. Wingrove and others.  BC 134/49A  1817-1825
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/50  1817
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/52  1818
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/57  1819
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/58  1820
No further details   Draft Bond of Indemnity. Sir B. Hobhouse and Co to Thomas Clutterbuck  BC 134/60  1821-1822
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/61  1821
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/63  1822
No further details   Correspondence, including Bath Literary & Scientific Institution 1823-1872.  BC 134/66  1823
No further details   Draft lease for 500 years. Bath City Dispensary and Casualty Hospital. (now the Bath United Hospital)  BC 134/67  1824
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/69  1824
No further details   Correspondence re lands in Burgie in Aberdeenshire, the property of Lewis Dunbar Brodie  BC 134/70  1825
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/73  1825
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/74  1825-1847
No further details   Draft Reassignment and Confirmation of a messuage being No 20 in Wilson street. Sir Herbert Sawyer K.C.B. to John Stafford.  BC 134/77  1826-27
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/78  1826
No further details   Draft Release and Assignment of a messuage and premises no 3 Camden Place. Mrs Sarah Tuckey to Johnson Phillott and others.  BC 134/81  1827
No further details   Draft conveyance of Equity of Redemption of premises on Sion Hill. William Wooddeson to Benjamin Bartrum.  BC 134/82  1827
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/83  1827
No further details   Draft Release of no 18 Camden Place Mrs Errington and others to Frederick A Cunyngham  BC 134/85  1828
No further details   Papers and letters re sale of Hampton Hill House.  BC 134/88  1829-30
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/89  1829
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/91  1830
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/92  1831
No further details   Draft marriage settlement of George Beale, linen draper  BC 134/93  1832
No further details   Correspondence re. Elizabeth Biggs who died intestate at South Stoneham, Hants.  BC 134/94  1832
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/95  1832
No further details   Parliamentary Reform Act (misc. loose notes of agents for Parl. elections)  BC 134/95A  1832
No further details   Writ on Elizabeth Bracknell, Montpellier Cottage, Widcombe  BC 134/96  1833
No further details   Correspondence re Hobhouse v Moore.  BC 134/97  1833-34
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/98  1833
No further details   Draft notice of appeal against a Rate, Lycombe and Widcombe.  BC 134/98A  1834
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/99  1834
No further details   Agreement for repair & building work to Charlcombe glebe: Rev. J. Pears and Bishop of Bath and Wells and Bath Corporation.  BC 134/99A  1834
No further details   Abstract of Title of John Collibee Horton and Edward John Horton to two plots of garden ground with appurtenances situate in the rear of Devonshire Buildings in the parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe.  BC 134/100  1835
No further details   Correspondence.  BC 134/101  1835
No further details   Correspondence between Philip George and Evans and Roberts, Bristol re. Brabant family.  BC 134/102  1836
No further details   Correspondence re sale of properties incl. property at "Road"  BC 134/103  1836
No further details   Petition and resolution to the City Council recommending candidates for trusteeship of the Municipal Charities; also copy. Petition of Bath burgesses to the Lord Chancellor to approve new trustees.  BC 134/103A  1836
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/104  1836
No further details   Draft memorial to the Lords of the Treasury for permission to sell an alienate leasehold premises on payment of ground rents, with power to sell same.  BC 134/105  1837
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/106  1837
No further details   Case for opinion of counsel re. power to renew 99 year leases without the consent of the treasury.  BC 134/107  1838
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/108  1838
No further details   Correspondence re. Batheaston tithes - G.E.Allen.  BC 134/109  1839-42
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/110  1839
No further details   Correspondence  BC 134/111  1840
No further details   Case for the opinion of William Wightman re pitching and paving.  BC 134/112  1840
No further details   Correspondence (inc. undated correspondence).  BC 134/112a  1841-57
No further details   Correspondence, mainly Sdr. Gen. v. Mayor and Corpn. of Bath [Bath charities].  BC 134/112b  1841-49
No further details   Correspondence re compensation under the bankruptcy Act  BC 134/113  1843
No further details   Byelaws for licensing and regulating Hackney Coaches, Chariots, & Fly Carriages [printed]  BC 134/113a  1844
No further details   Letters of several distinguished members of the bench of bishops on the subject of marriage with a deceased wife's sister with remarks by George A. Crowther.  BC 134/114  1846
No further details   Property day:- Wellow and Camerton  BC 134/114A  1846
No further details   Letter from Metropolitan Provincial Law Association inviting membership. (inc. printed prospectus)  BC 134/114B  1847
No further details   Appointment of Philip George as Bailiff.  BC 134/115  1847
No further details   Draft appointment of Wm. Coles as assistant Overseer of the Poor, Batheaston  BC 134/115A  1849
No further details   Draft assignment of furniture on security for arrears of rent on 27 The Circus:- Miss Mary Steger to Chas. H. Parry. esq. (+ related correspondence).  BC 134/115B  1852
No further details   Blank forms  BC 134/116  [n.d.]
No further details   Letter from Paul R. Hodge of Islington re. Particultural scheme utilising waste hot mineral water.  BC 134/116A  1856
No further details   Indentures re sale of premises (Bulls' Ahead) in St. Martin's in the Fields. Elizabeth Callett to Thomas Greenhill.  BC 134/117  N.D
No further details   Copy Queen Elizabeth's Charter of 1590.  BC 134/117A  [1590s]
No further details   Discharge of legacy and indemnification, Parsons and Peterson to Mrs Peterson, 1789 Draft Leases and Releases (not dated).  BC 134/119  1783-90
No further details   Draft Brief: Case in Chancery Tyrrell v Tyrrell 8th July 1754.  BC 134/128  1754
No further details   Account books, and also a Terrier of Leckhamstead dated 1720.  BC 134/134  1720-1825
No further details   Will of Mrs Ann Lee of Box, Wilts. 14th November 1769. Also a copy.  BC 134/136  1769
No further details   Fire Policy made out in the name of Elizabeth  BC 134/137  1815
No further details   Draft lease of farm and lands at Leckhamstead, Mrs Elizabeth Morris to William Hinton.  BC 134/137A  1815
No further details   Deeds of Hassage Farm, p.Wellow (Morris family) Bdl. containing Costumal of manor of Willow 1583, rental, tax assessments, etc. 16-18 cent. Also bdl. Shorcombe tithes. See Turnpike records at Somerset R.O. bdl. 58 + 48.  BC 134/138A  1671-1769
No further details   Miscellaneous correspondence.  BC 134/139  1749-1827
No further details   Schedule of title deeds of an estate in  BC 134/140  1829
No further details   Mrs Elizabeth Morris' Executors and Trust accounts all settled and released Sept. 1845.  BC 134/140A  1845
No further details   Letter of attorney. Benjamin Lewis to Joseph Lorton 1st February 1714.  BC 134/142  1714
No further details   Account books of cases on circuit. 10 vols.  BC 134/143  1766-1799
No further details   Base in Chancery John Cottell and others v John Lee and others.  BC 134/143A  1767
No further details   Travelling expenses for attending at Sessions.  BC 134/144  1768
No further details   Papers of John Jeffreys relating to the purchase of Lady Trevor's house in Queen Square (no.21) by Edward Rudge. Inc. Agreement to purchase 20.7.1775.  BC 134/146  1775
No further details   Gloucester assizes, Brief for the defendant ann East v Francis Ansty. 1st May 1777.  BC 134/147  1777
No further details   Statement between Milson and Hales and Day and bottle  BC 134/148  1781
No further details   Accounts of monies due to Mrs. Jane Bennett under the will of her late [...] Francis Bennett. (d. 18.4-1790).  BC 134/149A  1790-1
No further details   Lists of fees for Quarter Sessions  BC 134/150  1792
No further details   Lists of fees for Quarter Sessions  BC 134/151  1793
No further details   Information of James Howe. re. the publication of "The Rights of man", 15th August 1794.  BC 134/152  1794
No further details   Case of trespass on an estate at Chelwood Thomas Peterson v Henry Smith.  BC 134/155  1796
No further details   Lists of fees at Quarter Sessions  BC 134/156  1799
No further details   Quarter Sessions Calendars of prisoners.  BC 134/157  1800-3
No further details   Agents Accounts.  BC 134/162  1805-12
No further details   Draft return of a Writ of Habeas Corpus to remove the body of Frederick Albrecht 4th March 1806.  BC 134/163  1806
No further details   Court of Kings Bench, enrolment of Philip George as an Attorney 25th November 1806.  BC 134/164  1806
No further details   Grant of Tee Farm Rents W.H. White to Philip George 2nd Mar 1807.  BC 134/164a  1807
No further details   Copy Will of John Attwood of P. Walcot, gent. dated 5 Dec. 1771  BC 134/165a  1810
No further details   Depositions  BC 134/167  1810-16
No further details   Depositions 1817-1825  BC 134/173  1817-25
No further details   In Chancery Rees v. Rees, correspondence etc. from 1820 to 1824.  BC 134/177  1820
No further details   Hinton v Bryant, correspondence etc. re Paper mill at Compton Martin. 1820-1822.  BC 134/178  1820

Folder icon  Miscellaneous draft documents.  BC 134/179  1820

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Contents:
Brief for the prosecution of John Holbrook for felony. Taunton Assizes 27th March 1820
Draft Release of a cottage and garden at Broughton Gifford, Wilts. Mrs. Mary Day to Mr. Jacob Gore.
Draft Release of a cottage and garden at Broughton Gifford, Wilts. Mrs Mary Day to Mr. Shrine White.
Depositions for Mr. Gunnings personal re. the motors proceedings at the illuminations in Bath.
Draft Affidavit of Service Brice v Porter.
Draft Affidavit of Service Trent v Thornhill
Brief for the prosecution of Samuel Stringer for felony. Taunton Assizes 16th October 1820.
Draft Bond of Indemnification on Ideneage Ginder being appointed under Bailiff and Keeper of the Gaol. Ideneage Ginder and others to Thomas Phinn and Joseph Barratt Bailiffs of the City of Bath.
Draft Release of a plot of ground and messuage thereon in the parish of Bathwick adjacent to the city gaol. E. Pickwick to Thomas Slater.
Draft conveyance in fee of a messuage and buildings in James Street. J. Baker and his Trustee to George Sims and his Trustee.
Draft Affidavit of signature. Samuel Brunn a bankrupt.
Draft-advert. for a meeting for removing the Holloway Tollhouse and for erecting Tollhouse etc. at Weston Lane.
Brief for the prosecution of Samuel West for a felony. Wells Assizes 12th August 1820.
Assignment of William Byam Wilmot an apprentice. Mrs S. B. Morgan and Mr Palin to Richard Lowe.
Draft Lease of a farm and lands at Danhead St Mary, Wilts. Corporation to John Sharp.
Draft marriage settlement. The Rev. Dr. Moysey and others to H. Moysey and R. Napier.
Draft Lease of a messuage and premises no 1 Norfolk Crescent. Richard Boursher to Philip George.
Draft mortgage of messuage and hereditaments in Lyncombe and Widcombe. Samuel Orchard to Charles Phillott.
Affidavit of Service of subpoena in Court of Exchequer. Maxwell and others v. G.B. Ward.
Affidavit of debt. Hobhouse and Co v Bevan.
Affidavit of service, in Chancery in Ireland Crampton and wife v Saunders.
Draft abstract of Deed appointing a new Trustee under the Will of Thomas West.
Assignment of a messuage and premises, the Horse and Groom in Bell Tree Lane John Brown to William Clark.
Draft Bond for payment of rent etc of a public house called the Smiths Arms in Avon Street
Affidavit of debt Bell v Stafford.
Declaration of Trust of £205. Turnpike mortgages. W. H marks and Mrs H. Bligh.
Draft Affidavit of Debt. Andrew Brown and Lieutenant Colonel Crosbie.
Affidavit of Debt. Evill v Calley.
Brief for the prosecution of Joseph King, Charles Slip and John Sheppard. Wells Sessions 10 Jan 1820
Brief for the prosecution of Zebedee Beacham and Charles Hart. Wells Sessions, 10 Jan. 1820
Brief for the prosecution of Edward Lewis and Ann Lewis for felony. Wells Sessions 10 Jan 1820
Brief for the prosecution of Daniel yoemans for felony. Wells Sessions 10th January 1820


No further details   Correspondence etc. Court of King's Bench Hobhouse v Madocks.  BC 134/180  1821
No further details   Atkins v Hodgson and Rex v Turner.  BC 134/181  1821
No further details   Case Rex v Clarke. re exemption of Bath from County Rate.  BC 134/182  1821
No further details   Account; Lowe and Cowburn.  BC 134/183  1821
No further details   Kings Bench: Sir B. Hobhouse v Parker.  BC 134/185  1822
No further details   Calendar of Prisoners lent Assignes, Taunton, 1824  BC 134/188  1824
No further details   Case before the justices of the Division of Bathforum James Byfield V John Skeats. 23rd April 1824.  BC 134/192  1824
No further details   Agents Day Books 1828-1842  BC 134/197  1828-42
No further details   Summonses re. collection of tapes  BC 134/199  1829-31
No further details   Letters re rise in crime from Benjamin Wingrove to John Philips  BC 134/200  1829
No further details   Agents bills  BC 134/203  1830-43
No further details   Letters etc. re. distraining of goods of the Rev. M. Mapletaft for taxes.  BC 134/204  1831
No further details   Riot in Bath: papers re. action for damage at the White Hart Inn. Bishop and Cooper v Inhabitants of Bath.  BC 134/205  1831-32
No further details   Abstract of title of Robt. Collier to mill, factory and lands called Worsham Mill in p. Asthall, Oxon  BC 134/206A  1832
No further details   Letters between Philip George and William Clark and Jonathan Gray re. Case in Chancery Fenton v Phillott  BC 134/207  1832
No further details   Game licence convictions 1828-33  BC 134/208  1833
No further details   Correspondence re. Sir George Williams v Virrer  BC 134/210  1833
No further details   Draft notice of appeal against a Rate Corporation v Parish of Bathwick  BC 134/212  1834
No further details   Abstract of mortgage title of Mr. Joseph Willis of Norton St. Phillip to Homehouse Farm + lands in P. Wellow  BC 134/212A  1834
No further details   Correspondence re. Hobshouse and Co v Hillings  BC 134/213  1834
No further details   Valuation of lifehold properties of the Corporation by Manners + English.  BC 134/213A  1836
No further details   Case for the opinion of Sir Frederick Pollock re. hours of opening for alehouses.  BC 134/221  1840
No further details   Agency accounts 1844-48.  BC 134/223  1844-48
No further details   Queen's Bench: The Queen v. the Justices of Bath - draft return to Mandamus (nonpayment of rate by [...] Levi Weston)  BC 134/225A  1850
No further details   Tables of Trees.  BC 134/226  1841-1888
No further details   List of Clerks of Petty and Special Sessions.  BC 134/227  1845
No further details   Correspondence re. Bill to re-vert in Municipal Corporations the management of their Charity funds.  BC 134/228A  1867
No further details   Agents account.  BC 134/229  1847
No further details   Octagon Chapel: draft lease Corpn. to Rev. Magee. (see Surrender & lease 1857 in Bryant cat.)  BC 134/230  1857
No further details   In Chancery: Hancock v. Mayor & Corpn. of Bath  BC 134/231  1869

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