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Collection
Identifier: MSS-89-3
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This collection contains two handwritten commonplace books compiled by two generations of lawyers in Bedale, Yorkshire, Charles and Thomas Frankland. Three of the functions of these volumes appear to be: to have available all information relevant to Frankland property (land, debtors, etc.); to have available a wide range of legal information, precedents, cases, forms of words, etc.; and to have available information about important clients and matters...
Dates:
ca. 1740-1811
Collection
Identifier: MSS-84-9
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This letter book dating from 1823 to 1828 contains primarily outgoing correspondence written by James and G. T. Lambert, father and son solicitors based in London. Most of the letters in the first half of the volume concern James Lambert's purchase of an estate in western Yorkshire near Settle. The volume begins with a name index of correspondents.
Dates:
1823-1828
Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-12
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous English and American documents that include indentures, wills, deeds, land titles and financial records. These documents span the years 1559 through 1847.
Dates:
1559 - 1847