£50
Local Interest. Miscellaneous manuscripts and some printed ephemera, 18th c and later, including 12 quit notices and 3 corresponding letters relating to John Leacroft's property in Litchurch, Derby, all dated 1796, and before the estate was sold to Joseph Strutt, who later, along with other properties, created the Derby Arboretum there, a 1715 MS poor law examination of Francis Nallson of Bolsolver, Derbyshire, a former solider, examined before and signed by Lord James Cavendish as JP, 1770 Freedom of Perth for a Nottingham merchant, printed and hand-scrivened on vellum, with seal, The Humble Petition of the Innkeepers and Victuallers, of Nottingham, to the House of Commons, Sherborne: Cruttwell & Son, Printers, n.d. [1804], 2pp, folio, a 1776 legal bill of [2]pp of MS, a Victorian schoolboy's manuscript book of verse, Poetry [by] Master William Green, Park House Academy, Nottingham, 1873, [4]ff of MS, loose and loosening leaves, original wrappers, 4to, 1807 Nottingham Academy school bill, a 1788 certificate of bastardy, Sarah Heath of Leek, Staffordshire, signed by John Sneyd as JP, 1842 Royal Hospital Chelsea pensioner's questionnaire, an 1840s Derby Savings' Bank pocket book, split, original calf over printed papered boards, 12mo, 1862 printed and inscribed vellum freedom of the then town of Nottingham, an earlier burgher's certificate dated 1820 conforming, four 19th c indentures, etc
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