Phillipps MS 17606: The Tattersall family of Gatton, Surrey,...

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Phillipps MS 17606: The Tattersall family of Gatton, Surrey, [10]ff of MS legal documents, dated from 1768, and stemming from the contested will of James Maud (d. 1769), a wealthy London wine merchant, whose daughter Mary (d. 1800) married the Rev. John Tattersall (? d. 1768/69), and includes a long opinion by Alexander Wedderburn MP (1733-1805), later Lord Chancellor and created first Earl of Rosslyn, probably in a secretarial hand, 'signed' from Lincolns Inn and dated 16th April 1770, 19th c ?Middle Hill papered boards, chipped, loosening, foolscap folio (34 x 21.5cm), [&] a Victorian Royal Navy officer's minute book, dated 30th April 1870 to 27th November 1880, [26]ff only, with 10 pieces of bound-in connected ephemera, the manuscript being transcripts of directions from the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard, Deptford, and some from the Admiralty, contemporary hessian over reverse calf boards, worn and split, but holding, foolscap folio (32 x 20.6cm), (2)

Provenance: 1st: Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliomaniac who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, whose dispersal, following his death, took over 100 years. The first leaf typically inscribed in ink manuscript: Phillipps MS/17606; further numbered 17606 Phi in pencil.