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Lease (Duke Street, parish of St Marylebone)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 774

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Lease (Duke Street, parish of St Marylebone)

Date(s): 1776

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 leaves

Name of creator(s): Adams | Samuel | fl 1776 | builder

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Lease, 7 Aug 1776, made by Samuel Adams, builder, to Thomas Williams, carpenter, both of the parish of St Marylebone, of property (plan included in document) on Duke Street, St Marylebone, for 96¾ years at a rent of £8 payable after the first two years, with covenants against certain trades being practiced on the premises. Includes details of leases of property between Duke Street, Bentinck Square, and Berkeley Square (giving measurements) to Adams by the trustees of Peter William Baker, son of William Baker, deceased. The trustees named were Henry W. Portman, baker, of Bryanston, Dorset; John Littlehales, of Greek Street, in the parish of St Ann, Westminster; James Clitherow, of Boston House, Hanwell; Rev. William Sellon, of the parish of St James, Clerkenwell; and James Dunne, of the parish of St Marylebone. Signed and sealed by Samuel Adams.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

610 x 770mm. Parchment.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Provenance unknown.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Land tenure | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Legal documents | Law
Legal systems | Law
Documents

Personal names
Adams | Samuel | fl 1776 | builder
Clitherow | James | fl 1776
Dunne | James | fl 1776
Littlehales | John | fl 1776
Portman | Henry W | fl 1776 | baker
Sellon | William | fl 1776 | clergyman of parish of St James, Clerkenwell
Williams | Thomas | fl 1776 | carpenter

Corporate names

Places
Duke Street | St Marylebone | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe