IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 755
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Rogers, Isaac
Date(s): 1784-1818
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Rogers | Isaac | fl 1784-1818 | clockmaker
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Isaac Rogers was Warden of the Company of Watchmakers 1810-12 and 1823. The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers was founded by royal charter in 1631 in order to regulate the crafts of watch and clock-making. The Company had certain policing powers and actively sought out poorly made material, seizing and destroying it. The Company is still in existence.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
A volume of printed (1788-1818) and manuscript (1784-1814) material relating to the Company of Clockmakers. Including letters, petitions and historical articles. Also including circulars from the Goldsmiths Company regulating standards of gold and silver in watches and material concerning the meetings about the proposed repeal and alteration of the statute 5 Eliz. I c.4 (Artificers and Apprentices).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled 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.
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Archival history:
Transferred from the Goldsmiths Library, 1969. The volume was included in the collection presented to the University Library by the Goldsmiths' Company in 1903.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: 2000-02-25 Joseph Gelfer