IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 112
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: British Linen Company
Date(s): 1746
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 8 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The British Linen Company was incorporated by Royal Charter on 5 Jul 1746, 'to do everything that may conduce to the promoting and carrying on' the manufacture of linen.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume containing a contemporary copy of the charter of the British Linen Company, dated 5 Jul 1746.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item.
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. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. 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:
Manuscript folio.
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
University of London MS 458 is a list of subscribers to the Company, [1746], bound within a printed copy of Charter of the British Linen Company (Edinburgh, 1746) (Ref: GL 8216).
Publication note:
MS 112 can be found in printed form in the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2000