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PEIRCE AND TAIT


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-149

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: PEIRCE AND TAIT

Date(s): 1763-1793

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Peirce and Tait | fish dealers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Peirce and Tait appear to have been engaged in fish dealing. They are listed in trade directories as merchants at 99 Lower Thames Street, 1769-93. The volume also mentions premises at 7 Billingsgate.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bad and doubtful debt book of Peirce and Tait, fish dealers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Fish trade | Trade (practice)
Fishmongers | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
Peirce and Tait | fish dealers

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe