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Records removed from Volume 74

Description

Phillipps number: 9938

Volume entitled "Relating to the Hudsons Bay Company"; contains documents relating to Godfrey Webster of London, merchant, as executor of Henry Summers of London, merchant, and of a suit brought against Webster in chancery by the beneficiaries.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1701-1709
Call number
mssBA
Creator
Battle Abbey(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of Sir Thomas Phillipps, through the agency of A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1923. In 1835 Sir Geoffrey Webster, 5th Bart., offered the monastic records in his possession, together with some family estate papers, to the bookseller Thomas Thorpe, from whom they were in turn purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Associated people
Webster (Family)
Browne (Family)
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