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Title

Family and other early documents

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. c. 6637

Summary

Comprises:

(fols. 1-2) two letters, 1597-9

(fols. 3-18) inventory of documents and descriptions of property in West Malling, Kent, late 16th cent.

(fols. 19-41) letters to and from Rear-Admiral Richard Hainer concerning trade in cloth and slaves and the transporting of goods and people from France to England, June-Sept. 1660, including (fols. 28-31) two letters from Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, and (fols. 34-41) 19th-cent. note stating that the two letters came from the manor of Avebury, Wiltshire, with 19th-cent. copies of the letters

(fols. 42-57) family and other wills, 1699-1746

(fols. 58-9) deed of conveyance of a slave by Alured Clarke, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, to Adam Williamson, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, 1792