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Size | 63 items |
Abstract | The collection is chiefly legal documents relating to rents, freeholds, copyholds, and other tenancy issues at Kilsby, Parish of Liddington, County of Rutland, England. Many of the documents relate to Thomas Colledge of Kilsby, and other Colledge family members, including J. R. Colledge, who was an ophthalmologist in Macao and China in the 1820s. Thomas Colledge was also involved with John and Elizabeth Gardner and others in a land shares scheme at Kibworth, County of Leicester. Some of the documents relate to actions taken to satisfy the requirements of the act for dividing and inclosing open and common fields passed by Parliament in the mid- 1770s. Also included are documents relating to members of the Richardson, Ridgely, Boyes, and Gibbons families, some of whom appear to have been related to the Colledges. The earliest item is an indenture dated 1506, which bears Thomas Shakespeare's signature on the back; the latest is an 1886 inventory of a public house at Kilsby. There is also a short travel diary of a journey to the Channel Islands in 1836. |
Creator | Ripley, Dana P., collector. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, August 1991
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, August 2020
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The collection is chiefly legal documents relating to rents, freeholds, copyholds, and other tenancy issues at Kilsby, Parish of Liddington, County of Rutland, England. Many of the documents relate to Thomas Colledge of Kilsby, and other Colledge family members, including J. R. Colledge, who was an ophthalmologist in Macao and China in the 1820s. Thomas Colledge was also involved with John and Elizabeth Gardner and others in a land shares scheme at Kibworth, County of Leicester. Some of the documents relate to actions taken to satisfy the requirements of the act for dividing and inclosing open and common fields passed by Parliament in the mid-1770s. Also included are documents relating to members of the Richardson, Ridgely, Boyes, and Gibbons families, some of whom appear to have been related to the Colledges. The earliest item is an indenture dated 1506, which bears Thomas Shakespeare's signature on the back; the latest is an 1886 inventory of a public house at Kilsby. There is also a short travel diary of a journal to the Channel Islands in 1836.
Note that documents were arranged into lots by the donor, and that these numbered lots have been maintained. These "R" numbers may reflect the way in which materials were collected. There is no R-9, R-16, or R-33.
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