File 01 - Wood Street estate records

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GB 2156 TSC/G/04/Wood Street/01

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Wood Street estate records

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  • 18 Nov 1582-1908 (Creation)

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68 items

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i: draft lease of 11 and 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Vanning, William Sabine, Philip River and Stephen Wilson, (3) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, 19 Jul 1795.

ii: draft lease of 11 and 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Vanning, William Sabine, Philip River and Stephen Wilson, (3) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, 20 May 1795.

iii: draft lease of 13 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Lambert, 9 Jul 1795.

iv: draft lease of 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, (2) Daniel Hooper and William Lane, 18 May 1796.

v: draft lease of 11 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) Stephen Wilson, 29 Nov 1794.

vi: draft lease of a messuage and premises in Clements Court and Friars Alley, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) Benjamin Fuller, 9 Jul 1795.

vii-x: schedules of fixtures for 11, 12 and 13 Wood Street and Clement Court, Oct 1795 [4 items].

xi-xxxviii: balance sheets for the Wood Street estate, 1830, 1858 [8 items], undated, 1860 [2 items], 1861 [3 items], 1862-1864, 1838, 1889, 1900-1901, 1903-1904, 1905 [2 items], 1906, 1907 [2 items], 1908; [30 items total]; items xvi-xvii consist of balance sheets for the rent and profits of property held in respect of the William Norton, George Bishop, Christopher Meredith and John Norton loan charities, applicable to the school, 1858 [includes Wood Street properties].

xxxix-xlviii: advertisements, sale particulars and proposals for taking leases in Wood Street, Friars Alley and Clements Court, 2 Sep-7 Oct 1794 [10 items].

xlix: vellum indenture of bequest of Wood Street, St Pancras churchyard and Fleet Street properties, parties: (1) Abraham Kitson, son and heir of Anthony Kitson, (2) Thomas Kitson, son of Anthony Kitson, Hugh Lewes and Anne, daughter of Anthony Kitson, (3) Leonard Milles and Thomas Feaskett, 18 Nov 1582.

l-lv: correspondence between Mr Dann and Mr Baldwin regarding leases and repairs in Wood Street, 29 Jun 1795-7 Jan 1796 [6 items].

lvi: estimate of repairs to a house in Wood Street late inhabited by Mr Brown, 4 Feb 1772.

lvii: list of leases of estate in Wood Street, 20 Jan 1794.

lviii: letter from Mr Stanbridge and Mr Tagg to the company regarding 12 Wood Street, 2 Sep 1794.

lix: memorandum regarding 11 and 13 Wood Street, 7 Oct 1794.

lx-lxiii: proposals for taking leases in Wood Street, 7 Oct 1794 [4 items].

lxiv: letter from Thomas Bolton regarding a draft lease for 11 Wood Street, 23 Dec 1795.

lxv-lxvi: lists of rent and sums proposed to be spent on repairs for houses on Wood Street, undated [2 items].

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  • English

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  • Latin

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Item (xlix) vellum indenture is on I-pl-12.

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Microfilm copies are on reel 101, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

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Draft balance accounts for the loan charities of William Norton, George Bishop, Christopher Meredith and John Norton, 1860 and 1864-1865, and for the Wood Street estates, 1864-1865, in Box N: Charity Commission records [TSC/G/11]; Records of Robert Mylne and Robert William Mylne, company surveyors [TSC/G/17/06]; Wood Street estate deeds and related records [TSC/G/32/19]

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