Miscellaneous papers

Includes letter from Sophia Purnell to her father (early 18th c child) and from Dr Winter of Homerton College to Mrs Walley, 1820; note of ratepayers and number of empty houses, 1737/8; three poems with Hackney contexts (18th C , poor stuff); various notes by Peter Newcome, including ten modest queries addressed to the Bishop of St Davids, principal Hackney events from vestry minutes, list of meetings of vestry 1679, 1695-1721, brokers account 1720 , printed proposal for agreement between South Sea Co and Bank of England, and receipts for South Sea Stock, 1714 & 1724; receipt for the purchase of the manor of Foulden, Norfolk (Tyssen property later), 1631; letter to TYseen re photo, 1867; notes on Nichols family from Hackney registers, and from John GRaham re Heathcote marriage, nd; advert by J.Barrett, teacher of systamatic writing (mss) from 3 Orchard St, Hackney, 1822; copy memo of lease by Newcome to Knox Ward of land abutting north to a passage along the side of the garden wall leading from the Mermaid Tavern into Church Field, with plan, 1726; note of a recovery Bargain and sale by Henry Rowe),1685.

Available on microfilm XP404