Rent Roll

Scope and Content

Rent roll for Newtown Manor, County Down, May 1712-1715, 136 folios. The receipt entries continue until 1718. There are occasional additional entries, some of them attached on slips, including a statement of account with receipt from John Smart, 4 October 1661 (inside the front cover); a statement of account paid to James Right (fo. 5); a memorandum, 23 November 1715, mentioning 'Mr. James', 'Patrick MacMarrans' and 'Robt Gregg of Granshogh Montgomery' (fo. 8); part of a letter from And... [ ] of Carrickfergus to Hugh Montgomery, 8 February 1667 (fo. 10); part of an envelope addressed to 'Simon Isaac Esq., Newtowne' (fo. 43); part of a letter from John Lillin to [ ], 9 September 1722 (fo. 58); a note from James Pringle to [ ] Isaac, 22 July 1713, and a receipt for sums received by Jas. Hempter from James Rabe, 9 July 1715 (fo. 66); a letter from Samuell Anderson to Simon Isaac, 10 January 1721 (fo. 80); a receipt for a sum received by Jas H[empter] from Samuel Willson, 5 December 1715 (fo. 104); a fragment of a letter, 18 January 1715 (fo. 105); a statement of account due from Francis Fitzherbert, 20 August 1670 (inside the back cover).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Received from the collection of Henry Bradshaw, 1870.

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