Accounts of Brentford Estates

Scope and Content

A collection, bound in one volume, of bills, receipts, etc., relating to estates in Brentford and Old Brentford, Middlesex. It mostly covers bricklaying work done by John Spooner and John Bance, and carpenters' work done by George Wood, Charles Ezard and Henry Ezard, for the Rev. Samuel Shuckford, Mrs Michell, John Miller, Mr Nichols and others.

Access Information

The manuscript is available for consultation by any accredited reader.

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the bookseller G.H. Last of Bromley, Kent, in June 1937 (Catalogue 225, No. 597).

Note

Description compiled by Henry Sullivan and Jo Humpleby, project archivists.

Other Finding Aids

Catalogued in the Supplementary Hand-List of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 1937 (English MS 901).