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Title: [Chancery lawyer's account book].
Creator: Jones, Henry.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1704-1716]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Manuscript account book of Henry James, a master in the Subpoena Office at the Court of Chancery, listing fees for cases, dating about 1704-1716. Some of the listings are quite brief but others contain significant detail about cases. The volume contains information regarding cases involving Jonathan Swift (Martin v. Swift; p. 39) and Daniel Defoe (Smith v. Defoe; p. 214). The volume is written in both a transitional secretary hand and in chancery hand.
Condition: Bound in original vellum.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Account books
Extent: [274] pages, bound ;37 x 15 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1659q
f MS.1972.007
Language: English
eng
Subject: Equity--England--Early works to 1800.
Place: England--London
Provenance: "Henry Jones" inscribed very faintly on cover.
Location: CLUW

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