BANKRUPTCY COMMISSIONS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 O/115
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: BANKRUPTCY COMMISSIONS
Date(s)	: 1799
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.08 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Wedderburn | Alexander | first Earl of Rosslyn | 1733-1805 | Lord Chancellor

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

A commission of bankruptcy was a commission appointing and empowering certain persons to examine the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors. The bankrupt being examined in this case lived in Kingsland.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Petition to issue a commission of bankruptcy, 3 Jan 1799, from William Wilde and Richard Sturges, of Compton Street, St James, Clerkenwell, brewers, to Alexander, Lord Loughborough, Lord High Chancellor. With attached commission of bankruptcy (3 Jan 1799), issued by George III to Richard Calvert, William Boscawen, Charles Bragge, Arthur Onslow, and Henry Gregg.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Two documents

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1962 (AC/62/019).

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
July to October 2009