Notes relating to estate management, 1652

Component identifier:

Item 86

Content Summary:

English

A page of notes relating to estate management. Refers to rents payable for properties in Downton and Weeke.

Parties: Elliot family. Names of people renting: – Thos Estman, Yare Curtis, widdow, Thos Rodes, Phillip South, John Randall, Richard Greye, Ambros Birch, George Higgons, Robert Carpenter and Symon Coward

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 313-314

Immediate source of acquisition:

The documents in this collection were presented to the National Library of Australia by Sir Rex Nan Kivell in 1969. He referred to it as ‘The Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection’. The documents were collected by him as specimens of early calligraphy and/or examples of early documentation. He acquired them over a number of years from varied sources which were not recorded. However, it seems likely that the group of legal documents in Series 1 relating to the Elliott family of Salisbury would have a single provenance. Nan Kivell had a country house in Devizes, Wiltshire, which is only a short distance from Salisbury.

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