Grant, 18 June 1793

Component identifier:

Item 106

Content Summary:

English

Grant. Refers to rent and monies to be paid for public performances at the Drury Lane Theatre Royal. The term of the grant is for 103 years from 25 December 1791. The indenture has an etching of Drury Lane Theatre at the top edge.

Parties: (1) Albany Wallis of Norfolk Street in the parish of St Clement Danes in the county of Middlesex, esquire; Richard Ford of the Inner Temple, London, esquire; and Thomas Hammersley of Pall-Mall in the said county of Middlesex, esquire (2) William Siddons of Great Marlborough Street in the county of Middlesex, esquire.

Names on indenture: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Linley, Thomas Westley, Joseph Richardson, Mathew Smith (surviving executor of the last will and testament of James Clutterback, deceased), Richard Troward, James Ford, Jacob Franco and Francis Franco (the only surviving acting executors of the last will and testament of Raphael Franco), William Morland, Thomas Hammersley, Charles Greenwood, William Sleigh, Thomas Skinner, Robert Wilkes, Harvey Christian Combe, George Shum, John Currie, Nathaniel Newnham, Nathaniel Wright, Albany Wallis, and Richard Ford.

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp.375-376

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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