Sir John Aland. Papers of Sir Edward Northey and Sir John Fortescue Aland

MSS/0271

Sir John Aland. Papers of Sir Edward Northey and Sir John Fortescue Aland

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Paper; ff. iv + 111. Folio. Leather, brown, blind-tooled.

Reports, orders, cases, etc., of Sir Edward Northey, as Attorney General, and Sir John Fortescue Aland (1st Baron Fortescue, 1746), as Solicitor General, relating partly to the 1715 rebellion, followed by other legal material; Jan. 1715/16-Jan. 1716/17, n.d. Included are:- Cases of estates forfeited for the rebellion (fols. 1v-20); writs of extent to recover debts due to the Crown (fols. 21v-37); 'A Note of such Books as are now remaining in the outer Roome where the Clerks write at Westmr 4to April. 1623' (i.e in the Court of Exchequer), no. 7 being 'A Book called Domesday booke..' (fols. 38v-9); transcript of a book borrowed (cf. fol. iv) from Mr Marriott, Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer (fols. 43-99). Autograph contents list by Sir John Aland, fol. iv.

Fortescue-Aland, John (1670-1746), 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan, MP and judge
Northey, Edward (1652-1723), Knight, Attorney General
Fortescue

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