Nottingham. Sheriff appointment
Reference code
MSS/0673
Title
Nottingham. Sheriff appointment
Date
26 Jan. 1646/7
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Vellum. In a modern box.
Scope and content
Patent appointing Richard Hacker, Esq., as sheriff of Nottingham; Half great seal of Chas. I.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/673
Archival history
Letter from James Ward, 22 July 1907, saying that the document had been in his possession some time previously (see John T. Godfrey, MSS relating to the County of Nottingham in the possession of James Ward (Sotheran & Co., London, 1900), no. 14, pp. 15, 16, for an account of the Hacker family). With a facsimile of the deed (also reproduced in Godfrey, ibid.) and a cutting from a sale-cat. relating to this deed (item 628). Purchased with the Sands collection of plans, 1935.