Notebook of Joseph Ames (Secretary of the Society)
Reference code
SAL/10/12
Title
Notebook of Joseph Ames (Secretary of the Society)
Date
1751-1752
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iii + 11.
Small octavo.
Modern vellum binding.
Small octavo.
Modern vellum binding.
Scope and content
Notebook of Joseph Ames (Sec. SA 1741-59) relating to SA business. Contains rough accounts, fols. 2-4; alphabetical list of Fellows, 1751, fols. 5-8; names of Council and officers at the time of the grant of the Royal Charter (2 Nov. 1751), fol. 9; copies of letters, 1751-2, conc. the offer to SA of rooms in Essex House (rejected, see Evans (1956), 110), fols. 9v-10; the proposed election of the Archbishop of Canterbury as a Fellow, fol. 10v; the Royal Charter, fol. 11. Cutting, fol. iii, relating to the election of Fellows, 1779.
Creator
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759), bibliographer and antiquary
Society of Antiquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of London
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/675
Archival history
Probably part of the job lot of MS commonplace books sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 15-17 Feb. 1899, lot 415 (cf. note, fol. i).