ECR 47 089
Reference code
ECR 47 089
Title
Eton, Buckinghamshire: Indenture of bargain and sale
Level
Item
Date
27 December 1736
Extent & medium
1 manuscript
Content description
Indenture of bargain and sale, by Sir Thomas Reeve, Knight, Lord Chief Justices of the Common Pleas, and Richard Mead, of the parish of St George the Martyr, co. Middlesex, doctor of physick, the two surviving executors of the will of Richard Topham, late of New Windsor, co. Berks, deceased, to the Provost and Fellows of Eton of all the books prints and drawings of the said Topham, upon trust to preserve the same for the purpose declared in a codicil dated 19 June 1730 to his will (dated 2 June 1729), namely that the books prints and drawings "which he had collected with great care and expence might be carefully preserved and kept together and be of use to learned and skillful persons... upon special trust and confidence that they "(the executors)" should cause the same to be placed in some publick repository where they may be carefully reserved and where all the prints and drawings and all other loose and single sheets shall be kept locked up on proper presses or cases for the safe keeping and preserving them where all learned and skillful persons may at reasonable times resort and have a reasonable use of the same, sufficient care and caution being taken that the sme may bot be diminished or receive any damage thereby...and that his executors... should have a power reserved to them of visiting the said books and drawings once in every year of oftner as they should see occasionn and examining if the same are carefully preserved and kept without damage and of rectifying any abuses or neglect in the same, and they are earnestly desired to visit and examine accordingly as often as need shall require". The Provost and Fellows undertake to "sett up and place all the said books, prints and drawings in the lower part of the middle room of the new library belonging to their College, and that all the said prints and drawings and all other loose and single sheets shall be kept lockt up in the wire presses in the said room, and that they the said Provost and Fellows and their successors shall and will from time to time and at all times thereafter carefully preserve and duly keep all the said books, prints and presses and that all learned and skillful persons shall and may at all seasonable times have resort to and a reasonable use of the said books, prints and drawings". And the College shall "appoint one or more proper person or persons who shall reside and attend in the said College for the taking care of th said books, prints and drawings and for the shewing thereof to all learned and skillful persons how shall desire to see the same."
Signatures of Reeve and Mead.
Witnesses: James Head, Avery Tyrrell, Richard Brunker.
Two seals, oval, 17 x 14mm, red wax, applied. Bad impression. Armorial. Perhaps impressions of the same seal.
Endorsed.
The counterpart sealed with the College seal exchang'd for this jan 8 1736.
The books, prints and drawings methodis'd and catalogued by Stephen Sleeck and John Reynoldes, Fellowes. 1737.
Signatures of Reeve and Mead.
Witnesses: James Head, Avery Tyrrell, Richard Brunker.
Two seals, oval, 17 x 14mm, red wax, applied. Bad impression. Armorial. Perhaps impressions of the same seal.
Endorsed.
The counterpart sealed with the College seal exchang'd for this jan 8 1736.
The books, prints and drawings methodis'd and catalogued by Stephen Sleeck and John Reynoldes, Fellowes. 1737.
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