Records of Clarke and Marshall's Charities
1653-1909
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Abstracts of title 1653-1850; Correspondence 1763-1905; Accounts 1736-1909; Rentals and accounts of rents received 1820-1897; Maps not dated; Acts of Parliament 1795-1855; Notices of sale and pro formas (not dated); Papers relating to other charities 1792-1795.
Related Material:Further original papers can be found in the archive of Manchester Churchwardens and Overseers (Ref GB127.M3) and amongst the papers of the Worsleys of Platt Hall (Ref GB127.M35). Papers of S.E. Cottam and Son, found amongst the accounts of the 19th cent., can also be consulted by referring to to the comapny archive reference GB127.M13.
Place:/Manchester/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
Records of Clarke and Marshall's Charities
Date of work:
1653-1909
Reference number:
GB127.M5
Level of description:
Fonds
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Custodial history:
According to the original feoffment of George Clarke of 13th December, 1636 trustees were to collect the rents and profits from Clarke's Charity lands in Manchester, Crumpsall and Tetlow, and deliver them to the boroughreeve and the 2 constables who with the aid of one of the churchwardens were to distribute them to poor, aged, needy and impotent people residing in Manchester. Accounts were to be kept by both the deliverers and receivers of the rents and profits, and the said accounts in books or notes were to be presented to the Court Leet. The occasions when this actually took place, and when new trustees came to be appointed can be studied in the Court Leet Records). The official surviving records of this charity, which collectively with Marshall's, Ellen Shuttleworth's, Thomas Hudson' s and Ellen Hartley' s Charities came to be known as the Boroughreeve's, later the Mayor's, Charities, were handed over to the Library by the City Treasurer in 1958. They consisted of loose documents and accounts, some of which had been mounted. The accounts hate all now been mounted and sorted into chronological order, and the documents filed in date order. To these have been added certain volumes which came in with the business records of S.E. Cottam and Son in 1959. This firm acted as accountants for the Trustees in the 19th Century.
The history of these charities may be studied in the Court Leet Records, and in the Manchester Corporation Council Proceedings and Accounts, since the Corporation through its Mayor end officials took over from the Court Leet the supervision of these charities. There are copies in the Library of George Clarke's Feoffment Deed, of a decree in the Court of Chancery for Lancashire to enable the Trustees of Clarke's Charity Lands to grant leases for 21 years, and of Acts enabling the Trustees to make leases on rack rents and for building (in 1795) and to make conveyances in fee (1806).
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Unrestricted
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Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7186848
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