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Title page of a survey of the manor of Beere, Somerset. 1744.
In 1774, the Society of Merchant Venturers agreed that their landholdings should be surveyed by Mr De Wilstar. The Manor of Beere was given by Edward Colston in trust for the maintenance of a hospital he founded in Bristol.

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 1744

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