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Manor of Clifton titlepage
Description:
Titlepage of the survey of the manor of Clifton 1746.
The Society of Merchant Venturers owned a large part the manor of Clifton.
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: 1746
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Manor of Clifton survey
Description:
Survey of the Manor of Clifton, by De Wilstar.1746.
Land owned by the Society of Merchant Venturers is shown in red. The area was developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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: 1746
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Manor of Locking survey
Description:
Survey of the manor of Locking by De Wilstar, 1745.
The map shows all the Hospital landholdings in red.
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: 1745
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Part of Manor of Beere survey map
Description:
Part of the survey map of the Manor of Beere by De Wilstar, 1744.
De Wilstar mapped the lands belonging to the Hospital, and noted the income from rents for some of the land.
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
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Title page, manor of Locking survey
Description:
Title page of survey of Manor of Locking, Somerset. 1745.
Edward Colston, London merchant, was born in Bristol and gave much of his fortune to Bristol charities. He was a member of the London-based Royal African Society, which held the monopoly on the trade in ensalved Africans until 1698.
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: 1745
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Title page, manor of Beere survey
Description:
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
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Muster roll for the ship, the Britannia
Description:
Muster roll for the ship, the Britannia , for a slaving voyage in 1775.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors Hospital Fund (insurance).
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: 1775
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Better government of Floating Dock rules
Description:
Handbill of Rules for the better government of the Floating Dock in Bristol, 1778.
The Society of Merchant Venturers was in charge of the running of the dock, so the rules come from the Society’s
headquarters, Merchants Hall.
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: 1778
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Meeting minutes and fundraising notice
Description:
Minutes of a meeting and wording of a fundraising notice, 3rd June 1789. The captain of the West India Merchants proposed that they raised a fighting fund (against the abolition of the slave trade) by a voluntary payment of 6d (2 1/2p) per hogshead of sugar etc.
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: 1789
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Meeting opposing slave trade abolition
Description:
Minutes of a Committee meeting, 15th April 1789.
The Committee set up to oppose the abolition of the slave trade proposed three petitions to Parliament. One was from the West India merchants, planters, sugar bakers, annuitants and creditors. One was from African merchants and one was from manufacturers and others.
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: 15th April 1789
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