Identity area
Reference code
CCHR/6/1/2/6
Title
Commonplace book signed by Talbot Williamson
Date(s)
- c. 1729-1736 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 volume, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Chiefly comprises extracts from Wood's _Institutes (compilation on legal matters), concerning legal terminology, status of clergy, aristocracy and others, marriage, duties and status of Sheriffs, Coroners, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of the Highways, law of property, and benefices. An entry about wills is dated 1732.
At end, reversed: memorandum on writs of right, nd, and (in a later handwriting) instructions for educating daughters, nd (c19th).
Note: Talbot Williamson was not apparently an alumnus of Clare College or Cambridge University, but may have been an ancestor of the brothers Edmond Riland Williamson (admitted 1814) and William Williamson (admitted 1820), uncles of Edward Atkinson's wife.