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JC - Jackson Collection
1 - Yorkshire Deeds part 1 (12th cent - 1599)
2 - Yorkshire Deeds part 2 (1600 - 1809)
3 - Deeds relating to Kirkstall Abbey [Leeds, West Yorkshire]
4 - Deeds relating to land and property in Derbyshire part 1 (1292 - 1599)
5 - Deeds relating to land and property in Derbyshire part 2 (1600 to 1817)
6 - Deeds relating to land and property in Nottinghamshire
7 - Deeds regarding land and property in Lincolnshire
8 - Deed regarding land and property in Warwickshire
9 - Deed regarding land and property in Rutland
10 - Deed regarding land and property in Norfolk
11 - Deeds regarding land and property in Suffolk
12 - Deeds regarding land and property in Essex
13 - Deeds regarding land and property in Middlesex
14 - Miscellaneous Documents
15 - Joseph Hunter's (1783 - 1861) Manuscripts
16 - Pedigrees
17 - Pamphlets, Tracts, etc.
18 - Newspapers and Newspaper Cuttings / Scrapbooks, etc
19 - Monumental Inscriptions
20 - Local Bills, Reports and Acts of Parliment
21 - Legal Drafts, Copy Documents and legal Documents
22 - Miscellaneous items
23 - Broadsheets etc regarding the Scissor Grinders combination and the response of the manufacturers of Sheffield
24 - Political cartoons and broadsheets
25 - Methodist Preaching Circuits
26 - Playbills
27 - Sale Particulars / Sale Plans
28 - Maps and Plans
29 - Miscellaneous Printed Items
1 - Advertisement for the Sheffield Courant by J. H. Bramley, printer, bookbinder, stationer and dealer in genuine patent medicines
2 - Perpetual Almanack! Or, the gentleman Soldier's Prayer book : shewing how a soldier was taken before the mayor of the city he was in, for using cards in church during divine service; being a droll, merry, humourous [sic] account of an odd affair that happened by a private soldier in the 60th Regiment of Foot
3 - A laughable and interesting dialogue between Joan O'Greenfield, Nosey and Earl Grey
4 - Notice of the beginning of a coach service from the Rein-Deer Inn [Reindeer Inn], Sheffield to London
5 - 'The Character of a deceased friend' - an Account of the life of Dr Thomas Younge (1721 - 1784) of Sheffield
6 - To the inhabitants of the Township of Sheffield [regarding a proposed workhouse]
7 - To the Venerable Vicar, First magistrate of Sheffield and His Worshipful Colleagues; To the Clergy and preachers of all denominations …[regarding a workhouse]
8 - Flier: At two o'clock this afternoon, Vincent Eyre, esquire, Agent to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, declared in the presence of our fist magistrate; of Hugh Parker, esquire; and the Reverend John Lowe, also magistrates; likewise in the presence of all our worthy Overseers of the poor and their Agents … [regarding the sale of land for a new workhouse]
9 - Extract from the Iris newspaper [regarding a new workhouse]
10 - To the inhabitants of the Township of Sheffield [regarding a proposed workhouse at 'Jericho']
11 - New workhouse - at a meeting of the committee for the intended new workhouse … the following resolutions were voted, unanimously …
12 - Printed letter sent to John Rimington, esquire, Hillsborough from Joseph Deakin at Attercliffe regarding a plan to rebuild the steam corn mill that was lately destroyed by fire at Attercliffe
13 - Notice of a meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield to consider the propriety of making a rate for the purpose of erecting a new town hall [at Waingate]
14 - Public notice denouncing the disorderly state of the parish church yard, and stating that the Church Burgesses had laid open a piece of land betwixt Trippett (sic) Lane and Broad Lane for a new burial ground, and that it would be let for building unless bought by the parish before Jan 1st 1837
15 - To the public, Sheffield … the address of the committee, appointed for the purpose of endeavouring to supersede the necessity of employing climbing boys in sweeping chimnies [chimneys]
16 - Report of the committee, read at the Town Hall, 21 Mar 1811, upon the resolutions of a public meeting, on 19 Dec 1810, relative to a proposed Act of Parliament for lighting and cleansing the town of Sheffield: with an appendix, containing the proposition of the Town Trustees, by their resolution of the report of 20 Mar ; and a copy of the decree, made in the reign of Charles II, relative to the appropriation of the town's estates
17 - A general bill, of all the christenings and burials … in London
18 - The gentlemen acting as a Committee, for the establishment of a new public library, in Sheffield, request that you will allow them to add your name to the list of annual subscribers …
19 - Public Library: notice of resolutions passed at a meeting of the committee, and list of present subscribers
20 - Proposed Canal having for its object the union of four existing canals, at Peak Forest, Sheffield, Chesterfield and Cromford
21 - Account of Peter Raeney [Reaney], the maniac of Woodseats, Norton, with engraved illustration
22 - Order of the ceremony of laying the first stone of Christ Church, Attercliffe
23 - At a very numerous and highly respectable meeting … it was unanimously resolved that we, the undersigned, are desirous of expressing our entire confidence in the stability of the three Sheffield banks and Rotherham bank, and pledging ourselves, under any circumstances, to take their notes as usual …
24 - Subscription sale to the amount of 100 guineas - A. Alberte respectfully informs the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield, that he intendeds disposing of the following goods by subscription, at 3s each ticket … [raffle]
25 - Ecclesall Society for the Prosecution of Felons - we whose names are hereunto subscribed, have formed ourselves into an association or company and do promise and agree collectively, to pay and allow to any person who shall apprehend and convict and offender(s) that shall committee and depredation upon any of our property …
26 - To the contributors to the Yorkshire Tontine [regarding the probity / legality of the tontine scheme]
27-28 - A list of the casual and regular out-paupers of the township of Sheffield, with their places of abode, and the weekly allowance of the regular paupers; to which is added, a list of paupers who have had parish apprentices, and those who have paid the fine for refusing to take parish apprentices
29 - Observations intended to shew that the mortgagees of the tolls of the turnpike road have a right to claim payment of their interest before any of the money arising from the tolls can be legally appropriated to repairing the roads … addressed to the trustees of the turnpike road from Worksop to Attercliffe, near Sheffield …
30 - Good News for Poor People or the sorrowful lament of the farmers, corn factors, millers, badgers etc …
31 - List of all the bridges in the West Riding of Yorkshire compiled for the Quarter Sessions
32 - Proposals for building a large and commodious inn and tavern in Sheffield [Tontine Inn]
33 - Meeting at the Tontine - notice is hereby given that a meeting of the master manufacturers of cutlery etc in the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield is intended to be held … to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for an amendment of those clauses of their corporate laws, which may be regarded as detrimental to the interests of the trade and town at large
34 - Notice of resolutions passed at the annual general meeting of Sheffield Flower Society
35 - To the public - [report of a] meeting of manufacturers of knives, razors, scissors and forks held [18 Jul 1797] at the house of Mr T. Wright, the yellow Lion, in the Haymarket, to take into consideration the consequences likely to result from the making and vending sundry articles of cast iron instead of steel …
36 - [Report of a] meeting of the Corn Committee and Guarantees of the Loan for the purchase of corn held [30 Jul 1796]
37 - To't Fooaks at St Philip's Ward, by Muck Jooa, 'Shales Moor' [relates to the elections to the first corporation of Sheffield]
38 - Copy of the inscription on the artillery guns transferred to the trustees of the estates of the town of Sheffield
39 - To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, the humble petition of the gentlemen, clergy and freeholders of the County of York for legislation to prevent seditious meetings and assemblies; the signature being at the Cutlers hall for the signature of the gentleman, clergy and freeholders of Sheffield
40 - Public notice of the intention to assemble a Regiment of Foot at the Tontine Inn
41 - Mansion House, London - notice regarding public confidence in financial matters
42 - Notice of a meeting at the workhouse on Pitsmoor, in order to make an assessment for the relief of the Poor
43 - Notice of a meeting called to consider the grievances of those people affected by a new regulation of the assessments for the township of Brightside Bierlow
44 - Report on the 'Civil and Military Procession' through Sheffield
45 - Copies of the petitions of the Freeholders of the County of York against the proposed bills before Parliament against seditious meetings, thereby affecting free speech
46 - Notice that substitutes wanted for the Sheffield Provisional Cavalry
47 - Invitation to a meeting to arrange a play, etc at the Sheffield Theatre sent to B. Blonk
48 - [Notice] to the worthy freeholders of Yorkshire [?regarding the war with France]
49 - Subscription offered [to provide substitutes] for the Sheffield Provisional Cavalry
50 - An abstract of the account of William Birks, Master of the Company of Cutlers, 20 Aug 1795 - 18 Aug 1796
51 - An abstract of the account of Samuel Newbould, Master of the Company of Cutlers, 21 Aug 1800 - 20 Aug 1801
52 - An abstract of the account of Thomas Asline Ward, Master of the Company of Cutlers, 5 Sep 1816 - 4 Sep 1817
53 - Rules and Regulations of the News Room adjoining the Old Church yard in Sheffield
54 - Resolution passed at a meeting of the Committee for the Relief of the Poor in the township of Sheffield, requesting subscribers to assist in the allotment of relief by personal visits to poor people's homes
55 - Notice regarding guarantees of a loan to buy corn 'for the general use of the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield'
56 - Notice of a meeting [at the Cutler's Hall] for the purposes of binding apprentices, granting freedoms and enrolling indentures; with extracts from the Act of Parliament governing admittance to the Freedom of the Cutlers' Company
57 - The Morning Herald newspaper
58 - Accounts of John Kitchingman, Treasurer for the West Riding of Yorkshire
59 - A list of persons, now living, who have either taken parish apprentices, in the township of Sheffield, or who have paid the penalty of £10 each, for refusing the same
60 - An eye sketch to explain … the object of the Grand Commercial or Scarsdale and High peak Canal), namely the union of 4 existing canals - at peak Forest, Sheffield, Chesterfield and Cromford, and railway at Mansfield
61 - An essay on the history of the Burgery of Sheffield, commonly called the Town trust by Samuel Mitchell
62 - Song dedicated (without permission) to Messrs J. B. and Co. [John Brown and Co] by Hocus Pocus, etc.
63 - Body Stealing at Barnsley
64 - Farewell to the Rev. James Caughey
65 - Township of Sheffield - the Guardians of the Poor submit to the inhabitants the following list of able poor and respectfully solicit information respecting them
66 - Reproduction of tablet erected by a few attached friends to the memory of Barbara Hofland, at the parish church of Richmond, Surrey
67 - Poster: Anti-corn Law League Bazaar held in Covent Garden Theatre, May 1845: Something For Nothing, or, Fum the Protected, by Ebenezer Elliott, Corn law Rhymer
68 - Advertisement / admittance ticket for Mr Bickley's opening dinner, Tontine Hotel
69 - Sheffield Book Club rules and proceedings
70 - Direction for using the Soho Patent Spring Shoe Latchets [laces]
71 - Petition: the Master, Wardens, Searchers and Assistants of the Cutlers' Company pray the House of Lords to pass into law a Bill to repeal certain laws relating to a road from Sheffield to Tinsley, by which it would be made a turnpike road
72 - Notice of the laying of the first stone 16 Aug 1837, and the erection of [Christ Church Fulwood]; with a list of trustees
73 - Entrance ticket for the consecration of Christ Church, Attercliffe
74 - Printed letter forwarding the rules and regulations of the Congregational Union to the Minister, Deacons and Church at Eldon Street Chapel, Sheffield
75 - Text of an inscription: This monument is erected to the memory of Benjamin Withers … died Oct 1770, aged 56
76 - Reprint of a letter from Clericus to the printer of the Sheffield Courant, with literary quotations to various eminent Sheffield people
77 - Notice that Rev. Dr. Wolff will preach two sermons at St John's Church, Park
78 - Moravian Brethren's Missions - two sermons will be preached at the Methodist Chapel in Norfolk Street, by John James Montgomery, tutor in the Brethren's Academy at Fulneck, Leeds
79 - Verse: Little John's End
80-81 - Pickwick papers characters (not of local interest)
82 - You are requested to attend the funeral Mass which will be celebrated [on] 25 Feb 1840, in the parish church of St John the Baptist, for the repose of the soul of Mr Jean Baptiste Hanscotte deceased 18 Feb 1839, Master Cooper and [?fire chief] in this city
83 - Pages from Biographia Hibernica: a biographical dictionary of the worthies of Ireland, from the earliest period to the present time, Volume 2 relating to Dillon (Wentworth), Earl of Roscommon
84 - Flier for Lincoln Cathedral Monumental Inscriptions, lately published
85 - Proposals for the Collection of authentic copies of monumental inscriptions
86 - Blank certificate: This is to certify that the bearer … is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, known by the name of United Brethren
87 - Cambridge Camden Society [?order form]
88 - The Contrast - a [?political / religious] illustration
89 - Blank marriage certificate for Gretna Green, Dumfries, Scotland
90 - A catalogue of the principal part of the manuscripts now remaining at Broomhead, the collection of the late John Wilson, by Joseph Hunter
91 - Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary - testimonial to Dr J. C. Hall, honorary secretary … to express the deep sense of obligation they [the Weekly Board] were under to this gentleman, to whom the erection of the hospital was in a great measure due
92 - In memoriam card - Robert John Gainsford who died in Rome [Italy] … aged 62 … and is there interred in the Cemetery of San Lorenzo outside the walls
93 - In loving memory of Henry Rodgers who fell asleep in Jesus 25 Apr 1882, aged 67 … interred in Ecclesall Churchyard
94 - Royal Grammar School [prospectus]
95 - The Centenary of St James's Church, Sheffield - appeal for funds to clean and renovate
96 - A brief memoir of the late Joseph Hunter, FSA, with a descriptive catalogue of his principal separate publications, and contributions to the 'Archaeologia'
97 - Ten passages of the New Testament relieved from difficulties on a new principle of interpretation
98 - Sheffield Theatre - extract from minutes
99 - Order of ceremony in laying the first stone of St George's Church, on the new burying Ground, Sheffield
100 - Sheffield Borough Council Standing Orders and Bye-Laws
101 - Notice of a special general meeting of members of the Sheffield Architectural and Archaeological Society
102 - Rhubarb! Rhubarb! Rhubarb! A modern preachers advertisement in rhyme
103-105 - List of members of Sheffield Book Society
106 - Rules of the Medical Aid Society, formed to provide the working classes with medial men, on payment of a weekly subscription, Sheffield
30 - Engravings and illustrations
31 - Items transferred elsewhere
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