Add MS 78458

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCI. Personal financial papers of John Evelyn junior 1664-1700.

1. Accounts and receipts for clothing, journeys, servants, medicine, wedding and funeral expenses, also including inventories, with sale prices, of the contents of his house in Smithfield, Dublin; 1677-1699.

2. Papers of and relating to John Evelyn’s father-in-law, Richard Spencer, merchant, chiefly arising from his will; [italics]circa[/italics] 1664-1679, n.d. Including his notes concerning the births of his children, a [italics]copy[/italics] of his will, 1667, calculations concerning his estate by Evelyn, and [italics]copies[/italics] of legal proceeedings by Sir John Stonehouse, Bart., who married Spencer’s widow and executrix, and Evelyn against Eusebius and Dormer Sheppard, merchants, and Sir Thomas Bludworth, the other executor.

3. Bonds; 1677-1697, with notes by John Strickland concerning their payment, 1700.

4. Documents of uncertain provenance: promissory notes to Samuel Wilson and other London merchants, late 17th[superscript] [/superscript]cent.; - bond and expenses in connection with debt collection from of Cromwell Claypole of Northampton, 1677-1679; - memorandum of an agreement between William Arnold of St Clement’s Dane and Mary Banbridge of Lambeth concerning rebuilding after a fire, 1697.