[PORTEUS (Revd. Robert, c. 1705-c. 1754, Rector of Hatley, Cambridgeshire)]

Bill to him totalling £11 3s 6d from his solicitor, Thomas York, with the latter's autograph receipt, for Drafting and Ingrossing a Lease & Release (£2 2s), Duty & Parchment (10s), swelled by travelling expenses for him and his clerk to Hatley (£2 2s) and all the cumbersome details of a Concord, with writs, alienation, warrant, swearing and registration, carefully itemized, 2 sides 10" x 3¾" and conjugate blank, no place, 12th January conjugate blank defective at top

According to the Cambridge 'Alumni', Robert Porteus was probably an elder brother of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, and therefore born in Virginia, his father (also Robert) returning to England in 1720.

Item Date:  1737

Stock No:  51246      £75

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