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Collapse D701 - Bladon Family - 1711-1853

D701 - Bladon Family - 1711-1853

1-25 - Miscellaneous household bills for food, clothing and other articles - 1718-1817

26 - Bill for medicine - 2 Jul 1804

27-31 - Bills for books, magazines and almanacks - 1712-1828

32 - Receipt for £2 - 10s rent paid by Mr Bladon for land at Hanbury, late the estate of Henry Vernon, dec’d, 6 Nov - 1724

33-36 - Miscellaneous receipts - 1726-1804

37-38 - Medicinal recipes, including one for “the Maggots”

39 - Letter from W Bladon, nephew of the recipient on the subject of his “perplexities” and the misbehaviour of his brother James - [? 1711]

40 - Fragment of a letter from [-] Nightingale, on the subject of an outbreak of “distemper” among cattle, 8 Jan - 1853

41 - Letter from George Beswik to Thomas Bladon regretting that he will be forced to distrain him for unpaid taxes tomorrow or the next day, if he does not pay before then, 1 Jul - 1778

42 - Letter from George Roe concerning a sacrament and stating that, as the recipient has been ill he will do duty for him at Carsington any Sunday

43 - Certificate by William Bladon, rector of Carsington, stating that a “fatted calf”, the property of Edward Wragg, butcher, of Wirksworth is free from “the distemper raging amongst the horned cattle”, 11 Mar - 1748

44 - Poem against wives

45 - Fragment of paper used for practising hand-writing for deeds, with signatures of Thomas Bladon and Mary Bladon - [18th cent]

46 - Address label of “The Revd W Bladon Darrington - [18th cent]

47 - Notepaper of W Woodhead, Old King’s Head Inn and Post House, Sheffield [Yorkshire]

48-51 - Miscellaneous fragments

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Local Studies Periodicals

Local Studies Periodicals

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

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