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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: MS 200

Contains 6 Results:

Letters received by Thomas Pengelly from ship's masters, other merchants, family members, 1662-1675, 1667, 1691

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2-12
Scope and Contents

Concern ships, trading voyages (mostly coast-wise), family and estate matters. Largely from Norfolk. Includes mention of land in Southrepps (Norfolk) and an account of Dutch bombardment of Burntisland (Scotland) in 1667. Correspondents include John Harper, George Harper, John Ellington, S. Davis, Thomas Comfort [Comfitt?], Chrisotpher Greene, John Albertson, Pet(?) Atwill(?), William Sheldrake, and Victor [or Valor?] Cooke(?).

Dates: 1662-1675, 1667, 1691

Letters exchanged between cousin Snow of Exeter (Devon), uncle Simon Snow of "Westwood" (West Country?), Pengelly, and Standish Hartstonge of Dublin, 1663-1667 and undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13-17
Scope and Contents

Family matters and finances; Hartstonge wishes to buy land in Southrepps.

Dates: 1663-1667 and undated

English Civil War and Commonwealth items without apparent Pengelly connection, 1645 - 1656

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22-24
Scope and Contents

Includes interrogation of soldier captured in Lincolnshire, 1645; letter concerning land-tenure and the presence of the military in Norfolk, 1656. Indivdiuals involved include William Geyb(?), Richard [Dossley?], and William Watts.

Dates: 1645 - 1656

Miscellaneous legal and financial items, 1678-1697 and 17--

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25-29
Scope and Contents

Writers: Sir Timothy Tyrell, Hugh Hannam, James Simones, [Thomas Bromley?] Montfort, and "M. S." (land-tenure).

Dates: 1678-1697 and 17--