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Sender: Brook, Benjamin

Recipient: Sheard, Joseph

Letters: 1

Date(s): 30 Nov 1756

Location: SC MS 283: Leeds White Cloth Hall Collection: envelope A 5

Note: I O U for ?3.1.0d. On reverse, receipt signed by Abraham Sheard for ?3.1.0d received from the Treasures of the White Cloth Hall on behalf of his father, Joseph. Dated 6 June 1774 (sic).

Sender: Shepley, John

Recipient: Brookes, Thomas

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 Nov 1780

Location: SC MS 283: Leeds White Cloth Hall Collection: envelope E 2

Note: Notice on behalf of Wheatley et al to Thomas Brookes that a declaration has been filed against him in court. Served by Samuel Smith, 24 November 1780 on John Brooke, son of the defendant.

Sender: Brooke, Christopher (Huddersfield)

Recipient: Gott

Letters: 1

Date(s): 22 Jan 1793

Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 193/44

Note: See Offor, "The Gott Papers", 19.