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Archive Collection: MS 301 Contains digital media

Calverley papers : petitions, letters and other documents from Sir Walter Calverley and others, concerning the Broadcloth Acts of 1725, 1733, 1741 and 1765

Calverley family

1639-c.1768

These papers mainly concern the renewal of the Broadcloth Acts in 1733 and 1741. They were given to the Library in 1922 by Mr Clarke-Thornhill. With one exception, they are listed here in chronologica...

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Archive Item: MS 301/1

Letter from Thomas Stroother to Sir Walter Calverley, 4 March 1731, on possible methods of stamping the cloth.

04/03/1731

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Archive Item: MS 301/10

Notes from Jefferson's diary for 1738 about the merchants' malpractices.

1738

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Archive Item: MS 301/11

Evidence of entries in the books at Armley Mill and Kirkstall Mills, concerning visits by searchers. Given in by Edmund Farrar, 9 March 1738-9 [1739].

1739

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Archive Item: MS 301/12

Letter from Sir Walter Calverley to Sir Miles Stapylton, Calverley, 27 January 1740, suggesting that the cloth should be stamped at the mills by the searchers. [Contemporary copy, unsigned.]

27/01/1740

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Archive Item: MS 301/13

Draft of a letter from Sir Walter Calverley to Sir Miles Stapylton and Mr Thompson, 20 February 1740, suggesting that the present penalties are too high and that there should be a General Supervisor of the searchers. On verso is another draft, deleted.

20/02/1740

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Archive Item: MS 301/14

Letter from Sir Walter Calverley to Mr Turner, 20 February 1740, on the opposition he faced in 1732 when he tried to bring in a bill similar to the present one. [Contemporary copy.]

20/02/1740

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Archive Item: MS 301/15

3 letters from Sir Walter Calverley to Sir William Wentworth, Sir Miles Stapylton, and Henry Hitch, 8 March 1740, on the abuses of the present regulations, and advocating the passing of the new bill. [Contemporary copies, on one leaf.]

08/03/1740

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Archive Item: MS 301/16

Letter from Cavendish Nevile to Sir Walter Calverley, 21 March 1740, expressing the wish that Mr Stroother had not interfered in the Cloth Bill.

21/03/1740

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Archive Item: MS 301/17

Regulations agreed for the broadcloth trade at a Committee of Merchants and Clothiers at the house of James Barber at the Royal Oak in Briggate, Leeds, 18 December 1740. Endorsed with receipt signed: W. Calverley.

18/12/1740

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Archive Item: MS 301/18

Letter from Cavendish Nevile to Sir Walter Calverley, 31 December 1740, on turnpike roads, with an abridgement of what is desired to be obtained in Parliament for continuing or amending the expiring Cloth Act.

31/12/1740

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Archive Item: MS 301/19

Letter from Joseph Armitage and nine other clothiers, Hunslet, 31 January 1740/1 [1741], asking the recipient to support them in their opposition to the merchants' attempts to alter the Act.

31/01/1741

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