The Amicable and Charitable Society, Newchurch, Rossendale, Lancs

Regulations and membership book, 1778-1805. Followed (ff. 47-70) by accounts of John Grundy, Sons & Wood, 1815-21, and by biographical notes on members of the Hargreaves and other families, 1812-70. The purpose of the Society was to maintain the sick, maimed and aged, and to bury the dead.

1778-1805

1 volume 1 volume: 235 × 190 mm., 70 ff. Original quarter calf binding with marbled boards.

Purchased from S K Biltcliffe Books, 1989.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).