Barber-Surgeons' Company, London

Receipt for £1250 received by the Masters or Governors of the Company from Robert Finlay, a merchant of London, in connection with a sale of land and property. The property sold by the Company was at East Smithfield.

14 March 1717

1 f. Membrane. 266 × 557 mm., with the seal of the Company, and signatures of witnesses Nathaniel Cole and George Edwards.

Purchased at Hodgson's 30 March 1916.

Cf. Sidney Young, The annals of the Barber Surgeons of London (London, 1890), p. 417.

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).