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Batt, John Thomas.
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- An archive of Batt family correspondence and papers, in 8 volumes and 30 bundles, comprising:
- ink on paper
Diaries: recording his final interview with the 2nd Earl Halifax, his subsequent death and Batt's responsibilities for his estate, 30 pages, 18 May to 3 October 1771; seven appointment diaries with brief daily entries recording dining companions, travel, etc., weather reports, disbursements, 1799-1803, 1805 and 1810
Letters to J.T.Batt, on legal, political, and personal subjects, by correspondents including: James Harris, later Lord Malmesbury, three autograph letters signed, including one discussing Catherine the Great, 8 pages, 1773; Lord Muncaster, 10 autograph letters signed, together with 5 by his son the Second Lord Muncaster, mostly on legal and estate affairs in Ireland, c.1800-1820; William Pitt, the Younger; Henry Addington (2); William Wickham (2); J.C. Villiers (later 3rd Earl of Clarendon) (4); Lord Redesdale; Lord Hyde; Thomas Jeans (2, from Paris); F. Robinson (3, from Spain); one unsigned letter with an accompanying sketch-map of an arctic voyage north of Spitsbergen
Legal Papers, 9 bundles of correspondence and papers relating to J.T. Batt's legal practice and prominent families, including Sir James Wright, Bt, 'Valuation of Pictures at the Grainge', Hampshire seat of the Henley family, Earls of Northington, 10 pages, and two patents of appointment for J.T. Batt to the Duchy of Lancaster, 1776-1780
Financial papers, 9 bundles, some relating to Batt's clients and others relating to the Batt and related familes, including correspondence, accounts, inventories, properties in Ireland, printed valuations and some receipts
Household receipts and bills, 3 bundles, relating to London properties and New Hall, annuity certificates and miscellaneous printed ephemera
Other family members: William Batt, copy letters on sermons (1720s); Dr John Thomas Batt, physician, medical degree certificate (Balliol, Oxford, 1741), two copies of his will (1762), bundle of c.20 letters by various correspondents discussing the Royal College of Physicians, medical and personal subjects, including one by Gilbert Hill asking Batt to subscribe to The Works of the Late Aaron Hill (pub. 1753), and a volume of medical receipts (53 pages, 8vo)
Letters to J.T.Batt, on legal, political, and personal subjects, by correspondents including: James Harris, later Lord Malmesbury, three autograph letters signed, including one discussing Catherine the Great, 8 pages, 1773; Lord Muncaster, 10 autograph letters signed, together with 5 by his son the Second Lord Muncaster, mostly on legal and estate affairs in Ireland, c.1800-1820; William Pitt, the Younger; Henry Addington (2); William Wickham (2); J.C. Villiers (later 3rd Earl of Clarendon) (4); Lord Redesdale; Lord Hyde; Thomas Jeans (2, from Paris); F. Robinson (3, from Spain); one unsigned letter with an accompanying sketch-map of an arctic voyage north of Spitsbergen
Legal Papers, 9 bundles of correspondence and papers relating to J.T. Batt's legal practice and prominent families, including Sir James Wright, Bt, 'Valuation of Pictures at the Grainge', Hampshire seat of the Henley family, Earls of Northington, 10 pages, and two patents of appointment for J.T. Batt to the Duchy of Lancaster, 1776-1780
Financial papers, 9 bundles, some relating to Batt's clients and others relating to the Batt and related familes, including correspondence, accounts, inventories, properties in Ireland, printed valuations and some receipts
Household receipts and bills, 3 bundles, relating to London properties and New Hall, annuity certificates and miscellaneous printed ephemera
Other family members: William Batt, copy letters on sermons (1720s); Dr John Thomas Batt, physician, medical degree certificate (Balliol, Oxford, 1741), two copies of his will (1762), bundle of c.20 letters by various correspondents discussing the Royal College of Physicians, medical and personal subjects, including one by Gilbert Hill asking Batt to subscribe to The Works of the Late Aaron Hill (pub. 1753), and a volume of medical receipts (53 pages, 8vo)
Catalogue Note
John Thomas Batt (1746-1831) was a prominent and successful lawyer who became a clerk of the Duchy of Lancaster and a Master in Chancery. This archive reveals him to have been a highly sociable man about town who was on close personal terms with many of his clients.