Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1813-1847] (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Bundle of receipts, [1813-1847], for what appear to be payments out of the estate of Richard Jacobs to the debtors of various gaols, including the Fleet Prison, Marshalsea and Horne Monger Lane Gaol, London. A number relate to school fees or other educational requirements, possibly for the children of the poor.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Richard Jacobs appears to have paid the debts of various inmates of debtors' prisons.
Repository
Archival history
Thought to have been among the papers of a member of King's College Hospital staff who served as an executor to Jacob's estate.
Custodial history
King's College Hospital Library.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Jacobs, Richard, d c1612 (Subject)
- Fleet Prison (Subject)
- Horne Monger Lane Gaol (Subject)
- Marshalsea Prison (Subject)
Genre access points
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Compiled by Annabel Dodds as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.