File P 1/2 - Mynors of Treago family papers,

An original bundle of family and business deeds and papers relating to the Gouge family of London and the Mynors family of Treago, largely accounts, vouchers and bonds, with other papers including two certificates by British merchants in Smyrna relating to goods landed there, 1714-1720, a bastardy bond by William Winniatt, senior and junior, to the overseers of the poor and the churchwardens of Hentland, Herefordshire, concerning a female bastard born to Mary Williams, spinster, and of which William Winniatt is the reputed father, 1716, the apprenticeship indenture of William Edwards to Thomas Philps, both of St Weonards, Herefordshire, to learn the trade of a carpenter, 1717, three tickets for the Dutch one million guilder lottery, 1718, papers relating to William Crampton, formerly one of the overseers of the poor of St James Clerkenwell, Middlesex, committed to Newgate gaol for failing to account for his office, 1727/8, the petition of John Ainsworth, legally settled in the parish of St Leonards Foster Lane and liberty of St Martins le Grand, that having moved to the parish of Christchurch, Surrey, and the parish officials there insisting on a settlement certificate or threatening to remove him and his family from the parish, and that having obtained a certificate signed by the overseers of the poor of the parish of St Leonards Foster Lane, George Scarlett, constable of St Martin le Grand, and Edmund Burke, clerk to Thomas Gouge, JP for the city of Westminster and Middlesex, refused to attest the signatures, 1731 -- Papers relating to Edward Gouge's interest in the Royal African Company of England, 1715-1752, including a transfer by Richard Eames of London, merchant, to Thomas Mundy of Chatham, Kent, mariner, of the bond of Samuell Ingram of London, mariner, to keep the instructions of Eames and the other owners of a ship, including power to Mundy to recover the £1,500 forfeited by Ingram, 1715, a case and counsel's opinion relating the company's bonds, 1748, a copy of one of the bonds, 1750, and notice of the amount due to Edward Gouge under the act of parliament for the African creditors, 1752 -- The receipt of E. Bronsdon for £1 1s. received from Mr Gouge, 1747, on condition that Bronsdon is to pay Gouge £52 10s. on the marriage day if he, Bronsdon, marries Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Folkard, minister of Clopton, Suffolk.