Account for Transacting Legal Business

Account of business done and payments made by Messrs Worthington & Nicholls, solicitors, concerning Lord Stamford's estates in 1818, £168 2s 4d; business largely consisted of drawing up and engrossing leases and agreements, and transactions concerning the purchase of land in Sinderland [to. Dunham Massey] from George Timperley for a game cover, the purchase of a cottage and land in Bollington from Samuel Walker, the purchase of cottages and land in Millington from John Shakeshaft, the purchase of land in Millington from John Jackson, setting the great tithes, and the purchase of the leasehold interest in the Anchor public house in [Dunham] Woodhouses from Mrs [Ruth] Forrest.