Stamp Office, Receipt and Discharge: Personal Estate of John Sparling, Edward Chaffers & John Bolton

£150.00

Stamp Office, Receipt and Discharge: Personal Estate of John Sparling, Edward Chaffers & John Bolton

Name: Stamp Office, Receipt and Discharge: Personal Estate of John Sparling, Edward Chaffers & John Bolton
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Stamp Office, Receipt and Discharge: Personal Estate of John Sparling, Edward Chaffers & John Bolton — Original Manuscript Archive

Publication: London, Printed by March and Teape for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1801.

Formatting: 8vo, pp. [24] of printed forms completed in manuscript.

Condition Report: Very Good. The paper forms are well-preserved with typical age-toning, mild localised spotting, and gentle edge-wear commensurate with early nineteenth-century archival use. The manuscript ink remains remarkably dark, crisp, and fully legible throughout the document. The central folds remain strong without any significant splitting, and the original stab-stitching holds the leaves securely together. This is an exceptionally clean and tactile survival of Georgian ephemeral accounting.

Catalogue Note: This is an original collection of completed Stamp Office Legacy Duty receipts detailing the distributions from the vast personal estate of John Sparling, who died in 1800. Sparling was a highly prominent Liverpool trader and merchant whose wealth was built on American business interests, including textiles and transatlantic slavery. Known as one of the last of the "old school of Liverpool merchants," he resided at St Domingo Hall. The estate was administered by his executors, Edward Chaffers and John Bolton.

The archive reveals fascinating philanthropic bequests that redistributed this immense maritime wealth into local civic infrastructure. Noteworthy charitable legacies recorded here include £150 to the Blue Coat Hospital, £200 to the Public Infirmary, £100 to the Seamen's Hospital, £50 to the Dispensary, and £50 to the Lunatic Asylum. The receipts bear the authentic signatures of the institutions' treasurers, including James Gerard and Cornelius Bourne.

Intact clusters of legacy receipts tied to major figures of Liverpool's eighteenth-century mercantile boom are scarce on the open market. This collection offers a unique, primary historical footprint of the city's early charitable funding and estate management.

A fascinating primary manuscript survival from Georgian Liverpool, detailing the 1801 estate payouts of John Sparling, a formidable merchant and trader of the era. Administered by his executors, this collection of official Stamp Office receipts reveals the immense wealth generated during Liverpool's maritime boom, highlighting substantial charitable legacies to the city's earliest hospitals, dispensaries, and asylums.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Edward Chaffers & John Bolton

Book Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Antiquarian

Genre: History

Book edition: First Published

Signed: Yes

Book Pages: 24

Book Publication Year: 1801

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Softcover (Stitched)

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: Liverpool, United Kingdom

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