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1 - Will (probate copy) of Mary Hailes of Huntingdon (see also 2892/HQT/1-7)
2 - Will (probate copy) of John Negus the elder of Huntingdon, gent
3 - Insurance policy on a house and offices in Ellington, plus one tenement, barn and workshop. Proprietor Francis Ashby of ellington Mortgagee William Quince of Huntingdon
4 - Notice (four copies) of the proposed application to Parliament for an Act for making railway from Rugby to Huntingdon (Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway). Including schedules of lands affected in Great Catworth, Great Stukeley, Huntingdon St Mary and Huntingdon St John
5 - Opinion (copy) of Mr R Andrews and Mr A Cleasley of the Temple concerning the dispute between the Freemen and Corporation of Huntingdon regarding the proposed purchase by the Railway Company of land in Huntingdon
6 - Extracts from the council minutes referring to the dispute between the Corporation and the Freemen of Huntingdon over the purchase of land by the Great Northern Railway Company
7 - Provisional Arrangements entered into by Mr C Margetts with the Great Northern Railway Company relating to purchase of land at Huntingdon with an extract from a letter sent to Messrs Baxter and Co re these arrangements
8 - Letter: Messrs Baxter and Co. of Westminster to JF Maule Esq re. The Great Northern Railway Company and the corporation and Freemen. Suggests a meeting between Mr Margetts, Mr Rose and Mr Maule to settle the draft arrangements
9 - Letter GF Maule, Clerk to the Lieutenancy to SE Cooch, Mayor of Huntingdon. Concerning a site for the Huntingdonshire Militia Barracks - an acre of land to the south of the East Anglian Railway on Mill Common is proposed
10 - Letter: GF Maule, Clerk to the Lieutenancy to SE Cooch, Mayor of Huntingdon. The Acre of Land on Mill Common will not provide the necessary amount of water for the barracks, therefore another piece of land on the Horse Common known as "King's Close" has been selected by the Lieutenancy Committee
11 - Letter GF Maule, Clerk to the Lieutenancy to SE Cooch, Mayor of Huntingdon. As objections have been raised by the Freemen against the sale of the piece of land agreed upon (see 2892/HQZ/10), the lieutenancy committee have decided to abandon the intention of purchasing a piece of common land
12a - Letter M Hunnybun to SF Cooch, details of a letter sent to Mr Hawksley of London inquiring whether his report on the Huntingdon Gasworks is not yet completed
12b - Notice of a meeting of the Commissioners of the Pavement for Huntingdon to be held on 14 June to consider the contract entered into by the late Mr Malam and the commissioners for lighting the town with gas and other general business
12c - Letter: S Hawksley of Westminster to SE Cooch, estimated cost of providing sufficient gas for the requirements of the inhabitants of Huntingdon for the next seven years with details of how this valuation has been determined
12d - Letter: Robinson and Atkinson of Beverley to Matthew Hunnybun Esq, that the mortgagees of the Huntingdon Gas Works are willing to enter another contract for lighting the town with Gas
12e - Notice of a meeting of the Commissioners of the Pavement for Huntingdon to be held on the 14 June to consider the answer of the Solicitors of the Mortgagees of the Huntingdon Gas Works to the resolutions of the Commissioners passed at their last meeting relating to the lighting of the town with gas
12f - Three brief letters, two being from JH Hawksley re. his report on the Huntingdon Gasworks and the reasons for the delay in forwarding it to Mr Hunnybun (see 2892/HQZ/12a) and one from Mr Hunnybun to SE Cooch requiring him to attend a meeting of the gas committee. Dated 6 May, 30 May, 5 June 1854
13 - Letter: Robert Margetts of Huntingdon to [addressee not noted]
14 - Letter: John Fawcett of the Petteril Bank of Carlisle to the Mayor of Huntingdon, calling the latter's attention to a bill introduced in the House of Lords by Lord Brougham "for the more speedy trial and punishment of offenders in certain cases"
15a - Letter: CS Windover to the Waterworks Committee. The work to [lay?] water into Windover's factory in case of fire and to provide waterclosets has been completed and he requests permission to connect the same with the mains
15b - Copies of three letters from Edward Maule, Town Clerk to CS Windover re. The connection of Windovers factory with the main water supply and questioning the decrease in the factory's consumption of water between 1877 and 1879 (from over 12,000 gallons to 300 gallons)
15c - Extracts from the minutes of the Waterworks Committee with a letter from J Laxton, Huntingdon waterworks to E Maule requesting materials for use at Windover's factory
15d - Letter: CS Windover to Edward Maule requesting materials for the connection of his pipes to the water mains
15e - Minutes of a meeting of the Waterworks Committee
15f - Report of Mr Laxton on the consumption of water by Windover's factory between 1877 - 1879 (see also 2892/HQZ/15b)
15g - Minutes of a meeting of the Waterworks Committee
15h - Letter: CS Windover to Ed Maule explaining why the factory's consumption of water has decreased so rapidly
15i - Letter: J Laxton, Huntingdon Waterworks to Ed. Maule. That he has received three watermeters, previously sent away for repair, from Mr Daniel Hearne's Brewhouse and from the Barracks
15j - Draft Minutes of a meeting of the Waterworks committee
15k - Five Letters: CS Windover to Edward Maule, agreeing to the installation of a new watermeter at his factory (free of charge) after proving to the committee that the watermeter was not faulty
16 - Proposed Rules (draft) for the Guidance of Police, The managers of the engine and the engineers of the waterworks in the event of an outbreak of fire
17 - Notebook containing list of names and votes recorded for Mandeville and Fitzwilliam and for Mandeville, Fellowes and Gordon (the second list does not record the votes cast)
18 - "Cantab" Shorthand book - blank apart from one list of names (unspecified)
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