| Item / Date |
Brief description and/or
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| Initial documents
2 Nov 1810 |
At No. 9 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, 2nd day of November 1810.
Depositions and Examinations, and other proceedings had awarded and taken under a
Commission of Bankrupt issued against John Bone and William Hone of the Strand in the
County of Middlesex Booksellers and Partners.
The commissioners: James Abercromby, William Wingfield, and John Turner [sp?]
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| Bill of Sale
28 Dec 1808 |
Purchased at "Queen's Arms Sale": total of £233.18.6 worth of stock.
Purchased from Benjamin Crosby & Co., Booksellers, 44 Stationers Court near
Paternoster Row.
[Probably Hone and Bone, in order to establish their own business, made a large stock
purchase at one of the trade auctions, this one at the Queen's Arms pub.]
Note signed by "Benj Crosby" dated 2 Nov 1810 verifies, in
formal legal language,
that Bone and Hone do indeed owe him £143.18.6, the debtors having already made three
£30 payments.
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| Deposition
2 Nov 1810
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Deposition from Thomas Coram, Upper Litchfield St.,
Marylebone, 2 Nov 1810. Coram has
known Bone and Hone for two years. On 16 October 1810 they asked Coram to tell any
creditors who might show up at the shop that they were not at home. Benjamin Crosby showed
up at about noon or 1:00; Coram told Crosby that the proprietors were not in, though he
believes they were upstairs. |
| Commissioners' Statement
2 Nov 1810 |
A formal statement from the Bankrupts commission: Bone and Hone have talked to the
commissioners under oath, and on 2 Nov, 1810, the commissioners "do therefore declare
and adjudge them Bankrupts." |
| Public Notice
30 Oct - 3 Nov 1810 |
from The London Gazette, Tues. 30 Oct-Sat. 3 Nov., 1810:
"Whereas a Commission of Bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against John Bone
and William Hone . .. and they being declared Bankrupts are hereby required to surrender
themselves to the Commissioners in the said Commission named . . . on the 10th and 17th of
November instant, and on the 15th of December next, at One o'Clock in the Afternoon on
each Day at Guildhall, London, and make a full Discovery and Disclosure of their Estate
and Effects; when and where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their Debts, at
the Second Sitting to choose Assignees, and at the last Sitting the said Bankrupts are
required to finish their Examination, and the Creditors are to assent or dissent from the
Allowance of their Certificate. All Persons indebted to the said Bankrupts, or that have
any of their Effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners
shall appoint, but give Notice to Mr. Birkett, Bond-Court, Wallbrook."
[The language here is largely pro forma; it occurs practically verbatim in
several other notices in the paper.]
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| Record of Appearance
10 Nov 1810
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Guildhall, 10 November, 1810
Standard legal document, signed by both Bone and Hone, saying that they did
indeed appear on 10 Nov. as directed by the commissioners. An addition claims that
Bone and Hone under oath "say that they are not at present prepared to make a full
disclosure and discovery of the Estate and effects and humbly [request]
further time for
the doing thereof till the last day appointed in the London Gazette for that
purpose."
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| Creditor Appearance
10 Nov 1810 |
Guildhall, 10 November, 1810
A note in proper legal jargon claims that "no Creditor appeared to prove or claim
any debt under the said commission." Signed by the three commissioners.
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| Creditor List
17 Nov 1810 |
[Guildhall] 17 November, 1810; a preliminary list of Bone and Hone's creditors:
- Samuel Leigh and Elizabeth Matthews, his partner, (Booksellers), in Strand, are owed
£19.16.0
- Theodore Page of Blackfryars Road . . . Printer is owed £36.10.0 A payment schedule is
set up.
- Robert Macdonald Jr., Cloth Fair, Printer; £42..11/0, "for work and labor
performed and delivered"
- Benjamin Crosby, Stationers Hall Court, Bookseller; £143..18/6, "for goods sold
and delivered"
- Thomas Gillett, Salisbury Square, Printer; £34..0/0 (payable to Sir Richard Phillips in
7 months)
- James Robertson, Great East Cheap, Merchant; £11..0/0 for "goods"
- Charles Taylor, Jr., Hatton Gardens, Bookseller; £19..16/8 for "goods"
- Thomas Hurst, Paternoster Row, Bookseller; Bone and Hone "are justly and truly
indebted to this Deponent and to Thomas Morton Longman, Owen, Rees, and Cosmo Orme his
copartners . . . " £125..6/6 to be paid to Longman @ £30 every three months.
- William Brownley, Whych St., Ironmonger; 5..13/5 "work and labor"
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| Designate
"assignees"
17 Nov 1810 |
Memo from the commissioners establishes Hurst, Crosby, and Jordan as the
"assignees" (executors) of the estate; Also, the memo lists court costs of 40..9/3 and
Messengers costs at 26..19/6. |
| Creditor List
15 Dec 1810 |
Records for meeting of 15 December, 1810--a listing of more creditors to
add to list from 17 November:
- Thomas Ottway, Barbican, Engraver; 120..0/0 "for money lent and advanced" (the
"acceptor" of the 100 promissory note, payable to J. S. Jordan, is Alexander
Galloway of LCS fame; original bill dates 24 June 1809, 9 March 1810)
- Alexander Galloway, High Holborn, Engraver; 60..5/0 "for money lent and advanced by
deponent to said Bankrupts" (original date, 7 April 1810; "acceptor" is Mr
Joseph Hone, Red Lion Square)
- John Mackinlay, Strand, Bookseller; 46..15/2 "goods" (1 July 1809)
- Sainthill Lindsay, Whych St., Plumber; 10..9/0 (entry crossed out)
- George William Cartwright, Albion St. Blackfryars; 77..18/3, "goods" (20 May
1808)
- Robert Scholey, Paternoster Row, Bookseller; 82..7/0, "goods" (entry crossed
out)
- Richard Tayler, Shoe Lane, Printer; 34..6/4.5 "work, labor, goods" (entry
crossed out)
- James Blacklock, Cornhill, Bookseller; 5..1/0 (entry crossed out)
- John Robinson and George Wilkie, Paternoster Row, Booksellers; 64..18/7 for
"goods" (20 June 1809 and 23 June 1810)
- Thomas Levensharp, Aldgate, Stationer; 13..0/0, "goods" (15 June 1810)
- Thomas Hood and Charles Sharp, Poultry, Booksellers; 127..6/2 for "goods" (1
Dec. 1809)
- John Porter and Thomas Beckett, Pall Mall, Booksellers; 30..0/0 (entry crossed out)
- Thomas Inskip, Red Lion St., Watchmaker; 5..13/7, "goods" (crossed out)
- John Winkfield, Hatfield St., Carpenter; 12..17/8, "work, labor, goods" (20
May 1808)
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| Bone-Hone Statement
[15 Dec 1810?] |
A signed statement by Bone and Hone says that they have indeed made a full disclosure
of their property and that all is now in the "custody possession or power" of
the executors, their "wearing apparel and the wearing apparel of their wives and
children only excepted." |
| New Commissioner
29 Dec 1810 |
Note dated 29 Dec. 1810; Guildhall; William Gould, Esq. "did qualify
himself . . . before he proceeded with the above commission [of B&H
bankruptcy]." |
| Public Notice
9 - 12 Feb 1811 |
London Gazette, 9 Feb-12 Feb, 1811, p. 275:
"The Commissioners in a commission of Bankrupt, bearing Date the 22d
of October 1810, awarded and issued forth against John Bone and William Hone
. . . intend to meet on the 5th day of March next at One of the Clock in the
Afternoon, at Guildhall, London, in order to make a Dividend of the Estate
and Effects of the said Bankrupts."
[Creditors were to appear at designated time with proof
of debts.]
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| Creditor List |
More creditors:
- Jeremiah Samuel Jordan, Kentish Town, Bookseller; 705..4/11 for
goods "and for the consideration for this deponents assigning to
them certain Leasehold Premises situate in the Strand and for the
Goodwill of this Deponents Trade of a Bookseller and for Interest on
the Securities hereafter mentioned." (Several bills: 20 Feb 1809,
24 June 1809, 26 July 1809 . . . . "Acceptors" include
William Hone, Joseph Hone, Alexander Galloway)
- J. S. Jordan (and partner) Alexander Maxwell, 10..17/10, for
"goods"
- Nathaniel Ravis, upholsterer; 24..12/5, for goods delivered to Wm
Hone (20 May 1808)
- Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, Bookseller; 54..18/11, "goods" (30
Jan 1810)
- Maurice Jones, Newgate St., Bookseller; 19..16/0 "goods"
(10 April 1810)
- John Macreery, Black-Horse-Court, Printer; 3..14/6
- George Hubert [Herbert?], Moore St. Bookseller; 5..7/1,
"newspapers"
- Benjamin Gardiner, Bridge St., Bricklayer; 6..10/9,
"bricklayer's work," (23 July 1811[?])
- John Bunce, Denmark Court; 23..0/0, "bookbinding", 29 June
1810.
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| Division of Assets
5 Mar 1811 |
Long document, from Guildhall, 5 March 1811:
Commissioners gathered to make dividend of the estate. Assignees (Hurst,
Crosby, and Jordan) have received a total of 533..3/0, of which they have
already spent 82..11/8 on the solicitor's bill and other costs; also,
assignees are instructed to retain some 51..0/0 for incidental expenses.
This leaves 400..0/0 to be divided.
"And we having examined such statements and compared the receipts
with the payments and ascertained what balances have been from time to
time in the hands of such Assignees and it also appearing to us that the
debts proved and claimed under the said Commission make together the sum
of 1995..14/7 we do order and direct that the said assignees do forthwith
pay and provide unto and amongst all and every the Creditors of the said
Bankrupts who have proved their debts and the Claimants when they shall
have substantiated their claims four shillings in the pound in proportion
to their several and respective debts."
[in other words, the creditors received 20% of their bills]
This statement is followed by a sheet with all creditors and the amounts
paid to them.
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| Public Notice
25-29 Feb 1812 |
London Gazette, 25-29 Feb. 1812, p. 399.
Wording identical to
previous notice (see above, Public Notice, 9-12 Feb 1811). The commissioners intend to meet on 21 March next to make
dividend. |
| Second Division of Assets
21 Mar 1812 |
Baptist Head Coffee House, Aldermanbury, 21 March 1812.
The commissioners met "for the purpose of auditing the Assignees
Accounts prior to the declaring a Second dividend. . . ." There is a
total now of 284..6/6.5 to divide.
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| Creditor List
[21 Mar 1812?] |
Additional creditors' claims:
- Robert Scholey, 3..6/0
- J. S. Jordan, 116..15/8, (balance of account)
- William Smith, 21..7/0, (money lent and advanced on promissory note,
13 June 1810.)
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| Second Division of
Assets, continued
21 Mar 1812 |
Document from Guildhall, 21 March 1812.
This is much like the document of the previous year, only this time
there is a pool of some 284..0/0. The commissioners, having examined
Hurst's books, have decided to pay creditors and additional 2s/4d for each
pound of debt. [A list of claims and payments worked out accordingly
follows.]
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| Further Division of
Assets
19 Jun 1812 |
Baptist Head Coffee House, 19 June 1812. The commissioners have examined
and accept Hurst's books.
Guildhall, 19 June 1812. As in the earlier documents, this document accounts for
previous dividends and then looks at present accounts-- a total of just
6..14/8. The commissioners say that this sum is "insufficient to make
any further dividend."
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| Public Notice, Conclusion
of case
25-29 May 1813 |
Concluding document, from London Gazette 25 May-29 May, 1813:
"The Commissioners in a Commission of Bankrupt bearing the Date the 22d
day of October 1810 awarded and issued forth against John Bone and William
Hone . . . intend to meet on the 19th day of June next, at One of the
Clock in the Afternoon, at Guildhall, London, in order to make a Final
Dividend of the Estate and Effects of the said Bankrupts; when and where
the Creditors, who have not already proved their Debts, are to come
prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the Benefit of the
said Dividend. And all claims not then proved will be disallowed."
[In other words, it wasn't until mid 1813 that Hone and Bone were free of
the bankruptcy charges.]
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