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Claim for loss of property #5826 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5826 Benjamin Gartside Elliott Gentleman Shire Green  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Damage to Personal Property   Claimant Resides at Shire Green, he Keeps his most valuable Articles at his Brothers: Mr S.G. Elliott, Druggist, Gibraltar Street, it was there that he sustained the damages subjoined        
    Damage to Deeds relating to various properties, which render it necessary to have attested Copies thereof made 47 Skins £47      
    Damage to 53 Paper Documents relating to the same properties £10      
    Damage to Large Chapel Organ £15      
    Damage to Gold Watch & 3 Silver Watches £23      
    Damage to Guitar £2      
    Damage to Case of Mathematical Instruments £2      
    Damage to Milners Fire Proof Box £2      
    Damage to a Lot of Cutlery Blades Weighing near ½ a Ton £26      
    Damage to half a Skin Portfolio destroyed £1      
    Damage to Iron Safe £2      
    Damage to 79 Volumes of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Beaumont's and Fletcher's Dramas £7      
    Damage to a Pair of Russian Travelling Boots and 2 Pairs of Wellington Boots £2      
    Loss of 3 Napoleon Gold Medals worth as Metal £45, 1 Pair of Gold Mounted Spectacles £1 £46      
    Damage to 7 Railway Share Stock Coupons and Debenture Bonds, Expense of getting same replaced        
    Money Lost        
    Damage to some Hundreds of Important letters, vouchers, etc. connected with 5 unfinished trusts        
    Loss of and Damage to a great Number of small costly Chemical, Optical, Musical and Mathematical Instruments        
    Destruction of 50 Volumes of Costly Books        
        £185      
  Certificate Granted
4 July 1865
Assessed by Consent at £120      

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