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Collapse UC 2 - New Meeting House, Moor Street (1690 - 1861), subsequently the Church of the Messiah, Broad Street (1862 - 1973), subsequently the Unitarian New Meeting, Ryland Street (1973 onwards) - 1692 - 1971UC 2 - New Meeting House, Moor Street (1690 - 1861), subsequently the Church of the Messiah, Broad Street (1862 - 1973), subsequently the Unitarian New Meeting, Ryland Street (1973 onwards) - 1692 - 1971
Expand 1 - Trustees and Trust Corporation records - 1771 - 18511 - Trustees and Trust Corporation records - 1771 - 1851
Expand 2 - Services of the church - 1747 - 19512 - Services of the church - 1747 - 1951
Expand 3 - Church government - 1675 - 19713 - Church government - 1675 - 1971
Expand 4 - Membership of the church - 1844 - 19514 - Membership of the church - 1844 - 1951
Expand 5 - Printed publications - 1790 - 19705 - Printed publications - 1790 - 1970
Expand 6 - Church income - 1811 - 19466 - Church income - 1811 - 1946
Expand 7 - Church buildings and grounds - 1837 - 19357 - Church buildings and grounds - 1837 - 1935
Expand 8 - Other church property - 1920 - 19258 - Other church property - 1920 - 1925
Expand 9 - Charities - 1776 - 18949 - Charities - 1776 - 1894
Expand 10 - Day Schools - 1867 - 187110 - Day Schools - 1867 - 1871
Expand 11 - Sunday Schools and Home Mission - 1788 - 193911 - Sunday Schools and Home Mission - 1788 - 1939
Expand 12 - Other organisations and ministries - 1836 - 192812 - Other organisations and ministries - 1836 - 1928
Expand 13 - Regional Unitarian organisations and ministries - 1723 - 196013 - Regional Unitarian organisations and ministries - 1723 - 1960
Expand 14 - Miscellaneous items - 1699 - 195114 - Miscellaneous items - 1699 - 1951
Collapse 15 - Manuscripts and printed items relating to Joseph Priestley, formerly at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham, and now on permanent loan to the Reference Library - 1791 - 193315 - Manuscripts and printed items relating to Joseph Priestley, formerly at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham, and now on permanent loan to the Reference Library - 1791 - 1933
Expand 1 - Copies of important letters and official business connected with the 1791 Riots, originally the property of the late Thomas Lee (originally given by the late Rosalind Lee) - 1791 - 19331 - Copies of important letters and official business connected with the 1791 Riots, originally the property of the late Thomas Lee (originally given by the late Rosalind Lee) - 1791 - 1933
Expand 2 - Legal documents relating to damages claimed after the Riots - n.d. [1790s]2 - Legal documents relating to damages claimed after the Riots - n.d. [1790s]
3 - Account Book listing 'Subscriptions for the Ministers', 'For Repairs', 'For the Fund' (showing signatures of Joseph Priestley and Mary Priestley) acknowledging receipt of salary - 1782 - 1783
4 - Dr Priestley's diary while he was at Daventry - 1754
Expand 5 - Letters from Thomas Lee to his daughter Mrs. Coates - 17915 - Letters from Thomas Lee to his daughter Mrs. Coates - 1791
6 - Accounts of Thomas Lee Junior as Treasurer To the Committee of Protestant Dissenters in Birmingham 1791 - 25/11/1791 - 11/11/1796
Collapse 7 - Documents relating to the suit by the Trustees of the New Meeting House versus Hemlingford Hundred, Co. Warwick - 1791 - 17927 - Documents relating to the suit by the Trustees of the New Meeting House versus Hemlingford Hundred, Co. Warwick - 1791 - 1792
1 - Note from Mr Russell to Mr Thomas Lee of New Hall Street - n.d. [1790s]
2 - Letter to Trustees to summon [?] on 9th Inst. - 06/10/1792
3 - Letter from Charles Hunt, Stratford, to Thomas Lee - 04/02/1791
4 - Note from Mr Bertles to Mr Thomas Lee - n.d. [1790s]
5 - Draft of letter to Trustees of New Meeting from Thomas Lee junior - 18/08/1791
6 - Minutes of Search at Lichfield and other places by Mr Bertles 2nd February 1792 - 1791 - 1792
7 - Statement of the Losses sustained by the Sufferers in the Riots in Birmingham in the Town & Neighbourhood of Birmingham in July 1791 to accompany Petition - n.d. [1790s]
8 - Notice to Trustees of Meeting 23rd Inst. - 13/10/1792
9 - Note, unsigned, to Mr Shipton asking him to attend the execution of the Deed of Renewal of Trust of the New Meeting House - n.d. [1790s]
10 - Letter from Mr Jackson, Lichfield, to Mr Thomas Lee, junior, Attorney, New Hall Street - 06/08/1791
11 - Draft of letter to from Mr Thomas Lee, junior, to the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Warwickshire, written at the same time to Proctor at Lichfield - 13/08/1791
12 - Letter from W. Jackson, Lichfield, to Mr Thomas Lee, junior, Attorney, New Hall Street, Birmingham - 12/08/1791
13 - Extract from Sessions records at Warwick for Trinity Sessions 28 May 1 William & Mary 1689 - n.d. [1790s]
14 - Letter from C.H. Hunt, Stratford, to Mr. Thomas Lee, Attorney at Law, Birmingham - 18/08/1791
15 - Letter from Mr Thomas Urwick, Clapham, to Mr Thomas Lee, Attorney, New Hall Street, Birmingham - 02/03/1792
16 - Extracts of Registries - 1792
17 - Note from John Lee, junior, to Thomas Lee - 02/02/1792
18 - Extract from Trust Deed of the Meeting house in Moor Street in Birmingham - 1791
19 - Observations by Messrs. Norris & Wyatt upon a Survey of Depredations committed by the Rioters at the New Meeting house Birmingham - 10/12/1791
20 - New Meeting House Inventory of Furniture - n.d. [1790s]
21 - Notice, with writ attached, of an action in the King's Bench between John Roebuck, Joseph Smith, John Kettle, John Lee, Benjamin Mansell, Thomas Russell and William Russell, plaintiffs, and Thomas Archer and George Whateley, defendants, to recover damages - 23/01/1792
22 - Estimate by T[homas] Elvins of the Expence of repairing the New Meeting house in Birmingham - 28/09/1791
23 - Warwickshire. In the King's Bench. John Roebuck & others against Archer & Whateley two of the Inhabitants of Hemlingford Hundred. Estimate and account of the particulars of Plaintiffs Losses by the Destruction of their Buildings & premises, Goods and chattels - n.d. [1790s]
24 - The Trustees of the New Meeting house to Mr Thomas Lee. Warrant to sue the Hundred for the destruction thereof on 14th July last - 18/01/1792
25 - Case As to the destruction of the New Meeting house in Birm[ingha]m by the Rioters - 1791
26 - Draft Petition of Sufferers by Riots in Birmingham in July 1791 - May 1792
27 - In the Kings Bench Hilary Term 32nd George 3rd. Roebuck & Others against Archer & another. Copy Declaration - n.d. [1790s]
28 - Draft Petition of the Sufferers by the Riots in the Town and Neighbourhood of Birmingham in July 1791 - n.d. [1790s]
29 - Various draft petitions and statements relating to the New Meeting House, Birmingham, and the Priestley Riots of July 1791 - 1792
Expand 8 - Evidence of witnesses concerning the riots etc - 1791 - 17978 - Evidence of witnesses concerning the riots etc - 1791 - 1797
Expand 9 - Legal papers of Thomas Lee relating to the riots of 1791 - 1791 - 17929 - Legal papers of Thomas Lee relating to the riots of 1791 - 1791 - 1792
10 - Volume entitled 'Recollections of Dr Priestley' by John Ryland - 25/02/1844
11 - Inventory of the House and Goods of Dr Joseph Priestley which were destroyed during the riots at Birmingham in 1791 - n.d. [c.1792]
12 - Bound transcript of UC 2/15/11 entitled 'Dr. Priestley's Inventory 1791' - 1890

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