| Content Description | Ne 6 G 4/1: Statement of the finances of Mr Isaac Hope and Mr Lechevalieu[?] Hope from 1751-1777 [in French].
Ne 6 G 4/2: Receipt for the purchase by John Hope esq. of Amsterdam of 3 volumes of 'Campbells Vitruvius Brittanicus' and a yellow Scots topaz seal, dated 8 Nov. 1758.
Ne 6 G 4/3-8: Accounts of Olivier Hope of Rotterdam, dated 1780-1782 [in Dutch and French].
Ne 6 G 4/9: Deed of assignment and transfer from Thomas Hope and Henry Philip Hope to Alexander Baring [of Baring Brothers and co., later 1st Baron Ashburton] of the Hope family trading company on the ocassion of the death of their father, dated 3 Sep. 1813.
Ne 6 G 4/10: Balance of Mr A[drian] E[lias] Hope for 1817 concerning the administration of D. Berck and N.A. Entrop Muller.
Ne 6 G 4/11: Deed from Thomas Hope as Sheriff for the county of Surrey to John Smallpiece appointing him as Undersheriff of Surrey, dated 1 Mar. 1828.
Ne 6 G 4/12-13: Bonds from Mr John Smallpiece and Mr Charles T. Abbott to Thomas Hope for the sum of £5000 [re. covenants detailed in Ne 6 G 4/11], date as above.
Ne 6 G 4/14: Case for the opinion of Mr [Edward] Jacob re. estate duty payable on the Russian Stock of 'A.B.' [deceased], dated 1831 ['A.B.' is probably Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey].
Ne 6 G 4/15: Deed of confirmation of accounts and covenant for release between Henry Thomas Hope and the Executors of the late Thomas Hope [d.1831] re. the Deepdene estate, Surrey, dated 3 Jul. 1832.
Ne 6 G 4/16-18: Papers concerning the death of Adrian Elias Hope [i.e. inheritance issues], including an inventory of property at Bosbeck [the Netherlands], 1834.
Ne 6 G 4/19: Estimate of the erection of a Pavilion or Belvedere on the Hill at Groenendael near Harlem in Holland, 1838 [in Dutch].
Ne 6 G 4/20: Draft will of Henry Philip Hope, undated [n.b. Hope died 1839]; endorsed 'Disposal by my will and testaments of Bosbeck and Groenendael in Holland' [main text in Dutch].
Ne 6 G 4/21: List of directions of, and observations concerning, persons mentioned in the will of Henry Philip Hope [names and details given], Feb. 1839.
Ne 6 G 4/22-24: Copy opinion of Mr Timney [?] in the case of the late Henry Philip Hope esq., dated Jul. 1840; case for the opinion of the Queens Advocate re. the same, undated; also related letter, dated 24 Jan. 1840.
Ne 6 G 4/25: Notes, possibly concerning the Hope Pedigree, undated.
See also Ne 6 G 5 and 17, futher bundles of papers concerning the Hope pedigree. |