Small collection of miscellaneous papers and documents deposited by the Belfast solicitor, Sir Charles Brett (1839-1926). The collection consists of a variety of material, mainly of antiquarian interest, including books, extracts, manuscripts, and other documents relating principally to early English civil and ecclesiastical law, land and/or property in Yorkshire, c 1220-c 1600, and Wakefield, c 1763-1824, and the observations of the Rev T.J. Hussey on English birds, c 1828. The collection is also notable for a series of correspondence between Hussey and his daughter, Charlotte, during a stay in Aleppo, Syria from 1779-80 and an unexecuted grant of tithes, c 1145-53 from the Archbishop of Mainz.
Antiquarianism
The collection comprises approx. 100 items consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, printed leaflets and pamphlets, legal documents and individual leaves from a variety of books of antiquarian interest, c 1145-c 1855.
Brett Collection listing
Letters from John Hussey to Charlotte Hussey, 1779 - 1780 available in Digital Special Collections & Archives.