BEVERLEY – Bankruptcy Auction Broadside for Saturday Market and Walkergate Properties – 1818

[WILSON, John.] Beverley. To be Sold by Auction (By Order of the Commissioners under a Commission of Bankruptcy awarded against John Wilson). Beverley: M. Turner, Printer, 9 February 1818.

Printed auction broadside, 33.9 × 17.7 cm.

An uncommon Regency-era Beverley auction broadside issued under a Commission of Bankruptcy against John Wilson, advertising the sale of a substantial group of freehold properties in the town.

The sale was to be held at the Beverley Arms Inn on Saturday 7 March 1818 and comprised four separate lots, including dwelling houses, warehouse accommodation, stables, shop premises and associated yards situated in Saturday Market and Walkergate, two of Beverley’s principal commercial thoroughfares.

The broadside records a number of contemporary occupiers, including Mr Carter, surgeon, John Gould, Thomas Anderson, William Townley and William Allen, thereby preserving a valuable snapshot of Beverley’s commercial and residential geography during the Regency period. One lot is described as a large building then occupied as a warehouse and stables, illustrating the mixed commercial character of the town at a time when Beverley remained an important regional centre for trade and agriculture.

The Beverley Arms Inn, one of the East Riding’s most important coaching inns, was rebuilt in the late eighteenth century, the inn served as a centre for auctions, business transactions, commercial meetings and coaching traffic, making it a natural venue for the disposal of bankrupt estates and urban property. It is now called The Beverley Arms Hotel.

The notice further preserves the names of local trustees, assignees and solicitors involved in the proceedings, providing insight into the administration of bankruptcy and property transactions in provincial England during the early nineteenth century.

An attractive example of East Yorkshire provincial printing and a valuable primary source for the urban history of Beverley, documenting property ownership, occupancy and commercial activity in one of Yorkshire’s most important market towns.

Condition: Folded as issued. Trimmed close to, and in places into, the original margins, though without loss of printed text. Creasing, light age-toning and minor handling wear. A sound and entirely legible example. Very good overall.

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