Assorted papers: the estate and executors of Samuel Cope Cox

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S.C.Cox: original bundle of executorship papers: envelope addressed to W. K. Ewen of High St, an executor, containing receipts for legacies and related correspondence, 1862-1863; inventory and valuation of the household furniture and effects of SCC, taken for administration, 9th January 1862; legal account for Mrs Caroline Cox, 1863; Inland Revenue legacy receipts for pecuniary legacies to Christopher Cox, Ebenezer Cox, James Cox, and Sarah Plumb, brothers and sister of the deceased, 1862. Four letters to W. K. Ewen, 4 Duchess Road, Birmingham, Sept. 1883-April 1884, respecting the sale of his interest in the will of SCC by A. Cox to R.C. Baily and Wm. Baylis. Loose documents: Receipt from Stratford Corporation for £80 from Mrs Cox in consideration of the dilapidations at a house in the occupation of Fred Winter, 1865. Letter from James Cox to Charles Plumb, July 1878, enclosing (not present) a banker's order for £207 6s, with list of seven legatees between whom it was to be split. Receipt for interest on legacy due to his late wife by David Plumb, 1878. Notices addressed to W. K. Ewen by the agents of Richard Creed Baily, tailor and woollen draper, and William Baylis, draper, both of Banbury, of their interests in the reversionary interest of A. Cox in the estate of Samuel Cope Cox, 1883-1884. See no. 25/6 below.