• Title
  Jeffery Hart Bent - correspondence with Lachlan Macquarie and others, Dec. 1814-Oct. 1815
• Creator
  Jeffery Hart Bent, 1781-1852
• Call number
  Safe 1/52
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1814-1815
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  456510
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4170, frames 20-39 (Safe 1/52)
  
• Physical Description
  0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jeffery Hart Bent was appointed to the position of judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in February 1814 and nominated W.H. Moore and Frederick Garling as attorneys to practise before him. J.H. Bent came into conflict with Governor Lachlan Macquarie over the establishment, opening, and functioning of the court. -- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966
• Scope and Content
  1 Dec. 1814; Letter received from Governor Lachlan Macquarie asking him to summon the Supreme Court and to supply a plan of the way in which he wishes the court room to be fitted up (pages 1-4)
  26 May, 1 June 1815; Copies of letters sent by Bent to William Broughton and Alexander Riley concerning a dispute over the persons eligible to be admitted as attorneys in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (pages 5-10). The letter of 26 May is reproduced in Historical Records of Australia, 1st series, vol.8 page 531.
  11 May 1815; Address by Bent expressing his determination not to admit persons who have been transported to practice in the Supreme Court (manuscript copy) (pages 11-14)
  2 June 1815; Copy of a letter received from Governor Macquarie stating that he considers Bent's letter to him dated 31 May 1815 to be disrespectful and offensive (pages 15-18). This letter is reproduced in Historical Records of Australia, series 1, vol.8 page 540.
  12 June 1815; Copy of a letter received from W.H. Moore expressing support for Bent's opposition to admitting emancipists as attorneys (pages 19-22)
  18 Aug., 20 Oct. 1815; Two letters received from Governor Macquarie stating that he believes Bent's letters to him to be insolent and disrespectful, and not worthy of any reply (pages 23-30)
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D00007/a2292.html
• General note
  
  Includes bookplate of D.S. Mitchell; bound by Corbett Binder, Sydney.
  Listed in the Manuscripts Index Card Catalogue as: Macquarie and Bent correspondence, Dec. 1814-Oct. 1815.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 845995
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Broughton, William, 1768-1821
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
  Moore, William Henry, 1788?-1854
  Riley, Alexander, 1778?-1833
  
• Name
  New South Wales. Supreme Court
  
• Subject
  Convicts--Legal status, laws, etc.--New South Wales.
  Courts--New South Wales.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Judges--New South Wales.
  Lawyers--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1144770

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