Hughes, bookseller

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Morning Chronicle 25.3.1796 ad for subs for LCS sending deputies into the country, list of those receiving subs included Hughes, bookseller, Carthusian St, Charterhouse Sq (Thale p351 note 49). On 23.5.1796 Div 4 of LCS resolved against a general meeting, signed by John Arnold President and Jas Hughes Secretary (Thale p358). These two not certainly the same but are close in date and no other Hughes in Thale.

John Willoughby gent insured 1 to 4 Carthusian St (SunFire 1804) among the occupiers Hughes cabinet maker.
Joseph Avery gent insured 221 Tottenham Court Rd (SunFire 1810) occupier Hughes bookseller; George Hughes 212 Tottenham Court Rd 1811 (British Book Trades Index)

 Unlikely as looks too gentlemanly but an interesting character James Fletcher Hughes bookseller 5 Wigmore St, Holdens Directory 1802, bankrupt 31.1.1804 bankrupt 5.1.1808 certificate 6.2.1808. Land Tax 1808 £70 at 5 Wigmore St, 1810 £60 at 38 Berners St
James Fletcher Hughes bach of Marylebone = 10.10.1801 St Geo Han Sq by licence Jane Grosso sp otp, wits Francis Grosso, Adam Buck. (Francis Grosso Esq, SunFire 1808 Lower Grosvenor St, will PCC 1821 late of the Stock Exchange). James Fletcher Hughes bur 21.10.1810 Marylebone, his will proved PCC 29.10.1810 dated 13.10.1810 mentioned dear beloved Ann Taylor and her sister Margaret Taylor (and no mention of wife), wits James Taylor & James O'Brien
Morning Chronicle 17.11.1810 his stock for sale at 38 Berners St. 30.12.1810 his widow Jane married at St James Bath to Samuel Wm Leonard Williams