Anchor Brewery - Robert Barclay. A group of three of Robert Barclay's original brewing notebooks, 1781-82, one beginning with summary accounts for June 1780 to June 1781, valuation of the plant by Gwilt & Toone, 26 July 1782 with mentions of freehold and leasehold in the vicinity of the Globe, Southwark, payments in 1781 including to H[enry] Thrale (0,392 7s 3d), also 'sundries paid since HT's death re. P.A. but being allowed by Ex[ecut]ors is added to the rest and not proffits', noting town debts, exports, value of utensils, names of people from whom debts reduced, insurance of brewhouse premises belonging to the Anchor Brewhouse, new insurances, at the rear of the volume further accounts concerning advance on articles from 1761 to 1799 from Whitbreads House, prices of best ware brown malts delivered in London for years 1706-92, summary accounts for porter entered into Dublin and Cork, 1777-84, duty on hops paid, 1711-99, value of pots stolen from publicans in 1795 as given in by them to Brown Hall, excise details, butts bought by T. & Co., interest paid for sundries, stock, details of amounts brewed, stables, exports, capital stock, average of malt, drawn out trade, increased capital, porter brewed 1785-91, beer brewed 1759-60, 28 leaves remainder blank, the second and third books giving tabulated details of brewings from 21st September 1781 to 30th April 1782 with rows for mashes, liqurs, heat of liqurs, volume of malts, heat of malts, mean height and heat of taps, summary notes beneath, eg. 'came down kindly', 'clean'd in very good order', etc., some further notes at rear of first volume giving some explanations and examples, a total of approximately 90 completed leaves, first volume initialled RB and dated 21st September 1781, all a little dust-soiled and browned to first and last leaves only, contemporary limp leather with manuscript paper labels to upper covers, rubbed and slightly soiled, 8vo, together with two modern publications concerning the Anchor Brewery and Barclay, Perkins & Co. Anchor Brewery in Southwark was established by James Monger the Elder in 1616, next to the site where the original Globe Theatre used to stand after it was burnt down in 1613. It was successively owned by James Child, Edmund Halsey, Ralph Thrale and then his son Henry Thrale (1758-1781). Thrale, with his wife Hester Lynch Piozzi, both friends of Dr Samuel Johnson (who had his own room at the Brewhouse and wrote many of his famous works there), continued to expand the business. Johnson initially wished Mrs Thrale to keep the Brewhouse after her husband died in 1781 but at the sale on the 31st May 1781, as Mrs Thrale later wrote in her memoirs, 'God Almighty sent us a knot of rich Quakers, who bought the whole'. The 'rich Quakers' were the Barclays, more particularly Mr Robert Barclay, a Merchant of Cheapside, who had the financial backing of his uncle, Mr David Barclay the banker and his cousin, Sylvanus Bevan. The business was sold for £135,000, the purchase price being spread over a period of four years. Mr Robert Barclay took Henry Thrale's manager, John Perkins into partnership with a quarter share of the profits. The business continued to flourish and by 1810 with production at over 200,000 barrels a year, it had become the biggest brewery in the world. In 1955, the company merged with Courage to become Courage, Barclay and Co. The name was simplified to Courage Ltd. in 1970. Provenance: From the family of Robert Barclay, by direct descent. (5)
Anchor Brewery - Robert Barclay. A group of three of Robert Barclay's original brewing notebooks, 1781-82, one beginning with summary accounts for June 1780 to June 1781, valuation of the plant by Gwilt & Toone, 26 July 1782 with mentions of freehold and leasehold in the vicinity of the Globe, Southwark, payments in 1781 including to H[enry] Thrale (0,392 7s 3d), also 'sundries paid since HT's death re. P.A. but being allowed by Ex[ecut]ors is added to the rest and not proffits', noting town debts, exports, value of utensils, names of people from whom debts reduced, insurance of brewhouse premises belonging to the Anchor Brewhouse, new insurances, at the rear of the volume further accounts concerning advance on articles from 1761 to 1799 from Whitbreads House, prices of best ware brown malts delivered in London for years 1706-92, summary accounts for porter entered into Dublin and Cork, 1777-84, duty on hops paid, 1711-99, value of pots stolen from publicans in 1795 as given in by them to Brown Hall, excise details, butts bought by T. & Co., interest paid for sundries, stock, details of amounts brewed, stables, exports, capital stock, average of malt, drawn out trade, increased capital, porter brewed 1785-91, beer brewed 1759-60, 28 leaves remainder blank, the second and third books giving tabulated details of brewings from 21st September 1781 to 30th April 1782 with rows for mashes, liqurs, heat of liqurs, volume of malts, heat of malts, mean height and heat of taps, summary notes beneath, eg. 'came down kindly', 'clean'd in very good order', etc., some further notes at rear of first volume giving some explanations and examples, a total of approximately 90 completed leaves, first volume initialled RB and dated 21st September 1781, all a little dust-soiled and browned to first and last leaves only, contemporary limp leather with manuscript paper labels to upper covers, rubbed and slightly soiled, 8vo, together with two modern publications concerning the Anchor Brewery and Barclay, Perkins & Co. Anchor Brewery in Southwark was established by James Monger the Elder in 1616, next to the site where the original Globe Theatre used to stand after it was burnt down in 1613. It was successively owned by James Child, Edmund Halsey, Ralph Thrale and then his son Henry Thrale (1758-1781). Thrale, with his wife Hester Lynch Piozzi, both friends of Dr Samuel Johnson (who had his own room at the Brewhouse and wrote many of his famous works there), continued to expand the business. Johnson initially wished Mrs Thrale to keep the Brewhouse after her husband died in 1781 but at the sale on the 31st May 1781, as Mrs Thrale later wrote in her memoirs, 'God Almighty sent us a knot of rich Quakers, who bought the whole'. The 'rich Quakers' were the Barclays, more particularly Mr Robert Barclay, a Merchant of Cheapside, who had the financial backing of his uncle, Mr David Barclay the banker and his cousin, Sylvanus Bevan. The business was sold for £135,000, the purchase price being spread over a period of four years. Mr Robert Barclay took Henry Thrale's manager, John Perkins into partnership with a quarter share of the profits. The business continued to flourish and by 1810 with production at over 200,000 barrels a year, it had become the biggest brewery in the world. In 1955, the company merged with Courage to become Courage, Barclay and Co. The name was simplified to Courage Ltd. in 1970. Provenance: From the family of Robert Barclay, by direct descent. (5)
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