1764 and all that

The Law Society has records of the Registrar of Attorneys and Solicitors, set up in 1843.  If you were established before that date, it is incredibly difficult to define a date with any really sense of accuracy

So it is with Ellisons.  We believe we can trace the firm back to one William Mason (born 1738) who began his career as a humble scrivener (copyist), acting as clerk to a Samuel Ennew.  Although it is believed that the firm dates from even earlier, we have like all good lawyers gone for a date backed by evidence rather than hearsay.  
Hence, we are happy to claim that we can trace our establishment back to William Mason, who was self-employed and a bundle of draft wills from the ‘cellar archive’ which begin, significantly, in 1764.