[Handel, George Frederic. (1685-1759)] Two Manuscript Land Assessment Books for the Brook St. Ward, London 1746 and 1747Two land assessments from the middle years of Handel's long residence at 25 Brook Street in London, where the composer lived and worked from 1723 to the end of his life. Contemporaneous documents mentioning Handel are of the greatest rarity and these extraordinary documents provide considerable insight into the people who lived around the composer in the year (1746) that he wrote Judas Maccabeus and the Occasional Oratorio, and in the year (1747) that