Catalogue description Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 2
This record is held by West Sussex Record Office
Reference: | Add Mss 501 - 1000 |
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Title: | Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 2 |
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INTRODUCTION This volume of Additional Manuscripts (Add Mss) has been compiled on the lines as indicated in the Introduction to its predecessor. Deeds of title, court rolls and maps comprise a large part of these documents, but there will also be found estate accounts (Add Mss827-829), correspondence relating to tithe commutation (Add Mss863), a notebook relating to a survey of the river Adur (Add Mss1000), one of Humphry Repton's 'Red Books' (Add Mss520), papers of John Charles Brooke, Somerset Herald (Add Mss523), and letters relating to Queen Caroline (Add Mss733). The documents range in date from a deed of Thakeham of 1467 (Add Mss882) to the court book of the hundredal manor of Aldwick (Add Mss871) which remained in use until the end of 1949 Students are again asked to exercise care in quoting these documents, and to use the form indicated in the Introduction to the earlier volume FRANCIS W. STEER June 1957. County Archivist CONTENTS Add Mss501 Deed of the prebend of Marden, 1577 Add Mss502, 503 Deeds of Aldingbourne, 1826, 1842 Add Mss504 Deed of Chichester, 1728 Add Mss505 Deed of Walberton and Yapton, 1829 Add Mss506 Deed of Walberton, 1741/2 Add Mss507 Deed of Broadwater, 1714-1716/7 Add Mss508-517 Deeds of Felpham, etc., 1710/1-1889 Add Mss518 Map of Shipley, 1733 Add Mss519 Map of Up Marden, c.1710 Add Mss520 Volume of landscape plans for Little Green in Compton by Humphry Repton 1793 Add Mss521 Court roll of the manor of Trotton, 1617-1624/5 Add Mss522 Tracing (made 1949) of a map of Shipley, 1834 Add Mss523 Letters and papers of John Charles Brooke Add Mss524-717 Miscellaneous documents, 1570-c.1850 Add Mss718-721 Deeds of Appledram, 1775-1789 Add Mss722-725 Documents of Linchmere, 1760 Add MS. 726 Unexecuted deed of Petworth, 1784 Add Mss727 Notes on surnames by John Charles Brooke Add Mss728 Pedigree showing the descent of Edward Miller Street from Thomas Farrington, 1880 Add Mss729-731 Manorial documents of Stedham, 1528-1565, 1737-1928 Add Mss732 Letters written by John Horace Round, 1901-1922 Add Mss733 Letters, etc., mainly relating to Queen Caroline and Thomas, 1st Lord Denman, 1821-1876 Add Mss734-741 Deeds of the Vicars' Close, Chichester, 1686-1813 Add Mss742 Deed relating to the Strood estate in Slinfold, 1763 Add Mss743, 744 Miscellaneous deeds, 1856, 1858 Add Mss745 Ironmonger's price list, c.1885 Add Mss746 Deed of Washington, 1592 Add Mss747-826 Court rolls and related documents of the manors of Sidlesham, Shotford and Merston, 1686-1936 Add Mss827-829 Account books of the Hampton family, 1757-1839 Add Mss830 Settlement of the Colebrooke family estates, 1771 Add Mss831-834 Miscellaneous documents, 1621, 1801-1836 Add Mss835-837 Deeds of Walberton, 1767-1819 Add Mss838-854 Miscellaneous documents, mainly relating to the Napper family, 1617-1820 Add Mss855-862 Wills and related documents of the Brown family of Westbourne, 1853-1871, and assignments of leasehold property in Cowfold, 1873-1883 Add Mss863 Correspondence relating to Horsham tithe commutation, 1840-1846 Add Mss864 Deed of Warnham, 1675 Add Mss865-877 Court rolls of the manors of Aldwick, Nytimber and North Mundham, 1641-1949 Add Mss878 Miscellaneous papers relating to Harting, 1845-1927 Add Mss879 Will of John Freeland of Appledram, 1787 Add Mss880, 881 Letters written by William Shayer, artist, to Charles Combes of West Wittering, 1862, 1867 Add Mss882, 883 Deeds of Thakeham, 1467, and Sullington, 1556 Add Mss884 Deed of Rumboldswhyke, 1654 Add Mss885 Receipt relating to lands in Crawley and Ifield, 1670 Add Mss886, 887 Deeds of Ifield, 1855, 1857 Add Mss888 Pedigree of the family of Mitford Add Mss889-914 Admissions, etc., relating to a copyhold property called Browns House in Sutton, 1723-1941 Add Mss915-920 Deeds of a plot of ground in Birdham, 1799-1882 Add Mss921-950 Deeds of 13 Westgate, Chichester, 1720-1907 Add Mss951-955 Deeds of 62 High Street, Chichester, 1814-1868 Add Mss956 Letter relating to Arundel, c.1831 Add Mss957-980 Miscellaneous deeds, 1622-1908 Add Mss981-999 Deeds of a messuage and land in Bognor, 1658-1734, and deed of partition of the estates of the late John Page in Donnington, Chichester, Up Marden, etc., 1780 Add Mss1000 Notebook of Cater Rand relating to a survey of the river Adur, 1817-1821 |
Date: | 1467 - 1949 |
Held by: | West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 500 pieces |
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open to consultation, unless otherwise stated |
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