Catalogue description Manors of Great and Little Badminton; Great Badminton rectory   Includes deeds and...

Manors of Great and Little Badminton; Great Badminton rectory

Includes deeds and settlements relating to these and other Boteler family manors and lands, 1415/16-1612; account [Fb 3/1] of fraud and deception relating to the Gloucestershire estates perpetrated on Nicholas Boteler of Gt. Badminton 'in his extreme sickness' by Arthur Crewe, 1609 [Eb 3/1(98); Fa 3/2; Fb 1/14; Fb 2/1,2; Fb 3/1; Fc 1/10]

Also includes conveyance of manors of Great and Little Badminton by Nicholas Boteler, Esq., of Gt. Badminton, to Edward, Earl of Worcester, 25 June, 1612 [Fb 1/14]; grant by Arthur Crewe, Hawkesbury, gent., of court leet for manor of Lt. Badminton, 1614 [Fa 3/2]; conveyance of rectory of Gt. Badminton by Sir Thomas Freke and others to Sir Thomas Somerset, 20 Nov., 1618 [Fb 1/14]; rental of Gt. and Lt. Badminton manors, 1615 [Fb 3/12]; post-nuptial settlement of Sir Thomas Somerset (2nd son of Edward, Earl of Worcester) and Ellen, Countess Dowager of Ormonde and Ossory, 1617 [Fb 2/2]; mortgage of manors and rectory by Elizabeth Somerset to Sir Robt Poyntz, endorsed 'designed in trust to cover the estate from sequestration', 1649, and reconveyance, 1663; conveyance by Elizabeth Somerset, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Viscount Somerset, deceased, to Henry Lord Herbert, 1655 [Fb 2/2; Fb 3/1; for survey 1655, see D2700/MA1/15]; mortgages of the manors and tithes, 1621/2-1747; miscellaneous leases, assignments and copy court rolls, 1609-1724; abstract of title to tithes in 'Gt. and Lt. Badminton etc.' (1590)-1842

(Boteler family; Edward, Earl of Worcester; Sir Thomas Somerset; Elizabeth Somerset; Henry, Lord Herbert)

[Fa 2/13; Fa 3/1,2; Fb 1/14; Fb 2/1-3; Fb 3/1; Fb 3/4; Fb 3/11-13,15; Fc 1/10; Lb 2/1(2); 200.1.18, 60]

[Note: Most of the existing bundles have been retained, but further rearrangement is desirable when time permits. Some [e.g. Fb 1/14] are artificial bundles. The original order as shown in the 17th and early 18th cent. calendars was, however, even more chaotic]

[See also National Library of Wales 1394]