Catalogue description Lydney Park Estate

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Details of D421
Reference: D421
Title: Lydney Park Estate
Description:

Manorial documents, deeds and papers, chiefly of the Lydney Park Estate

 

The Lydney estate records contain little of a personal nature concerning the Wynter family, but there is a good deal of material about the Forest of Dean and the Wynter iron-mines. There are no documents relating to the Wynters later than Dame Frances Wynter's will, proved 1720/21, and as it happens, there are no Bathurst documents of an earlier date than the original conveyance of the estate.

 

Besides records of the Wynter and Bathurst families, there are some documents of the Fazakerley, Player, Ettrick, and Hay families, all connected by marriage with the Bathursts, (see pedigree overleaf). The Ettricks (of Wimborne, Dorset) are of special interest in that Wm. Ettrick was one of the two men entrusted with Dame Mary Bankes's estate by the Parliamentary Committee for Dorset, and it was doubtless through him that the papers of Sir John Bankes, Chas. I's Attorney General, came, by way of the families of Player and Bragge, to be found with this collection. The Bragge family records are listed here under the Bathurst section, since they are almost entirely concerned with Charles Bragge, who inherited the Lydney estate from his uncle Poole Bathurst, and in 1804 took his mother's maiden name. He has been referred to throughout as Chas. B. Bathurst, whether ante or post 1804, to distinguish him from his father Chas. Bragge and his son Chas. Bathurst. Charles Bragge Bathurst was in Parliament from 1790 to 1823, Treasurer of the Navy (1801-03), and Secretary-at-War (1803-04) and although there are none of his official papers, there is correspondence arising out of his official functions as well as from his legal work (listed under 'Professional'). The family papers also include a great number of letters from various persons to his wife Charlotte, sister of Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (Prime Minister, 1801-04).
Date: 13th century -1890
Arrangement:

A small proportion of the collection is too fragile for handling. These documents have been listed at the end of the summary in Appendix II, with cross-references where necessary. Appendix I is a calendar of the few medieval deeds forming bundle D421/T4.
Held by: Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Lydney Park Estate, Gloucestershire
Physical description: 15 Sub Fonds
Physical condition: List in date order of documents too fragile to be handled. 1. ND Letters patent of Elizabeth to Sir Chas. SOMERSET, Jn. WYNTER and others apparently concerning damage done by R. Severn. 1; 2. 1558/9 General pardon to Sir Wm. WYNTER. [Part of a Great Seal of Eliz. (earlier type) - good impression]. (On Microfilm 334/4) 1; 3. 1559 'Hill of Aylburton' [Buck family.]. See D421/T4 Gloucestershire Record Office 1; 4. 1559 Messuage and land in Immingham, Lincs. [Ettrick deed.] See D421/T146 Gloucestershire Record Office 1; 5. 1567 Quitclaim (copy) by Lord STRAUNGE and his wife to Q. Elizabeth of one-third part of the office of feodary of the Honour of Richmond within the counties of Lincs. and Notts., and much property in the same. [? Ettrick deed]. 1; 6. 1568, 1581 Court roll, 1568, and rental, 1581 of Allaston Manor. 2; 7. 1569 Privy seal to Treasurer and Barons of Exchequer, ordering that the charge of H.M. Ordnance shall be taken from Sir Wm. WYNTER (at his petition) and that the artillery shall be lodged in the Tower by the Masters of the Armory. (On Microfilm 334/4) [For Transcript, see TRS 132] 1; 8. 1583 Manors of Nailsworth, Newland and Li[dney?], with messuages and lands. 1; 9. 1588/9 Special pardon (with copy) by Q. Elizabeth to Ed. WYNTER Esq. for having killed Henry WELSHE in a duel in Marylebone. [Great seal of Elizabeth - later type - v. good impression]. (On Microfilm 334/4) 2 Outsize; 10. 1594/5 Bargain and sale by Jas. BRIDGES of his estate in Lydney, Aylburton and the Hundred of Bledisloe. 1; 11. ?1595 Inspeximus of docs. re Forest of Dean from temp. Edw. I, with interrogatories put in dispute WYNTER v. COMPTON (evidently used in case NEVILLE v. HIGFORD, 1720). [see D421/L3,4 Gloucestershire Record Office] Original documents in Public Record Office 1; 12. 1599 Bargain and sale by Thos. BAYNEHAM and George HUNTLEY to Sir Ed. WYNTER of their estates in Glos. (On Microfilm 334/4) 1; 13. 1599/1600 Bargain and sale by Chas. and Rich. HYETT of capital messuage called the Holmes in Lydney. 1; 14. 1599/1600 Land in Churchfield. 1; 15. 1603 General pardon by James I to Sir Ed. WYNTER (On Microfilm 334/4) 1; 16. 1608 Ruinous messuage in Lydney; other messuages and land in Nass and Lydney. 1; 17. 1610 3 messuages and land in Lydney, Nass and Aylburton. 1; 18. 1611 2 messuages and land in Purton, Allaston and Lydney. 1; 19. 1630-1732 Papers concerning Dean Forest, especially timber, memo re manor of Newent, extracts from Receipt Rolls of rents for wood in the Forest with abstract of records re miners' claim to iron ore, coals, timber etc. up to 1732. 1 bundle; 20. 1640 Copy royal grant of lands and mines in the Forest of Dean to Sir Jn. WYNTER. 1; 21. ND Copy royal grant of extensive possessions in Dean Forest to Sir Jn. WYNTER, citing deeds of previous ownerships. 1; 22. 1640 2 forges and 2 furnaces and land in Dean Forest. 1; 23. 1648 Messuage in Purton, with fishing stages in R. Severn, mines etc. 1; 24. 1651, 1672 Land in Aylburton Mead. 4; 25. 1653 Manor of Lydney and mansion house called 'Wighte Crosse', with land and other messuages in Lydney. 1; 26. 1658 Conveyance by Trustees under Act for sale of estates forfeited by treason to the Commonwealth to Frances FINCH of Oxenhall and Wm. MORGAN of Hurst, Lydney, of messuages and lands in Nass. See Transcript CMS 218 1; 27. 1662 Document re Forest in which Sir Jn. WYNTER, Robt. CLAYTON and Francis FINCH are concerned. See D421/E6 Gloucestershire Record Office 1; 28. 1662 Copy surrender by Sir J. WYNTER to the King of all property granted him in Dean Forest except le Snead and Kidnalls. 1; 29. 1663 Licence to Wm. WYNTER (brother of Sir John) to eat meat in Lent. 1; 30. 1671 Messuages and land in Lydney and Newland, inc. le Snead and Kidnalls. 1; 31. 1676 Messuage called Staple Hill and land in Mangotsfield. [Player deed. Wm. Ettrick a party]. 1; 32. 1677 Close called Trygold Hill in Downend, Mangotsfield. [Player deed]. 1; 33. 1684 Manors of Castle Cary, Annsford etc., Somerset [Player deed]. 1; 34. 1694 Messuage and garden being part of churchland in Lydney. 1; 35. 1698 Land in Lydney with liberty to dig [details indecipherable]. 1; 36. 1710 Will of Thos. SCAWEN of London. [A connection by marriage of the Bathursts now of Cirencester Park]. 1; 37. 1718, 1719 Manors of Lydney etc. 2; 38. 1729 Cottage and land in Mixbury, Oxon. [D421/T115 Gloucestershire Record Office]. 1; 39. 1740 Marriage settlement of Wm. ALEYN of Bristol, and Lucy BRAGGE. 1; 40. 1747-1796 Copy leases, legal papers etc. of BATHURST family, inc. copy will of Anne FAZAKERLEY, 1757, and a few other FAZAKERLEY papers. [D421/T119 Gloucestershire Record Office] 1 bundle; 41. 1760 Marriage articles of Wm. GOODENOUGH of Oxford and Ann ADDINGTON. [Mrs. Bragge BATHURST's sister]. 1; 42. 1768, 1822 Case betw. Thos. BATHURST and Jn. TERRETT, 1768, with letter of 1822. [D421/L17 Gloucestershire Record Office] 2; 43. 1771 Petition of Ann GOODENOUGH, widow, of Oxford to Commissioners for the custody of the Gt. Seal re estate under the will of Rich. SERLE, decd. [D421/B2, 3 Gloucestershire Record Office] 1; 44. 1772 5 messuages adjoining in Lydney Street. [See D421/T43]. 1; 45. 1773. Farm and land in Aylburton. 1; 46. 1784-1826 Baddersfield Farm in Newland; Neckrill Farm, Lydney, and land including the Reddings. 5; 47. 1785 Black Rock Leaze in Lydney with abstract of title to Neckrill Farm from 1659. 6; 48. 1785-1806 Odd letters on family affairs and 1 paper re cordwood, 1785. 5; 49. 1787, 1793 Will of Jas. SCAWEN of Maidwell (uncle of Apsley BATHURST D.C.L.), and copy will, 1793. not repaired, but condition not too bad 2; 50. 1790, 1794 Will of Anne BRAGGE, widow, of Mangotsfield, 1790, proved 1794. 1; 51. ND Agreement betw. Chas. BRAGGE and Thos. BRITTON for latter to hold Grange Farm in Mangotsfield. 1; 52. ND Minutes of reconveyance to Mr. SCAWEN of estates in Bucks., Surrey, Cornwall and Northants. 1; 53. 1806-1848 Meadow called the Moors in Lydney. 8; 54. 1813 Odd papers of executors (inc. Henry BRAGGE) of Capt. Isaac SCHONBERG. 3; 55 1825 2 messuages and land in Lydney. [Endorsed Sir Thos. Rich's Hospital]. 1; ND 56 2 ?messuages and pasture in Titherington. [Date illegible]. 1; 57 ND Fragments of various documents. 1 parcel; 58 ND Pieces of various Gt. Seals of Elizabeth. 1 parcel
Immediate source of acquisition:

Rt. Hon. Viscount Bledisloe
Subjects:
  • Wynter family of Lydney Park, Gloucestershire
  • Bathurst family of Lyndey Park, Gloucestershire
Administrative / biographical background:

The manor of Lydney was bought in 1560 from the Earl of Pembroke by Sir Wm. Wynter, Vice-Admiral, (Surveyor of the Navy 1549-89 and Master of Naval Ordnance 1557-89), and added to the estate which his father Jn. Wynter, Paymaster of Henry VIII's Navy, had held in Lydney before. This family spelled their name in various ways - 'Wynter', 'Wyntour', and 'Wintour'; the spelling 'Wynter' has been used here. The Lydney estate passed from Sir William, through Sir Edward and Sir John, (Secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria), to Sir Chas. Wynter, who died in 1698, leaving his widow Frances in possession, there being no male heir. She later married Thomas Neville, and died in 1720. But already in 1718 the estate had been sold to mortgagees, who in their turn conveyed it to Benjamin Bathurst of Mixbury in 1723.
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