Catalogue description Accessions 36074 and 36214

Estates: deeds, settlements etc.

(1581-1818)

Documents relating to deeds

(1636-1825 and n.d.)

Bedminster

(1510-1811)

Surveys, valuations and related documents

(1552-1884)

Papers arising from official business

(1570-1668 and n.d)

Wills and inventories (1543-1791 and n.d.)

Household and personal papers (1579-1727 and n.d.)

(mostly Thomas Smyth, 1610-42)

Papers relating to Sir Hugh Smyth

(1575-1627)

Genealogical and heraldic notes, tables and other documents (1650-1790 and n.d)

Miscellaneous (1613-1881)

Correspondence:

Letters to Sir Hugh Smyth

(1575-1627)

Letters to Thomas Smyth

(1610-1642)

Letters from Thomas Smyth

Miscellaneous (1584-1801 and n.d.)

Records of the Smyth family of Ashton Court, sold at auction by Messrs. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. on the 5th July 1977. The records listed below represent four out of a total of ten lots emanating from Ashton Court, namely lots 4, 21, 25 and 101. The remaining lots were 98, 100, 119, 126, 127 and 128. All were clearly dispersed before the main collection was deposited in the Bristol Record Office

Lots 4, 25 and 101 were purchased at Sotheby's by the Bristol Record Office, aided by grants from the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries and various Bristol organisations. Lot 21 was purchased subsequently from Messrs. Hofmann and Freeman, with the aid of a grant from the Victoria and Albert Museum. For details of the lots not purchased see Sotheby's "Fonthill" catalogue and list of copies of documents not in B.R.O.