Catalogue description Collections and manuscript notes of W.B. Bickley, including deeds and abstracts of title...

Collections and manuscript notes of W.B. Bickley, including deeds and abstracts of title concerning Birmingham, (1651) - 1826, Coventry, (1329) - 1833, Erdington, 1733-87, Kings Norton, 1587-1874, Harborne and Smethwick, 1737-1812, Northfield, 1795-1834, Saltley & Washwood, 1758-1859 and Yardley, 1576-1826; miscellaneous deeds of Midland counties, 1293-1845; rental of Southoe (Hunts), c1415; formulary of Colne (Essex) manor court, 1435; estreat roll of manor of Guiville & Dunton (Norfolk), 1467; list of chief rents, West Bromwich c1580; terrier of land at Harlestone (Northants), 1616; survey and custumal of Pattingham (Staffs), 1623; suit roll of Newton Regis (Warks), 1697); Burdenbury (Herefs) court roll, 1701; rental of manor of St Briavels (Glos), 1709; rental of Sutton Coldfield, 1786; Erdington manor court suit roll, 1798; parish levies and accounts of Sedgley (Staffs), 1548-c1690; copies of Yardley glebe terriers, 1585-1714; letters and papers of the Priest family of Birmingham and Fillongley (Warks), 1627-1797, including business papers of William Priest, solicitor, 1718-49; list of constables' rates at Hanbury (Staffs), 1656-1711; Aston churchwardens' accounts, 1623; pleas, briefs and proceedings of the Lichfield court of record, 1640-68; account book of Thomas Croxall as High Constable of Hemlingford Hundred (Warks), 1675-79; Sutton Coldfield glebe terrier, 1698; memorandum book of Thomas Baugh of Pensham (Worcs), 1692-1710; transcript of the notebook of Arthur Dabbs of Freasley (Warks), (1695-1707); Sutton Coldfield land tax assessments, 1706, 1822; record of enrollments of freemen of Coventry, 1701-25; Lichfield parliamentary election poll books, 1710-99, and correspondence about the unseating of J. Levett as MP, 1762; letters and papers of Tobias Bellaers of Birmingham, ironmonger, 1716-49; Solihull glebe terriers, 1722-42; papers concerning Maxstoke Hall, 1722-1900, and genealogical notes concerning the Dakyns, Townsend and related families; letters from Thomas Ludford to his brother John Ludford of Ansley Hall (Warks), 1728-42; Lichfield Quarter Sessions victuallers' recognisance book, 1732-73; extracts from Lichfield corporation minutes, 1733-53; memoranda book of John Dyott of Lichfield, 1733-44 and correspondence concerning his bequests to relatives (including Matthew Boulton), 1768-70; papers concerning Deritend chapel, including pew rent accounts, 1740-1832; Birmingham parish constables' accounts, 1748-49; Lichfield land tax register, 1752; accounts and letters of Thomas Lawrence of Birmingham, haberdasher, 1753-56; Staffordshire jury list, 1755; daily journal of J. Hawkesford, 1759-60; Alvechurch (Worcs) poor rate, 1767; documents concerning the title of Mary Bracebridge of Atherstone to various Holte family properties, 1769-1811; Sutton Coldfield poor rate, 1775; notebook of H. Kempson concerning the funding and building of St Paul's Church, Birmingham, 1776-79; Kings Norton poor rate, 1782; Warwickshire jury lists, 1784, 1830; accounts of the loss suffered by the proprietors of the Birmingham Hotel in the riots, 1791; brief for George Humphries concerning riot damage to Sparkbrook House, 1791; copy of trial proceedings concerning riot damage at Moseley Hall, 1792; notebook of Thomas Barton of Coventry, 1803 - 20; particulars of Widney Manor, Solihull, (1812); legal papers concerning an eviction case at Harborne, 1814; papers concerning the trial of Abraham Thornton for the murder of Mary Ashford, 1817-c1900; correspondence of W.O. Hunt, clerk of the peace for Warwickshire, 1830-58, including papers about the licensing of printing presses in Birmingham, 1831-39; Kings Norton churchwardens' accounts, 1832-41; account of the personal estate of Hannah More of Clifton (Bristol), 1834; accounts for the repair of the property of John Mister of Aston, 1834-38; legal papers concerning the boundaries of the city of Coventry, 1842; plan of Brandon (Warks), 1845; diary of Robert Littlehales, doorman at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 1862-66; several hundred miscellaneous testamentary papers, mainly relating to people from the Midlands, 1506-1873, with a manuscript index; some 200 original manuscript maps and plans of Aston, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, Edgbaston, Erdington, Handsworth, Harborne, Kings Norton, Moseley and Yardley, c1750-1897, including a plan of the Birmingham to Pershore Turnpike, 1825 and the Hen & Chickens Hotel, Birmingham, 1836; manuscript maps and plans of Chilvers Coton (Warks), 1811; Coventry, 1818; Earlswood (Warks), 1852; Frankley, c1850; Great Barr (Staffs), 1826-32; Hagley (Worcs) c1850; Halesowen (Worcs), 1827-50; Hampton (Warks), 1809; Hasbury (Worcs), c1850; Hunnington (Worcs), c1850; Illey (Worcs) c1850; Kingswinford (Staffs), 1839-61; Lapal (Worcs), c1850; Minworth (Warks), c1820; Rowley Regis (Staffs), c1800-35; Sherborne (Warks), 1808; Shirley (Warks), 1852; Smethwick, 1798, 1882; Stonely, Ashow and Lillington (Warks), 1818; Solihull, c1840-62; Stratford-on-Avon (Warks), c1890; Tipton (Staffs), 1817; Water Orton (Warks), 1862; and Wythall (Warks), c1880; index to the inhabitants of Birmingham and adjacent villages assessed for tax in 1327; transcripts of Exchequer tallies, n.d. [c1900]; transcript of the subsidy roll for Offlow Hundred (Staffs), (c1450); transcripts of documents relating to St Mary's Church, Warwick, (1467-1570); lists of names from the Heralds' Visitations of Warwickshire, 1619, 1682-83; extracts of Staffordshire deeds, especially concerning the estates of the Egerton family at Harlaston, Wigginton and Tamworth, c1661-1730; pedigrees and genealogical papers compiled by W.B. Bickley, 1700-1928; copies and transcripts of documents concerning the history of Sheldon, c1900-10; notes by W. Wright Wilson on the history of Yardley and Sheldon, c1900; extracts from the Warwickshire Assize Rolls, (1221-1306); transcripts of miscellaneous Kings Norton and Knowle manor records, c1900; copies and abstracts of deeds re Nuneaton Priory, c1900; notes about the first steam mill and its Boulton & Watt engine, n.d. [early 20th cent]; chronological index to the records of Coventry, c1910; indexes of names of Midland people in manuscripts once belonging to W.B. Bickley, n.d. [early 20th cent.]; printed edition of the Guild Book of Knowle, 1894; notes re history of Yardley, c1900; newscuttings and manuscripts re Moseley and Kings Norton, c1900; abstract of deeds etc. relating to Warwickshire, c1900