Catalogue description Somerset deeds, etc, relating mainly to the Enmore estates of the Perceval Family

Somerset deeds, etc, relating mainly to the Eumore estates of the Perceval Family

Introductory note The donor was the great grandson of Spencer Perceval, the Premier, who was assassinated in 1812 and who was also a younger son of the 2nd Earl of Egmont. The family's Enmore estates were completely sold in the 1830s [see DD/PLE Box 64 for the extensive sale catalogue] and the records were presumably distributed to purchasers at the time. The small element here listed would appear to represent the residue left in the family's hands.

Two bundles of deeds of properties sold in 1835 and a bundle of catalogues relating to the sale have been listed below as an Appendix and numbered [DD/PC 24-26], but they remain stored under their original references.

Appendix

[24] BROOMFIELD, ETC. deeds 17 docts. 1743-1835 Great Holwell Farm (99a.; field-names); map on latest deed. Lot 18 in the Egmont Estate sale of 1833. Original descriptions of a mess. and 60a. and a mess. and 25a. given.1743 deed under the Rolt Estate Act and the 1755 conveyance to the Earl of Egmont also relate to mess. called Arthurs in Spaxton, cott. called the Brewhouse in Enmore Street and 3 other messuages in the manor and parish of Enmore; copy deed of 1745 relates to these and also to a messuage and 65a (field names) in Broomfield held of the manor of Heathcombe and the Swan Inn in Wellington. Skinner family involved throughout.

The bundle also contains two assignments, 1751, of messuages in Enmore upon the Earl's purchase involving the Merewether family, not apparently connected with the rest of this bundle

[Note - this remains stored in DD/PLE Box 62 and should be called for under that reference]

[25] BROOMFIELD AND ENMORE deeds, etc. 23 docts. 1832-1867 Heathcombe Farm in Broomfield and Smocombe Farm in Broomfield and Enmore (220a.), Lot 2 in the Egmont sale of 1833

[Note - this remains stored in DD/PLE Box 64]

[26] ENMORE ESTATE 5 docts. 1833, 1834 Two copies [one incomplete] of the sale catalogue of the Earl of Egmont's estates in 105 Lots in Enmore, Broomfield, Spaxton, Aisholt, Charlinch, Cannington and Over Stowey (one copy having full coverage of plans), 1833, and an earlier catalogue [no plans] as offered in one Lot, 1833

Two copies of the sale catalogue, arranged by rooms, of the furniture and effects at Enmore Castle, 1834 [some prices added]

[Note - these remain stored in DD/PLE Box 64]

Perceval family of Somerset

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• Enmore, Somerset