Catalogue description VARIOUS SUBJECTS

This record is held by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

Details of DD\PO/15
Reference: DD\PO/15
Title: VARIOUS SUBJECTS
Description:

Documents concerning members of the Popham family:

 

Bonds of Edward Popham of Littlecote, esq., concerning monies owed to Richard Blake of Bristol, salesman, 1760-61. Bonds for the performance of covenants by persons bound to Francis Popham, 1726, and to Edward William Leyborne Popham, 1823. (Four documents).

 

Copy of a settlement, dated 1847, on the marriage of John Soden, esq., and Henrietta Corbet Williames, spinster, both of Gay Street, reciting a settlement, dated 1825, on the marriage of Decimus Williames and Henrietta Maurice, parents of Henrietta. Francis Leyborne Popham of Littlecote House, esq., appears as one of the trustees of the 1847 settlement, which deals with various bonds, part of the monies arising from which was invested in turnpike tolls in the counties of Montgomery, Merioneth, Salop, and Denbigh.

 

Documents concerning Mary Hutton of Duke Street, Westminster, spinster:

 

Two deeds of exchange of allotments in Winterhurst Moor for allotments in Badcombe Moor, 1793, and of rights of common in Notlake Moor for allotments in Mendip or Cheddar, 1814, with Edward Batt of Nyland, gent. Copy of an agreement between Mary Hutton (with her lessees) and the proprietors of commonable estates Nyland & Cheddar in the manor of Rodney Stoke, to withdraw claims to right of common on Rodney Stoke Hill in return for the relinquishment of claims on Badcombe Hill, 1811.

 

Agreements for the letting of properties in Nyland and Badcombe by Mary Hutton (or her agent) to various persons, 1813-17; together with a letter concerning such leases, 1819. (Seventeen documents).

 

Printed copies of Acts concerning:

 

(a) The navigation of the River Kennet (co.Berks.), [1714 and 1720]; (b) the repair of the highways from Speenhamland (co.Berks.) to Marlborough (co.Wilts.), 1770; (c) the enclosure of commons in the manor of Blackford in Wedmore, 1781; (d) the enclosure of commons in the manor and parish of Nyland with Badcombe, 1791 (two copies) (See also no. DD/PO/2 above (marked by footnote no. DD/PO/10).); and (e) the drainage and navigation of the River Axe, 1802.

 

Miscellaneous documents:

 

Paper draft of a grant (under the great seal of England) to Hellen fitz Edmond Gibbon, of the castle and lands of Kilblaine in Munster, forfeited by her uncle Thomas McShane McMorris alias Thomas ne Skartye, attainted for high treason in the Munster rebellion, and subsequently found to be innocent; with a direction to Sir William Fitzwilliams, knight, Lord Deputy of Ireland, to restore her in blood at the next Parliament, and to obtain the surrender of the property granted to Hugh Cuffe, gent., [circa 1590]. (See Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Elizabeth, 1588-92, p. 280 and p. 304, for references to the name of Ellen Fitz Edmund Gibbon in the lists of Irish suits referred to the Queen, 1589-90. Sir William Fitzwilliam was released from the office of Lord Deputy in 1594.

 

Lease for a year, of various messuages in Gateshead (co.Durham), 1781.

Date: [circa 1590]-1847
Held by: Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 32 docts.

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