Catalogue description SURREY PARISHES various

Three original bundles of documents relating to properties chiefly in the parish of Mortlake (co.Surrey).

The first bundle of documents, [circa 1650]-1690(6) contains:

Three paper documents, being: (a) 'A Liste of names of ye inhabitants of Mortelake yt are to serve att the highwayes', 1677, giving also a few details of expenditure on labour, gravel, cartage, etc.; (b) 'A Rate made the ninth day of Aug: 1688, for the reembursing the disbursments of Mr Benjamin Holden late churchwarden of the parish of Mortlack deceased, giving names of occupiers and amounts of rate; (c) 'An Assessment or Rate for the relief of the poor of the parish of Mortlack ...', May 1689 to May 1690, giving names of occupiers with an occasional note of the property, and amounts of rate.

Survey For a plan of Mortlake, circa 1830, see no. DD/PO/100 below. of 'the towne or parish of Mortlacke and East Shene ...', [circa 1650], giving names of occupiers, together with a description of the properties including acreage and bounds; [17 ff.]. Two paper documents being: (a) 'A particular of ye lands and houses belongeinge to ye parish of Mortlake and lett by lease and yearely rent...' 1679, giving a brief description of the properties, names of the lessees, and yearly rents; (b) Various notes on the gift of Joan Hollinbery for the maintenance of widows, and parish property, with a list of the church plate and furnishings, 1662.

The two remaining bundles of documents, 1805-38(31) contain:

Deeds and cognate documents relating to estates in Mortlake (co.Surrey), acquired by Edward William Leyborne Popham of Littlecote, esq., in 1838, including: (a) a printed copy of 'An Act for vesting certain estates, situate in the counties of Essex and Surrey, devised by the Will of Sir William Burrell, Bart., deceased, in Trustees, upon trust to sell the same ...', 1805; (b) a notice of sale of an estate near Mortlake, Richmond, and Kew, 1806; (c) affidavits concerning title, and extracts of entries in parish registers, etc., 1825-26; (d) a 'rough copy of the Plan of the Mortlake property to be sold 21 July, 1825'; and (e) an office copy of the Will of Elizabeth Taylor of Brick Farm in Mortlake, devising property in Mortlake, East Sheen and Horley (all co.Surrey) to various persons, Dillington and Stanmore Farms, near Leighton Buzzard (co.Bedford) to the Reverend John Leyborne Popham, third son of her cousin General Edward William Leyborne Popham, and the mansion house of West Hall in Mortlake, purchased by her father John Walker Heneage, to General Leybourne Popham and his second son, Francis; dated 1835 (codicils 1835-37; proved P.C.C. 1837).