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Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Medieval and Early Modern

Local

Archives and Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

  • Rogers family of Penrose: further family and estate papers 17th-20th cent (RP)

Bath Record Office

  • Brent family of Gloucestershire: farming and household account book, later used as memoranda book by the Hughes family of Bath and Ontario, Canada 1620-1980 (1233)

Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service

  • Deed for lands in Kensworth and related papers 1575 (Z1673)

Bristol Archives

  • Deeds and documents rel to property in Christmas Steps, Bristol 1555-1852 (46056)

Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library

  • The Lyghfield Bible: medieval illuminated Bible 1250-1300 (DCc/AddMs/392)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

  • Deeds for property in Thornton and Leckhampstead 12th-14th cent (AR 40/2018)

Coventry Archives

  • Deeds rel to ownership of Caludon Castle c1247-2000 (PA3318)

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

  • Lamplugh Parish Council: registers, minutes and other records incl Lamplugh school cash book 1581-2005 (YPR 2)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

  • Earl of Oxford: deeds rel to land in Cumberland and Westmorland and other papers c1230-1630 (DX 2334)
  • Carlisle City Council: deeds rel to properties in Carlisle 16th-20th cent (CA)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Chesterfield Borough: records incl charters, ledgers, corresp, quarter sessions records, legal papers, accounts, burgess rolls, declaration rolls, registers, reports, plans c1465-2018 (D1504)
  • Bond regarding a messsuage in Horsley, Derbyshire 1549 (D8183)
  • John Speed's map of Derbyshire (transferred from Elvaston Castle) 1610 (D7736)

Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Aptor family of Chagford: quitclaim, Aptor of Chagford and Venton 1541 (ZARI; acc D2018/230)
  • Deeds rel to Trenchford, Bridford, 1636-1692; memorandum rel to manor court of Rosse 1681 1636-1692 (ZAOM; acc D2018/149)

Dorset History Centre

  • Bond family of Moigne Combe, formerly of Tyneham: papers rel to Mark Bond, corresp, marriage settlements, title deeds and publications about the family c1640-2010 (NG-BT)
  • Fox-Pitt-Rivers family of Rushmore: deeds 1600-1900 (D-PIT)
  • Deeds for property in Marnhull 1580-1620 (D-3054)

Durham County Record Office

  • Gilmonby Estate: deeds rel to estate and Bowes Manor 16th-20th cent (D/X 2151)

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

  • Final agreement for land at Sutton and will of Peter Thriske of Walkington 1654-1657 (DDX2200)
  • Bernard Jennings (fl 1987-1993), Chair of Adult Education, Hull University: Kilham and Yorkshire farming research records c13th cent-2008 (DDX2210)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Raper & Fovargue, solicitors, Battle: additional client papers incl Catsfield manorial records 1500-1839, Laughton Turnpike accounts 1766-1797, Land Tax Commissioners' minutes 1839-1864 and Battle Land Tax returns 1721-1800 1499-1873 (ACC 13107)
  • Battle Abbey: letters of privilege 1493 (AMS 7353/3/1)
  • Maps and plans transferred from Hastings Museum c1594-1980 (ACC 13161)
  • Jenners (formerly Gunns), Wivelsfield Green: deeds 1676-1963 (ACC 13288)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • George Watson's College, Edinburgh: records 1674-1907 (1171)

Essex Record Office

  • Ruggles-Brise family, baronets, of Spains Hall: additional records, incl pedigrees, game books and map of Spains Hall 1618 1618-1954 (A14943)
  • Curles manor: court rolls and draft court rolls 1538-1557 (D/DU 3162)
  • Deeds rel to land in Great Bardfield and Little Bardfield 1618 (A14680)
  • Grant of land in Feering and Markshall 1364 (D/DU 3133)
  • Deeds rel to properties in Stanford, Steeple and St Lawrence 1677-1937 (A14978)
  • Lease of land in Havering-atte-Bower (with transcript) 1577 (A15003)
  • Deeds rel to properties in Lamarsh and Great Henny 1597-1811 (A14873)

Explore York Libraries & Archives

  • Deed rel to property in York 1591 (LEG/1/43)
  • Deeds, probate documents and marriage settlement rel to various York people 1588-19th cent (LEG/1/38)

Glamorgan Archives

  • Newton Nottage manor: court records 1594-1813 (D1612)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Grant of reversion of manor of Oxhey Richard 1401 (6055)

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

  • Associated British Ports, incl predecessor bodies: records incl plans, maps and deeds 1650-2018 (C DPD)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Knossington parish: note of money collected in response to a church brief for the repair of Colliton Haven, Durham 1584 (DE9605)

Liverpool Record Office

  • Molyneux family, Earls of Sefton: estate papers 1548-1998 (920 SEF)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • Worshipful Company of Brewers, London: manorial overview of Little Ilford, Essex 1597 (B18/136)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  • Deeds rel to Hough, Failsworth, Wilmslow and Fulshaw 1623-1865 (2018/63)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Litcham manor: court books (4) 1646-1731 (ACC 2018/25)
  • Litcham manor: papers rel to Lexham Hall Estate, letters to Capt Frederick Kepple 1820s and overseers' copies of poor rates 1803-1817 c1646-1936 (ACC 2018/25)
  • Stalham Lynford and Wyldes manor: court book c1652-1696 (ACC 2017/219)

Northumberland Archives

  • Harnham Hall, Near Belsay, Northumberland: records incl Turnpike Trust accounts, farm accounts, rent books, account books, field plan of West Harle and deeds c1660-1900 (NRO 01457)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Woodborough terrier 1660 (9304)
  • North Nottinghamshire farming and land records, incl Bole tithe map, deeds to land in Sturton-le-Steeple, cash and wages book, and valuations of tenant right and produce on a farm at Gamston 1635-1957 (9314)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Alfred Truman, solicitors, Bicester: clients papers c1620-1959 (Acc 6663)

Perth and Kinross Council Archive

  • Moncrieffe family of Perthshire: family and estate papers 15th-20th cent (18/140)

Shropshire Archives

  • Sir Henry Sidney (1529-1586), knight, Lord Deputy of Ireland and President of Wales: Ludlow Castle Heraldic Roll 1525-1600 (9546)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Records rel to Somerton incl transcripts of removal passes, copy conveyance of land for a reading room, and census (1811) 1677-1896 (D/P/som)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

  • Wood family of Melton and Martlesham: deeds rel to properties and estates 1647-1915 (HD4144)

Surrey History Centre

  • West Horley Place: inventory of household articles 17th cent (Z/694)

Tyne and Wear Archives

  • Raisbeck family, merchant adventurers and boothmen, Newcastle upon Tyne and Stockton on Tees: guild papers for three generations of the family 1683-1767 (DX1701)
  • Ayre and Whitfield families, Newcastle upon Tyne: marriage settlement rel to property in Pandon 1622 (DX1706)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • Finch family, Earls of Aylesford: Packington: accounts, rentals, tenancy documents, survey and family settlement 1649-1851 (CR 4963)
  • Finch family, Earls of Aylesford: Packington: militia book 1659 (CR 4964)

West Sussex Record Office

  • Deeds rel to land in Old Shoreham 1370 (19283)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

  • John Chadwick (1939-2009), local historian: deeds of foundation of Cross Stone Church, Todmorden dated 4th Dec 1572 1335-2010 (WYC:1520)
  • Hard Platts Farm: deeds and probate papers 1667-1964 (WYC:1887)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

  • Green-Armytage of Thickhollins Hall, Meltham: records incl deeds rel to management of the family estate 1316-19th cent (WYK1873)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Story-Maskelyne family of Basset Down: corresp, pedigrees and files on history of the Booth, Gardiner and Maskelyne families (17th-20th cent), deeds (19th-20th cent), Proger MSS (17th cent) and notes on local history of Cricklade, Purton and Wroughton 17th-20th cent (2320A)
  • Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley family, Earls Mornington: papers of various family members c1343-1790 (2943B)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

  • Evesham Abbey: court book of manors of South, Middle and North Littleton (contemporary copy) c1530-1559 (BA16258)
  • Deed of the manor of Sodington 1458 (BA16206)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Hawksworth family of Farnley, Yorkshire: ms transcripts of family papers compiled by Walter Fawkes 1663-1668 (Add MS 89332)
  • Peter Sterry (1613-1672), independent theologian and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell: ‘Severall discours’s of Mr Peter Sterry’ c1650-1672 (Add MS 89319)
  • MS 'The daily and Monthly Pay of the Officers of ye Army, and of the Traine of Artillery under the Comand of his Excellency the Earle of Essex’ 1643 (Add MS 89326)
  • Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Southwark Hours'), with illumination attributed to the 'Ravenelle Master' c1390-1410 (Add MS 89309)

Jersey Archive

  • Falle family of Jersey: family documents incl copy contracts, notebooks of Philippe Falle (c1830-1849), records rel to ecclesiastical appointments c1600-1899 (JA/3298)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • Anonymous chronicle of the years 1589-1641 17th cent (Acc. 13954)

National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services

  • Rice family, Barons Dynevor: Dynevor Castle: commonplace books (2), probably of Henry and Thomas Rice, possibly while at university 1600-1650 (DYNEVOR)
  • Thomas Jones (c1532-1609), Welsh-language poet and genealogist: pedigree of Francis Vychan (Vichan or Vaughan) of Yorkshire, beginning with Kradog, Earle of Herefourde, Lord of Radnor 1591 (NLW MS 24125G)

Special

Lambeth Palace Library

  • MS copy of 'Prayers of Intercession for their Use who mourn in Secret for the Publick Calamities of this nation' by John Hewitt (1614-1658) c1659 (MS 1547)

University

Dundee University Archive, Records Management and Museum Services

  • Charter of David, 5th Earl of Crawford for lands of Melginche [Megginch?], Bagraw 1468 (MS 421)

Durham University Library, Special Collections

  • Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre: English community: records of an order of Catholic nuns in Belgium and then England, running New Hall School 1642-2010 (CHS)
  • Manuscript copy of De juris notarium, a classical text of abbreviations by Valerius Probus (c.20/30-105AD), grammarian and critic c1450 (Add Ms 2064)

University of Reading: Special Collections

  • Additions to the European Manuscripts Collection incl: ms and printed leaves, Italian ms prayer book (17th cent) and a Book of Hours (15th cent) c1100-1600 (MS 5650)