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ID	Date	Source	Lot No.	Text	Surnames
1	17th/18th Century	Bloomsbury 23 & 24 Apr 1997	232	Indentures, agreements, conveyances, wills etc., many relating to local politics in Chalfont St. Giles, and a warrant creating Lord Craven, Viscount Uffington, manuscripts, some on vellum, folds, soiled, v.s., 17th and 18th centuries (qty). #80 - 120
2	1717-1800s	Dominic Winter 8 Nov 2000	299	An interesting archive of documents, receipts, repair bills, tradesmen's receipts, etc. relating to Buckinghamshire from c. 1717 to the 1800's, receipts include that "for bread to the poor women of Buckingham" and other documents concern "Agar's Charity", there are also documents relating to the "Christ's Hospital" Charity of Buckingham (almshouses founded in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I), as well as documents relating to the Bagot family, approximately 75 separate documents, varying condition and sizes (approx. 75) £150-200- £130.00	Bagot
3	19th/20th century	Dominic Winter 13 Dec 2000	368	Carton containing a large archive of documents, including letters, probates, abstracts of title, receipts etc relating to the Uthwatt family of Maids Morteon in Buckinghamshire. 19th to 20th Centuries (1) £100-150	Uthwatt
4	18th-20th century	Dominic Winter 8 Mar 2001	400	Archive of documents, 18th - 20th c., comprising letters, receipts, various probates and manorial material all relating to the family of 'Risley' and 'Cotton' and in particular the Rev John Holford Risley and the Rev Wiliam Cotton Risley of Tingewick House, and including six letters written by Sir H H Risley from India, some damp staining. (a carton) £70-100	Risley	Cotton
5	19th century	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	416	Large archive of documents 19th c., including probates, wills and related legal papers concerning: Stowe, Preston Bissett, Buckingham, Thornborough, Beaconsfield, Gawcott, Tingewick, Aylesbury, Cowley, Beachampton, Grendon Underwood and other places.
6	18th/19th century	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	417	Large archive of documents 18th/19th c., including a manuscript estate plan of lands at Lillingstone, Daysell and Akely (c. 1800), legal documents, correspondence (including two interesting letters about fishing dated 1793), sale brochures, abstracts of title, wills, probates, marriage settlements etc relating to various families and lands throughout Buckinghamshire.
7	19th century	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	418	Large archive of documents 19th c., including probates, wills, correspondence etc relating to Tingewick, Maidsmorton, Steeple Claydon, Foscote, Buckingham, Padbury, Finmere, Preston Bissett, Akeley, Adstock, and elsewhere.
8	19th century	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	419	Large archive of documents 19th c., including indentures, agreements, bonds, memorandums etc relating to property and tradesmen , shops and various businesses in Buckingham and surrounding areas. More than 150 items in all.
9	1851	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	420	Bundle of documents 1851, including letters, legal documents etc all relating to the sale of St Martin's Hall, also known as The Old National School at Fenny Stratford.
10	19th/20th century	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	421	Large archive of documents 19th/20th c., including correspondence, receipts, sale brochures and sale books dated 1889 for the sale of household and farming stock etc mainly relating to the Bonner family who appear to have been farmers at Marsh Gibbon. Marsh Gibbon lies in the North West of the county, near to the border with Oxfordshire and just east of Bicester.	Bonner
11	19th century	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	422	Large archive of documents 19th c., including letters, probates, receipts, legal documents etc relating to Humphrey Humphreys, a tanner of Buckingham and Matthew Kirby, currier and leather cutter of New Woodstock, with related papers concerning Kirby's wife's family , called Higgins of Woodstock, including an inventory of the stock of John Higgins a currier of Woodstock. Other related papers include the family pedigrees of the Parry Family of Cirencester.	Humphreys	Kirby	Higgins	Parry
12	19th century	Dominic Winter 20 June 2001	324	Large archive of of 19th c. documents, comprising probates, wills, correspondence etc and relating to such places as Tingewick, Midsmorton, Steeple Claydon, Foscote, Buckingham, Padbury, Preston Bissett, Akeley, Adstock and other places. A total of 44 separate bundles of documents on paper.
13	1768	Bloomsbury 21 June 2001	40	Glynn (John, politician and lawyer, counsel for John Wilkes, 1722-79) Command that William Mann render to John Leveson Gower land and property in Buckinghamshire, D.s. "John Glynn", manuscript, folds, browned, 211 x 335mm., March/April, 1768. N.B. Glynn acted for John Wilkes on several occasions during his turbulent political career. £80-120	Glynn	Wilkes	Mann	Gower
14	16th/17th century	Bloomsbury 22 Nov 2001	69	Archdale (John, Governor of North Carolina 1695-7, author of "Description of Carolina" 1707, fl. 1664-1707) Indenture agreement between "John Archedale of Lokes in the parish of Chepinge Wycombe [High Wycombe]... Mathew Archedale... James Sale... All that messuage or tenemt... of Andrew Miller", Buckinghamshire, D.s. "John Archedale, Mathew Archedale" & "James Sale", manuscript on vellum, 49 lines, 3 wax seals, 495 x 648mm., 20th March 1680; and 13 other documents relating to the Spurling family of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, folds, v.s., v.d. [late seventeenth - early eighteenth century]. (14). Archdale accompanied his brother-in-law Sir Ferdinando Gorges to New England in 1664 where Gorges became Governor of Maine. He returned to England in 1674 and joined the Quakers. In 1686 he visited North Carolina and subsequently became one of the propreitors of the colony. He was Governor of North Carolina 1695-7 and became MP for High Wycombe (Chipping Wycombe) in 1698, he refused to take the oath and was deprived of his office a year later.	Archdale	Sale	Miller	Spurling	Gorges
15	1849	Dominic Winter 12 Dec 2001	466	Olney. Manuscript volume entitled 'Notices &c. Relating to Olney, Bucks', dated March 15, 1849, written in a neat hand on 308pp, contemporary marbled boards with manuscript title to spine ex libris Henry Gough, 8vo. A fascinating volume providing considerable information on the Olney area, beginning with meticulous details on the church, including a sketch of the font, inscriptions on gravestones, a list of curates and vicars, and then a series of diary style observations on visits to the village '..anniversary of King Charles ye Second's restoration. Most of ye village signs on ye road decked with oak boughs. At Newport Pagnell a bough was affix'd to ye flag staff on ye church tower ... I spent two hours with Mr Wm Soujl and afterwards went with WPS to ye shop of Mr Hollingshead watchmaker in ye market place to see certain Roman coins and fragments of pottery lately discovered in ye field.' Diaries of such considerable vernacular detail relating to just one village rarely appear on the market. (1)	Gough	Soujl	Hollingshead
16	1813-1834	Dominic Winter 30 Jan 2002	329	Group of four vellum documents, 1813-34, relating to property transactions in various parishes in Buckinghamshire, including properties in Ledburn Green and Cheddington (5)
17	18th century	Dominic Winter 7 Mar 2002	172	Relief of the Poor. Important archive of more than 90 documents relating to the relief of the poor at Christ's Hospital, Buckingham, mainly mid 18th c., including a large number of accounts schedules, tradesmen's bills for supplies to the hospital or work carried out there, a manuscript draft of the rules of the Green Coat School, Buckingham, documents relating to specific people etc, all in good condition. A fascinating archive providing considerable information on the running of the Hospital and the attendant Alms Houses. Of particular interest are the bills for the supply of food and clothing, providing a picture of just what it was like to be poor in the days before the welfare state
18	1735	Dominic Winter 7 Mar 2002	173	Attractive vellum indenture dated 1735, being an assignment of lease of a large area of land at Wing in Buckinghamshire, signed by all parties to base, some browning but in otherwise good condition
19	18th/19th century	Dominic Winter 7 Mar 2002	174	Archive relating to Dr. Cotton of Tingswick, and subsequent family members, in particular the Rev. John Risley of Tingswick and the Risley-Cotton family, 18th & 19th c., including an inventory of house contents (1799), various pedigrees, correspondence and receipts, documents concerning land belonging to the family required by the London & Birmingham Railway Co., a copy of a survey plan, documents relating to Tingswick Manor and an inventory of the Parsonage at Tingswick (1840), etc., all contained in old metal domed-topped trunk, somewhat rusted	Cotton	Risley
20	1799	ebay		A document drawn up in 1799 on PAPER. Handwritten IT GIVES DETAILS OF A LARGE ESTATE OF ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN ACRES OF LAND OWNED BY THE TRUSTEES OF BRIDGER GOODRICH INCLUDING SEVERAL FARMS IN THE PARISH OF AND TOWN OF BUCKINGHAM. NAMING EDWARD BARTON, THOMAS BRADBURRY, THOMAS FLOWERS, IAN JUDGE, NICHOLAS EDWIN, JOSEPH SOAR AND OTHERS. there is A firm strike revenue stamp on this document WRITTEN ON ONE FOLDED SHEET OF PORTAL AND CO WATERMARKED PAPER FOR 1795 WITH FORM OF CERTIFICATE ( IN ALL 2 DOCUMENTS) ON CROWN AND BRITANNIA WATERMARKED PAPER	Goodrich	Barton	Bradburry	Flowers	Judge	Edwin	Soar
21	19th century	Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002	843	Good group of documents, mostly 19th c., all relating to Buckinghamshire including a group of marriage settlements, a very attractive vellum indenture for the lease of a property with a pleasure garden running down to the River Ouse incorporating a fine manuscript plan, manorial documents of the Manor of the Prebend of Buckingham, and the printed sales particulars for the auction of the Tingewick House Estate at Buckingham in 1929
22	1650	Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002	848	Scarce vellum indenture dated November 1st, 1650, relating to the sale of the Manor, mansion house, lands and woods of 'Lugershall' (modern day Ludgershall) on the Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border, by William Child and his wife Elizabeth, written in a legible chancery hand, a little fading affecting a few words, and a little overall browning, but otherwise in good condition with attractive calligraphic initial letter enclosing the date. We have no records of a comparable document appearing on the market in recent years. This document contains one key insertion identifying the parties as Royalists as it refers to the payment of a sum of money for the discharging of a fine composition to Parliament for Child's 'delinquency to the Parliament or Commonwealth'. This was the term used by Parliament for Royalist estates that were generally forfeited until their owners paid a fine to the Committee for Compounding. Upon payment, the lands were usually returned. Those who refused or who were not permitted to compound had their estates remitted to the Treason Trustees. These records have largely disappeared, doubtless during the period shortly after the Restoration when Charles II reversed the process and seized estates from prominent Parliamentarians. The William Child referred to