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1610 |
Dominic
Winter 31 Jan 2001 |
453 |
Milles (Thomas). The Catologue of Honor ...,
printed by William Jaggard, 1610 eng. title by Renold Elstracke, costume
engs. and armorials (some hand-col.) to text, lacks A2 (as usual), engraving
of King James I in Parliament p.61 present, numerous contemp. marginal notes,
and sig. of Raphe Starkey, Ano.1613 to title, some staining to first and last
leaves, modern red buckram, cover detached along upper hinge, rubbed, thick
folio xxx Ralph Starkey, (d. 1628), archivist, son of John Starkey of Darley
Hall, Cheshire. On his father's death c.1613, Ralph is said to have been
defrauded of his estates by his younger brother, who destroyed his father's
will. Ralph became a merchant in London and collected and transcribed many
state papers and other manuscripts. He aquired important and confidential
papers, formerly belonging to William Davison, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of
State. On 10 Aug. 1619 a warrent was issued authorising the search of
Starkey's house and the seizure of Davison's papers, amounting to forty-five
parcels. Starkey was also an author, as well as transcriber and collector.
This is a wide margined copy, STC 17926. (1) £300-400 |
Milles |
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1834 |
Dominic
Winter 8 Mar 2001 |
407 |
Enormous
vellum indenture dated 1834, being the indenture for the sale of a huge
estate in the Stockport area of Cheshire, thirty-seven leaves of vellum
including an extensive number of schedules listing all the land involved,
names of tenants, size of each parcel of land etc. One of the largest single
vellum documents we have ever seen. The estate changed hands for the
staggering sum of more than œ68,000. This document will provide a
considerable amount of information about the tenants and landholders in an
important area to the south of Manchester. |
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19th
century |
Dominic
Winter 8 Mar 2001 |
408 |
Small
group of manuscript and printed documents, mainly relating to the Poor House
at Whamington, near Middlewich, Cheshire, 19th c., including a letter from Sarah
Taylor, a widow, asking for her wages as she cannot make her shift, an
official letter from the Relieving Office to the Overseer of the Poor
requesting accounts, a printed notice levying a rate of /2/0 on the poor of
Whamingham, a printed notice of an election and a copy of Woodfall's Register
newspaper for February 1st 1791, etc. £30-50 |
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18th/19th
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Dominic
Winter 8 Mar 2001 |
409 |
Archive
of documents 18th/19th c., mainly relating to the Fleet family who appear
originally to have been farmers in the Fallibroome area of Cheshire, but who
had business and property interests in Macclesfield, including legal papers,
inventories, sales particulars, and a manuscript notebook entitled 'Thoughts
upon a recent trial for assault and battery' £100-150 |
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19th
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Dominic
Winter 8 Mar 2001 |
410 |
Silk Mills. Group of fifteen manuscript documents
19th c. relating to the Wardle Family of Macclesfield but mainly concerning
Henry and Thomas Wardle, silk manufacturers at Park Mills, Macclesfield,
including survey plans of mills at Park Lane and Samuel Street of 1851, an
inventory and valuation of Henry Wardle's household goods and furniture in
Mill Street dated 1815, an inventory of silk c. 1810, as well as abstracts,
wills, correspondence, etc. £100-150 |
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18th/19th
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Dominic
Winter 11 Apr 2001 |
376 |
Bundle
of papers, 18th/19th c., relating to the 'Moston' estate, in the ownership of
the Wainman family, including a memoranda book for the estate dated 1803,
letters relating to the estate, legal documents and an interesting survey and
valuation of the estate. Providing a considerable amount of information about
this area in Cheshire, referred to in some of the documents as being at
'Ashton on Mersey'(?). |
Wainman |
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19th
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Dominic
Winter 11 Apr 2001 |
377 |
Collection
of manuscript documents, mid. 19th c., including a valuation of silk mills
and other property in Macclesfield and Hurdsfield dated 1871; an inventory
and valuation of the pictures and drawings at Tytherington House,
Macclesfield, dated 1859; an inventory of bonds held by John Brocklehurst of
Tytherinton House, Macclesfield, dated 1871; a manuscript estate plan of the
Tellow Fold Estate, dated 1871; a valuation with manuscript plan of a field
on Macclesfield Common dated 1857; an inventory and valuation of the timber
holdings of John Brocklehurst; documents relating to various property
transactions in Macclesfield; printed auction particulars for two properties
at Bollington and Poynton with a manuscript list of the biddings on each lot
with names of bidders etc; various letters, receipts, legal papers etc. An
extremely interesting group of documents charting the fortunes of
Macclesfield and surrounding areas at a time when the silk trade in the town
was at its height. The majority of the papers concern the recently deceased
John Brocklehurst of Tytherington House, who by the evidence of these papers
was fabulously wealthy. His stock holding in railway companies alone, for
example, totalled more than œ243,000, while his capital in his silk mills was
a further #100,000. The inventory of his pictures also provides a fascinating
insight into the tastes of a leading Victorian industrialist at the pinnacle
of his fortune. |
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8 |
1230 |
Bloonsbury
21 June 2001 |
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Mauban
(Joan, widow of Reginald de Valle Torta) Enfeoffment of land at Bradilee to
William Malban for 1 mark, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 15 lines, written
in black ink in a fine charter hand, fold, slightly creased, 17th century
inscription on verso: "A grant from Joan Maubanck to William Malban of
Bradley rent 4s 6 without date", lacks seal, 110 x 172mm., c. 1230. N.B.
18th century ink inscription on a slip of paper: "An original Grant or
Deed of Conveyance of Land in the 13th Century Referred to in the Harleian
M.S.S no 2022. fo: 16." Bradeley, near Haslington and Crewe, Cheshire.
Grant of land at Bradeley, "for one mark 13s. 4d.. with its
appurtenances and liberties, which Richard son of Geoffrey held, and my share
of the assart which lies between Folebroc and the hedge of Cleyfelt in
Haselintun. Witnesses: Henry de Valle Torta; Lord Durand, knight; Peter de
Stapelee; William Wachet; William de Wistanistun; Roger de Brescy; Richard de
Bruerio; Nicholas son of William; Ralph Crome; William de Rust'."
Reginald de Valle Torta, of Esse alias Saltash, sheriff of Cornwall
1223-1225; was in attendance on William Marshal as Regent in 1216. £600-800 |
Mauban |
Maubanck |
Malban |
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Durand |
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Wachet |
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17th
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Dominic
Winter 7 Mar 2002 |
296 |
Wiltshire & Cheshire Mills. Two 17th c.
manuscripts concerning the title to 'New Milles' (including a fulling mill) formerly
in the possession of Sir John Thynne, c.1617 and 1682, written in brown ink,
second document with signatures of John Powell and Edward Smyth, frayed and
folds torn to first document, folio Refer to Sotheby's sale 24th February,
1976, lot 384. |
Thynne |
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1859 |
Dominic
Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002 |
847 |
Attractive set of printed sales particulars, dated 1859, for the
sale by auction of a very large area of land at Great and Little Sutton as well
as the Sutton Hall estate in Cheshire, with each parcel of land listed, and a
manuscript insertion recording that Richard Thomas Naylor bought lot 34 (a
large area in Little Sutton) for ,648, one tear to top page not affecting
text a little fraying consistent with use at the time and age, but otherwise
in good condition, 14pp, folio |
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1855 |
ebay |
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ASSIGNMENT
OF LEASEHOLD PREMISES IN THE PARISH OF LLANDULAS IN THE COUNTY OF DENBIGH, NORTH
WALES - 1855. Assignment of a mortgage term dated 12th June 1855, between
Robert Roberts of the Old Bank, City of Chester and William Crosley of 16
Westbourne Park, Middlesex, Civil Engineer of the one part, and Henry Steel
of Liverpool, Manager of the Liverpool United Gas Light Company of the other part. Mortgage
of all that parcel of land called Hugh Goch Ucha lately part of a farm called
Glanrafon belonging to Robert William Wynne in Llandulas county of Denbigh
and an other small piece of land bordered Easterly on land belonging to the
Lord Bishop of Bangor, and Southerly on land owned by William Crosley
deceased. Includes a detailed description of the land, details of Robert
Wynne's family and ages, and recitals of a number of previous indentures relating
to the land. The three page document
also has a second indenture written on the back dated 1860 between Henry
Steel and a Mr or Mrs E Humphreys. Very good condition 3 page vellum written
in English. Three signatures and red wax seals. 57 by 72 cm. |
Roberts |
Crosley |
Steel |
Wynne |
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1651 |
Dominic
Winter 9 Apr 2003 |
322 |
Tithes. Vellum manuscript vellum indenture, dated
6 April 1651, detailing the granting to Richard Lowndes of ancient tithes of wheat,
barley, oats, and other corns growing in the farm and estates of Bostock in
Hassall, Cheshire, with two seal tags |
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1886 |
ebay |
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Document drawn
up in 1886 and on PAPER. Hand written it gives details
of THE LEASE OF SUTTON COTTAGE AND LAND SITUATE IN BOOTH LANE NEAR MIDDLEWICH
IN THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE. BETWEEN WILLIAM LEES OF MIDDLEWICH BUTCHER IN
THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE AND THOMAS OLLIER OF BOOTH LANE, FARMER. FOR ALL THAT
FARM AND LANDS SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIPS OF NEWTON AND SUTTON IN THE COUNTY OF
CHESTER CALLED SUTTON COTTAGE. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION
SIZE 16 INCHES BY 13 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED G. WILMOT
WATERMARKED PAPER FOR 1872. WITH EMBOSSED SEVEN SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE
REVENUE. |
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1810 |
ebay |
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Document drawn
up in 1810 and on PAPER. Hand written it gives
details of THE GRANT OF JOSEPH HILDITCH OF BETCHTON HOUSE (NEAR SANDBACH) CHESHIRE,
GENTLEMAN. DO GIVE AND GRANT AND CONFIRM UNTO HIM THE SAID BRIAN HILDITCH MY
SON HIS HIERS AND ASSIGNS ALL THAT PART OR SHARE OF THE MANOR OF BETCHTON IN
THE SAID COUNTY OF CHESTER WHICH BELONGS TO ME THE SAID JOSEPH HILDITCH AND
WHICH I RESERVED TO MYSELF ON SALE TO JAMES BEECH. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN
GOOD CONDITION SIZE 16 INCHES BY 13 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF
FOLDED WATERMARKED PAPER FOR 1808 WITH EMBOSSED ONE POUND TEN SHILLINGS
REVENUE AND RED WAX SEAL. |
Hilditch |
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1808 |
ebay |
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Document drawn
up in 1808 and on VELLUM. Hand written it gives
details of THE PLEA OF THE SESSION OF CHESTER HELD AT THE COMMON HALL OF
PLEAS FOR THE SAID COUNTY ON THE TWENTIETH DAY OF APRIL IN THE FOURTY EIGHTH YEAR
OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. BETWEEN JOSEPH LATHAM AND JOSEPH YARWOOD OF TWO
HOUSES TWO BARNS TWO STABLES TWO COWHOUSES TWO GARDENS THIRTY ACRES OF LAND
FIFTEEN ACRES OF MEADOWS TWENTY ACRES OF PASTURE - IN SMALLWOOD IN THE COUNTY
OF CHESTER. Chirograph: (old law) A: A writing which requiring a
counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space
between in which was written the chirograph - sometimes cut through when the
parchment was cut or indented - and one part was given to each party. It
answered to what is now called a CHARTER PARTY. B: The last part of a fine of
land, commonly called the foot of the fine. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD
CONDITION SIZE 13 INCHES BY 13 INCHES |
Latham |
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1808 |
ebay |
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Document drawn
up in 1808 and on PAPER. Hand written it gives
details of THE PLEA OF THE SESSION OF CHESTER HELD AT THE COMMON HALL OF
PLEAS FOR THE SAID COUNTY ON THE TWENTIETH DAY OF APRIL IN THE FOURTY EIGHTH YEAR
OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. BETWEEN THE REVEREND WESTON BAILEY AND THE
REVEREND JOHN ARMITSTEAD AND MARY HIS WIFE OF SEVENTEEN HOUSES TWO BARNS
TWO STABLES TWO COWHOUSES TEN GARDENS TEN ACRES OF LAND FIVE ACRES OF
MEADOWS FIVE ACRES OF PASTURE - IN MIDDLEWICH AND SUTTON IN
THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. Chirograph: (old law) A: A writing which
requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment,
with a space between in which was written the chirograph - sometimes cut
through when the parchment was cut or indented - and one part was given to
each party. It answered to what is now called a CHARTER PARTY. B: The last
part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine. GUARANTEED
ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SIZE 16 INCHES BY 13 INCHES ON ONE SHEET
OF FOLDED J. STEVENS WATERMARKED PAPER FOR 1802 |
Bailey |
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1741 |
ebay |
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Document drawn
up in 1741 and on VELLUM. Hand written it gives
details of THE PLEA OF THE SESSION OF CHESTER HELD AT THE COMMON HALL OF
PLEAS FOR THE SAID COUNTY ON THE THIRD DAY OF APRIL IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF
THE REIGN OF GEORGE II. WHEREAS JOHN STAFFORD GENTLEMAN IN HIS PRPER PERSON
DEMANDS AGAINST THOMAS LOWNES ONE HOUSE AND ONE GARDEN ONE ORCHARD SIX ACRES
OF LAND SIX ACRES OF MEADOW SIX ACRES OF PASTURE FOR ALL THE CATTLE AND
COM(M)ON OF TURBARY WITH THE APTES IN LOWER WITHINGTON IN THE SAID
COUNTY. BEFORE MATHEW SKINNER,
SERGEANT AT LAW. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SIZE 14 INCHES BY
11 INCHES |
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1788 |
ebay |
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1788
ANTIQUE VELLUM INDENTURE DEED SANDBACH CHESTER. Document drawn up in 1788
BETWEEN THOMAS BEECH OF SMALLWOOD IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER INNKEEPER AND
WILLIAM BEECH OF SANDBACH. THIS DOCUMENT CARRIES THE REMAINDER OF A WAX SEAL
AND AN EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP. THIS IS A VERY RARE DOCUMENT AS THERE IS A
DOCUMENT WRITTEN ON THE REVERSE GIVING DETAILS OF THOMAS BEEECH BEING
INVOLVED WITH APPREHENDING A FELON AND THE DOCUMENT GIVES DETAILS OF A
HEARING AT THE GOAL IN THE CASTLE AT CHESTER. GUARANTEED original on ONE
SHEET of VELLUM. |
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1790 |
ebay |
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July 1790 PAPER DOCUMENT - INDENTURE. INDENTURE BETWEEN DANIEL
CABANEL OF LINCOLNS INN IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX ESQUIRE AND SAMUEL VERNON
OF MIDDLEWICH IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER ESQUIRE. A STRIP OF LAND AT SUTTON
NEAR MIDDLEWICH. WITH TWO WAX SEALS AND EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP. GUARANTEED
original on ONE SHEET of WATERMARKED
PAPER. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. "Conveyance from Mr Daniel Cabanel Esq to
Mr Samuel Vernon Esq of a slip of land on the north side of Mr Cabarel's
Field called Cadman's Fieldto give Mr Vernon a (common or communal) entrance
between Sutton Lane & his Field in Sutton called the Cock Field. Dated
July 5th, 1790. |
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1808 |
ebay |
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Document drawn
up in 1808 and on VELLUM. Hand written it gives
details of THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REVEREND JOHN ARMISTEAD LATE OF
MIDDLEWICH IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER BUT NOW OF BAWTRY IN THE COUNTY OF YORK
AND MARY HIS WIFE AND SAMUEL BEECH OF SANDBACH IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER,
YEOMAN, AND JAMES BEECH OF BORTHTON, THE REVEREND WESTON BAYLEY AND JOHN
KENNERLEY OF KNIVERTON IN CHESTER. IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE III WITH FOUR RED
WAX SEALS AND TWO REVENUE STAMPS. FOR LAND SITUATE AND LYING IN SUTTON WITH A
SCEDULE OF INDENTURES GOING BACK TO 1793. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD
CONDITION SIZE 26 INCHES BY 30 INCHES ON TWO SHEETS OF FOLDED VELLUM. |
Armistead |
Beech |
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1786 |
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1786
ANTIQUE PAPER WILL DOCUMENT. Document drawn up in 1837 on PAPERM WHEN EXTRACTED
FROM THE PUBLIC EPISCOPAL REGISTRY OF CHESTER. Hand written it gives details
of THE WILL OF JAMES LOWNDES LATE OF SOMERFORD BOOTHS IN THE COUNTY AND
DIOCESE OF CHESTER WHO WAS A TANNER - THE ORIGINAL WILL WAS WRITEN IN 1786.
IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. FOR LAND AND PROPERTIRS SITUATE AND LYING IN
WITHINGTON. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SIZE 16 INCHES BY 13
INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED W. TANNER WATERMARKED PAPER FOR 1837. |
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1742 |
ebay |
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1742
ANTIQUE VELLUM COMMON PLEA COURT DOCUMENT CHESTER. Document drawn
up in 1742 and on VELLUM. Hand written it gives details of THE PLEA OF THE
SESSION OF CHESTER HELD AT THE COMMON HALL OF PLEAS FOR THE SAID COUNTY ON
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF APRIL IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE II.
BEFORE MATHEW SKINNER SARGEANT AT LAW. SAMUEL KENT IN HIS PROPER PERSON
DEMANDS AGAINST JOSEPH FFLUIT, GENTLEMAN, TWO HOUSES, TWO GARDENS, TWO
ORCHARDS, SEVENTY ACRES OF LAND, THIRTY ACRES OF MEADOW, SIXTY ACRES OF
PASTURE, TWO ACRES OF WOODLAND, ONE ACRE OF FTURZO - IN SANDBACH BETCHON AND
ODDRODE IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION
WITH SOME SPOTTING AND FOXING - SIZE 16 INCHES BY 13 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF
FOLDED VELLUM. |
Skinner |
Kent |
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