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ID	Date	Source	Lot No.	Text	Surnames
1	1640	Bloomsbury 23 Nov 2000	9	Laud (William, Archbishop of Canterbury, executed, 1573-1645)Grant to Nicholas Assheton, ffourth Sonne of Sr Ralphe Assheton of Whalley in the County of Lancaster Baronett", of the "Parsonage of Whalley with all the right members and appurtenances thereof... And all those his Chappells of Padiham, Cliderowe [Clitheroe], Colne, Burnley, Bowland..." and appointing as his attorneys John Crumbock and Robert Cunliffe, Ds. "W: Cant.", manuscript on vellum, 26 lines, lacks seal, folds, slightly soiled, 250 x 420mm., 22nd January 1640. Estimate: £200 - 300. Sale price: £460 + 15% buyer commission. ***Sir Ralph Assheton (1579-1644), was created a baronet on 28th June 1620 and leased the parsonage of Whalley from Archbishop Abbott, valued at #2000 and with a yearly rent of #247 13s 3d. On 4th September 1635 his successor, Archbishop Laud sued Assheton in the courts of Exchequer and High Commission for the return of the property "wherefore the tithes, profits, and other emoluments of the said rectory ought not to be sequestered and applied to the payments of fit stipends or salaries to the curates, and to the repair... of the churches in that parish" (CSP). Assheton submitted, was fined #300 in the court of High Commission, and then ordered to pay #1600 for a new lease of 21 years and surrender up his former lease, part of which he had already paid. The rent was increased by #60 a year; in all Assheton had lost about #3000. This information was used as evidence by the parliamentary commissioners in the trial of Laud. Sir Ralphe Assheton of Whalley belonged to a branch of the Assheton's of Middleton. In 1635 he appeared in court charged with "incest with Alice the wife of John Kenyon and Joan Whiteaires her niece, and of a long continued adultery with Elizabeth Holmes". Assheton was a cousin of an earlier Nicholas Assheton (1590-1625), a diarist of Lancashire country life and was related to William Assheton (1641-1711), divine and chaplain to James, duke of Ormonde.	Laud	Assheton	Crumbock	Cunliffe	Kenyon	Whiteaires	Holmes
2	1669, 1860	Bloomsbury 23 Nov 2000	12	Bowes (Francis, of Witherslack, Westmoreland) & Thomas Tompson, of Claughton, Lancashire)Indenture agreement to sell a "mansion and dwelling house and cottage situate in Claughton", D.s., manuscript on vellum, dockets on verso, 42 lines, folds, slightly soiled, lacks wax seal, 284 x 395mm., 11th March 1669 ; Victoria (Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901) Letters Patent to Thomas Dennis, for "improvements in the construction of Iron buildings or glazed structures for horticultural or other uses", printed document with manuscript insertions on vellum, 2pp., engraved decoration, ruled in red, Great Seal appended, housed in a metal skippet, broken with loss, 510 x 742 & 450 x 600mm., 11th April 1860; and 15 others including 6 documents relating to Crown Court & Duke's Court, St. James's, Westminster, v.s. (17). Estimate: £150 - 200. Sale price: £130 + 15% buyer commission.	Bowes	Tompson	Dennis
3	19th century	Dominic Winter 8 Mar 2001	484	Large quantity of vellum indentures, 19th c., relating to a number of large estates, mainly in the Greenhalgh area in Lancashire, a number having attached schedules and maps, providing considerable information for local historical and genealogical research. More than 50 separate items in all.
4	18th-20th century	Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2001	394	Archive of more than sixty vellum manorial documents 18th-20th c., relating to the Manor of Ightenhill and Forest of Penole which appears to have been within the manorial boundaries. (60+) £100-150
5	1894	Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2001	404	Oldham, Lancashire. Collection of inventories, valuations and sale catalogues, etc. c. 1894, including an inventory of the pictures, works of art, articles of virtue etc belonging to Charles Lees of Werneth Park, Oldham 1894; the valuation of the estate of Dame Sarah Lees of Werneth Park Oldham; typewritten lists of properties from these two estates to be appropriated to various beneficiaries, and a few other printed catalogues , sale particulars etc. which appear to be related to the same estate. Lees was one of the most fabulously wealthy of the Lancashire mill owners and this group of documents, and will doubtless provide considerable new information on his collections. Lees was a man of taste in the true Victorian tradition amassing works of art by all the leading contemporary British artists as well as examples by leading overseas painters. Artists represented include: Marcus Stone, Leighton, Poynter, Millais, Gainsborough, G F Watts, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Crome, Frith, Sir Thomas Laurence, Constable and many more. £70-100	Lees
6	1817	Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2001	410	Prisoners. Printed 'Calendar of all the Prisoners in the New Bailey Prison, Salford Manchester' 22pp, large folio, 22nd January 1817, listing all prisoners in the prison on that date, their crimes, and the length of time they were condemned to serve, minor damage to the final leaf, affecting a few words, and slight fraying at edges, but in generally good condition. A rare and remarkable document, providing a considerable insight into social history at this time, long before the welfare state. Included in the list are prisoners aged just 10 years old, and some of the crimes seem ludicrous by today's standards such as 'selling unstamped almanacks', 'wilfully drawing off water from a canal lock' 'wilfully leaving open a lock gate' being 'an incorrigible rogue' - for which the punishment was 1 year imprisonment and being privately whipped the day before discharge - 'being and rogue and vagabond found wandering abroad, having no visible means of gaining a livelihood, and there is even one prisoner whose crime was 'bastardy before birth'. It is also a sobering thought that in those days 'leaving an apprenticeship' was a crime carrying a punishment of 3 months in solitary confinement. (1) £70-100
7	1746	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	441	Lancashire Church Pews. Manuscript document on vellum 1746, granting authority from the Lord Bishop to erect and build a loft or gallery in the church at Saddleworth, specifying its length, the rights to selling the pews and other matters, together with two other vellum documents granting pews in Oldham Church. Documents of this nature from such an early date rarely appear on the market. The practice of selling the right of occupancy in a church pew might seem strange today but in the 18th c. at a time when everyone was expected to attend church and the services were of enormous length with sermons lasting hours on end, it was obviously advantageous to secure a comfortable seat. Gallery pews were particularly sought after as clandestine deliveries of food and wine could be easily arranged during the service
8	17th-20th century	Dominic Winter 16 May 2001	442	Quantity of vellum and paper documents 17th-20th c., mainly relating to the Greenhalgh area including agreements, one for supplying water to an inn, plans, sales and auction particulars, awards, a recovery document of 1770, a marriage document of 1698 and various indentures including two with attached maps of land on the Greenhalgh Estate.
9	1707	Dominic Winter 25 July 2001	347	Church Pews. Manuscript document on vellum, April 3rd 1707, granting authority from the Archbishop of York to build a gallery in the Parish Church at Northmeols in Lancashire, granting also the rights to sell these seats, some staining to parts of the document affecting a few words, together with a document of 1778 granting a seat in Macclesfield Church.
10	17th-20th century	Dominic Winter 25 July 2001	351	Liverpool. Archive of documents 17th-20th c., all relating to the lineage of Lawrence Durning Holt, former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, providing considerable detail of his ancestry, involving the lines of the Holt, Durning and Needham families, who had interests in Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire, Liverpool and elsewhere, including a rare 18th c. will, indentures, birth certificates of various members of the families, armourial book plates, copies of family trees, a 19th manuscript entitled 'My Memoirs', by one of the members of the family, a 1950's cyclostyled pamphlet entitled 'A History of the Durning and Holt Families' , photocopies of letters and documents etc. Lawrence Durning was a Liverpool shipowner and a partner in Alfred Holt & Co from 1908-1953. He was Lord Mayor of Liverpool 1929-30 and Trustee of the National Maritime Museum 1937-44.	Holt	Durning	Needham
11	19th/20th century	Dominic Winter 25 July 2001	352	Liverpool. Group of eight documents on paper 19th/early 20th c., relating to sale of properties in Liverpool and nearby areas, including one of 1835 relating to Old Hall Street, a large conveyance of a number of properties at Ashton on Mersey, dated 1821, and documents relating to houses and shops in Old Hall Street, Edmund Street and Ormond Street, Liverpool.
12	1595	Dominic Winter 29 Aug 2001	374	Manchester. 'A note of all the evydences of the landes late Thomas Wyllot gent decessed, taken at Manchester the IIIIth April, 1595', manuscript written in a fine chancery hand on a large sheet of paper approx. 16" x 12", in excellent condition An important local history document. The manuscript lists all the land ownership of Thomas Willott in and around the Manchester area during the Elizabethan era providing considerable new information on late Tudor Manchester which was at that time largely a rural area. Willott is known to history and there is a note of his land holding in Willan (MUP 1980) p32 which records that 'On April 10th 1572 the Court Leet recorded that Thomas Willott, gent, had bought from Robert Shaw, gent 'certayn classes or landes' which Shaw had purchased ...near Newton Lane...Willott paid forty marks , or œ26 13/4d for the property'	Wylott	Shaw
13	1860	Dominic Winter 29 Aug 2001	385	Oldham Privies. Remarkable indenture on vellum dated 1860, granting Edward Jackson and his family the right to use privies and ashpits in Sack Street, Oldham, manuscript indenture written in a fine legible hand in good condition but not executed. Scarce. The document elaborately sets out the fact that '...Andrew Schofield has erected commodious privies and ash pits sufficient to afford accommodation to his own tenants and others...' he now leases use of the facility to the Jackson family (who are allindividually named) for the yearly rental of one guinea. The document also sets out Schofield's redress if the Jackson family fail to pay the rent. The document was, in the event not finally executed. Remarkable as it may seem today to have a document leasing out the right to use a toilet, in the mid- 19th c. when the rapidly expanding population had no mains sanitation and very few dwellings had any toilet facilities at all, the building of more formal facilities was a considerable advance. Many believe the single greatest achievement of the Victorians was the development of the mains drainage and sewer systems , which are still the backbone of modern sanitation, thus ridding this country of the horrors of typhoid, typhus and cholera etc.	Jackson	Schofield
14	1793	Dominic Winter 3 Oct 2001	262	Bolton alehouse and brewery. Large multiple sheet vellum indentures dated May 21st 1793, detailing the sale of the 'Unicorn' alehouse in Bolton-le-Moors, together with its brewhouse, pumps and well, with a colour wash map showing the extent of the property A fascinating document charting the heritage of modern day Bolton. At this time, Bolton was considerably smaller than it is today, and was known as Bolton-le-Moors to differentiate it from other places such as Bolton-le Sands. The Unicorn alehouse referred to in this document was situated in Bradshawgate - a road which still exists today, but there is no public house there now
15	19th century	Dominic Winter 3 Oct 2001	313	Collection of more than 20 vellum indentures, early 19th c., dealing with a variety of legal issues affecting land and property throughout Lancashire The documents detail mineral rights and mining, fishing rights, supply of water for a steam mill, the sale of the Manor of Accrington, shares in a manor, cotton spinners and other issues.
16	1595	Dominic Winter 3 Oct 2001	318