|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |