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ID	Date	Source	Lot No.	Text	Surnames
1	1574	Bloomsbury 11 Nov 1999	105	LEE or LEIGH (RICHARD, Clarenceux King of Arms, C. 1531-97) VISITATION OF OXFORDSHIRE, ?manuscript fair copy in secretary hand, 70pp. including index at front, 7 coats of arms only, slightly browned, original vellum, a little soiled, folio, 1574 Unfinished, the compiler has left numerous spaces for coats of arms. People mentioned include Anthony Throgmorton, John Oglethorpe, Walter Savage, Thomas Beauforest etc. Lee, as Portcullis Pursuivant, visited Oxfordshire, Oxford University and Buckinghamshire as Robert Cooke's (Clarenceux King of Arms 1567-93, fl. 1562-93) deputy in 1574-5. #300 - 400	Lee or Leigh	Throgmorton	Oglethorpe	Savage	Beauforest	Cooke
2	1599	Bloomsbury 11 May 2000	9	Elizabeth I (Queen of England, 1533-1603).-., Cecil (Robert, first Earl of Salisbury, statesman, 1563?-1612) Indenture grant to ''Cawen Grosvenor and Dorothie his wife the custodis wardshipp and marriage of Jane Wenman?.?.?. daughter and next heir of Richard Wenman gent deceased'', D.s. by Robert Cecil, manuscript on vellum, with codicil, 1 burnhole, 1 tear caused by folds, without great seal (?never affixed), slightly soiled, folds, 300 x 525mm., 2nd November 1599; and 2 other documents on vellum relating to the Wenman family, v.s. (3). N.B. Docket in a later hand: ''On the death of Richd Wenman an Inque post mortem was held at Oxon 19 July 40 Eliz whereat Jane Wenman was found Daughter & heir aged 10 months & 21 days.'' Richard Wenman would appear to be a close relative of the Wenmans of Caswell and Thame Park in Oxfordshire. #150-200	Grosvenor	Wenman	Cecil
3	1616	Dominic Winter 13 Dec 2000	406	A Lease of Tythes on vellum dated 1th April 1616, beteen Ralph Wine and William Ward in the County of Oxfordshire with a most extensive and detailed Terrier on vellum attached to the document which lists all of the many pieces of land. Both documents in fine clear legible condition. Both in English and the main document features a most unusual elaborate initial letter with small sketches of flowers and a bunch of grapes (1) £100-150	Wine	Ward
4	18th/19th century	Dominic Winter 8 Mar 2001	518	Charity Ledgers, 18th/19th c., containing manuscript notes relating to money given to the friends of Witney & Alvescot for the assistance of the poor, accounts dated from 1724-1892, contemp. vellum, minor marks and wear, 4to, together with a similar vol. relating to Witney, Burford, Farringdon, Chipping Norton & Charlbury, dated 1825-1855, contemp. vellum, ink staining to upper board, 4to
5	1802	Bloomsbury 21 June 2001	48	Mavor (William, antiquary, schoolmaster at Woodstock, 1758-1837) The auntient Demeanes of the Mannor of Woodstock, autograph manuscript, title and 4pp., a leaf (390 x 310mm.) from a seventeenth century Charter relating to New Woodstock tipped-in, written in red and black, slightly browned, oval morocco bookplate of Vernon Watney on front pastedown, 19th century boards, head and tail of spine with small loss, Phillipps Ms. 34894, tall folio, 12th August 1802. N.B. "Faithfully copied from an old parchment roll in the possession of Lady Mostyn of Kiddington. W. Mavor." £200-300	Mavor	Watney	Mostyn
6	1797	Dominic Winter 30 Jan 2002	379	Oxford Bankrupt. Manuscript document on paper, 3pp large legal folio, dated May 30th 1797, dealing with the disposal of the estate of a bankrupt Cordwainer called Joseph Wickens of the Parish of St Martin's in Oxford, written in a legible chancery hand, some dusting to outer blank surface and one minor tear but otherwise in good overall condition. An unusually early bankruptcy document. The feckless Wickens had tried to carry on business as a cordwainer - or leather boot and shoe maker - for two years but fell into considerable debt. The document details the setting up a committee of creditors and the sale by public auction of his effects.	Wickens
7	1797	Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2002	387	Oxford Bankrupt. Manuscript document on paper, 3pp large legal folio, dated May 30th 1797, dealing with the disposal of the estate of a bankrupt Cordwainer called Joseph Wickens of the Parish of St Martin's in Oxford, written in a legible chancery hand, some dusting to outer blank surface and one minor tear but otherwise in good overall condition. An unusually early bankruptcy document. The feckless Wickens had tried to carry on business as a cordwainer - or leather boot and shoe maker - for two years but fell into considerable debt. The document details the setting up a committee of creditors and the sale by public auction of his effects.	Wickens
8	17th-19th century	Dominic Winter 15 May 2002	470	Interesting group of approximately twelve documents on paper and vellum, 17th-19th c., relating to property transactions in the Clanfield area of Oxfordshire, including an indenture of 1673, two early 18th c. obligation bonds (one water damaged but legible), one signed by the 'attorney to Mr Samuel Churchill' and other documents relating to the same area. One of the obligation bonds involves the then huge sums of money of œ2,200, while the other is in the name of James Stevens, steward to the Duke of Marlborough. Clanfield lies between Farringdon and Witney.	Churchill	Stevens	Marlborough
9	1812	ebay		one page vellum document dated 1 July 1812. It measures 24 inches long by 31 inches wide. It is between The Right Honorable Lord Sherbourne and The Honorable John Dutton to Mr William Hale. It deals with the Grant of the reversion of a house in Oxford. The property includes land stables and messnages in Saint Nicholas and Saint Thomas in the City of Oxford. The document retains its revenue stamp and two red wax seals at the foot of the page together with the signatures of Lord Sherbourne and The Honorable John Dutton.	Sherbourne	Dutton	Hale
10	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 in this document could possibly be the organist and composer William Child (1606-97), organist at St George's Chapel, Windsor who was expelled from this position during the interregnum and rose to be musician to the Chapel Royal at the Restoration.	Child
11	1789	Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002	935	Attractive and historic document on vellum, dated 1789, being a private agreement to enclose part of the waste or common called Chambers Green in the parish of Caversham under Act of Parliament [29GII] for the purpose of planting and preserving trees for timber and underwoods and for more effectually preventing the destruction of trees, written in a neat legible hand on a single large leave of vellum with the signatures or marks and affixed wax red seals of 39 men and women having an interest in the waste or common, including Charles Sloane, 1st Earl Cadogan, and Charles Marsack of Caversham Park, in fine fresh condition. The reason for the Act of Parliament was to provide sufficient timber for building naval vessels at a period when England was almost permanently involved in Continental and American Wars - and of course a measure which was to prove vital for the defence of the Realm on the rise of Napoleon a decade later.	Sloane	Marsack
12	1856, 1911	ebay		1856 ANTIQUE VELLUM MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT INDENTURE WITH ADDITIONS UP TO 1911. A VERY INTERESTING RESEARCH DOCUMENT DRAWN UP ON VELLUM, COVERING TWO SHEETS, WITH INFORMATION ON THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT OF WILLIAM FURLEY CHENEY OF THE CITY OF OXFORD, A CORN FACTOR AND ILIZA LANGHAM OF UPPER STREET ISLINGTON IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. THIS DOCUMENT CARRIES A NUMBER OF WAX SEALS AND REVENUE STAMPS INCLUDING TWO VICTORIAN GUMMED STAMPS. ILIZA CHENEY IS RECORDED AS LIVING IN PROSPECT HOUSE, ALEXANDER ROAD, HEATHFIELD IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX IN 1911. GUARANTEED original on TWO SHEETS of VELLUM WITH SOME STORAGE WEAR.	Furley	Langham
13	1631	Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002	58	Henley-on-Thames. Indenture between Daniel Harvey and Francis Prynne "all that Messuage … in Henley on Thames … knowne by the name or signe of the Bull", D.s. "Ffrancis Prinne", manuscript on vellum, folds, dusty, lacks seal, 495 x 570mm., 20th November 1631; and another document relating to Thame Park, v.s., v.d. (2).	Harvey	Prynne
14	1892	ebay		DOCUMENT DRAWN UP IN 1892 MAKING FREDERICK CHARLES TURNER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD FREEMAN OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF TALLOW CHANDLERS BY PATRIMONY. THREE DOCUMENTS INCLUDING NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE COMPANY - ORGANISED IN 1393 - LETTERS PATENT GIVEN IN 1428 AND GRANT OF ARMS MADE IN 1456	Turner
15	1794	ebay		Offered is this one page vellum document dated 29 September 1794. It measures 26.5 inches long by 33 inches wide. It is between The Right Honorable James Lord Sherborne Baron of Sherborne in the County of Gloucester and Mr James Adams of the City of Oxford. The document is a lease for 99 years determinable on three lives of Charles Adams aged 9 years, William Slatter aged 11 years and James Butler aged 14 years. The property concerned is in the Parish of Saint Nicholas and Saint Thomas. The original blue revenue stamp is still attached and the red wax seal and signature of Lord Sherborne.	Sherborne	Adams	Slatter	Butler
16	1610, 1611	Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003	350	Garsington. Lease by Sir John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, lord of manor of Garsington, of a messuage and lands in Havells Fee in Garsinqton to Phillip Pim, 26 October 1610, together with a grant of the manor of Garsington by Sir John St John, 25 August 1611, and two related documents, 1611, in all four vellum deeds, three signed by St John. The sale of the manor includes the sale of 'the Constat of the Letters Patent' by which the properties were conveyed to Oliver St John.	St John	Pim
17	1387	Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002	9	Grant by William Jamot, son and heir of John Jamot of Holecombe, to John Edmund of Newyngton of a tenement in Holecombe, near land owned by Osney Abbey, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 16 lines, folds, good wax seal, 158 x 300mm., Foulsham, 4th April 1387. *** Great and Little Holcombe, nine and ten miles respectively south of Oxford.	Jamot	Edmund
18	1779	ebay		1779 ANTIQUE VELLUM DEED EVENSHAM OXFORD MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT. Hand written it gives details of THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN RICHARD CASTELL OF CRAWLEY IN THE PARISH OF WITNEY IN THE COUNTY OF OXFORD, YEOMAN AND MARY HIS WIFE (FORMERLY MARY WELLS). RICHARD BEING HEIR TO GEORGE CASTELL. IN 1749 GEORGE CASTELL SOLD AND GAVE LAND TO THOMAS WELLS AND THOMAS HARPER - ON THE CONSIDERATION OF MARRIAGE OF HIS SON RICHARD TO MARY - BEING FIELDS IN EVENSHAM. IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE III - WITH TWO RED WAX SEALS AND THREE EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMPS. THIS IS A COMPLEX AND INFORMATIVE DEED AND HAS THE BENEFIT OF BEING SUPPLIED WITH A TYPE WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT OF THE CONTENTS. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SIZE 36 INCHES BY 33 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM. Also mentions Thomas, John & George Castell.	Castell	Wells	Harper
19	1786-1837	Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002	31	. Loveday family (of Williamscote House, near Banbury).- Family archive including: Loveday (John, scholar, 1742-1809) Rent book: Alkerton, Arlescote, Bourton, Cropredy, Slat Mill, Thorp Mandeville, Wardington and Williamscot, manuscript, 86pp., in two hands, 3ff. at end loose, slightly browned, original vellum, covers bowed, sm. 4to, 6th March 1786 - 27th May 1837 § Plan of an Estate the Property of J Loveday Esq Williamscote Oxfordshire, hand-coloured estate map on vellum, slightly soiled and stained, folds, 722 x 830mm., n.d. [c. 1790]; and a quantity of others including many deeds and indentures and some 19th century maps of Williamscote extate, most deeds relating to the Loveday family, most deeds on vellum, some soiling, v.s., v.d. [seventeenth - nineteenth centuries] (qty). *** Oxfordshire and Nothamptonshire.	Loveday
20	1798	ebay		1798 ANTIQUE VELLUM ADMINISTRATION DOCUMENT FROM THE COURT OF THE ARCHDEACONARY OF OXFORD. THE PROVING OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN SMITH GAMMON LATE OF HORSEPATH IN THE COUNTY OF OXFORD - ADMINISTRATION GIVEN TO JONATHAN COOPER AND MARY BRAIN. WITH ONE EMBOSSED BLUE REVENUE STAMP . GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 8 INCHES BY 8 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM (THERE IS NO SEAL ON THIS ITEM).	Gammon	Cooper	Brain
21	1766	ebay		Offered is this two page vellum document dated 3 August 1766. It measures 23 inches long by 30.5 inches wide. It is between John Osbaldeston to Henry Stow. It deals with the assignment of two meesuages a garden ground in Kings High Street in the Parish of Saint Nicholas in the City of Oxford.Both pages retain the revenue stamp and a wax seal with the signature of John Osbaldeston. also mentions names of tenants occupying, including William Bill Baker, Richard .....?, Andrew Harves, William Dutton. One of the parties is described as of Binsey in the said County.	Osbaldeston	Stow	Baker	Harves	Dutton
22	1757	ebay		Offered is this three page vellum document dated 25 November 1757. It measures 26.5 inches long by 29.5 inches wide. It is between Richard Wollams and William Sellars to John Osbaldeston. It deals with the assignment of two meesuages and garden for 1000 years in Kings High Street, Saint Nicholas in the City of Oxford. It retains the revenue stamp on each page and the wax seals and signatures of Richard Wollams and William Sellars.	Wollams	Sellars	Osbaldeston
23	1789	ebay		1789 ANTIQUE VELLUM DECLARATION OF TRUST. VELLUM DOCUMENT DRAWN UP IN 1789. SUSANNAH FIELD OF THE PARISH OF SAINT EBBE IN THE CITY OF OXFORD THE WIDOW AND ADMINISTRATIVE OF WILLIAM FIELD THE ELDER LATE OF THE SAME PARISH, CORN DEALER, DECEASED. WHEREAS THE SAID WILLIAM FIELD LATELY DEPARTED THIS LIFE INTESTATE LEAVING THE SAID SUSANNAH FIELD HIS WIDOW AND ONE CHILD ONLY SON NAMED WILLIAM AN INFANT NOW OF THE AGE OF TWO YEARS OR THEREABOUTS BEING AT THE TIME OF HIS DECEASE POSSESSED OF A CONSIDERABLE PERSONAL ESTATE TO WHICH SHE THE SAID SUSSANAH FIELD AND FAMILY ARE ENTITLED. The deed then sets out the investments and property with detail on land holdings. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS ONE RED WAX SEAL , ONE EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP AND A PAPER TAX STAMP. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 29 INCHES BY 26 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM. FROM THE IMAGE - ALSO MENTIONS HENRY SMITH LATE OF THAME IN OXON BUT NOW OF BERKHA....? AND MARTHA HIS WIFE	Field	Smith
24	1678	Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003	601	Redman (Timothy, of Christ Church College, Oxford, later rector of Streat-with-Walton, Somerset, canon of Wells 1710) Sermon on the Second Epistle of S. Paul to the Thessalonians, manuscript, 73pp., original vellum, slightly creased, upper cover a little damp-stained, sm. 4to, 1678.	Redman
25	1848	ebay		Offered is this one page vellum document dated 11 December 1848. It measures 23 inches long by 30.5 inches wide. It is between Charles Towney to John Taylor. It deals with the assignment of two messuages in Kings High Street in Saint Thomas in the city of Oxford. It retains its revenue stamp and wax seal with the signature of Charles Towney.	Towney	Taylor
26	1803	ebay		Offered is this two page vellum document dated 25th March 1803. It deals with the assignment and leasehold od property in the Parish of saint Thomas in Oxford. it is between Joseph Sims and George Titterton. It measures 20.5 inches long by 28 inches wide. It retains the revenue stamps and red wax seals with signatures of those listed	Sims	Titterton