ID

Somerset 201-339

Û	Somerset 101-200
Ü	Somerset 340-404

Date

Source

Lot No.

Text

Surnames

201

1697

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1697 RARE ANTIQUE PAPER WILL - SMITH - SOMERSET **. MANUSCRIPT LEGAL DOCUMENT; BEING THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN SMITH OF WIDCOMBE IN SOMERSET, BROAD WEAVER VERY NICE CLEARLY WRITTEN DOCUMENT WITH INFORMATION ON PROPERTY AND BEQUESTS TO THE FAMILY. INTERESTING ITEM FOR COLLECTORS OF SOCIAL HISTORY, LOCAL HISTORY OR GENEALOGY FOR THE SMITH FAMILY GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - ON ONE FOLDED SHEET OF 'PRO PATRIA' WATERMARKED PAPER SIZE 16 INCHES BY 14 INCHES. Refers to "Mary Smith my now wife" appointed sole executrix and also his son John Smith.

Smith

202

1417/8

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Indenture agreement between William Drulkinyng, William Porant and Robert Dynt of land in the parish of Wraxall, D.s., manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 20 lines, folds, some slight surface wear not affecting legibility, browned, some small stains, remains of wax seal, 152 x 278mm., 1417/18

Drulkinyng

Porant

Dynt

203

1441

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Indenture agreement between William More and Isabelle Byrd, Thomas Crane, of land in Northmore and Southmore [Northmoor Green or Moorland], manuscript in Latin, 17 lines, small hole affecting two words, 150 x 244mm., 6th ?March 1441. £100 - 150 Moorland, four miles south east of Bridgwater.

Byrd

Crane

204

1459

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Indenture agreement between William Dodesham and Thomas Tremaytt and Margaret Lyon daughter, and Robert ?Lykers heir, confirming a grant of land in fee in the parish of North Pederton [North Petherton], manuscript in Latin, 12 lines, folds, wax armorial seal, 120 x 340mm., in good condition, 2nd May 1459. £150 - 200 North Petherton, two miles south of Bridgwater.

Dodesham

Tremaytt

Lyon

Lykers

205

1475

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Agreement release between John More, his heirs William & Hugh More and George & Richard Fird, Hugh Saltin … Thomas Tremyatt … and Hamo de Blakemore, manuscript in Latin, 11 lines, folds, wax armorial seal, in excellent condition, 114 x 282mm., 10th ?June 1475.

Fird

Saltin

Tremyatt

de Blakemore

206

1478

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Agreement between Walter Wychett, William Dodesham, Thomas Tremaytt and Hamo de Blakemore, manuscript in Latin, 8 lines, folds, wax armorial seal, in excellent condition, 79 x 360mm., 8th September 1478.

Wychett

Dodesham

Tremaytt

de Blakemore

207

1494, 1499

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Indenture agreement between William Silve Master, and John Tynte and Robert Freind, demise of land in Wraxall and Burtons More [?Burton], manuscript in Latin, 17 lines, folds, slightly creased, slightly browned, wax seal with mark, 149 x 304mm., 2nd May 1494; and another, 1499, v.s. (2). £150 - 200 Wraxall, three miles north west of Cast Cary.

Master

Tynte

Freind

208

1543

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Mompesson (Edmund). Indenture agreement between Mompesson and Richard Chalketh of property in ?Belchrist, Somerset, D.s. "by me Edmund Mompesson", manuscript in Latin, 25 lines, folds, wax seal with initials "EM", 270 x 390mm., 7th September 1543.

Mompesson

Chalketh

209

1547

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Popham (John). Grant by John and Alexander Popham, sons and heirs of John Popham to Thomas Pith of land in Durleigh, D.s. "by me John Popham", manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 15 lines, folds, slightly creased, wax seal, 140 x 295mm., 10th January 1547. £200 - 300 Durleigh, two miles south west of Bridgwater and about four from Huntworth, the family home. The Popham family included Sir John (d. 1463?, military commander) & Sir John (chief justice of the king's bench, 1531?-1607).

Popham

Pith

210

1561-1605

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Collection of 14 indenture agreements relating to to William Swetman and property in Ubley and Blagdon, Ds.s., manuscripts on vellum, soiled, mounted, 131 x 335mm. and smaller, bound in a twentieth century half calf album, soiled, oblong 4to, 7th January 1561 - 10th July 1605. £300 - 400 Ubley, eight miles north of Wells.

Swetman

211

1563-1885

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Collection of indentures and deeds of land and property in Somerset, including: Indenture agreement between John Stawell or Stowell "of Cotholstone" and Nicholas Halswell of land in Padcomb, D.s. "by me John Stawell", 385 x 725mm., 28th March 1563 § Inquisition of land in Durleigh, D.s., 215 x 520mm., 1579 § Indenture agreement between John Smith and Thomas & Sarah Ffeare of a house in Chew Magna, 4 wax seals, 314 x 640mm., 16th March 1611 § Indenture of exchange between Ffrancis Baber "Doctor of Lawe" and William Grattant of land in Chew Magna, D.s. "William Grattant", tear at edge affecting words on three lines of text, 340 x 650mm., 10th July 1655 § Indenture agreement between Henry Gardner, Valentine Gardner, John Knight and others for property at Melcombe … in the parish of Bromfield, 440 x 590mm., 13th July 1676; and c. 355 others, deeds and documents relating to the Lumley, Baber, Tynte, Methuen familes and their properties in Bridgwater, Bristol, Chilton (including several documents relating to its enclosure), Knowle, Chew Magna (& Chew ?Baber), Durleigh, Bishop's Hull, North Petherton, Woolavington, Wiveliscombe, Ilminster, Land Tax and Sun Life Assurance documents etc., Ds.s., most manuscripts on vellum (many with well preserved wax seals), some on paper, folds, some soiling or yellowing, v.s., v.d., mostly 17th and 18th centuries, 28th March 1563 - 20th October 1885 (c. 355).

Stawell

Halswell

Smith

Ffeare

Baber

Grattant

Gardner

Knight

Lumley

Baber

Tynte

Methuen

212

1580

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Schedule Indented (The) within specified conteyninge … all the severall graunts, leases and estates … , relating to Sir Nicholas Halswell, manuscript on vellum, 2pp., small tear, folds, creased and stained, 670 x 270mm. & 210 x 270mm., n.d. [c. 1580].

Halswell

213

16th century

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Inquisit[io] Edw. 2 de ad quod damnu[m], manuscript in secretary hand, 242pp. from a much larger work (pp. 33-476 only), 11ff. defective, some staining to a few early pp., browned, modern buckram-baccked boards, sm. folio, [late sixteenth century]. £150 - 200 A book of the tenures of lands in Somerset, extracted from fines, escheats, and inquisitions in the reigns of Edward I-III, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI & Edward IV.

214

1595

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Legal.- Popham (Sir John, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1531?-1607). Indenture agreement between Sir John Popham and Thomas Dole of land in Dundery and Winkwell, ?Somerset, D.s. "J. Popham", manuscript on vellum, wax seal, 305 x 530mm., 20th April 1595. £150 - 200 Popham was an able lawyer, MP and Speaker of the House of Commons. He was created a privy councillor in 1571, in 1579 he became solicitor-general and was appointed lord chief justice on 2nd June 1592. "On the occasion of the Earl of Essex's insurrection, he went, with other high officers of state, to Essex House on 8. Feb 1601 for the purpose of remonstrating with him, and was, with them, confined in a 'back chamber' in the house for several hours. He refused an offer of release for himself alone" (DNB). Later, Popham presided over the trial of Raleigh and although convinced of his guilt, sympathised sincerely with him. Shortly after this document was signed Popham presided over the trial of Guy Fawkes and the other gun powder plotters. "Popham was a sound lawyer and a severe judge. Shortly after his death Lord Ellesmere alluded to him as 'a man of great wisdom and of singular learning and judgement in the law' and Coke spoke of him with like admiration." - DNB.Francis Baber (1565-1643) of Chew Magna, Somerset.

Popham

Dole

Baber

215

1605

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Legal.- Popham (Sir John, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1531?-1607). Indenture agreement between Sir John, Sir Francis, his wife Anne and Francis Baber, "all those three plots of meadowe comonly called or knowen by the name … of Parke meades w[i]thin the … p[ar]ish of Chew [Magna]", D.s. "J. Popham, Frances Popham" & "Anne Popham", manuscript on vellum, small affecting words on five lines, three wax seals, 413 x 490mm., 20th September 1605.

Popham

Baber

216

1634-1718

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Legal.-. 22 Depositions from witnesses of various cases from Somerset and Devon, manuscripts, c. 455pp. excluding blanks, some f. defective, folds, browned, edges creased, tied at head, 4to, 27th January 1634 - 17th May 1718. £150 - 200 Includes appeals to Thomas, Lord Coventry (1578-1640), Lord-Keeper and Edward Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), Lord Chancellor.

Coventry

Clarendon

217

1803

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

Sedgemoor.-. Some Observations against the Inclosure of Sedgemoore. Sedgemoore, in its present state, is not unimprov'd nor unprofitable, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folio, n.d. [c. 1803]; Whereas a false representation of the state of King's Sedgemoor in … Somerset has been inserted in the St. James's Chronicle addressed to … Charles James Fox. For the Information of that able patriot and the publick a true state of the Moor is submitted to him … , manuscript, 1p., 4to, n.d. [c. 1803], v.s. (2). £100 - 150 In 1803 a petition was addressed to the House of Commons by the Lords of the Manor, gentlemen, clergy and freeholders in the area to introduce a bill for the draining of Sedgemoor. Second petitioners disagreed, arguing of the usefulness of the land, how trespass was easily detected and that the moor provided a living for "666 souls". The petition was defeated by 95 votes to 39 and is today designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

218

1743

Bloomsbury 6 Nov 2003

105

Sandwich (John Montagu, fourth Earl, politician, 1718-92). Indenture agreement between John Earl of Sandwich and Sir Robert Long, lease of Enmore Park to Hesther Methuen for a year, D.s. "Sandwich, Robt. Long" & "Edward Bayntun Rolt", manuscript on vellum, folds, slightly creased, 340 x 615mm., 22nd March 1743; and another, similar deed (2). £100 - 150 Enmore, four miles south west of Bridgwater, Somerset.An extremely unpopular minister Sandwich started political life as a lord commissioner of the admiralty, eventually becoming first lord. In 1763 he took part in the prosecution of John Wilkes, gathering proofs with Dashwood and Lord Le Despencer against him. As first lord of the admiralty "he rendered the business of the admiralty subservient to the interests of his party, and employed the vast patronage of the office as an engine for bribery and political jobbery." In 1783 William Pitt announced that while no fees were received by the Navy Office, a considerable number of 'gifts' had been accepted by officers. "Exact inquiry disclosed wholesale robbery rather than peculation. The dockyards had been sinks of iniquity before that time, and were so after it, but at no time were they so utterly bad as during the war of American Independence." - DNB

Montagu

Long

Methuen

Rolt

219

1881

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1881 set of letters x4 from fredrick hancock south molton somerset. to agnes also a letter to the palace

Hancock

220

1885

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1885 ANTIQUE PAPER DOCUMENT BUDWORTH CHESHIRE **. MANUSCRIPT LEGAL DOCUMENT; BEING ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. BETWEEN WILLIAM WORTHINGTON OF THE CITY OF BATH, JOHN WORTHINGTON OF FISHGUARD IN THE COUNTY OF PEMBROKE AND HERBERT WORTHINGTON OF FISHGUARD AND THE CHESHIRE LINES COMMITTEE The Cheshire Lines Committee was the largest joint railway after the Midland & Great Northern (the biggest of Britain's joint railways), the CLC was judged far more important having created a profitable network in north west England despite competition from powerful, long established companies. Its title was misleading because most important of its 143 route miles were in Lancashire, where the bulk of its capital was spent and most of its revenue earned. The largest of its 70 stations were also in Lancashire: Liverpool Central and Manchester Central. Over its main line between these stations, the CLC ran 40 minute expresses renowned for their punctuality, outclassing those of the rival London & North Western and Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways. The CLC developed from the 1860s when the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway under Edward Watkin, was trying to break the LNWR monopoly around Manchester with the Great Northern and later the Midland Railway as its allies. The three formed a joint committee in 1865/6 and controlled companies which slowly bui