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A Miscellany of Deeds and Manorial, Estate, Probate and Family Documents
This collection of miscellaneous documents, written between the 13th to 19th centuries, mostly relate to land and property transactions and maintenance in England. The bulk of the documents are dated from the 16th through 19th centuries. The remaining documents concern legal and official matters, family papers, probate and wills, and accounts and business. The documents pertain to many of the counties in England, as well as some matters taking place in other parts of the British Isles.
Adversaria. The Common-Place-Book, by Robert Courthope Sims
Commonplace book, or a volume created to compile knowledge, kept by Robert Courthope Sims of Essex, England.
Arthur Moore collection
This collection consists of the correspondence and business records of Arthur Moore (1666?-1730) and his immediate family in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Collection of Accounts of Political and Governmental events
Collection of 72 separately written accounts of Parliamentary debates, political law-cases, diplomatic correspondence, etc., bound together in two volumes. Most (perhaps all) are near-contemporary copies of the originals.
Cum mota esset petitio ac dissentio inter Johannam [etc.]
This collection consists of a single legal document, an agreement whereby the lands of Sir Roger Lasceles are divided amongst his four daughters: Joan, wife of Thomas de Coiwen; Avis, wife of Robert le Conestable; Maud, wife of Robert de Tilliol; and Theophania, wife of Ralph son of Ranulph.
Documents of Abbey Dore
Documents concerning land conveyed to Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, England, mostly dating to the 13th century. Relates primarily to the Abbey's granges called Lincoyt and Lanveyr located near Grosmont and the forest of Severenny, Upper Gwent (present-day Monmouthshire). Land was issued by Hubert de Burgh; Edmund, earl of Lancaster; and private persons.
Fletcher of Saltoun collection
A collection of books and manuscripts relating to the Fletcher of Saltoun Family, most of which have come from Saltoun Hall. Salton (Saitoun) is an estate east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in East Lothian (Haddington). The manuscripts are mostly estate account-books (1750-1806 and undated) but also include notes on agriculture (18th century), common-place books in English and Latin (18th century), and a paraphrase of the Corpus Iuris Civilis (1600s?).
Kaye family papers
This collection consists of estate documents, principally deeds, of the Kaye family of Woodsome in Yorkshire, England, from the 13th to 18th centuries, with the majority of documents dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some locations cited in these documents include Almondbury, Honley, Kirkheaton, Slaithwaite, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, etc.
Legal papers concerning church attendance, etc. of Norfolk Recusants
Legal papers: certificates and evidence taken concerning church attendance, etc. during the Protestant Reformation in Elizabethan England. Apparently originals, kept together after being issued by the Commission; include signatures. (Item 2 is a fair copy largely in a single hand.)
Memoranda kept in Merlinus Liberatus: Being an Almanack
North family papers
Royal revenues collection
Spelman-Macro miscellany
Compiled volume of separately written pieces bound together, including historical notes, 17th century poems, petitions, etc.
Star Chamber collection
Collection of volumes and loose items pertaining to the Star Chamber, a court that existed in England at the Palace of Westminster from approximately the 15th century through 1641, when it was abolished by the Long Parliament.