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DUCHY OF CORNWALL surveys
Catalogue reference: T\PH\vch/8
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This record is a file about the DUCHY OF CORNWALL surveys dating from 1611, 1609-1616.
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Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust).
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T\PH\vch/8
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Title (The name of the record)
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DUCHY OF CORNWALL surveys
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Date (When the record was created)
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1611, 1609-1616
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Description (What the record is about)
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Microfilm positive from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, of two volumes of surveys compiled by John Norden, gent. :
(i) The Cornish manors anciently annexed to the Duchy of Cornwall, surveyed in 1611 and comprising ( in the original spelling ) Portlowe, Tregamere, Leigh Durant, Trevervin Courtney, Landreyne, North-hill, Treworgye, Eastway, Boyton and Brodridge, Tinten, Treloya, Carneydon Priory, Grediowe, Landulo als.Landulye, Clymstand Priorie, Fentregan, Stratton Sanctuarie, Porthea Priorie, Austell, Bonyalvie, West Antonye, Trevenon, Croste Hole 'Burgus', Bucklawrne, and Trelugan, with plans and observations on the parks of Launceston, Restormell, Liskerde, Lanteglos, Carybullocke, and Helsberie including some references to tin mining.
(ii) The Somerset manors anciently annexed to the Duchy of Cornwall, surveyed between 1609 and 1616 and comprising (in modern spelling) Milton Falconbridge, Curry Mallet, Shepton Mallet, Stratton on the Fosse, Midsomer Norton, Farrington Gurney, Englishcombe, Widcombe, West Harptree, Laverton, and Stoke sub Hamdon. Includes a letter from John Norden to Sir Francis Bacon, attorney-general to King James and Chancellor to Charles, Prince of Wales, 1616
Each section is preceded by the responsions to articles of a sworn jury. Survey entries distinguish leasehold and copyhold, and give field names, acreages, rents and heriots, names of tenants and some reversionary tenants, and occasional notes of usurpations. [Names of lives not given].
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 films
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/11235dac-8576-4358-bf52-3b1763ff7bb5/
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DUCHY OF CORNWALL surveys