Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 20

INTRODUCTION

The introduction to this, the twentieth volume of Additional Manuscripts, is a suitable place from which to look back at what my Predecessor, Mr. Francis W. Steer, wrote in his introduction to the very first volume in 1957. He wrote

"The class of Additional Manuscripts (Add Mss) embraces all the smaller gifts and deposits of documents as distinct from the large family and estate collections or accumulations from solicitors' offices, each of which will be referred to and quoted by name

It is hoped that the catalogue will be sufficiently clear to readers without further elaboration, especially as the few abbreviations which have been used (e.g. s. for son, dau. for daughter, occ. for occupation) would appear to be obvious. The following points should however be emphasized

(i) Names of parishes and manors are normally given in their modern form, unless the spelling in the document appears to be philologically or etymologically important or to be otherwise unusual

(ii) Christian names are normally given in their modern spelling, archaic variants such as 'Johane' and 'Wyllyam' being ignored

(iii) Rods and perches are normally omitted, area being given in acres only

(iv) In calendars of deeds of two parties only, the first-named party is subsequently referred to as (a) and the second-named party as (b), although these are not stated at the head of the entry

(v) In the entries for maps, the size is always given in inches, the height being given before the width

No index has been provided to this volume as all relevant details have been included in the general office indexes of persons, places, subjects, and manors

Students are asked to exercise care in referring to these documents, and to use the form Add Mss followed by the relevant number; e.g. the first document in this volume should be quoted as Add Mss 1 and the whole group as Add Mss 1 - 105. In printed works the reference should be preceded by West Sussex Record Office (or W.S.R.O. in subsequent references), e.g. W.S.R.O., Add Mss 1

The documents in this volume are particularly mixed in character: a copy of William Lilly's Latin Grammar (Add Mss 14,874); a series of A.R.P. Records (Add Mss 15,029 - 15,038); title deeds, the earliest of which is a 1348 conveyance of land in Pagham (Add Mss 16,069); maps, the most interesting of which are the collection of Sir Wilbraham Gates Lennox, 1811-1882 (Add Mss 15,471 - 15,635); letters, and account books

PATRICIA GILL

County Archivist

October 1973

Add Mss 14,874-14,875 William Lilly's Latin Grammar, 1603, with contemporary commonplace book

Add Mss 14,876-14,916 Deeds of various parishes, 1673-1876

Add Mss 14,917-14,923 Records of Itchingfield Workmen's Institute, 1887-1925

Add Mss 14,924-14,932 Deeds of land at Shipley, 1511-1812

Add Mss 14,933, 14,934 Blacksmith's account book, 1858-1873

Add Mss 14,935 Apprenticeship Indenture, 1880

Add Mss 14,936-14,939 Records of the Bignor, Sutton and Barlavington Men's Club, 1919-1948

Add Mss 14,940 Recipe book of Mrs. Goacher of Ashurst, 1867

Add Mss 14,941-14.975 Deeds of nos. 22-30, Little London, Chichester, 1738-1962

Add Mss 14,976-14,995 Documents relating to the rectory and advowson of Sullington, 1705-1932

Add Mss 14,996-15,028 Records of West Sussex Battalions of the Home Guard, 1940-1944

Add Mss 15,029-15,032 A.R.P. records: diaries of the Chief Air Raid Warden of Bosham, Southbourne, Fishbourne and Chidham districts, 1940-1944

Add Mss 15,033-15,038 A.R.P. Records, 1940-1947

Add Mss 15,039-15,042 Minute Books of the Chichester Division of the St. Johns Ambulance Brigade, 1897-1932

Add Mss 15,043-15,111 Deeds of land at Broyle Farm and West Breach at Chichester, and at Westbourne, 1655-1836

Add Mss 15,112 Xerox copy of plan of Petworth, 1839

Add Mss 15,113-15,137 Papers of William Cutfield of Climping, 1812-1841

Add Mss 15,138-15,140 Miscellaneous documents, 1639-1804

Add Mss 15,141-15,146 Presentations made to Mark Talbot Hughes, County Accountant, 1915-1924, County Treasurer, 1924-1950

Add Mss 15,147-15,181 Documents relating mostly to the property of the Dawtry and Gittings families, and letters and photographs of the Allin family of Midhurst, 1661-1963

Add Mss 15,182 Plans of Pallant House, Chichester, by R.C. Foster, 1905, 1906

Add Mss 15,183-15,216 Documents relating to Dunhurst and Chandlers Farms in Wisborough Green and Kirdford, 1527-1760

Add Mss 15,217 Farm account book, 1686-1771

Add Mss 15,218-15,294 Documents relating to the Woolbeding, Slindon and Warren Hill Estates (Washington), 1842-1946

Add Mss 15,295-15,465 Documents relating to the Phipps family, 1596-1841

Add Mss 15,466, 15,467 Photographs and accounts of Stephen and Samuel Stenning of Henfield, 1835-c.1900

Add Mss 15,468 Deed of land in Westbourne, 1760

Add Mss 15,469, 15,470 Correspondence between G.P. Burstow and C.F. Salzman, with copies of G.P. Burstow's diary, 1941-1971

Add Mss 15,471-15,635 Maps and plans formerly belonging to General Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox, 1811-1877

Add Mss 15,636 Deed of tenement in West Chiltington, 1682

Add Mss 15,637-16,022 Deeds of Arundel and Lyminster, and other papers of Edward Carleton, 1603-1880

Add Mss 16,023-16,025 Documents relating to Arundel and district, 1797-1936

Add Mss 16,026-16,060 Miscellaneous title deeds, 1699-1916

Add Mss 16,061, 16,062 Letter from Sir John Lowther, 1675, and poster re boxing match in Chichester, 1823

Add Mss 16,063, 16,064 Diamond Jubilee Celebrations programme, 1897, and builder's account, 1903

Add Mss 16,065-16,068 Documents relating to Littlehampton, 1861-1922

Add Mss 16,069-16,076 Deeds relating to land in Pagham, 1348-1618

Add Mss 16,077, 16,078 Household accounts, 1961-1967

Add Mss 16,079-16,082 Plans formerly part of Bognor Museum Collection, 1902

Add Mss 16,083 Letter of Richard Cobden, 1845

Add Mss 16,084-16,089 Documents relating to the Manor of Aldwick, 1807-1871

Add Mss 16,090, 16,091 Records of the Chichester People's Dispensary for Sick Animals Guild, 1952-1972

Add Mss 16,092, 16,093 Residuary account and solicitor's account, 1838, 1878

Add Mss 16,094 Minute Book of the Friends of Petworth Cottage Hospital, 1953-1973

<span class="wrapper"><p>This is now a separate catalogue in 'from Landlord to Labourer'</p> <p>Add Mss 16,095-16,391 Deeds of the Okehurst estate in Sussex and Surrey, 1531-1938</p></span>

Records are open for Consultation unless otherwise indicated