The HERRICK MANUSCRIPTS

DG 9

The HERRICK MANUSCRIPTS

1277-1932

INTRODUCTION

The collection here-listed consists of the papers and documents which were transferred from the muniment room at the Hall, Beaumanor, Leicestershire, to the Leicestershire Record Office in 1947, by the late Lt. Col. A. P. Curzon-Howe-Herrick. In that year the family's Leicestershire estates were sold off and the link between the Herricks and Beaumanor which dated back to the sixteenth century was thereby brought to an end.

The collection comprises (a) estate records for Leicestershire (the Beaumanor estate) and properties in Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire & elsewhere; (b) official papers and (c) personal papers. As regards the Beaumanor estate the title deeds are especially numerous and they extend from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. There is a good series of manorial records, which include four bailiffs' accounts 1277 - 1425; court rolls 1481 - 1849; custumal 1586 and surveys of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There are also rentals from the sixteenth - eighteenth centuries, and estate plans from the seventeenth - nineteenth centuries. There are some plans for the present Hall at Beaumanor built in 1846, the architect being William Railton, and also specifications and a plan of the previous hall which was erected 1725 - 1727. For the out-county estates there are: title deeds (Staffordshire, Herefordshire & other properties), seventeenth - nineteenth centuries; enclosure papers for Eardesley & Brilley (Herefordshire), 1811 - 1812; surveys, valuations and correspondence (Herefordshire and Staffordshire), eighteenth - nineteenth centuries; estate plans (Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire & Monmouthshire), eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tithe plans (Staffordshire and Monmouthshire), nineteenth century; plans and sections of coalworkings, Staffordshire, Durham (Hetton) and Warwickshire (New Wyken Colliery), early nineteenth century.

The official papers include a number of volumes of Orders and Receipts on the Exchequer, Portage Fees etc (1608 - 1623), which relate to Sir William Herrick's tenure of the office of Teller of the Exchequer and of his immediate predecessor Sir William Bowyer. Some of these documents are now at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The personal papers include a number on the administration of the estate of Nicholas Herrick, the goldsmith and brother of Sir William, who died in somewhat ambiguous circumstances in 1592; on his death, his son, Robert, the poet, became the ward of Sir William and there are 14 letters from Robert to his uncle written from Cambridge 1613 - 1617 (originals now withdrawn from collection). There are also a number of papers relating to charitable & ecclesiastical benefactions by William Perry Herrick and his sister Mary Ann. Personal correspondence in the collection is however desultory being mostly letters which William Perry Herrick put aside for their genealogical content.

Lastly, the collection includes a number of printed works from the library at Beaumanor.

TITLE DEEDS: LEICESTERSHIRE

Bardon Park 1

Barrow upon Soar 2 - 74

Manor of Beaumanor 75 - 96

Beaumanor Park and Woods 97 - 161

Garendon 162 - 176

Loughborough 177 - 328

Markfield 329 - 362

Mountsorrel mills 363 - 370

Mountsorrel 371 - 400

Quorn 401 - 721

Rothley 722 - 842

Sileby 843 - 884

Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves 885 - 1650

Woodthorpe 1651 - 1765

TITLE DEEDS : OUT COUNTY

Herefordshire: Brilley 1766 - 1770

Eardisley 1771 - 1789

Staffordshire: Sedgeley 1790 - 1795

Wednesfield 1796 - 1804

Wolverhampton 1805 - 1812

Miscellaneous 1813 - 1824

Monmouthshire 1825 - 1832

Radnorshire 1833

Various 1834 - 1848

MANORIAL COURT RECORDS

Beaumanor cum membris: Court rolls 1849 - 1915

Courts of survey 1916 - 1924

Other court rolls + steward's papers 1925 - 1951

Custumals 1952 - 1953

Accounts 1954 - 1958

Rents 1959 - 1989

Barrow upon Soar 1990

Woodhouse: court rolls 1991 - 1999

ESTATE PAPERS: LEICESTERSHIRE

Beaumanor: general 2000 - 2032

Charnwood Forest Enclosure papers 2033 - 2048

Accounts 2049 - 2056

ESTATE PAPERS : OUT COUNTY

Herefordshire 2057 - 2068

Staffordshire 2069 - 2076

Various counties 2077 - 2081

TITHE DISPUTES

Title deeds for tithes of Woodhouse in the parish of Barrow upon Soar 2082 - 2104

Papers re tithes of Woodhouse + Woodthorpe 2105 - 2121

Mountsorrel tithes: title deeds and papers 2122 - 2125

Court papers re tithe disputes 2126 - 2133

BEAUMANOR HALL BUILDING RECORDS 2134 - 2151

CHARNWOOD FOREST CHAPELS 2152 - 2180

ST. MARK'S CHURCH, LEICESTER 2181 - 2194

WOLVERHAMPTON ORPHANAGE + GRAMMAR SCHOOL 2195 - 2214

OFFICIAL PAPERS

Letters patent 2215 - 2217

Exchequer records 2218 - 2229

Shrievalty and Lieutenancy 2230 - 2241

W. P. Herrick, as executor and trustee 2242 - 2268

Taxation defaulters: Rawlin v. Farnham + Gravenor 2269 - 2271

Constable of Woodhouse v. Jeffrey Whatton 2272 - 2278

William Herrick v. J. Boardman + others 2279 - 2284

Poor rates 2285 - 2286

HERRICK AND PERRY FAMILY WILLS 2287 - 2334

HERRICK FAMILY SETTLEMENTS 2335 - 2375

GAGE FAMILY WILLS AND SETTLEMENTS 2376 - 2404

PAPERS RELATING TO ROBERT HERRICK, POET 2405 - 2439

CORRESPONDENCE (1694 - 1874) 2440 - 2571

GRANTS OF ARMS, PEDIGREES, ETC 2572 - 2604

PRINTED BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS 2605 - 2708

MAPS

Printed maps and atlases (non local)... 2709 - 2723

Herefordshire 2724 - 2726

Leicestershire 2727 - 2750

Monmouthshire 2751 - 2763

Staffordshire and Worcestershire 2764 - 2787

Coal mines (various counties) 2788 - 2794

Warwickshire 2795

MISCELLANEA 2796 - 2832

<span class="wrapper"><p>The bulk of the family's correspondence which begins in the sixteenth century was bound into a series of eleven volumes but these are in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. (See related list Ms.Eng.list. b.216 and c.474-484</p> <p>Documents relating to the Bardon Park Estate, Leics., which was acquired by William Perry Herrick in 1864, can be found under the repository reference DE 2155.</p> <p>There are two additional Herrick papers under the reference DE 2815.</p></span>

English

20 series

Deposited on permanent loan at the Leicestershire County Record Office by the late Lieutenant Colonel Assheton Penn Curzon-Howe-Herrick Clifton Castle, Ripon, Yorkshire

The Herricks were a Leicestershire family of considerable antiquity and standing. The family is found at Great Stretton in the thirteenth century and at Houghton on the Hill in the fifteenth century; Thomas Herrick, son of Robert Herrick of Houghton on the Hill, established the family in Leicester, becoming Borough Chamberlain in 1511 - 12. Both his sons became Mayor of Leicester; Nicholas in 1552 and John in 1557 and again in 1572. John had five sons and seven daughters and it was his youngest son, William, who purchased Beaumanor in 1595. William was a goldsmith in London, having been apprenticed to his brother, Nicholas, father of the poet, Robert; he undertook a diplomatic mission to the Grand Turk in 1580 - 81 on behalf of Elizabeth I; he was appointed royal jeweller to James I in 1603; knighted in 1605 and made a Teller of the Exchequer in 1616. In 1832 on the death of William Herrick (1745 - 1832) the family estates passed to his nephew, William Herrick, son of Thomas Bainbrigge Herrick and his wife Mary, who was the daughter and heiress of James Perry of Wolverhampton. William assumed the name of Perry in addition to Herrick in 1853. It was through the Perry connections that the Herricks acquired their estates in Staffordshire, Herefordshire and Wales. William Perry Herrick died, without issue, in 1876 as a result of a hunting accident; his widow, Mrs. Sophia Herrick, remained at Beaumanor until her death in 1915 when the estates passed by will to William Curzon, son of the Hon. Montagu Curzon, a younger son of Earl Howe of Gopsall, Leicestershire. William Curzon assumed the name of Herrick in 1915.