Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 8

Records of West Sussex Record Office additional manuscripts

CONTENTS

Add Mss 4536-4748 Maps and plans of Chichester and neighbouring parishes, 1794-1892

Add Mss 4749-5153 Records of the Eartham Estate, 1603-1862. Please see separate catalogue entry on A2A, also part of the Aladdin's Cave project

Add Mss 5154-5157 Copies of the Bedham Manor and Walberton Common Inclosure Awards, 1769

Add Mss 5158-5171 Copies of Inclosure Awards and other documents, enrolled among the County Records and now in the East Sussex Record Office

Add Mss 5172 Inclosure Map of Rustington Common Fields, ante 1805

Add Mss 5173 Copy of Angmering Inclosure Map and Award, 1809

Add Mss 5174 Copy of Warningcamp Inclosure Map, ante 1812

Add Mss 5175 Warningcamp Inclosure Award, 1812

Add Mss 5176 Eartham Inclosure Map and Award, 1817

Add Mss 5177 Inclosure Map of Hambrook Common in Chidham, 1820

Add Mss 5178 Copy of Wenham Manor in Rogate Inclosure Map and Award, 1825

Add Mss 5179 Felpham Inclosure Map, post 1826

Add Mss 5180 Photographs of the Bosham and Funtington Inclosure Maps, ante 1834

Add Mss 5181 Reproduction of the Storrington Commons Inclosure Map, 1851, and typescript of the Award, 1858

Add Mss 5182-5184 Copies of the Inclosure Maps and Awards of Terwick Common and Harting Combe in Rogate, 1861

Add Mss 5185-5187 Copies of Inclosure Maps of Chithurst, Harting Combe in Rogate and waste lands of Amberley Manor, 1856-1871

Add Mss 5188-5189 Copies of the Slindon Inclosure Map and Award, 1866, 1871

Add Mss 5190-5203 Papers relating to the vote of Peter Du Cane in the Horsham election, 1790

Add Mss 5204-5232 Miscellaneous documents, including deeds of the estates of the Smith family, 1838-1923

Add Mss 5233-5235 Deeds of the estates of the Smith family in Midhurst, Chichester and New Fishbourne, 1843-1870

Add Mss 5236-5291 Deeds of Nuthurst, 1586-1877, and deeds of Warnham, 1704/5

Add Mss 5292 Admission to property in the manor of Bignor, 1864

Add Mss 5293-5301 Minute books, reports and accounts of the Chichester Corn Exchange, Ltd., 1832-1936

Add Mss 5302-5405 Deeds and other documents of the Hooper and allied families, mainly relating to Shoreham, 1647-1918

INTRODUCTION

This volume of Additional Manuscripts (Add Mss) has in general been compiled on the lines indicated in the Introduction to the first, apart from the modification in the detail given for maps mentioned in the Introduction to the fourth

The papers relating to the vote of Peter Du Cane (Add Mss 5190-5203) and the minute books and other records of the Chichester Corn Exchange Ltd. (Add Mss 5293 -5301) are the only miscellaneous documents that stand out in a volume which is otherwise devoted to large collections of deeds of title (Add Mss 4749-5153, 5204- 5235 and Add Mss 5302-5405), Inclosure Maps and Awards and the working plans and maps of Edward Fuller of Chichester, surveyor (Add Mss 4536-4748)

Students are again asked to exercise care in quoting references and to use the form given in the Introduction to the first volume

FRANCIS W. STEER

County Archivist

July 1965

Open to consultation, unless otherwise stated