Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 10

Records of West Sussex Record Office additional manuscripts

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, referred to in the Introduction to the fourth

Once again deeds of title predominate but there will also be found correspondence, including some of the Cobden family (Add Mss 6472, 6546 and 6817, 6818), personal papers of members of the Mitford Family (Add Mss 6494 - 6493), copies of plans of Sutton Rectory (Add Mss 6494), a pedigree of the Ridge Family (Add Mss 6550) and a grant of arms and crest to Thomas Vincent Reynolds (Add Mss 6816)

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

FRANCIS W. STEER

County Archivist

August 1965

Add Mss 6471 Restitution Order in the High Court of Admiralty, 1837

Add Mss 6472 Letters of the Cobden family, 1826 - 1855

Add Mss 6473 Apprenticeship agreement and related Correspondence, 1875

Add Mss 6474 - 6493 Papers of William Kenyon Mitford and William Slade Mitford, 1900 - 1953

Add Mss 6494 Photostat copies of plans and elevations of Sutton Rectory, 1871

Add Mss 6495, 6496 Photostat copies of the wills of Sir Charles Henry Frankland and William Frankland, 1768 and 1806

Add Mss 6497 Reproductions of documents relating to the Clough family of Warminghurst, 1694- 1791

Add Mss 6498 - 6509 Title deeds of lots 4 and 5 of the Langton Road Estate, Worthing, 1900 - 1953

Add Mss 6510 - 6541 Title deeds of property in Kirdford, 1637 - 1808

Add Mss 6542 - 6544 Wills and abstract of title relating to property in Aldingbourne and Oving, 1823 - 1881

Add Mss 6545 Photostat copy of court roll of Shiremark and Hoke Manors in Charlwood, co. Surrey, and Ifield Manor, 1490 - 1570

Add Mss 6546 Letters from John Moul, tea dealer and John Silverlock in London to Henry Silverlock of Chichester, 1844 - 1847

Add Mss 6547, 6548 Xerograph copies of deeds concerning the Somerset Hospital Charity, Petworth, 1746 - 1957

Add Mss 6549 Writ to distrain on the lands and cattle of Henry, Lord Clifford, 1515/6

Add Mss 6553 Pedigree of the Ridge family, late 18th century

Add Mss 6551 - 6781

Title deeds of various properties mainly in parishes in the Horsham area, 1585 - 1913

Add Mss 6782 - 6815 Title deeds of property in Wisborough Green and Fittleworth, 1724 - 1848

Add Mss 6816 Grant of arms and crest to Thomas Vincent Reynolds, 1797

Add Mss 6817, 6818 Correspondence concerning Madehurst and Bosham Churches, 1863

Add Mss 6819 - 6835 Deeds relating to the Lion Brewery, Chichester, 1759 - 1882

Add Mss 6836 - 6845 Declarations and accounts relating to investments, 1848 - 1896

Add Mss 6846 Lease of property in South Pallant, Chichester, 1659

<span class="wrapper"><p>The following documents are listed in a separate catalogue on 172A as "West Sussex County Council Property Deeds", under Local Governance</p> <p>Add Mss 6080 - 6371 Deeds of title of properties acquired for various purposes by the West Sussex County Council, 1654 - 1961</p> <p>Add Mss 6372 - 6391 Deeds of the site of County Hall, Chichester, 1761 - 1865</p> <p>Add Mss 6392 - 6456 Deeds of The Grange, Tower Street, Chichester, 1733 - 1915</p> <p>Add Mss 6457-6470 Deeds of Wren House, Chichester, 1848 - 1916</p></span>

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