Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 27

Records of West Sussex Record office additional manuscripts

INTRODUCTION

The class of Additional Manuscripts embraces all the smaller gifts and deposits of documents, as distinct from the large family and estate collections such as the Goodwood Estate Archives, or accumulations from solicitor's offices such as the Raper Manuscripts, each of which is catalogued separately and referred to by name. The majority of these documents have been deeds of title, though a healthy balance of a vast range of other material has been documented in these volumes. Over the past 24 years, 21,100 documents have been catalogued and described in twenty six volumes, along the lines indicated in the introduction to the very first volume in November 1956. However, in this the twenty seventh volume, the sheer pressure of the weight of material to be catalogued has meant that in future catalogues of title deeds, instead of being the detailed calendar that has been the practice in the previous volumes, will henceforth appear in summary lists. The accent will be on the property concerned, rather than on the parties involved and the technicalities of the type of legal conveyance being used

Pride of place among the collections listed in this volume must be given to the papers of John Abel Smith (Add Mss 22,243-22,643). These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Abel Smith papers; under the From Landlord to Labourer' project. The documents range in date from an extract from a Court Roll of 1289 Add Mss 22,964), to correspondence about the Chichester Documentary Research Group, 1977 (Add Mss 22,886). No index has been provided for this volume, as all the relevant details of this and all previous volumes, have been included in the card indexes of persons, places, manors and subjects which are to be found in the Search Room of the County and Diocesan Record Office

Searchers are again asked to exercise care in quoting references and to use the form indicated in the introduction to the first volume

PATRICIA GILL

County Archivist

June 1980

Add Mss 21,101-21,106 Abstracts of title to Amblehurst Manor Farm, Wisborough Green, c. 1846

Add Mss 21,251 Deed of land in Hurstpierpoint, Albourne and Twineham, 1664

Add Mss 21,252-21,255 Miscellaneous documents, 1853-1928

Add Mss 21,256-21,310 Deeds of the estates and trusts of Edward Gibbon Swann of Burgess Hill, 1847-1920

Add Mss 21,311 Diary of Sarah Goodyer of Bury, c. 1803-1807

Add Mss 21,312-21,326 Deeds of property in Rogate, 1820-1897

Add Mss 21,327-21,378 Deeds of various properties in Hurstpierpoint, 1605-1840

Add Mss 21,379-21,425 Deeds of property in Horsham, 1805-1933

Add Mss 21,426 Records of the Sidlesham British Legion Local Service Committee, 1949-1974

Add Mss 21,427 Three plans of "Springfield", Crawley, 1882 and n.d

Add Mss 21,428-21,430 Miscellaneous papers, 1822-1939

Add Mss 21,431 Miscellaneous papers of Charles Crocker (1797-1861), the shoemaker poet of Chichester

Add Mss 21,432-21,437 Deeds of Kingston Maltings, 126/128 Brighton Road, Shoreham by Sea, 1845-1903

Add Mss 21,438-21,439 Records relating to the management of the Settled Estates under the will and codicils of Lady Elizabeth Ann Lloyd of Lancing, 1860-1917

Add Mss 21,440-21,442 Miscellaneous documents, 1608-1879

Add Mss 21,443-21,473 Deeds of the Finches in Lancing, 1791-1920

Add Mss 21,474-21,496 Miscellaneous builder's plans and specifications, Cowfold and district, 1899-1955

Add Mss 21,497-21,508 Deeds of 5-8 King Street, Westbourne, 1808-1891

Add Mss 21,509-22,143 Deeds of various parishes, 1592-1935, and map of Earnley Manor Farm, 1791

Add Mss 22,144-22,166 Miscellaneous deeds, 1560-1864, from the Foster Library

Add Mss 22,167 Papers relating to Shoreham Aerodrome, 1916-1917

Add Mss 22,168-22,212 Records of Messrs. Francis Tate & Co., monumental and general stone and marble masons and tile and granite merchants, 22 North Street, Worthing, 1897-1973

Add Mss 22,213-22,216 Deeds of property at Pagham and St. Bartholomew's Chichester, 1802-1828

Add Mss 22,217 Bond of Indemnity, 1797

Add Mss 22,218-22,219 Papers relating to the Coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, 1937 and 1953

Add Mss 22,220-22,223 Miscellaneous items, 1909-1929

Add Mss 22,224 Map of Storrington, 1788

Add Mss 22,225-22,226 Photographs of estate maps of Findon, 1726 and 1803

Add Mss 22,227-22,230 Deeds of copyhold property in Cuckfield and Keymer, 1726-1816

Add Mss 22,231-22,234 Deeds of Cleaver's Farm in Cuckfield, 1448-1580

Add Mss 22,235-22,238 Deeds of the Elizabeth Johnstone School, St. Pancras, Chichester, 1875-1882

Add Mss 22,239-22,242 Records of the Compton, Stoughton, West Marden, Forestside and Stansted District Nursing Association, 1910-1977

Add Mss 22,644 Driving Licence, 1925

Add Mss 22,645-22,646 Illuminated cards of religious texts, c. 1897

Add Mss 22,647 Bills for goods supplied to Walter A. Woods & Co. Ltd., Horsham, 1954-1963

Add Mss 22,648 Schedule of Deeds in Rumboldswhyke, c. 1878

Add Mss 22,649 Inventory and Valuation of Barncroft, Haywards Heath, 1929

Add Mss 22,650 Farm Account Book of the Rapson Family of Lodsworth, 1824-1845

Add Mss 22,651 Will of Thomas French of Broadwater, 1667

Add Mss 22,652 Title Deed of property in Portfield and Guildenfield in Oving, 1861

Add Mss 22,653 Letters from Ellen Lloyd to Madame Skiers, 1836

Add Mss 22,654-22,655 Miscellaneous documents, 1853-1907

Add Mss 22,656 Document relating to the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Company, 1872

Add Mss 22,657-22,671 Title Deeds and related papers for property in Worthing, 1860-1921

Add Mss 22,672-22,711 Title Deeds of properties held of the Manors of Bosham and Amberley, 1658-1853

Add Mss 22,712-22,766 Account Books, East Dean Village Club Minute Books, School Admission Register, and Exercise Books, 1860-1914

Add Mss 22,767-22,781 Farm Accounts and tenancy papers of William Sayers Barking for farms in Sompting, Goring and Ferring, 1779-1897

Add Mss 22,782 Title Deed of property in Burgess Hill, 1878

Add Mss 22,783-22,784 Photographs of plans of Petworth Park, 1751-1752

Add Mss 22,785-22,803 Household Account Books, 1938-1979

Add Mss 22,804-22,817 Title Deeds of 23 Felpham Way, Felpham, 1797-1898

Add Mss 22,818 School Attendance Cards, c. 1908

Add Mss 22,819-22,820 Miscellaneous Bills, 1901-1907

Add Mss 22,821-22,825 Lawyer's Precedent Book, c. 1820, and copies of Tithe Awards, 1840, 1848

Add Mss 22,826-22,828 Papers of Mr. J. Harding of Horsham, an employee of the Southern Railway Company, 1910-1926

Add Mss 22,829 Copy of a letter relating to the Crimean War, 1855

Add Mss 22,830-22,848 Title Deeds of property in Kirdford, 1658-1934

Add Mss 22,849-22,850 Miscellaneous Bills, 1930-1965, and poem, 1906

Add Mss 22,851-22,853 Inventories and Valuations of farms at Sompting, Goring and Ferring, 1895

Add Mss 22,854-22,872 Accounts of the West Grinstead Park Estate, 1915-1965, with copy of the Tithe Map, c. 1860

Add Mss 22,873-22,885 Title Deeds of property in Felpham and Worth, 1801-1911

Add Mss 22,886 Correspondence concerning the Chichester Documentary Research Group, 1970-1977

Add Mss 22,887-22,956 Title Deeds of properties in Chichester and Worthing, 1715-1915

Add Mss 22,957 Title Deed of property in Worth, 1482

Add Mss 22,958 Deed relating to a Turnpike Toll, 1874

Add Mss 22,959 Title Deed of property in Hurstpierpoint, 1679

Add Mss 22,960-22,963 Title Deeds relating to Lord Erskine's Estates, 1818, 1819

Add Mss 22,964 Record of Wadhurst Manor, Cowfold, 1289-1831

<span class="wrapper"><p>Add Mss 21,107-21,250 Records of the Bognor Pier Company, 1908-1956</p> <p>These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Records of the Bognor Pier Company' under the 'Local Government' project</p> <p>Add Mss 22,243-22,643 Letters and Papers of John Smith (1767-1842) and John Abel Smith (1802-1871), both MPs, and their families, 1735-1957</p> <p>These documents are listed on a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Abel Smith papers' under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p></span>

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