Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue

Add Mss 53,500-54,000

Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue

1366-2003

INTRODUCTION

This is the fiftieth volume of Additional Manuscripts (Add Mss) to have been catalogued in the West Sussex Record office and it has been compiled, in general, along the lines indicated in the introduction to the first volume in November 1956.

The class of Additional Manuscripts embraces all the smaller gifts and deposits of documents received by the West Sussex Record Office, as distinct from the large family and estate collections, such as Goodwood MSS.; or accumulations from solicitors' offices, such as Oglethorpe and Anderson Mss.; collections of official bodies, such as Quarter Sessions records; or collections from other bodies, such as the records of the Royal Sussex Regiment, each of which is referred to and quoted by name. The majority of Additional Manuscripts have been deeds of title, though increasingly a healthy balance of a vast range of other original material has been catalogued in these volumes. However the pressure of the sheer weight of material to be catalogued has meant that since volume 29 in March 1983, the catalogues of title deeds, instead of being the detailed calendars that had been prepared until that date, have mainly been summary lists, with the emphasis being placed on the property concerned in the transaction, rather than on the parties involved, or the technicalities of the type of legal conveyance being used. From the thirty sixth volume in November 1987, the accession number of each collection catalogued is given at the head of each separate catalogue. From this volume all the documents listed have been catalogued on CALM.

The documents listed in this catalogue range in date from a court book of the Manor of Ewhurst, 1366 (Add Mss 53,5853) to one of Douglas Lasseter's walking Log Books, 2002 (Add Mss 53,987). As well as the usual deeds of title, there are manorial records, such as those for the manor of Goring, 1424-1477 (Add Mss 53,549 and 53,550) and the manors of Ewhurst and Shermanbury, 1366-1928 (Add Mss 53,853-53, 854), and maps, including the plan of Petworth Park, 1741 (Add Mss 53,765) and the map of Hazleden Farm in Cuckfield, 1808 (Add Mss 53,971). Records of organisations include several series of records of West Sussex Women's Institutes, 1945-1999 (Add Mss 53,611-53,629, and 53,863-53,967); records of the Royal British Legion, Women's section, Midhurst and District branch, 1963-1989 (Add Mss 53,732-53,736); records of Sussex Ornithological Society, 1967-1999 (Add Mss 53,822-53,852); and records of Worthing Archaeological Society, 1922-1923 (Add Mss 53,859). Records of Sports Clubs include those of South Bersted and Bognor Cricket Clubs, 1955-2201 (Add Mss 53,974-53,985). There is correspondence and literary miscellanea of Edward Heron-Allen (Add Mss 53-727-53,731 and 53,998-54,000).

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 West Sussex Record Office.

Searchers are again asked to exercise care in quoting references, and to use the form Add Mss (or Mss) followed by the relevant number or numbers. In printed works the reference should be preceded by 'West Sussex Record Office' or ('W.S.R.O.' in subsequent references). Those wishing to have photocopies of items catalogued in these pages should seek permission from the Search Room Supervisor. When they have ascertained that the document may be copied they should complete the appropriate REP form and sign the copyright declaration before submitting the appropriate payment in advance. Those seeking permission to quote documents, or reproduce them in published work, should ask permission in writing from the County Archivist.

RICHARD CHILDS

January 2005

County Archivist

Add Mss 53,500-53,535 Title deeds of Corner Cottage, Boxgrove 1807-2001.

Add Mss 53,536-53,546 Documents relating to the Hazelgrove family of Slindon, 1867-1957.

Add Mss 53,547 Copy court roll of the Manor of Keymer, 1888.

Add Mss 53,548 Game book relating to farms mainly at Bosham, 1922-1925.

Add Mss 53,549-53,552 Court Rolls of Goring Manor and title deeds of properties in Warningcamp and Burpham, 1424-1692.

Add Mss 53,554-53,560 Miscellaneous title deeds relating to properties in Somerstown, Chichester, 1833-1908.

Add Mss 53,564-53,584 Title deeds of property in Storrington, 1763-1920.

Add Mss 53,585-53,587 Records of the Women's Hall, Billingshurst, 1924-1977.

Add Mss 53,588 Title deeds of 'Rusapi', 8 Newlands Lane, Southgate, Crawley, 1919-1971.

Add Mss 53,589-53,610 Title deeds of Conifers, Cot Lane, Chidham, 1809-1912.

Add Mss 53,611-53,615 Rogate Women's Institute records, 1945-1990.

Add Mss 53,616-53,619 Scrap Books of Selsey Women's Institute, 1958-1971

Add Mss 53,620-53,629 Records of Coldwaltham and Watersfield Women's Institutes, 1933-1960.

Add Mss 53,630 Title deed of copyhold property in Balcombe, 1730.

Add Mss 53,631-53,632 Letters of Administration of the Lucas family of Pulborough, 1749-1758.

Add Mss 53,633-53,637 Title deeds of a messuage in West Hoathly, 1609-1745.

Add Mss 53,638-53,641 Title deeds of property in Wisborough Green, 1678 and 1840

Add Mss 53,642-53,673 Title deeds of properties in Plaistow and Kirdford, and appointment of arbitrator for property in Cocking, 1569-1879

Add Mss 53,674-53,721 Title deeds of Baldhorns Park Cottage, 1720-1978

Add Mss 53,722 Letters to Vicomtesse Armand from Sister Gabriel of the Annunciation, Chichester, 1891-1935

Add Mss 53,723 Scrap Book of Bury and West Burton Women's Institute, 1979

Add Mss 53,724 Rental of the estate of James Colebrook, June 1746

Add Mss 53,725-53,726 Saddlescombe Band of Hope Membership List, 1894-1940

Add Mss 53,727 Photocopies of correspondence between Edward Heron-Allen and John Johnson, 1938-1940

Add Mss 53,728 Photocopies of correspondence between Edward Heron-Allen and Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1910-1940

Add Mss 53,729 Photocopies of letters from Edward Heron-Allen about George Borrow's drinking Jug, 1897-1928

Add Mss 53,730 Edward Heron-Allen's microscope slide labels, c.1920

Add Mss 53,731 Rubbing of Edward Heron-Allen's sundial from the garden at Large Acres, Selsey, 1907

Add Mss 53,732-53,736 Records of the Royal British Legion, Women's section, Midhurst and District branch, 1963-1989

Add Mss 53,737-53,750 Title deeds relating to Petworth, 1665-1825

Add Mss 53,751-53,764 Title deeds of South Pond House, South Street, Midhurst, 1770-1959

Add Mss 53,765 Plan of Petworth Park, 1741

Add Mss 53,791-53,792 Will of Clement Upperton, 1719 and lease of the Manor of Gates, 1792

Add Mss 53,793-53,820 Papers relating to the Wyndham family of Rogate Lodge, 1825-1885

Add Mss 53,821 Tracing of plan of Hill-Land Farm, Elsted, late 19th. century

Add Mss 53,822-53,852 Records of Sussex Ornithological Society, 1967-1999

Add Mss 53,853-53,854 Court Books of the Manors of Ewhurst and Shermanbury, 1366-1928

Add Mss 53,855-53,858 Court Books of the Manor of Goring, 1677-1902

Add Mss 53,859 Worthing Archaeological Society Minute Book, 1922-1923

Add Mss 53,860 Customer Accounts Book of W.H. Napper, family butcher, Chichester, 1935-1939

Add Mss 53,861 Papers relating to the shooting of George Sergeant by James Allen near Cocking, 1807

Add Mss 53,862 Letters to Max and Kathleen Howard from the 8th. Duke of Richmond, 1927-1932

Add Mss 53,863-53,933 Records of West Sussex Women's Institutes, 1936-1999

Add Mss 53,934-53,967 Records of West Sussex Women's Institutes, 1919-1999

Add Mss 53,968 Architectural drawings for proposed lock-up shops and public hall, Chapel Road, Worthing, 1914

Add Mss 53,969 Plan of a proposed turnpike road from Worthing to Littlehampton, 1834

Add Mss 53,970 Map of Hazleden Farm, Cuckfield, and part of North Gravelly's, Bolney by William Budgen, 1808

Add Mss 53,971 Photocopy of diary of John Lush of Chichester, artist, 1833

Add Mss 53,972 Copies of letters to D'Arcy Wentworth Thomson from Arthur Earland, 1933-1948

Add Mss 53,973 Printed programmes of Amateur Concerts at the George Hotel, Crawley, 1866-1867

Add Mss 53,974-53,985 Records of South Bersted and Bognor Cricket Clubs, 1955-2001

Add Mss 53,986-53,987 Log book of walks in Sussex and elsewhere, compiled by Douglas C. Lasseter, 2001-2002

Add Mss 53,988 Log Book no.68 compiled by Douglas C. Lasseter, 2002-2003

Add Mss 53,989- Title deeds of properties in East Grinstead, 1842-1934

Add Mss 53,995 Documents relating to the Bailiffscourt estate, Climping, 1914-1981

Add Mss 53,996 Plan of memorial stones in Midhurst churchyard and cemetery, 1954

Add Mss 53,997 Title deeds of Fotherby, Church Lane, Southbourne, 1960-2003

Add Mss 53,998 Edward Heron-Allen, The Ballade of my Lady's Glance, c.1900

Add Mss 53,999 Copies of letters to Josephine Preston Peabody Marks and Thomas Bird Mosher and others from Edward Heron-Allen, 1882-1923

Add Mss 54,000 Letter to Cameron Overy from Arthur Earland, 1948

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