Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 41

Records of West Sussex Record Office Additional manuscripts

INTRODUCTION

This is the forty first 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 the 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 twenty nine in March 1983, the catalogues of title deeds, instead of being the detailed calendars that had been prepared until that date, have mainly been catalogued in 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

This catalogue is dominated by a series of catalogues of the working papers of the Chichester Excavation Committee (Add Mss 43,046 - 44,083 and 44,129 - 44,137) and by a number of collections of records of the Manors on the Cowdray Estate purchased from a dealer (Add Mss 42,252 - 42,267, 42,837 - 42,874, 42,949 - 42,995 and 43,001 - 43,035). It includes a fine collection of title deeds of the Balcombe Estate (Add Mss 44,138 - 44,671): the research papers of Dr. Jack Mickerson on the medical history of Chichester and the life and career of Dr. John Forbes, 1787 - 1861 (Add Mss 43,036 - 43,045); and the records of the West Sussex Gazette (Add Mss 42,876 - 42,940). Of particular interest are some Court Books of Lancing Manor, that were long thought to be lost (Add Mss 42,996 - 42,998), and some deeds from the Phillipps Collection (Add Mss 42,620 - 42,654). The documents range in date from a quitclaim of land in Fishbourne, 1263 (Add Mss 42,634), to some photographs of the Gorringe family of Kingston by Sea, 1989 (Add Mss 44,724)

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 photocopy items catalogued in these pages should ask permission from the Search Room Supervisor and sign the appropriate copyright forms, and those seeking to quote documents in published work, should ask permission in writing from the County Archivist

PATRICIA GILL

June 1992

County Archivist

CONTENTS

Add Mss 42,250-42,251 Title Deeds of Gunnings Mill and Gunning Mead, East Harting, 1677-1679

Add Mss 42,655-42,836 Abstracts of title and other deeds of properties in Worthing and surrounding parishes, 1812-1958

Add Mss 42,875 Correspondence and title deeds relating to 1 Marine Parade, Bognor Regis, 1954

Add Mss 42,876-42,940 Records of West Sussex Gazette (Mitchell and Co. Printers), Tarrant Street, Arundel

Add Mss 42,941-42,947 Records of Chichester Ladies Hockey Club, 1944-1980

Add Mss 42,948 Minute Book of Chichester City Council, 1930-1931

Add Mss 42,996-42,998 Court Books of the Manors of Lancing, 1762-1910, and the Manor of North Lancing and Monks South Lancing and Lyons, 1804-1924

Add Mss 42,999 Inventory of the estate of Henry Comper of West Chiltington, 1833

Add Mss 43,000 Title Deed of Wantley Manor, Henfield, 1712

Add Mss 43,036-43,045 Research Papers of Dr. Jack Mickerson, 1924-1990, on the medical history of Chichester and the life of Dr. John Forbes, 1787-1861

Add Mss 43,046-43,312 Plans and maps of excavations in Tower Street, Chapel Street, East Street, Crane Street, North Street, Southgate, South Street, St. Andrew's Church and Eastgate, Chichester, 1969-1978

Add Mss 43,313-43,348 Ten disks and print-outs of Chichester Excavations, vol. 6, Level 3, and nine disks and ten print-outs of vol. 7, Level 3

Add Mss 43,349-43,362 Photographs, negatives, and plans of excavations in Southgate and Chapel Street, Chichester, 1969-1974

Add Mss 43,363-44,083 Plans, trench books, etc., for excavations of Chichester and surrounding area, 1911-1982

Add Mss 44,084-44,128 Documents relating to the Manor of Bassetts Fee in Billingshurst, 1533-1862

Add Mss 44,129-44,137 Plans of Chichester excavations, 1932-1972

Add Mss 44,672-44,724 Additional Papers of the Gorringe family of Kingston-by-sea, 1845-1989

<span class="wrapper"><p>Add Mss 42,252-42,267 Minute Books of various Cowdray Manors, 1823-1925. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2/a as 'The Cowdray Archives', under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 42,268-42,562 Title Deeds of Henfield and neighbouring parishes, 1531-c.1950. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Griffith Smith of Henfield', under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 42,563-42,654 Documents relating to the Findon Place Estate of the Margesson family, 1787-1938, and title deeds from the Phillipps Collection, 1263-1793. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Margesson family', under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 42,837-42,874 Miscellaneous documents relating to Manors on the Cowdray Estate, 1618-1919. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'The Cowdray Archives', under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 42,949-42,995 Documents relating to the Manor of Iping, 1695-1917. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Manor of Iping', under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 43,001-43,035 Title Deeds and manorial documents of properties on the Cowdray Estate, 1633-1889. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'The Cowdray Archives', under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 44,138-44,671 Title Deeds and other documents of the Balcombe Estate, 1436-1966. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'The Balcombe Estate; under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p></span>

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