Sheldon family estate deeds and papers

Sheldon family deeds, abstracts of title etc., relating to (mainly Warwickshire and Worcestershire) villages including Ascott, Barcheston, Beoley, Birmingham, Bishampton, Blockley (now Gloucs), Brailes, Bretforton, Broadway, Cherington, Coleorton (Leics), Cuckfield (Sussex), Ditchford, Droitwich (including bullaries of salt water), Nuneaton, Salford Priors, Shipston-on-Stour, Stretton-on-Fosse, Studley, Tanworth-in-Arden, Temple Broughton, Tidmington, Weston, Whichford, Willington, Winderton, 1321-1826; roll of copies of old charters etc. relating to Itchington, [1298]; Whichford manor court roll, 1739; Brailes manor court rolls, 1410-20, 1483-94, 1631-1752; reeve's accounts for manor of Brailes, 1400, 1413-14, 1460; rental of Brailes, 1796-98; Cherington manor court roll, 1693-1739; farmer's accounts for Winterton, 1424-26; rent accounts for Brailes, Barchester, Weston and Barton, 1773-78; general pardon to W. Sheldon, 1626; confirmation by the Bishop of Worcester of the foundation of a chantry in Bishampton church by R. de Somery, 1325; letters patent concerning the customs of Brailes, 1600; probate copy will of G. Masters of London, 1666; will of Edward Sheldon of Weston, 1722; marriage settlement of R. Sheldon, 1648; marriage settlement of Edward Edden of Brailes, 1672; marriage settlement of Simon Scroop, 1699; will of Ralph Sheldon of Beoley, 1683; commission of E.R.C. Sheldon as a cornet in the 2nd Regiment of Dragoons, 1805; agreement concerning lands in the Forest of Feckenham, 1518; agreements concerning fees of J. Williams, gaoler of county gaol, Warwick, J. Tandy, bailiff of Hemlingford Hundred, and other hundred bailiffs, 1687; commission to R. Sheldon to seize greyhounds for the King's use within ten miles of Weston, 1661; maintenance agreement for Hannah Prestidge on her separation from her husband, 1689

Current reference nos: 167401-168232 [DV 19-30]

Abstracts of five deeds relating to Tanworth in Arden, (1543-1678); extract of a final concord relating to lands at Bishops Tachbrook (Warks) and Heathcote and Myton in St Nicholas, Warwick, (1680); agreement for the employment of Henry Bennett by the justices of the peace of Warwickshire to teach horsemanship [presumably for the militia], n.d. [c.1560]; note in handwriting of Sir William Dugdale concerning the landholding of William Byshopeston of Alscot (then Glos now Warks) in Thondon (Warks) in the reign of Henry VI, n.d. [17th cent.]; answers to inquiries concerning the court rolls of Kington (Worcs?), Combrook (Warks) and Brookhampton in Combrook, n.d. [c.1700]; epitome of the title of Sir Thomas Overbury to Bruton in the parish of Whitchurch (Warks), n.d. [17th cent.]; copy of a College of Arms pedigree of the descent of Sir Richard Verney from John Willoughby, Lord Broke, (1694); lists of payments to a sheriff's aid by villages in the hundreds of Kineton (Warks) and Endlaxton (Leics), n.d. [16th cent?]; copy will of George Stoughton of St John's, Warwick, (1737); copy presentment of a jury about the boundaries of the manor of Warwick, (1744); abstract of title of the Dunn family to an estate at Barford (Warks), with a pedigree, (1591-1741); extracts from the court rolls of Kington Magna (Worcs?), 1665; pedigree of the families of Verney and Peyto, with legal opinion, 1746; copy will of Grevill Verney of Compton Verney, (1648); grant of lands at Tytherington (Glos), 1687 (Sir Richard Verney to John Verney); probate copy will of Elizabeth Lytcott of Lark Stoke near Chipping Campden (Glos), 1768; copy grant of a market and fair at Solihull to Sir Richard Greaves, (1631); historical notes by J.H. Bloom about Atherstone-on-Stour, 1904

Current reference nos: 182240-1 [IIR 22]; 182274-91 [DV 43]

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