Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 15

Records of West Sussex Record Office additional manuscripts

INTRODUCTION

This, the fifteenth volume of Additional Manuscripts (Add Mss), has, in general, been compiled along the lines indicated in the introduction to the first volume

Apart from deeds of title which form the major part of this volume, there will also be found records of the 'Wren House Players', (Add Mss 11,627 - 11,629); letters and papers relating to the work of Eric Gill, (Add Mss 11,634 - 11,637), Minute Book of the Trustees of the Horsham, Steyning and Beeding Turnpike, (Add Mss 11,692); and records of Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases, (Add Mss 11,846 - 11,899). The documents range in date from a grant of demesne land in Wiston, 1302, (Add Mss 11,690); to a certificate, with order, badge and miniatures, of the Great Service Cross, awarded to Dr. George Kennedy Allen Ball, by the German Republic, 1958, (Add Mss 11,694)

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, subjects and manors which are to be found in the Search Room of the County Record Office

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

March 1969

Add Mss 11,301 11,626 Deeds of various parishes, 1665 - 1879

Add Mss 11,627-11,629 Records of the 'Wren House Players', Chichester, 1941 - 1943

Add Mss 11,630 Letter from P. S. Godman to Capt. C. J. Lucas, 1901

Add Mss 11,631-11,633 Manorial documents of the Manor of Shulbrede and Linchmere, 1560 - 1621

Add Mss 11,634-11,637 Letters and papers relating to the work of Eric Gill, 1950 - 1966

Add Mss 11,638-11,654 Deeds relating mainly to a tenement in North Street, Chichester, 1702 - 1863

Add Mss 11,655 Insurance policy in respect of houses in West and Chapel St., Chichester, 1884

Add Mss 11,656-11,663 Papers of the late Rev. Arthur Benjamin Jones, 1855 - 1960

Add Mss 11,664-11,665 Deeds of property in various parishes, 1909 - 1920

Add Mss 11,666-11,670 Deeds of a cottage called Homemead in Didling, 1659 - 1896

Add Mss 11,671-11,674 Deed and papers of Charles Gregory, 1817 - 1833

Add Mss 11,675-11,677 Papers of the late Rev. Arthur Benjamin Jones, 1909 - 1957

Add Mss 11,678-11,679 Deeds of the Manor of Streatham, 1825, 1882

Add Mss 11,680 Letters to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton, 1826

Add Mss 11,681-11,689 Deeds of Adur House, New Shoreham, 1826 - 1858

Add Mss 11,690 Grant of demesne lands at Wiston, 1302

Add Mss 11,691 Photograph of map of Lee Farm, Billingshurst, 17?6

Add Mss 11,692 Minute Book of the Trustees of the Horsham, Steyning and Beeding Turnpike, 1869 - 1885

Add Mss 11,693 Invoices rendered to Francis Neale of Pagham by Chichester and Bognor tradesmen, 1848 - 1872

Add Mss 11,694 Certificate, with Order, Badge and Miniatures, of the Great Service Cross awarded to Dr. George Kennedy Allen Bell by the German Republic, 1958

Add Mss 11,695 Pardon granted to Roger de Englefeld for transgressions in the King's forests and parks, 1308

Add Mss 11,696 Free pardon granted to George Carter, 1843

Add Mss 11,697 Draft precedent for Letters of Attorney granted by a Dean and Chapter, post 1682/3

Add Mss 11,698-11,820 Documents relating to property in Aldingbourne, Felpham, Middleton, Midhurst and Rumboldswick, 1612/3 - 1911

Add Mss 11,821 Commission of Rutland Stephen Ely as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, 1917

Add Mss 11,822-11,844 Deeds of property in Midhurst, Walberton and Worth, 1698/9 - 1879

Add Mss 11,845 Share certificate for New Shoreham Harbour, 1819

Add Mss 11,846-11,899 Records of Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases, 1904 - 1914; with allied papers, 1919 - 1931

<p>These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases', under the Local Governance project</p>