Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 30

Records of West Sussex Record Office additional manuscripts

INTRODUCTION

This is the thirtieth 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 first volume in November 1956

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 Mss., or accumulations from solicitors' offices, such as the Raper Mss., each of which is referred to and quoted by name

The majority of such documents have been deeds of title, though a healthy balance of a vast range of other material has been documented in these volumes. However, 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 up until now, will appear in summary lists, with the accent being on the property concerned, rather than, as hitherto, on the parties involved and the technicalities of the type of legal conveyance being used

The catalogue lists a number of small deposits, mostly concerning deeds of title or records of local businesses, several of which were formerly deposited in the East Sussex Record Office at Lewes, prior to Local Government Re-Organization. The documents range in date from a Rental of the Manor of Shadwell in Buxted of 1320 (Add Mss 28,288), to a record of a meeting of the Cissbury Masonic Lodge in 1981 (Add Mss 27,620)

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 indicated in the introduction to the first volume

PATRICIA GILL

County Archivist

May 1983

CONTENTS

Add Mss 27,501-27,503 Deeds of land in Wisborough Green and South Bersted, and will of Samuel Rogers, 1667-1824

Add Mss 27,504-27,508 Deeds of the rents of various properties, 1675-1683

Add Mss 27,509 Deed of properties in Horsham, 1687

Add Mss 27,510-27,515 Records of H.J. Berry, Chemist, of Worthing, 1854-1878

Add Mss 27,516-27,519 Deeds of properties in Heyshott and Pagham, 1744-1765

Add Mss 27,520 Abstract of Title of Costerd Mill in Woolavington, 1642

Add Mss 27,521-27,528 Deeds of properties in North Mundham, Ashurst, Shipley and Chithurst, 1721-1778

Add Mss 27,529 Accounts of Lord Selsey, 1826-1827

Add Mss 27,530-27,531 Deeds of land in Chichester, Rumboldswhyke and Merston, 1520 and 1677

Add Mss 27,532-27,555 Records of a farm in Nuthurst, 1832-1841

Add Mss 27,556-27,600 Deeds of properties in various parishes, 1594-1850

Add Mss 27,601 Seal Matrix of Baybridge Canal Company, n.d

Add Mss 27,602-27,621 Records of Cissbury Lodge No. 5237, 1930-1981

Add Mss 27,622-27,630 Records relating to Sackville College and to the Cottage Hospital at East Grinstead, 1858-1897

Add Mss 27,631 Deed of a house in Maltravers Drive, Littlehampton, 1947

Add Mss 27,632-27,649 Records relating to the partnership of John and Andrew Burt (East Grinstead Bank), 1799-1827

Add Mss 27,650 Deed of property in Littlehampton, 1776

Add Mss 27,651 Deed of properties in Ifield and Crawley, 1752

Add Mss 27,652 Deed of foreshore in Ferring and Goring, 1901

Add Mss 27,653-27,806 Deeds of Newland Estate in Broadwater, 1605-1874

Add Mss 27,807 Day Ledger and Account Book of William Richardson of East Street, Chichester, grocer, baker and confectioner, 1855-1865

Add Mss 27,808 Deed of covenants respecting a piece of ground at Worthing, 2 December 1794

Add Mss 27,888-27,897 Deeds of property in West Street, Bognor, 1818-1896

Add Mss 27,898-27,900 Plan and Specification for Vicarage Cottages, North Mundham, c.1882-1957

Add Mss 27,901-27,903 Miscellaneous documents relating to Walberton, 1921-1922

Add Mss 27,904-27,911 Papers relating to evacuation to Bognor Regis, 1939-1943

Add Mss 27,912-27,915 Title Deeds relating to copyhold property at Boxgrove, 1859

Add Mss 27,916 Rules of the Bolney Union Society, 1861

Add Mss 27,917 Map of Shillinglee Park in Kirdford, n.d. c.1648

Add Mss 27,918 Cash Account Book of the East Grinstead Railway Company, 1853-1855

Add Mss 27,919 Plan of West Grinstead Park Estate, 1940

Add Mss 27,920-28,022 Deeds of Nos. 5 and 6 South Street, Chichester, and other properties, 1715-1919

Add Mss 28,023 Deed of a messuage in Albourne and Shermanbury, 1656-1657

Add Mss 28,024-28,031 Documents relating to the Baker family of Northchapel, 1699-1741

Add Mss 28,032-28,033 Records of the Bognor Labour Party, 1957-1975

Add Mss 28,034-28,050 Miscellaneous documents relating to Turnpike Roads and Railways, 1806-1846

Add Mss 28,051 Plan of Ham Manor Estate, Angmering, n.d. c.1935

Add Mss 28,052-28,055 Papers relating to 90a. of sea side land in Rustington, 1890-1892

Add Mss 28,056-28,084 Title Deeds relating to Nos. 6, 8,10, 12 and 14 Richmond Road, Worthing, 1832-1893

Add Mss 28,085-28,086 Day Book, Label and Photographs of Faith's, jewellers, East Street, Chichester, 1908-1916

Add Mss 28,087-28,101 Records of Balcombe, Stonehill and Staplefield Women's Institutes, 1929-1968

Add Mss 28,102-28,103 Correspondence and Newspaper Cuttings about West Hoathly Church of England School, 1947-1955

Add Mss 28,104 Minute Book of the Hassocks Horticultural Society, 1922-1953

Add Mss 28,105-28,125 Deeds of Gosdean, Freechase and Stanford in Slaugham, 1702-1815

Add Mss 28,126-28,133 Miscellaneous records of the Tilgate Estate in Worth and Slaugham, 1830-1939

Add Mss 28,134-28,145 Deeds of various properties in Clayton, 1669-1878

Add Mss 28,146 Plans of Hurstpierpoint Police Station, 1871

Add Mss 28,147-28,151 Deeds of property in Clayton and Keymer, 1686-1814

Add Mss 28,152-28,160 Documents relating to the marriage settlement of John Hamlin Borrer and Emily Forrest, 1842-1902

Add Mss 28,161-28,188 Deeds of the Saint Hill Estate, East Grinstead, 1876-1918

Add Mss 28,189-28,190 Miscellaneous documents, 1873, 1910, being strays from the estate papers of Sir E.G. Loder of Leonardslee

Add Mss 28,191-28,201 Miscellaneous correspondence files from the Library of Francis W. Steer, 958-1968

Add Mss 28,202-28,245 Documents relating to the Hamilton Family and to their estates in Stedham and Iping, 1799-1895

Add Mss 28,246-28,259 Deeds of properties in Rustington, 1906-1937

Add Mss 28,260-28,316 Family Papers of the Fuller family of Sussex, 1360-1952

Add Mss 28,317-28,320 Deeds of 6 Wimblehurst Road, Horsham, 1896-1922

Add Mss 28,321-28,344 Deeds of a bakehouse and other properties in Angmering, 1743-1887

Add Mss 28,345-28,348 Wills and declarations relating to the Somers Estate in Billingshurst, 1783-1861

Add Mss 28,349-28,353 Miscellaneous documents relating to the Fuller Collection of South Sea Artifacts in Chicago, Natural History Museum, 1959-1964

Add Mss 28,354-28,356 Deeds of property known as 18 and 20 Richmond Road, Worthing, 1824-1830

Add Mss 28,357-28,359 Letters to William Mason of Chichester, printer, from William Hayley, 1808-1820

Add Mss 28,360 Memorandum of Reading Service by the Rev. Alfred Fuller at West Itchenor, 1865

Add Mss 28,487 Commonplace Book of Charles William Hayley Mason, 1866-1935, and of William Hayley Mason, ob.1980

Add Mss 28,488-28,504 Deeds of Mint Cottage, in Midhurst, 1782-1964

Add Mss 28,505-28,506 Letters to Marianne Mason, wife of William Mason from William Hayley, 1813-1819

Add Mss 28,507 Novelty Almanack, 1860

Add Mss 28,508-28,513 Plans of Chichester Greyfriars, c.1906

Add Mss 28,514 Letters concerning the owners of Ditcham Park, near Harting, 1836

Add Mss 28,515-28,532 Deeds of Habyn Hill House in Rogate, 1747-1932

Add Mss 28,533 Illuminated Address presented to Mr T. Wells, 1907

Add Mss 28,534-28,699 Title Deeds and Estate Papers relating to Staker's Farm at Yapton and Barnham, 1709-1964

<span class="wrapper"><p>Add Mss 27,809-27,887 Records of Worthing Refugee Committee, Worthing Famine Relief Committee and Worthing Refugee Relief Committee, 1938-1973</p> <p>These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Records of Worthing Refugee Committee, Worthing Famine Relief Committee and Worthing Refugee Relief Committee', under the 'Local Governance' project</p> <p>Add Mss 28,361-28,486 Deeds of the Tilgate Estate in Worth and Slaugham, 1702-1903. These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Deeds of the Tilgate Estate in Worth and Slaugham', under the 'Aladdin's Cave' project</p></span>

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