Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 37

Records of West Sussex Record Office Additional Manuscripts

INTRODUCTION

This is the thirty seventh 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 almost entirely concerned with deeds of title, many of them for the area of the county that was part of East Sussex prior to Local Government Re-Organisation in 1974, that have recently been transferred by the Sussex Archaeological Society. The only business archives are the records of Walter Brothers of Worthing, 1846-1971 (Add Mss 38,084-38,396), and the only personal papers are those of the Pepper family, 1899-1978 (Add Mss 37,527-37,537). The documents range in date from a deed of land in Henfield in 1361 (Add Mss 37,984) to a Minute Bock of the Southwick and Shoreham Branch of the Workers Educational Association in 1984 (Add Mss 37,619)

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 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

County Archivist

July 1988

CONTENTS

Add Mss 37,505-37,510 Title Deeds of Strudgate and Robins in Ardingly and West Hoathly, 1652-1668

Add Mss 37,511 Title Deed of property in Balcombe, 1683

Add Mss 37,512 Title Deed of West Marden Chapel, 1585

Add Mss 37,513-37,514 Title Deeds of property in West Hoathly and Worth, 1551 and 1634

Add Mss 37,515-37,517 Grants of next Presentation of Binsted and south Stoke, 1679, and Abstract of Title to the Kempe Estates in Sussex, n.d

Add Mss 37,518 Will of Thomas Ayling of Woolavington, 1681

Add Mss 37,519 Marriage Settlement relating to property in Lindfield, 1775

Add Mss 37,520-37,526 Miscellaneous Papers relating to Ashurst, Bramber, Steyning and West Grinstead, 1733-1792

Add Mss 37,527-37,537 Records of Frank Montague Pepper of Amberley, and Dr. Frank Pepper of Pulborough, 1899-1978

Add Mss 37,538-37,540 Title Deeds of Headley's or Bassett's Barn in East Grinstead, 1735-1773

Add Mss 37,541-37,545 Title Deeds of property in Cuckfield, Slaugham and other parishes, 1785-1823

Add Mss 37,546 Grant of privileges, liberties and estates by Letter Patent to the 12th Earl of Arundel, 1554

Add Mss 37,547 List of reputed old houses and cottages in Rudgwick, 1930

Add Mss 37,548-37,553 Miscellaneous Papers of the Churchman Family, 1713-1897

Add Mss 37,554-37,571 Title Deeds of properties in Cuckfield, Hurstpierpoint, Slaugham and Worth, 1667-1812

Add Mss 37,572-37,616 Title Deeds of properties in various parishes, 1554-1699

Add Mss 37,617-37,618 Records relating to the Littlehampton Harbour and Arun Drainage Outfall Act, 1927

Add Mss 37,619-37,620 Records of the Southwick and Shoreham Branch of the Workers Educational Association, 1966-1984

Add Mss 37,621 Title Deed of the Manors of Tortington and Tortington Cheynes, 1706

Add Mss 37,622-37,632 Title Deeds of 39 Greenways Crescent, Kingston-by-Sea, 1933-1953

Add Mss 37,865-37,911 Papers mainly relating to the Revd. E. Winterbottom, 1847-1946

Add Mss 37,912-37,913 Manuscript and galley proofs of Henry Lock's discourse on Littlehampton, 1882

Add Mss 37,914-37,922 Title Deeds of a house in Haywards Heath, 1940-1970

Add Mss 37,923 Title Deed of a property in Crawley Street in Crawley and Ifield, 1662

Add Mss 37,924-37,930 Title Deeds of a Police Cottage at Sharpthorne in West Hoathly, 1907-1931

Add Mss 37,931-37,934 Title Deeds of properties in various parishes, 1537-1779

Add Mss 37,935-37,938 Title Deeds of properties in various parishes, 1592-1626

Add Mss 37,939-37,942 Title Deeds of Haise Farm in Sidlesham, 1834-1883

Add Mss 37,943-37,944 Title Deeds of property in Racton and Upmarden, 1723 and 1735

Add Mss 37,945-37,952 Title Deeds of a house in the Causeway, Horsham, and other documents

Add Mss 37,953-37,954 Title Deeds of property in Graffham and Kirdford, 1585 and 1750

Add Mss 37,955-37,983 Title Deeds of properties in various parishes, 1608-1774

Add Mss 37,984-37,985A Title Deeds of property in Henfield and Woodmancote, 1361-1645

Add Mss 37,986-38,001 Title Deeds of properties in various parishes, 1430-1876

Add Mss 38,002-38,014 Title Deeds of properties in Cuckfield, Slaugham and Wivelsfield, 1692-1706

Add Mss 38,015 Title Deed of 5 Queens Place, New Shoreham, 1869

Add Mss 38,016-38,029 Title Deeds of 83 Grinstead Lane, Lancing, 1927-1986

Add Mss 38,030-38,036 Probate Papers of Kathleen Mordaunt Sccones of Angmering, 1923-1942

Add Mss 38,037-38,057 Title Deeds of various properties in Worthing, 1844-1899

Add Mss 38,058-38,080 Title Deeds of Ham Farm in Sidlesham, 1771-1910, and Marriage Settlement, 1792

Add Mss 38,081-38,083 Advertisement for Messrs. Kenward and Stonham, Littlehampton, 1856; and Views of Works on the Chichester and Midhurst Railway, 1881

Add Mss 38,084-38,396 Records of the Firm of William Walter, linen drapers, known as Walter Brothers of Worthing, 1846-1971

Add Mss 38,397-38,399 Handbills concerning the 1807 Sussex Election

<span class="wrapper"><p>Add Mss 37,633-37,864 Title Deeds relating to property in Aldingbourne, Amberley, Bosham, Boxgrove, Chichester, Funtington, Oving, Tangmere and West Wittering, and probate papers of the Bayley, Bennett and Osborn families, 1610-1942</p> <p>These documents are listed in a separate catalogue on A2A as 'Deeds of the Bayley, Bennett and Osborn families', under the Aladdin's Cave project</p></span>

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