Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 48

Records of the West Sussex Record Office Additional Manuscripts

INTRODUCTION

This is the forty ninth 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 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 29 in March 1983, the catalogues of title deeds, instead of being the detailed calendars that had been prepared until that date, have mainly been 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

The documents listed in this catalogue range in date from a certificate concerning the tithes of Hurstpierpoint, 1607 (Add Mss 52,546) to a funeral tribute to the Rev. John H. Bishop by his son Michael Bishop, 2001 (Add Mss 52,384). As well as the usual deeds of title, there are manorial records, such as those for the manor of Cocking, 1823-1841 (Add Mss 52,553), and maps, including those for Ashfold Lodge in Lower Beeding and Slaugham (Add Mss 52,352) and South Mundham Farm in Pagham and North Mundham, 1637 (Add Mss 52,637). Records of organisations include those of Chichester Festival Theatre Society, 1997-1998 (Add Mss 52,266-52,268); Chichester Young Farmers Club, 1948 (Add Mss 52,283); West Chiltington Women's Institute, 1988-1994 (Add Mss 52,394-52,395), various other Women's Institutes, 1919-1997 (Add Mss 52,474-52,545); the Medical Women's Federation (Sussex section), 1967-1993 (Add Mss 52,620-52,630), and the Sussex Ornithological Society, 1945-1999 (Add Mss 52,699-53,499). Records of Sports Clubs include those of Chichester Priory Park Cricket Club, 1971-1997 (Add Mss 52,355-52,381 and 52,619) and South Bersted and Bognor Regis Cricket Club, 1936-1991 (Add Mss 52,559-52,580). There are a number of theses, including studies of General George Goring, 1608-1657 (Add Mss 52,275); clerical influence on a nineteenth-century estate in Sussex (Add Mss 52,382); the Parham Estate (Add Mss 52,465), and Sir William Burnett and the medical staffing of the Royal Navy, 1815-1856 (Add Mss 52,638). There is correspondence and literary miscellanea of Edward Heron-Allen (Add Mss 52,466-52,469, 52,633-52,636, and 52,642); William Hayley (Add Mss 52,473) and the Rev. P.H. Francis (Add Mss 52,319)

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 have photocopies of items catalogued in these pages should seek permission from the Search Room Supervisor. When they have ascertained that the document may be copied they should complete the appropriate REP form and sign the copyright declaration before submitting the appropriate payment in advance. Those seeking permission to quote documents or reproduce them in published work, should ask permission in writing from the County Archivist

RICHARD CHILDS

January 2003

County Archivist

CONTENTS

Add Mss 51,251-51,254 Papers of Caroline May Pearce, 1935-1945

Add Mss 51,255-51,269 Records of the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society, 1887-1956

Add Mss 51,270-51,277 Records of Chichester Council of Churches, 1957-1990

Add Mss 51,278-51,302 Records of Coldwaltham and Watersfield Women's Institutes, 1933-1993

Add Mss 51,303-51,311 Records of Chichester Women Graduates Association, 1969-1996

Add Mss 51,312-51,343 Records of Chichester Orchestral Society, 1892-1995

Add Mss 51,344 Coolham Women's Institute Scrap Book, 1965

Add Mss 51,345 Sales Catalogue for Staking Elevator, 1924

Add Mss 51,346 Obituary of Peter John Martin, 1860

Add Mss 51,347-51,371 Papers of John Eric Whittome, horticulturist and poultry farmer of Henfield, 1913-1987

Add Mss 51,372-51,409 Records of the Humphrey family of Walberton, 1732-1983

Add Mss 51,410-51,439 Title deeds of properties in various parishes, 1532-1730

Add Mss 51,440-51,521 Papers of Edward J.F. Arnold concerning Hurstpierpoint ARP, 1938-1967

Add Mss 51,522 Petworth Prison Nominal Record, 1877-1878

Add Mss 51,523-51,568 Title deeds of properties in Oving, South Bersted and Chichester, 1724-1923

Add Mss 51,569 Title deeds of Brambletye, North Street, Westbourne, 1909-1955

Add Mss 51,570-51,711 Files and working papers of W.A. Walton, 1851-1988

Add Mss 51,712-51,753 Title deeds of 150-151 St. Pancras, Chichester, and of a site for a school in Ifield, 1825-1997

Add Mss 51,754 Miscellaneous papers of Eliza Browne of Shipley, 1812-1843

Add Mss 51,755-51,758 Letters to his family from Victor Kensett, when travelling in Australia, 1864-1944

Add Mss 51,759-51,806 Title deeds of properties in Amberley, 1805-1956

Add Mss 51,938 Title deeds of 152-158, London Road, Bognor Regis, 1867-1976

Add Mss 51,939 Title deeds of Hollins Bank, 45 Copthorne Hill, High Salvington, Durrington, 1959-1988

Add Mss 51,940-51,996 Papers of Joan Strange (1902-1994), 1917-1994

Add Mss 51,997-52,013 Title deeds and other documents relating mainly to East Preston and Ferring, 1671-1844

Add Mss 52,014-52,020 Lancing Inclosure Award and miscellaneous marriage settlements and probate copies of wills, 1805-1907

Add Mss 52,021 Title deeds of properties in Shermanbury and Albourne, 1776-1814

Add Mss 52,022 Title deeds of property in St. Pancras, Chichester, 1758-1896

Add Mss 52,023 Letters written by Jon Lester King from school in Chichester, and from Paris, 1830-1832

Add Mss 52,024 Letter and invoice from W. and J. Rowlatt, oilmen of London, 1775

Add Mss 52,025-52,091 Records of various Women's Institutes, 1924-1994

Add Mss 52,092-52,125 Records of the Chichester Branch of the United Nations Association, 1948-1998

Add Mss 52,126-52,144 Records of Charlton Saw Mill, 1934-1987

Add Mss 52,145-52,155 Records relating to the Wall Hill Mail Robbery, East Grinstead, 20 July 1801

Add Mss 52,156-52,157 Title deeds of property in Washington, 1743-1788

Add Mss 52,158 Book of Tokens of Esteem presented to Dr. Ralph Smedley, 1940

Add Mss 52,159 Title deed of property in Slaugham, 1692

Add Mss 52,160-52,166 Records of Pulborough Women's Institute, 1932-1984

Add Mss 52,167 Advertisement for patent medicines, c.1877

Add Mss 52,168 'The Evacuation of English Schoolchildren during World War Two' by Edward M. Jones, 1974

Add Mss 52,169-52,174 Log Books of walks in Sussex and elsewhere, compiled by Douglas Lasseter, 1997-1998

Add Mss 52,175 Handbill advertising Mr. Pettet's Exhibition of dissolving Scenery at Lindfield, 1864

Add Mss 52,176 Photocopy of Steyning Poll Book, 1790

Add Mss 52,177 MS Poem 'Chance Memory' by Philip Johnson, 1916

Add Mss 52,178 Deed of covenant, 1872

Add Mss 52,179-52,184 Miscellaneous Chichester documents, 1873-1917

Add Mss 52,185-52,204 Title deeds of properties in East Grinstead, 1724-1811 and Steyning, 1914-1919

Add Mss 52,205-52,206 Documents concerning Arundel, 1638 and 1800

Add Mss 52,207 Map of Albourne and Hurstpierpoint, 1776

Add Mss 52,208-52,214 Documents relating to Great Haywards Farm, Haywards Heath, 1948-1973

Add Mss 52,216-52,219 Additional Sheila Kaye-Smith papers, 1944-1995

Add Mss 52,220-52,223 Additional files of the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society, 1916-1998

Add Mss 52,224 Letters to David Austin from Penrose Fry, 1952-1963

Add Mss 52,225-52,226 Additional records of the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society, 1860-1998

Add Mss 52,227-52,230 Additional records of the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society, 1870-1998

Add Mss 52,231-52,232 Additional record of the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society, 1988-1999

Add Mss 52,233-52,248 Documents relating to Crawley New Town, 1946-1968

Add Mss 52,249 Commonplace book of Edward Bates of Cuckfield, clockmaker, 1793-1843

Add Mss 52,250 Correspondence of E.E. Wishart re the Left Book Club (Chichester Branch), 1937

<p>Add Mss 51,807-51,937 Title deeds and business and personal papers of the Knight family of Cuckfield, 1467-1984. These documents are listed on A2A as 'Knight Manuscripts', under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project</p>

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