Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue 21

INTRODUCTION

The class of additional Manuscripts (ADD. MSS.) embraces all the smaller gifts and deposits of documents as distinct from the large family and estate collections or accumulations from solicitors' offices, each of which will be referred to and quoted by name

It is hoped that the catalogue will be sufficiently clear to readers without further elaboration, especially as the few abbreviations which have been used (e.g. s. for son, dau. for daughter, occ. for occupation) would appear to be obvious

The following points should, however, be emphasized

(i) names of parishes and manors are normally given in their modern form, unless the spelling in the document appears to be philologically or etymologically important or to be otherwise unusual

(ii) Christian names are normally given in their modern spelling, archaic variants such as 'Johane' and 'Wyllyam' being ignored

(iii) rods and perches are normally omitted, area being given in acres only

(iv) in calendars of deeds of two parties only, the first-named party is subsequently referred to as (a) and the second-named party as (b), although these are not stated at the head of the entry

(v) in the entries for maps, the size is always given in inches, the height being given before the width

No index has been provided to this volume as all relevant details have been included in the general office indexes of persons, places, subjects, and manors

Students are asked to exercise care in referring to these documents, and to use the form Add Mss followed by the relevant number; e.g. the first document in this volume should be quoted as Add Mss 16,393 and the whole group as Add Mss 16,393-16,395. In printed works the reference should be preceded by West Sussex Record Office (or W.S.R.O. in subsequent references), e.g. W.S.R.O., Add Mss 16,393

The documents in this, the twenty first, volume are mostly title deeds of County Council properties but they include letters of Charlotte Yonge, Richard Cobden and Sylas Neville, maps, cricket records and business records

PATRICIA GILL

County Archivist

March 1976

CONTENTS

Add Mss 16,393-16,395 Souvenir programme and tickets for celebrations, 1887-1919

Add Mss 16,396-16,399 Miscellaneous deeds, 1721-1804

Add Mss 16,400-16,403 Miscellaneous deeds, 1736-1857

Add Mss 16,464-16,482 Deeds and other papers relating to 8 Orchard Street Chichester, 1785-1964

Add Mss 16,483-16,485 Records of Littlehampton Fire Brigade, 1887-1903

Add Mss 16,486 Private papers of Dorothy Fortescue, 1920, 1921

Add Mss 16,487-16,490 Documents relating to Amberley Manor, 1741-1766

Add Mss 16,491-16,581 Deeds relating to properties in Fernhurst, 1683-1931

Add Mss 16,620-16,628 Deeds of Bradfields in West Chiltington, 1711-1801

Add Mss 16,629-16,633 Miscellaneous documents relating to the Society of Friends, 1770-1841

Add Mss 16,634 Sheet of manuscript music

Add Mss 16,635 Log of the Arundel, 1774-1775

Add Mss 16,658-16,667 Records of Walberton Miniature Rifle Club, 1913-1920, and Walberton Cricket Club, 1924-1938

Add Mss 16,668-16,750 Deeds of 1,2 and 3 Eastgate Square, Chichester, 1712-1852

Add Mss 16,751-16,752 Deeds of land in Kirdford and Tillington and of Nywards in Bosham, 1646-1702

Add Mss 16,753 Storrington and District Nursing Association account book, 1938-1965

Add Mss 16,754-16,771 Deeds of properties in North Street, Midhurst, 1797-1921

Add Mss 16,772-16,810 Deeds of 40 and 56 New Road, Shoreham, 1854-1920

Add Mss 16,811-16,822 Indentures, school books and other family papers of the Cockerell Family and their ancestors, 1811-1918

Add Mss 16,823-16,828 Volumes relating to members of the Wyndham family, 1905-1949

Add Mss 16,829-16,849 Diaries of Lieutenant Colonel William George Margesson, 1866-1896

Add Mss 16,850-16,852 Miscellaneous documents, 1834-1842

Add Mss 16,853-16,871 Deeds of property on the west side of Chapel Street, Chichester, 1739-1857

Add Mss 16,872 Printed letters to his constituents, written and published by Lieutenant, the Hon. L.W. Joynson-Hicks, MP for Chichester, 1943-1945

Add Mss 16,873-16,874 Xerox copies of the Court Book of the Manor of Ifield, 1739-1949

Add Mss 16,875 Copy of maps of land in Drayton, Oving and Merston, 1588

Add Mss 16,876 Letter of Attorney, 1630

Add Mss 16,877 Copy of court roll of the Manor of Selsey, 1689

Add Mss 16,878-16,884 Account Book, diary and miscellanea concerning Storrington, 1793-1939

Add Mss 16,885-16,922 Deeds of 78 North Street, Chichester, 1791-1915

Add Mss 16,923 A fan, decorated with dance tunes, 1796

Add Mss 16,924-16,927 Miscellaneous papers relating to the Cockerell family of Chichester, 1871-1917

Add Mss 16,928 Exemplification of arms of Anthony George Wright Biddulph of Burton Park, 1836

Add Mss 16,929-16,930 Licence to keep carbide of calcium, 1908

Add Mss 16,931-16,933 Abstracts of title to property in Lancing, 1930-1954

Add Mss 16,934 Conveyance of property in Westbourne, 1871

Add Mss 16,935 Grant of power of attorney, 1825

Add Mss 16,936-16,942 Miscellaneous records of Messrs. Henty and Constable, brewers, 1800-1921

Add Mss 16,943 Copy of map of Kingston and East Preston Manors, 1759

Add Mss 16,944 Letters from Charlotte Yonge to Miss M.E. Walker, 1899-1900

Add Mss 16,945 Letters from Charles E. Bland, of the Royal Engineers, 1915, 1916

Add Mss 16,946-16,971 Deeds of Northlands, Salthill, Fishbourne, 1810-1932

Add Mss 16,972-16,974 Christmas and Valentine cards received by the Cockerell, Prior and Pitt families, 1808-1902

Add Mss 16,975-16,983 Documents relating to Field Place, Rumboldswhyke, 1901-1906

Add Mss 16,984 Election case for the Borough of Bramber, 1728

Add Mss 16,985-16,988 Miscellaneous documents, 1785-1912

Add Mss 16,989 Copies of correspondence between Sylas Neville and Dr. Thomas Sanden, 1783-1835

Add Mss 16,990 Deed of property in Bognor, 1699

Add Mss 16,991-17,001 Letters, post-cards and notebooks concerning Mary Louisa Cockerell, and the Cockerell family, 1867-1942

Add Mss 17,002 Mortgage of property in Woodmancote, 1688

Add Mss 17,003-17,006 Lists of subscribers to Littlehampton Cricket Club, 1889-1894

Add Mss 17,003-17,012 Copies of the accounts of business transacted at Chichester for the Phoenix Fire Office of London, 1785-1818

Add Mss 17,013 Marriage certificate of Fanny Stoveld, 1883

Add Mss 17,014 Apprenticeship indenture of William Hutchens, 1860

Add Mss 17,015-17,017 Map of Binsted Ball Farm, 1825, and petrol ration books, 1947-1957

Add Mss 17,018 Letters written by Richard Cobden, 1832-1837

Add Mss 17,019-17,020 Bills etc. of small firms in the West Grinstead area, 1902-1953

Add Mss 17,021 Probate copy of will of Dame Catherine Phayre, 1918

<span class="wrapper"><p>Now a separate catalogue, Deeds of County Council properties, ref. ams 16404</p> <p>Add Mss 16,404-16,463 Deeds of County Council properties, 1686-1918</p> <p>Add Mss 16,582-16.597 Deeds of County Council properties in Lancing, 1808-1877</p> <p>Add Mss 16,598-16,605 Deeds of County Council property, 15 Upper Bognor Road, Bognor Regis, 1898-1900</p> <p>Add Mss 16,606-16,619 Deeds of County Council property, the Bognor Health Centre, 1824-1869</p> <p>Add Mss 16,636-16,643 Deeds of County Council property, 6 Robinson Road, Crawley, 1864-1899</p> <p>Add Mss 16,644-16,646 Deeds of County Council property, 90 West Street, Crawley, 1880-1883</p> <p>Add Mss 16,647-16,650 Deeds of County Council properties in Crawley, including Crawley Congregational Church, 1855-1861</p> <p>Add Mss 16,651-16,657 Deeds of County Council properties in Crawley, 14, 16, 18 and 24 Robinson Road, Crawley, 1864-1900</p></span>

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