Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 38

Add Mss 38,400-40,000

Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 38

c1277-1980

INTRODUCTION

This is the thirty eighth 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 lists the usual number of small deposits, mostly concerning deeds of title, and includes a large number of deposits from the Sussex Archaeological Society relating to properties in that part of West Sussex that was in East Sussex prior to Local Government Re-Organisation in 1974. The personal papers include those relating to Romney's portrait of William Hayley (Add Mss 39,286); a chapter of the autobiography of the architect John Denman (Add Mss 39,334); some exercise books of William Gorringe, 1744-1776 (Add Mss 39,850-39,853); and some quaker records of the Horne family of Arundel, 1735-1834 (Add Mss, 39,984-39,995). Of particular interest is the collection of papers of William Hall, the excise officer of East Grinstead, 1808-1841, that was purchased on behalf of the Record Office by the West Sussex Archives Society (Add Mss 39,854) (these documents are listed in a separate catalogue as 'William Hall archives' under the 'From Landlord to Labourer' project), and the 1955 PH.D. thesis of Joyce Mousley, entitled 'Sussex Country Gentry in the Reign of Elizabeth' (Add Mss 40,000). The documents range in date from a title deed of land in Warnham, c. 1277 (Add Mss 39,948), to a deed of a bungalow in Burgess Hill in 1982 (Add Mss 38,477)

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

Add Mss 38,400-38,402 Title Deeds of 16 Oving Road, Chichester, 1867-1893

Add Mss 38,403-38,442 Title Deeds of properties in East Street, St. Martin's Lane, Basin Road and Franklin Place, Chichester, 1644-1901

Add Mss 38,443-38,454 Title Deeds of Stanbridges Farm, Cuckfield, 1788-1893

Add Mss 38,455-38,477 Title Deeds of 36 Crescent Road, Burgess Hill

Add Mss 38,478 Cattle and Sheep Stock Book, Shermanbury Farm, 1904-1914

Add Mss 38,479 Title Deed of 23 Glenwood Avenue, Bognor Regis, 1933

Add Mss 38,480-38,487 Title Deeds of property in Southwick, 1862-1895

Add Mss 38,488-38,514 Title Deeds of Boxalls, East Street, Petworth, 1629-1928

Add Mss 38,515-38,531 Records of Frank Montague Pepper of Amberley and Dr. Frank Pepper of Pulborough, 1819-1951

Add Mss 38,532 Map showing the location of War Services in Chichester, c. 1939-1945

Add Mss 38,533-38,556 Plans of Broadwater and Durrington Pumping Stations of Worthing Corporation Waterworks, 1894-1939

Add Mss 38,557 Inventory of Thomas Upton, 1845

Add Mss 38,558-39,285 Title Deeds and other papers concerning the estates of the Hollist and Capron families, 1312-1924

Add Mss 39,286-39,287 Miscellaneous Papers relating to Romney's Portrait of William Hayley, 1935-1966

Add Mss 39,288 Letters of Administration of Mary Puttock of Billingshurst, 1842

Add Mss 39,289-39,298 Title Deeds of Crouchers in Bolney, 1659-1823 and Oaklands in Cuckfield, 1835

Add Mss 39,299 Title Deed of property in Lindfield, 1717

Add Mss 39,300 Lindfield Land Tax Assessment, 1718

Add Mss 39,301-39,328 Title Deeds of the Manor of Rowley in Charlwood and Worth, 1536-1659

Add Mss 39,329 Elevations of houses in the Borough of Bramber, c. 1780

Add Mss 39,330-39,331 Title Deed of messuage in Lancing, 1663, and Overseers Rate for Thakeham, 1776

Add Mss 39,332-39,333 Title Deeds of Nyewood Lands in Harting, 1729-1731

Add Mss 39,334-39,336 Papers relating to John J. Denman, FSA,FRIBA, JP, 1882-1974

Add Mss 39,337-39,340 Court Books of the Manors of Westbourne and Prinsted in Westbourne, 1685-1862

Add Mss 39,341 Documents relating to 16-30 Grant Place, Leeds, Yorks., the property of G.A. Winterbottom of Burgess Hill, 1937-1963

Add Mss 39,342-39,372 Plans relating to the Gas Holder built at Bognor Regis, 1954-1963

Add Mss 39,373-39,399 Title Deeds of 22 Montague Street, Worthing, 1866-1980

Add Mss 39,400-39,438 Title Deeds of the property of J. Ratcliff in New Shoreham, 1794-1931

Add Mss 39,439-39,453 Title Deeds of 25 High Street, Hurstpierpoint and of properties in Burgess Hill and Brighton, 1838-1914

Add Mss 39,454-39,455 Maps of East Grinstead, 1816 and n.d

Add Mss 39,802 Map of Lindfield, 1715

Add Mss 39,803-39,841 Title Deeds of properties in St. Pancras, Chichester, being the St. Pancras Engineering Works Site, 1821-1928

Add Mss 39,842-39,848 Records of the Haywards Heath Branch of the Workers Educational Association, 1942-1967

Add Mss 39,849 Title Deed of Monksgate Farm, Nuthurst, 1899

Add Mss 39,850-39,853 Exercise Books of William Gorringe, 1774-1776

Add Mss 39,859-39,863 Title Deeds of Strudgate in Worth, West Hoathly and Ardingly, 1708-1710

Add Mss 39,864 Title Deed of property in Hurstpierpoint, 1680

Add Mss 39,865 Title Deed of Avens Farm in Ardingly, 1888

Add Mss 39,866-39,871 Miscellaneous records of the Tithing of Rogate, 1750-1755

Add Mss 39,872-39,882 Title Deeds of properties in Albourne, Ardingly, Cuckfield, Bolney, East Grinstead, Keymer and Lindfield, 1630-1740

Add Mss 39,883 Will of Thomas Downer of Kirdford, 1792

Add Mss 39,884-39,919 Title Deeds of properties in Ardingly, Balcombe, Bolney, Cuckfield, East Grinstead, Lindfield and Slaugham, 1363-1806

Add Mss 39,920 Will of Nicholas Newton of Lindfield, 1600

Add Mss 39,921-39,924 Title Deeds of Worth Hall in Worth, 1899-1900

Add Mss 39,925-39,926 Title Deeds of the Manor of Keymer, 1782

Add Mss 39,927-39,928 Abstracts of Title to property in Bolney, 1874-1891

Add Mss 39,929-39,933 Title Deeds of four freehold properties known as Scrace Bridge in Lindfield, 1871

Add Mss 39,934-39,947 Papers relating to the Warren family of East Preston, 1852-1879

Add Mss 39,948-39,966 Title Deeds of property in Warnham, c. 1277-1620

Add Mss 39,967 Quitclaim of annuity of £5, 1655

Add Mss 39,968 Title Deed of the Manor of Merringdean in Billingshurst, 1705

Add Mss 39,969 Title Deed of property in Ifield, 1666

Add Mss 39,970-39,976 Title Deeds of properties in Clayton, Horsham, Shipley and Thakeham, 1669-1827

Add Mss 39,977 Title Deed of Barnes in Lindfield, 1519

Add Mss 39,978-39,981 Title Deeds of property in Worth and Yapton, 1837-1839

Add Mss 39,982-39,983 Miscellaneous Title Deeds, 1610-1772

Add Mss 39,984-39,995 Papers of the Horne Family of Arundel, 1735-1834

Add Mss 39,996-39,998 Miscellaneous Angmering documents, 1615-1839

Add Mss 39,999 Minute Book of the Steyning Preservation Society, 1933-1948

Add Mss 40,000 'Sussex Country Gentry in the Reign of Elizabeth' by Joyce E. Mousley

<span class="wrapper"><p>These documents are listed in a separate catalogue as 'Turing family papers' under the 'from Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 39,456-39,801 Additional Papers relating to the Turing family of Foveran, Scotland, the Low Countries, then of Chilgrove, West Dean, 1773-1976</p> <p>These documents are listed in a separate catalogue as 'William Hall archives' under the 'from Landlord to Labourer' project</p> <p>Add Mss 39,854-39,858 Papers of William Hall of East Grinstead, Excise Officer, 1808-1841</p></span>

English

1600 Pieces

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