Suffolk and Berkshire Collection

CONTENTS

General Note

(a) Records listed in Suffolk and Berkshire schedule

Early Estates

Deeds

Manorial

Court rolls and books

Custumals

Notes and extracts

Wills of tenants

Subsidy roll assessments (found with manor records)

Surveys

Copies of court roll

Papers

Deeds chiefly to leasehold properties

Property added to Charlton Estate after 1780

Chiefly deeds

Family settlements

Garsdon estate

Deeds

Manorial

Surveys and court rolls

Legal papers and deeds

(b) Records not listed in Suffolk and Berkshire schedule

Milbourne estate: Deeds

Charlton estate: Legal papers and deeds

Family settlements

Junior branches of family

Revesby estate: Deeds

Estates of Thomas Howard, nephew of 3rd Earl of Berkshire: Deeds

Walden estate: Deeds

House in Duke Street, Westminster (Fielding Family): Deeds

Estate of Thomas Howard, son of Henry Bowes,

Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire: Deeds

Family of Silvius (als. Wood): Deeds

Family of Grahme: Deeds

Family of Dudley and Ward

Land in the United States

Deeds whose connection with the family is unknown

Financial Deeds

Personal papers

Legal papers

Grants of Office

Accounts and inventories

Public records in private hands

Private and solicitors' papers

Estate papers

Personal papers: Financial

Legal papers

Personal papers: Letters

Miscellaneous

It arrived in this office in eleven tin deed boxes and two wooden crates and with the collection there came also a schedule of deeds drawn up towards the end of the 19th century. The contents of the tin boxes marked A - G, and Garsdon Estate were found to correspond fairly well with the items under these headings in the schedule, except that a number of important later deeds had been removed and placed with Montefiore, the banker, as securities. But a large amount of miscellaneous material, chiefly 19th century legal papers, letters and accounts had been deposited on top of the scheduled deeds where those deeds did not fill the boxes. These form part of the section at the end of this list headed "Private and Solicitors' Papers".

A further two tin deed boxes bore labels inside the lid marked "manor of Milbourne". The deeds contained in them all referred to Milbourne and were unscheduled. Another deed box was filled with the remainder of the "Private and Solicitors' Papers".

The two wooden crates contained a very miscellaneous assortment of deeds and papers which had been separated off from the main collection before the deposited schedule was made, for some reason which is not apparent. They were all neatly tied up in brown paper parcels, some being marked "to go to Charlton", or "this should be at Charlton". The boxes were labelled "Mr. Moore, Malmesbury", and the documents found in them are listed here under the heading, "Moore's Box".

This accession has been partially renumbered in order to dispense with the complicated original descriptive numbering. A simple sectional system running consecutively has been introduced, each section corresponding to one of the original groups as set out below. Viz.

Box A becomes Section 1

Box B becomes Section 2

Box C becomes Section 3

Box D becomes Section 4

Boxes E & F become Section 5

Box G becomes Section 6

Garsdon Boxes become Section 7

Milbourne Boxes become Section 8

Moore's Boxes become Section 9

Private & Solicitors papers boxes become Section 10

This collection of over 5,700 documents has been deposited with the County Council in 1958 on Joan for twenty-one years by the Trustees of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire.