STRANGWAYS FAMILY AND ESTATE PAPERS

Strangways family and estate papers

PROPERTY TENURE AND PERSONAL ESTATE

Documents illustrating title to major properties

1 Manor of Wyke Champflower, etc. 1349-1679

2 Manor of Redlinch 1611-1627

3 Rectory of Shapwick, etc. 1599-1610

4 Various manors (including the Rectory of Shapwick), etc. 1534-1839

Leases of major properties

5 Rectory of Shapwick, tithes, etc. 1721-1809

Documents concerning minor properties

6 Shapwick (exchanges) 1705-1709

7 Various parishes 1626-1884

Documents concerning properties originally copyhold

8 Manor (and Rectory) of Shapwick cum Moorlinch, copies of court roll 1593-1751

9 Manor (and Rectory) of Shapwick cum Moorlinch, leases for lives 1662-1776

Documents concerning estates of delinquents (Civil War)

10 Estate of Sir Charles Berkeley of Bruton 1646-1657

Documents concerning claims, disputes, and litigation

11 Moorlinch, etc. (tithes) 1623-1679

12 Shapwick, etc. (tithes) mainly (There are earlier or extracts of earlier documents listed under these numbers.) 18th century

13 Shapwick (churchyard) mainly (There are earlier or extracts of earlier documents listed under these numbers.) 18th century

14 Bull family estates generally [circa 1721]-1755

15 Shapwick (Loxley) 1754-1766

16 Shapwick, etc. (various disputes) mainly (There are earlier or extracts of earlier documents listed under these numbers.) 18th century

Miscellaneous documents affecting real and personal estate

17 Various subjects, including Enclosure and Private Acts 1623-1857

MANORIAL PROCEDURE

Manor Court Proceedings

18 Court papers of the Manor (and Rectory) of Shapwick cum Moorlinch 1649-1777

19 Court papers of the Manor of Shapwick (Rolle property) 1686-1788

20,21 Court rolls of the Manor (and Rectory) of Shapwick cum Moorlinch 1609-1778

Manorial Customs

22 Customal of the manors of the dissolved Monastery of Glastonbury 1592

MANORIAL AND ESTATE (FINANCIAL) ADMINISTRATION

Lord's and Rack Rents

23-25 Rentals of the Manor (and Rectory) of Shapwick cum Moorlinch 1674-1791

26 Rentals of Shapwick [?Rolle property]. 1740-1771

Tithe Adjustments

27 Lists of adjustments due to the Rector of Shapwick 1753-1761

MANORIAL AND ESTATE (GENERAL) ADMINISTRATION

Survey and Valuation of property

28-53 Surveys and maps of Shapwick, etc. [circa 1700]-1839

54,55 Maps of Kings Sedgemoor 1791, circa 1795

56 Map of Ashcott 1872

57 Copies of terriers of Shapwick and Ashcott, 1515, 1638 transcr. circa 1805

OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS AND PERSONAL INTERESTS

Lay Subsidies

58,59 Collector's quietus and lay subsidy roll 1627,1640

Shrievalty

60 Writ of assistance and sheriff's quietus 1683-1684

The Armed Forces

61 Militia, Volunteer and Deputy Lieutenancy Commissions, etc. 1645-1830

62 Correspondence, etc., concerning Volunteer Corps. 1803

Armorial Bearings and Genealogy

63 Confirmation of armorial bearings (Bull) 1624

64 Illustrations of armorial bearings (Bull) circa 1700

65 Genealogical tables and memoranda (various families) 18th-20th century

C/206

About 330 deeds, etc., 1707-1858, relating mainly to estates of the Lawrence family in Badgeworth, Coberly and Shurdington in the County of Gloucester, were found with this accumulation of documents, and have been forwarded to the County Record Office, Gloucester. Without doubt, they came into the possession of the Strangways family through Harriet Anne, daughter and heir-at-law of William Lawrence, esq., of Cowley House in Gloucestershire, and second wife of Henry Bull Strangways, the eldest son of Henry Bull Strangways (died 1829) of Shapwick. [Cf. Strangways pedigree in no. 65 above, and the Lawrence documents].