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LINCOLNSHIRE ARCHIVES
COMMITTEE
ARCHIVISTS’
REPORT
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1st April 1966 - 31st March 1967
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CONSTITUENT AUTHORITIES :
Lincoln, Hebb’s Papers . . . . . . ,. . .
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INTRODUCTION
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DEPOSITED RECORDS :
Bromhead Nursing Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Kelham
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Lindsey Manor&l
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Mossop and Bowser .........................
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Tallents
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Other Gifts and Deposits .....................
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FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Lincolnshire Archives Committee
ReDIVSenting Lindsey County Council
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Alderman Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts, M.C., D.L.
Alderman A. W. Harrison, O.B.E.
Alderman Lt. Col. J. E. Sandars. O.B.E., T.D., D.L.
Councillor W. H. Crowder
Councillor A. J. Massingberd-Mundy
Councillor S. Vickem, M.M.
Councillor A. E. Wright
Representing Kesteven County Council :
Alderman the Earl of Ancaster, L.L., T.D. (chairman)
Alderman Capt. H. W. N. Fane, ,D.L.
Councillor B. L. Barker
Representing Holland County Council
Councillor J. I-I. Dell
Councillor C. F. Ford
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Representing the City of Lincoln :
Alderman Sir Francis Hill, C.B.E., M.A.; LLM., L1tt.D.. D.Litt.. F.S.A.
(vice-chairman)
Councillor J. T. Ward
Councillor G. T. Blades
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TECHNICAL AND ADVISORY SUB-COMMITTEE
The Earl of Ancaster, L.L., T.D. (Custos rotulorum)
The Reverend Canon P. B. G. Binnall, M.A., F.S.A.
(representing the Bishop of Lincoln)
The Reverend Canon N. S. Rathbone. M.A.
irepresenting the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln)
Professor E. Miller, M.A. (representing the University tof Sheffield)
R. L. Storey, Esq., M.A., Ph.D. (representing the University of Nottingham1
F. W. Books, Esq., M.A. (representing the University of Hull)
G. H. Martin, Esq., M.A., D.Phil. (representing the University of Leicester)
Professor K. Major, M.A., B. Litt., D. Litt. (representing the Lincoln Record Society)
P. S. Scorer, Esq. (representing the Lincolnshire Law Society)
G. S. Dixon, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. (representing the Lincolnshire Local History Society1
H. J. J. Griffith, Esq. (Lincoln Diocesan Registrar)
Miss J. S. Lumsden. M.A., F.L.A. (Kesteven County Librarian)
E. H. Roberts, Esq., F.L.A. (Lindsey and Holland County Librarian)
F. T. Baker, Esq., M.A., A.L.A., F.M.A., F.S.A. (Director, Lincoln Public Library)
Alderman Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts, MC., D.L.
(representing the Lincolnshire Archives Committee)
(ditto)
Alderman Capt. H. W. N. Fane. D.L.
Councillor C. F. Ford
(ditto)
Alderman A. W. Harrison, O.B.E.
(ditto)
Alderman Sir Francis Hill,
(ditto)
C.B.E., M.A., LL.M., Litt.D., D.Litt., F.S.A. (chairman)
OPFICERS
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Clerk of the Committee : J. E. Blow, Esq., County Offices, Sleaford, Lines.
Treasurer: K. R. Hounsome. Esq., F.I.M.T.A.
Surveyor: A. Ronald Clark, Esq., A.R.I.B.A., A.M.T.P.I.
Archivist : Mrs. J. Varley, M.A., F.S.A.,
Lincolnshire Archives OiBce. The Castle, Lincoln.
First Assistant Archivist : C. M. Lloyd, Esq,, B.A.
Second Assistant Archivist : Miss M. E. Finch, MA., Ph.D.
Third Assistant Archivist : Miss Susan Steele, B.A.
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INTRODUCTION
It is with great regret that we record the death of our former COIleague Miss F. E. Thurlby. Lady Stenton in her account of Canon
C. W. Foster in the series ‘ Eminent Local Historians ’ (The Amateur
Historian, Autumn 1964) refers to this most permanent member of the
Canon’s helpers and shows the charm and informality of life at Timberland vicarage. The Canon’s clerks, of whom Miss Thurlby as his secretary was the chief, were now shorthand typists dealing with Diocesan
Trust business, now transcribers of medieval charters, making regular
visits to Lincoln first by laudau, later by motor car, and more occasional
visits in pursuit of record material to London. ,*Truly the glory departed
with the death of the Canon in 1935 but Miss Thurlby continued to
cherish his books and manuscripts and to help and welcome those who
came to consult them, first at the Lindsey County Library and later
at the Castle, when the Foster Library was transferred there, until hex
retirement in 1961. Her colleagues valued her unassuming selfless
help and the tranquil atmosphere of the Foster Library in her charge..
Tribute was rightly paid in many volumes of the Lincoln Record Society
to her skill and industry in transcribing and indexing. In the Archives
Office transcripts, calendars, shelf lists and index cards in her beautiful
handwriting are a continuing memorial to her work for scholars.
The year under review has shewn the increased use of the of&e
both by the greater number of persons and in the higher total of visits
which recent years have tended to produce. This aspect of the work
of the office is set out in more detail in the section on the ‘ use of the
office ’ below (p. 78). The archivist, clerical and cleaning staff has
had no changes or vacancies and much hard work has gone forward as
it is hoped this report will testify. Nevertheless th.e pressure of work
caused by the increased use by readers and the large number of new
deposits of documents, great and small, is reflected both in the number
of those recorded as unlisted and in the ever present consciousness of
postponement of work which would much extend their usefulness on
many classes of documents already held. It has been thought right
to continue to contribute to the work of record preservation outside
the office, examples of which, recorded below, are the journeys under
‘ Farming Records I, listing under ‘ Parish Records ‘, ‘ Revesby Abbey ’
and ‘ Ruston and Hornsby Library ’ . A visit was also paid to the
offices of the National Farmers’ Union but the listing there has not
yet been completed.
Work on documents in ‘the office has been reported on below. The
completion of a box and bundle list of the enormous Peake, Snow and
Jeudwine deposit, worked on at intervals during the past two years
by the three assistant archivists, has been described by Dr. Finch who
has also worked and reported on the Fane and Massingberd of Gunby
deposits. Mr. Lloyd has reported on the Hebb papers from the Lincoln
Corporation offices, work on which was another co-operative effort by
the assistant archivists, on the Hill Sibthorp and Revesby Abbey
records and on Farming records in part listed outside the office. Miss
Susan Steele contributed the sections on the Kelham and Tallents
deposits and on manorial records. She also summarized work on parish
records, to which most members of the staff have contributed. The
sections on faculties and consecrations are based on the listing of those
records by Miss G. W. Cave, continuing her voluntary work for this
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office, and by Miss Susan Green, junior clerk, and the section on Land
Tax records was made possible by much hard work on the part Of
Mrs. Bee1 and Miss Green. The typing of letters and lists and work
on photocopying and microfilming form a vital link between the office
and the outside world and it is being well maintained under Mrs. Beel’s
direction by herself and Miss Green. Mr. Wilson’s transporting of
records to and from the search room and gaol or Exchequer Gate
never slackens and he and Mrs, Corby face with cheerful service the
additional cleaning work brought about by the extended use of rooms
and cells. The only section of the office’s activity that has fallen behind
during the year is that of document repair. In August Mrs. Playford
was seriously injured in a motor accident and only made her most
welcome return, on a part-time basis for the time being, just before
the endf of March. Miss Susan Steele, who gave two years of good service to the office, left at the ‘end of March to take up a position in the
Greater London Record Office, Middlesex section, and Miss Judith
Cripps has been appointed to take,up work in July next.
The voluntary work of Miss Cave has already been mentioned and
her help, as well as that of Mr. L. B. Barley in indexing her lists, is
much valued. Mrs. C, .R. Collis, a new volunteer this year, has been
working on a list of the later court books of the manor of Kirton Lindsey.
Miss Mary Eminson who came,for a month for experience of an archivist’s life and work, made useful lists and indexes of the newly deposited
Baptist records (p. 59) and of some of the papers in the deposit of
Messrs.~Burton and Co. Miss Eyre and Miss Scott, sixth formers from
Christs” Hospital Girls’ High School, chose work in t e office for their
post-examination spell of out of school work and pro %uced a useful list
and index of 19th Century school building plans deposited by the Department of Education and Science as well as gaining experience of sorting
dirty documents and other insight into an archivist’s life.
Most annual reports deal with new accessions of documents, some
of which may be official, but many of which are loans by owners of
documents, relatively few being outright gifts, The continued generosity
of owners in making their documents available in this way is something
for which staff and students alike can never be sufficiently grateful.
Very rarely do removals take place, and it is pleasant to record that
the possible removal of records of the manor of Stow (described in
Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeotogical Society Reforts alod
Papers, vol. 4, part I, 1951) has been averted by the purchase of the
lordship of the manor, to which the Lincolnshire Association made a
welcome contribution.
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CONSTITUENT
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AUTHORITIES
LINCOLN COKPORATION : HEBB’S PAPERS
The title “ Hebb’s Papers ” was given to this large collection of
documents froin the Town Clerk’s department on the assumption that
they were the working papers of Henry Kirke Hebb, Clerk to the
Lincoln Local Board of Health, ,x866-72, Clerk to the Urban Sanitary
Authority and Deputy Town Clerk, X872-99. Closer inspection has
, proved, however, that t,he title is something of a misnomer: some
documents come from a period long after Mr. Hebb’s decease, others
are contemporary, but relate to the wrong departments of Lincoln
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iorporation. Nevertheless, the majority of the documents concern
the work of the Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority.
In 1866 the Corporation of Lincoln adopted the Local Government Act of 1858 (21 & 22, Victoria, cap. 63) and formed themselves
into a Local Board of Health. Hebb was the first clerk to this Board
which, following the, Public Health Act of 1872 (35 & 36 Victoria cap.
7g), became. the Urban Sanitary Authority. At the same time J. T.
Tweed, the Town Clerk, appointed Hebb his deputy, at the request, as
is recorded in the minutes, of the Town Council and to enable Hebb
the better to discharge his duties as Clerk of the Sanitary Authority.
The same persons served on t.he Town Council and Sanitary Authority,
but the clerkships remained separate till 1911 when W. T. Page, who
had succeeded Hebb in 1899, followed Tweed as Town Clerk.
The duties of the’ Urban Sanitary Authority were laid down in a’
number of successive statutes, perhaps most fully in the 1875 Public
Health Act (38 & 39 Victoria, cap. 55). They were responsible for
sewerage and drainage, scavenging and cleansing, water supply, highways and streets, street lighting, public pleasure grounds and’ control
of ,infectious diseases.‘ They had powers for the enforcement of sufficient privy accommodation in new buildings, the paving and draining
of private streets and the suppression of nuisances. They were responsible for the registration and regulation of lodging houses, offensive
trades, markets and slaughterhouses and the inspection of the condition of foodstuffs on public sale. They produced by-laws on a multitude of subjects from hackney carri.ages and omnibuses‘ to the employment of children in street trading. In fact most of the more important
functions of the Town Council were performed as Urban Sanitary
Authority and the papers in this deposit provide evidence for all of
them. So far the deposit has only been roughly sorted according to
subject and boxed. It fill3 sag coltlapsible boxes, size 14” x I O” x
/ 5”. Individual documents have not been numbered, so the only
possible reference is by box number.
The chief value of this deposit will be as a supplementary source to
the information already available in the minute books of the City
Council, the Urban Sanitary Authority and their committees. Together
they will provide ample material for study of the great wave‘ of urban
improvements in. the late nineteenth century in their application to
Lincoln. There are four boxes of documents relating to the city’s water
supply (Boxes 4548), six relating to its sewerage (65-70)~ two to gas
and electricity (5o-51). As examples of the material available there
follow brief notes, on the history of Lincoln’s sewerage and water supply
and on the Arboretum entertainments, as revealed by these documents.
The main sewerage of Lincoln, was finally carried out between 1877
and 1881 at a cost of about @o,ooo, after the Urban Sanitary Authority
and the majority of the inhabitants had fought a protracted rearguard
action against the Local Government Board in an attempt to avoid so
expensive an operation. It needed innumerable experts’ reports, two
public enquiries and finally a writ of “ mandamus ” to convince them
of the necessity of giving way. The long saga of Lincoln’s sewerage
began in 1866 when the Local B&rd of Health called on M.O. Tarbottom
for a report on the sanitary condition of the town, He found the
wells contaminated by nearby cesspits whose contents soaked through
the rock, open sewers running down the streets and emptying into the
Witham, and enormous numbers of privies and ashpits, less dangerous
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than the cesspits, if only because they became so constantly offensive
to the nose and eye that they stood a better chance of being emptied.
He recommended a system of some 20 miles of main sewers at a cost
of ,E26,000 (Box 65). The Local Board of Health merely passed a resolution that underground sewerage was a subject on which the greatest
authorities were in dispute and shelved the question until a small group
of inhabitants complained to the Home Secretary in r&/o that the town
authorities were not carrying out their statutory duties in this respect.
As a result of their petition a Local Government Board inspector was
appointed to hold an enquiry at Lincoln in October. Meanwhile 2,650
inhabitants signed a memorial urging the Local Board to stick to its
guns and refuse to “ fasten upon the Citizens an expensive system of
Drainage.” At the enquiry the charges against the Local Board were
fully proved, especially as regarded the pollution of the river. Employees
in Clayton and Shuttleworth’s engine house “ called and gave their own
very clear and positive statements ” (unfortunately not reproduced
verbatim) on the. sickening stench of the water, The Inspector writes .
with some heat of the ignorance of the majority of the inhabitants and
of the Board: “ They speak of [underground drainage] as if it was a
new invention and raise difficulties about the vent,ilation, and flushing
of sewers, as if ample provision in t,hese respects did not form an
essential part of every well considered plan of Town Sewerage,” The
Local Board was given three months to decide what to do (Box 66,
Report on Enquiry by Arnold Taylor, the L.G.B. Inspector). This
time was apparently extended, a farm at Heighington was purchased
for the site of a sewage farm and a Special Sewerage Committee was
authorised to employ engineers to produce plans. However, wlhen this
committee recommended that tenders should be advertised for and the
work commenced, the Council refused to adopt their proceedings (Box
66, Letter H. K. Hebb to J. T. Tweed, 18 Dec. 1874). Another Local
Government Board enquiry took place on December zest 1874. Unfortunately we do not have a full report of its findings, though we do have a
rough summary of the proceedings (Box 66). The evidence given was
much the same as four years earlier. All the doctors called, including
the city Medical Officer of Health, were agreed that the sewerage of
the city was prejudicial to health, but none of them could, or would,
point to any specific epidemics for which it could be held responsible.
The solicitor for the complainants was Robert Toynbee and the notes
of evidence preserve in a succinct manner some of his more felicitous
utterances : “ Houses drain through Aboretum, challenge any man to
say what becomes of the sewage “; “ Public cattle market adds valuable
contribution to River Witham “; ‘, Newport Arch-.-&Z&z on every face
-architectural-public urinal-no provision for carrying off .” After the
enquiry the Urban Sanitary Authority sent a memorial to the Local
Government Board claiming that there was as yet no completely satisfactory method of underground sewerage, that they should not be forced
to embark on a scheme which was opposed by the majority of the
citizens, that the death rate of Lincoln was low compared with many
properly sewered towns and that the people who lived by the supposedly
polluted waterside were as healthy as any others (Box 66). But these
protests were unavailing : a Local Government Board order for the
proper sewerage of Lincoln in Maroh 1875 was later reinforced by a writ
of naandamus and the work was finally carried out between 1877 and
1881, when 41 ,miles of pipes were laid, three-quarters of them in ground
continuously charged with water.
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In view of the sad history of Lincoln’s sewerage it is surprising
that the major serious epidemic came after main drainage and not before
it. This was the outbreak of typhoid in January and February 1905.
The number of cases jumped suddenly from 4 in the week of rgth-2rst
January to 124 in‘the following week and 265 in the week 29th Jan.4th Feb. The outbreak was attributed (subsequent investigation proved
correctly) to contamination of the water supply, caused by a severe
frost which froze the filter beds at the waterworks enabling contaminated
water from the Witham to flow straight through. Steps were taken to
treat the water with chemicals which made it safe but at the same time
imparted to it a certain musty flavour and odour which one observer
compared to I‘ that of nuts in an earthenware vessel which had been”
brought up from storage in a damp cellar.” Not surprisingly many
inhabitants rejected this in favour of the safe, and pleasant, drinking
water brought in free of ‘charge, :by the generosity of the Great Northern
Railway and certain leading citizens, from Newark and Willoughby by
Alford. Other supplies came by rail in jars from Market Rasen and
many sharp tradesmen found a source of swift profit: “ so long as the
water was stated to be from a source other than the Lincoln Corporation
supply there were people ready to buy it from hawkers in the streets at
2d. a gallon.” (Box 45, Report to Local Government Board on the
epidemic).
The Urban Sanitary Authority could with justice consider themselves unfortunate in the timing of this epidemic. For some years they
had realised the shortcomings of their supply and had been attempting
to improve it. Since Igoo a bore had been gradually sinking at Boultham, near the waterworks, in search of water. This supply was not
finally tapped until rgo6, after the epidemic, when tests proved it
undrinkable. The council then sought desperately for an alternative
source. Expert opinion was not in favour of anywhere in the immediate
vicinity of the city, nor did they discover any nearby source in the
Lincolnshire limestone area which filled both requisites of amount and
freedom from possible contamination. They recommended that Lincoln
should get its wat’er from the Nottinghamshire sandstone at Elkesley
and after a certain amount of opposition from various Nottinghamshire
local authorities, this received Parliamentary approval in 1908% (Box 46,
Minutes of Evidence of Parliamentary Committee on Lincoln Corporation
Bill).
Not all the Urban Sanitary Authorities responsibilities were so
arduous, or so expensive, as the provision of sewerage and water supply.
To take a rather more trivial example, one of the concerns of the Pulblic
Health Acts was for the provision of parks and open spaces for the
rest and relaxation of the urban population. At Lincoln the Arboretum
was laid out in 1872 and a bandstand built in 1884. A special Arboretum Fetes and Concerts committee was responsible for providing entertainments in the form of brass band concerts and occasional firework
displays. One of the programmes in r8go included the Galop, ” Lincoln
Arboretum,” performed by the band of the 6th Dragoon Guards, and
specially composed for the occasion by their conductor. A band which
caused some trouble was that of the Robin Hood Rifles who at an-&g4
concert arrived late and failed to complete their programme, I’ several
of the men having been walking about the Arboretum while the Band
was performing and they having omitted to play the National Anthem.”
In spite of these failings this band was engaged again in 1895.: at
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L7 7s. od. plus railway fares, their fee was by far the cheapest, The
finances of the committee were so shaky that in April 1896 it was
decided that because of the annual recurring losses no concerts should
be held in the ensuing season (Box 99: Committee Minute Book, etc.).
Summary
Minutes: town council (draft), 1923-5, COIIUIIittee miIlUtf3S, I91524, 4
boxes; papers for meetings (Finance, Health, Education, Floods and
Watch ,Committees) 1899-1928, g& boxes.
Clerk’s correspondence : urban sanitary authority, 1866-1909, 12 boxes;
ditto, with other papers, subject bundles, 4 boxes: “ day sheets ”
(registers of in-letters), 1913-30, 7 boxes; housing correspondence,
1912-20, I box; Flag Days correspondence, 1915-25, I box; applications for appointments, 7 boxes.
Public works: water, 1871-1909, 5 boxes; sewerage, 1866-98, 6 boxes;
gas, 1873-1900, I+ boxes; electricity, 1919-21, 4 box; Lincoln Corporation Act (commons, tramways etc.), 1914-15, I* boxes; Stonebow improvement, 1882-6; Wragby ‘Road workmen’s
dwellings,
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1914.
Case papers, 1851-1911, 5 boxes.
Draft agreements and conveyances, 1864-1928, 6 boxes.
Various duties under Public Health and other acts: contagious diseases
in animals, returns of outbreaks, notices, circulars etc., 18941920,
44 boxes: examining officers’ reports on canal boats, 1879-80; introduction of motor car licensing, 1903; weekly returns of stocks of
house-coal, 1917-18; misc. pape,rs re scavenging, street works etc.
Financial: abs rat
t st o freceipts and expenditure, 1845-95; notices, estimates, notices of appeals, lists of persons excused payment and
other documents re rates, 3 boxes; creation and issue of Lincoln
Corporation Stock, 1881-1903, 2 boxes.
Electoral registration: registers of electors, 1910-14, 2 boxes; papers
re absent and forces voters, 19I8-24;‘-4 boxes.
Boundary extension, IgI8-2o, 2 boxes.
Acts of parliament : Lincoln, with some acts for other boroughs used for
reference, 1828-1907, 2 boxes; general acts, 1847-1907.
Bracebridge Urban District ICouncil : financial statements and vouchers,
1903-19 (incorporated in the City of Lincoln in 1919).
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DEPOSITED
RECORDS
BROMHEAD NURSING HOME
Records of the Nursing Home were deposited through the good
offices of Mr. H. J. J. Griffith with the agreement of the Trustees and
the kind co-operation of the Matron, Miss Tanner. A Committee,
originally formed in 1864 to encourage the recruitment of suitable nurses
. at the County Hospital and to supervise their work, soon became independent of the Hospital and from 1867 was responsible for the Institution for Nurses, Lincoln. The name Bromhead Institution for nurses
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was first used in the report for Igo& The first Lady Superintendent,
treasurer and secretary was Mrs. Anne Fector Bromhead of the Close,
Lincoln, who was the driving force behind the movement to train
nurses. In an o’bituary notice reprinted from the Lincolnshire Chronicle
g April 1886 in the twentieth annual report of the Institution for Nurses
&87, it was stated that Mrs. Bromhead from a very early age showed
a decided aptitude for the art of nursing. She was the daughter of
Col. G. R. P. Jarvis of Doddington Hall, but her early home was at
Dover where Col. Jarvis, having served in India, in the Peninsular
War and the Walcheren Campaign, had joined a partnership in banking
with J. Minet Fector, from whom Mrs. Bromhead took her second name.
Anne ~Fector Bromhead was born in 1812 and had the misfortune to
lose her mother when she was only about four years old. There are references to her from time to time in letters written to her father, preserved
in th’e Jarvis family deposited documents, which suggest that she was
of a very amiable disposition and a welcome visitor wherever she went
to stay although nothing has been noted so_ far about her interest in
the care of the sick. Col. Jarvis acquired the Doddington Hall estate
by bequest and part purchase in 1824 and he and his youngest daughter
subsequently spent most of their time there. In 1839 she married John
Bromhead and came to live in the Close of Lincoln. She and her
daughter Henrietta devoted much time to the raising of funds and the
management of the Institution, so that the name Bromhead commemorates the services of mother and daughter, being used after the
death of Miss Bromhead in 1907.
The nursing service in its early days was truly a vocation and often
a martyrdom.’ During the shortlived effort to take over the nursing
at the County Hospital (then in the building now used as the Lincoln
TheoIogical College) seven head nurses were appointed of whom two
died and four had suffered in their health (Ladies Nursing Fund report
1867). One of the head nurses was Miss Lucy Nevile daughter of the
Revd. C. Nevile of Thorney whose death was reported in June 1866
(Minute book 1865-6). Other items noted in this first minute book
were a quotation from an Inspector, in the Medical Times ” there is but
one remedy for Lincoln hospital and that is to pull it down stick and
stone.” A newspaper report of a meeting of the County Hospital Board
pasted in the minute book mentioned above (in minutes for 3 Oct. ~866)
quoted a letter frorh Mrs. Bromhead who stated that she had been moved
to try to train nurses at the Lincoln County Hospital after having
observed a similar scheme at Bath two years before. At the same
meeting a letter from Miss Florence Nightingale to Miss Boucherett
(one of the ladies of the Committee) was also commented upon. I‘ She
stated that Hospitals were generally badly managed . . . the worst
managed were those under the control of the medical staff (Laughter)“.
In spite of the laughter it seems that the scheme broke down because
the ladies and head nurses and the doctor found it impossible, perhaps
not surprisingly, to work this new experimental system together. The
Institution for Nurses, however, was not dependent on the County
Hospital but was able from the Bromheads’ home on Greestone Terrace to
organise the ‘training of nurses, who were sent out to nurse the poor fn
’ their homes free of charge and to give service to those who could afford
to pay on payment of fees. Patients were also nursed at the White
House, Northgate, Lincoln, where they were also attended‘by Dr. -Mitchinson as physician to the Institution. From the Report January
1872 it appears that nurses were then being’trained in London, chiefly
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at University College Hospital, and that demands for the services of .
the nurses of the Lincoln Institution were coming from all parts of
England. This was to be expected, as the Institution was one of the
first of its kind to be established in the provinces and to revolutionize
the nursing profession.
The Report of the Institution for January 1872 also refers to the
plaoing of the first District Nurse to live among the patients she attended
and more soon followed, the nursing of the poor being organised on
this district basis. The Institution for Nurses was fully responsible
for the District Nursing system, with what financial assistance it could
obtain from parishes and other unspecified sources, until 1918 when
it was reported (May 1919) that the financial burden of the service
was an impossible drain on the funds of the Institution. A District
Nursing Association under the presidency of the Mayor of Lincoln
took over the financial responsibility for the service but the Bromhead
Trustees continued to undertake the management of the nurses until
1929. By a grant from the Dawber Trustees in 1914 three nurses were
made available to work on day or night duty with the sick poor, not
to compete with the District Nurses but to give the longer hours and
continuous attention whit: was impossible to them (Report February
1914).
The annual reports of the Institution give rules for the guidance
of nurses and for those employing them in their homes which are
repeated, with certain changes, from January 1873 onwards. Candidates for training should be between 25 and 35 years of age, must be
well educated and must attend church. Perhaps the image of Mm.
Gamp suggested the rule that no nurse or probationer should take more
than one pint of beer in the 24 hours and no spirits without a medical
order also that nothing belonging to a deceased person was to be
expected by the nurse. The reference to the pint of beer did not
disappear until the report for January 1910. A nurses’ provident fund
was established in 1878 (Report Jan. 1878). Arrangements for contracting out of the National Insurance Scheme were made for the
nurses in 1914 by which the Institution could receive 9s. for each nurse
and make its own arrangement for medical treatment and charges
(Report February 1914). Reports from the beginning to 1903 have
lists of the types of cases nursed and references to special services in
epidemics, notably the typhoid epidemic of 1905 (Report Jan. 1906).
A separate Maternity Home was established in 1928.
Reference has already been made to the headquarters of the Institution at Mrs. Bromhead’s house on Greestone Terrace and to nursing
at The White House, Northgate. A plot of land had been bought on
Nettleham Road in 1873 as a site for an orphanage but that project had
been abandoned. The ,land was used for the building, as a memorial
to Mrs. Bromhead, of the Red House, to take the place of the White
House, designed by WilIiam Watkins and opened in ~888 (Report Jan.
1889). Additions were later made to this house, now the Bromhead
Nursing ’ Home. As a memorial. to Miss Henrietta Bromhead, Mrs.
Bromhead’s daughter who’ took her place as Lady Superintendent,
Essendon House, opposite the Red House, said to have been planned
as a girls’ school, was purchased to house the Institution and Nurses’
Home (Report Jan. 1908).
The deposited records relate to the period before the institution
of the National Health Service. Most of the trustees’ functions have
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been taken over by that service but plans are being considered for the
use of their surviving funds for some purpose in harmony with their
original objects.
Summary
Minutes, Committee of the Ladies Nursing Fund 1865-6 ; Comlnitiee
of the Institution for Nurses and Nursing Home 1886-7, 1907-39.
Reports : 1865-1935.
Financial records : bank books, Ladies’ Nursing Fund 1864-67 ; Bromhead Institution for Nurses 1912-30 ; annual statements of accounts
g13-45 ; bank statements 1943-47 ; Nurses Benevolent Fund IgZZ34 ; National pension fund for Nurses 1934-47.
Correspondence : files on Dawber nurses’ agreement, appointment and
resignation of trustees, legacies, income tax, Henrietta Bromhead
memorial, registration of Nursing Home, Fever hospital, electric
lift, various dates 1898-1948.
files on valuation 1927, 1938, National Health service,
Royal College of Nursing 1945, Civil Defence expenditure, Matron
1946-8, assistant matron 1946.
Publications : printed booklets describing the Nursing Institution, dated
1920s or early 1930s ‘; illustrated brochure post 1923 ; A V~ctorb
Venture, Lady Robertson 1937. Newspaper cuttings re centenary.
FANE
The work of listing this collection is now nearing completion and
it only remains to catalogue a small section of records of estates other
than Fulbeck and Ashby, a section of settlements and wills not included
in the title deeds of the Fulbeck estate, and another of records of
executorships and trusteeships. It is intended to report on this residue
next year and to give a summary showing the arrangement of the whole
collection, with references to the scattered reports on it. The following
report covers records of the Fulbeck estate (Fane I), it concludes the
section of letters and papers (Fane 6), the greater part of which was
described in last year’s report, and it summarizes four other small
sections (Fane 7-10) : personal and household accounts, other household
records, sale particulars and catalogues, and various documents acquired
from officers of Fulbeck parish.
Although these records constitute an interesting, family and estate
archive which has accumulated naturally, they have been combined with
an artificial collection. At least three members of the family - H. P.
Fane, W. D. Fane, and W. V. R. Fane - were intensely interested in
the history of the family and estate and were great collectors. Their
activities resulted not only in the accumulation of a mass of historical
notes and transcripts, but also in the acquisition, often by purchase, of
a number of original manuscripts.
Some of these, of a very
miscellaneous nature, such as many of those summarised below under
the heading ‘ Miscellaneous Papers ’ a r e r e a d i l y recognizable as
artificially acquired; as also are those which had belonged to various
parish officers of Fulbeck, many of which were received from the families
of Lamb and Col1ingwoo.d. Other items, however, such as the plot book
for the enclosure of 1622, the medieval deeds of Fulbeck, and the Thorold
family settlements of the manor, might be taken to be a natural part
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of this archive, were they not noted as. having bken purchased. Such
items have been classified without regard to ‘their provenance. While
some estate records were collected or copied purely for their historical
interest, others were required as much or more for their utility in the
administration of the modern estate: such were the copies of documents
concerning enclosure and tithe commutation. In this category also falls
the fine collection .of sale particulars of estates, many annotated with
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names of purchasers and prices.
Records of Fulbeck estate
The majority of the Fulbeck title deeds, including some family,settlements, were arranged, numbered, and briefly summarized by W. V. R.
Fane in a schedule compiled in 1898.. Some comments on these deeds
appear in Report 12, pp. ,22-23. There are often long titles to lands
acquired which provide a wealth of information about landownership in
Fulbeck. Among mortgages are those made by Francis Fane for
rebuilding the house and refurnishing it after it had been consumed by
fire at the end of 1731. The medieval purchased deeds include seven of
the 13th century, two of which are gifts to the Convent of.Sempringham.
The section ‘ Other Fulbeck deeds and settlements ’ contains a settlement
dated 1626 of the manor of Fulbeck by Thomas Thorold of Caythorpe,
clerk, and Elizabeth his wife on the marriage of their son Timothy to
Elizabeth, daughter of the late Gabriel Savile of Newton, and another,
made in 1664, by which the three daughters and coheirs of Dr. Timothy
Thorold, late of New Sleaford, and their husbands agreed on a division
of the property. Other settlements in this section relate to the Fulbeck
estate after the death of the fourth Francis Fane in 1758. In performance
of the settlement made on Francis Fane’s marriage to his second wife,
Jane Cust, his cousin and heir Thomas Fane of Brympton, later 8th earl
of Westmorland, conveyed the estate to trustees to the use of Jane for
her life, and from her death to his own use. She was also to have
L2,ooo which was to be raised by limiting a term of 500 years in the
estate. In 1761 Jane married James Evelyn of Godstone, Surrey. She
remained possessed of the Fulbeck estate until her death in 1786, when
it descended to the Hon. Henry Fane by virtue of the will of his father
Thomas, earl of Westmorland. It was not until 1792 that the Hon.
Henry paid the 11;2,000 charged on Fulbeck for Jane to her widower,
James Evelyn, as administrator of their daughter Ann. The mortgage
deeds recording the growing indebtedness of Captain H. J. Fane, which
was to end in bankruptcy and the sale of the estate to W. D. Fane in
1887, form a separate section, as they were not included in the schedule,
Under the will of his grandfather, General Sir Henry Fane, Henry John
Fane had an estate in the Fulbeck property in tail male expectant on
the death of his father, Colonel Henry Fane. In 1871 he barred the
estate in tail male and proceeded to mortgage his reversion in fee simple,
adding also his share in reversion expectant on the death of his mother,
Christine Fan!, of stocks and shares which she had inherited from her
uncle, and assigning to lenders policies of assurance on his life for large
sums.
The process of enclosure at Fulbeck is very fully documented in
these records. The existence of early enclosures is revealed in the
property described in the sale of 1622 from Sir George Manners to Sir
Francis Fane and in the Thorold settlement of 1626. The plot book
of 1622 shows that articles of agreement for the enclosure of the Low
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Fields and their conversion from tillage to pasture were subscribed by
the lords, freeholders and inhabitants on 6 October 1621. Seven persons
were named to plot, divide, and set forth the lands in the fields according
to each person’s former quantity and’ quality, to divide the common
waste and to set forth a common pasture for the freeholder cottagers.
The book contains a list of lords, freeholders, and inhabitants with plots
assigned, an arbitration concerning three disputed plots, and signed
acknowledgements by recipients that they are content with the plots
allotted to them. A Chancery decree confirmed an agreement made in
1629 between the lords, freeholders, and inhabitants and Lyon Ellis,
rector, whereby the rector was to have certain plots and a rate tithe of
Izd. an acre in lieu of his glebe lands and commons and tithe in the
enclosed grounds. There are copies of documents concerning the
enclosure made under the Act of 1803-04.
Records of estate management are confined almost entirely to the
19th century. Thomas Lamb’s farm account book, 1827-47, is a very
carefully kept and detailed record. He was farm manager for the
Reverend Edward Fane, but in the early part of this period was also
acting for General Sir Hem-y Fane,, and at times for Vere Fane and
Cecil Fane. His receipts included payments for tithes due to the rector
and proceeds from sales of wool, sheep, pigs, cattle, horses, wheat,
barley, oats, hay, timber, and bark. Details of purchasers and places
of sale are often given. Disbursements included payments for purchases
of stock, oats, hops, seeds, and coal, farm wages, and Lamb’s own wage
of @o a year, raised to A20 in 1841. In 1831 and again in 1832 he was
paid &22 for teaching ‘ the young gentlemen ‘, Henry and Charles Fane,
for six months. His own formulary book of mathematics, mensuration,
and land surveying, begun in 1783, is preserved. At a later date William
Collingwood became the Reverend E. Fane’s farm manager. He was
appointed in 1861, at the age ,of sixteen, under the superintendence of
his father, and after the rector’s death continued to act for his eldest
son Henry Edward Fane. Among Collingwood’s letters and papers is
a letter of May 1885 from General Mildmay Willson, about to return
’ from the abortive Sudan campaign, having only just missed relieving
General Gordon. In return for an account of farming prospects in
England, he reports on the agriculture of the Sudan, and describes his
mode of life and the political situation there. Other papers acquired
from the Collingwood family are listed in the last section of records of
Fulbeck parish.
summary
Records of Fulbeck estate
Title deeds, settlements, and documents subsidiary to title :
“ Fulbeck Deeds “, title deeds and settlements arranged according
to W. V. R. Fane’s schedule of 1898, r62z-1839, 60 items ‘or
bundles.
“ Fulbeck Deeds : Additional Series “, arranged according to
schedule, 1677-Igz7, 35 items or bundles.
W. V. R. Fane’s Schedule and Index, 1898, I vol.
Purchased medieval deeds, e. 13th c. - 1445, 17 items with
transcripts by Canon C. W. Foster.
Other Fulbeck deeds and.settlements, 1626-r85g, rg.
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The Fulbeck mortgage, 1871-78, 21 deeds; related documents,
1822-88, 33.
Documents subsidiary to title, copies, abstracts, etc., 1733-1928, 34.
Include copies of land tax assessments 1798, 189.598; copies Of
apportionment of corn rent 1854, award for converting corn
rents into rent charge 1866, and other documents concerning
church and rectory.
Enclosure records : plot book for enclosure, 1622; contemporary copy of
inspeximus of Chancery decree confirming agreement between lords,
tenants, ‘and freeholders and the rector as to glebe plots and rate
tithe, 1629; note of division of the surplusage of 3 acres upon the
south heath, 1630; copy of portion of 1622 plot book relating to
rectory [late 17th c.]; a volume of copies of documents including
enclosure act 1803-04, extracts from notes of John Cragg, enclosure
commissioner, enclosure award 1805, and plot book for enclosure
[18091.
Manorial records : estreats of fines, 157.51760, 5 rolls, with 7 letters
about their acquisition, 1907; rentals of chief rents payable to
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Thomas Thorold, 1614-28, 7.
Estate management :
Surveys and rentals: rental, late 13th c. (with purchased medieval
,deeds above): particular of estate. of the late F. Fane, 1767:
book of surveys, valuations, rentals, and estate memoranda of
COI. Henry Fane, 1843-51, including account of building repairs
at mansion house 1839 & 1840, and W. D. Fane’s notes on
occupiers of the estate in I805 and 1808; schedule or terrier of
entailed estate, the property of Col. Henry Fane, undated;
rough sckedule by H. P. Fane, of fields purchased by Col..
Henry Fane, undated; terrier of estate of W. D. Fane, 1891;
volume containing terrier of all the lands in Fulbeck, terriers
of property of W. V. R. Fane with schedules of taxes, fire
insurance and tithe rent charge, analyses of purchases and
sales, 1897-1920.
Estate accounts : account book of Thomas Lamb as farm manager
mainly for the Rev. E. Fane, 1827-47; tithe accounts for the
Rev. E. Fane, 1843-59 and undated, 8; account of felling and
planting of timber, 1888-1930.
Leases : Fulbeck Hall, survey, lease, and surrender, 1883, 1888, 7;
ironstone, counterpart leases 1896-1930, with letters 1904-11, 28.
Correspondence : 1888-1906, 4 bundles.
Letters and papers of W. Collingwood concerning Fulbeck estate :
including rental 1845-46, letters from the Rev. E. Fane and
Henry E. Fane, inventories and valuations of stock etc. of Col.
F. A. Fane 1885, letter from General Mildmay Willson from
Dongola re farming prospects and Sudan campaign 1885,
I845-85, 12.
Plans: sketch of lands allotted to John Massey 18014; copy of plan of
1818 of houses and lands proposed for exchange between the Hon.
Mrs. Fane and the Rev. E. Fane [before 18381; 8 copies or tracings
of enclosure award plan of 1805 for various purposes; Farmer Sharp’s
premises [Ist half of 19th c.]; plan coloured by Col. F. A. Fane to
show owners, 1869; entailed estate of Col. Henry Fane, 1880; sale
particulars plan, annotated with names of farms or occupiers, 1887;
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map of estate to show title, 1898; grocer’s shop and premises [e.
20th c.]; Brant Improvement Scheme of 1918, tracing; churchyard
extension, 1928.
Letters and papers, private and official
The remainder of the section of letters and papers not described in
last year’s report consist of the papers of W. D. Fane (1816-1902) and
of his son W. V. R. Fane which cover just over a century from 1830,
and a quantity of miscellaneous papers, some of them purchased items,
others copies.
The letters which William Dashwood Fane received from his parents
and sisters while he was a student at Cambridge and at Lincoln’s Inn
besides reflecting a keen interest in the welfare and progress of William
and of his younger brother Harry (H. P. Fane) , still at the Charterhouse,
provide yet another glimpse of social life in India, in the household of
a civil servant at Allahabad. In 1838, just when William’s Cambridge
career successfully culminated in his becoming 19th Wrangler, his family
moved from India to the Cape of Good Hope, a premature retirement
for his father, necessitated by ill health. The change of climate aid
not avail, however, and he died the following year. William was
admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1838 and called to the Bar in 1841. H e
was in practice as a conveyancer and equity draftsman until 1856 when
he gave up private practice to become- Legal Assistant at the Board of
Trade. His ‘ reminiscences ’ cover his life up to 1850. He had been
appointed Secretary to the Mercantile Law Commission in 1853, and the
minutes of its meetings, 1853-55, are with these records. At the Board
of Trade he had also been discharging the duties of Assistant Secretary
for the Railway Department and had asked to be recompensed for the
extra work entailed and to be relieved by the appointment of additional
staff. When the Board was re-organized in 1865, however, Fane’s
office of Legal Assistant was abolished arrd replaced by that of Assistant
Secretary, which he regarded as demotion. Having unsuccessfully
claimed compensation for loss of office, he resigned in 1867. In 1868
at the age of forty-four, he had married Susan, daughter of General John
Reeve. Vouchers reveal that in 1868 they moved household from 7
Norfolk Crescent, Hyde Park, to Norwood Park, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, where they lived until 1875. They then moved to Melbourne Hall,
Derbyshire, and seem to have regarded this rented residence as a
_ permanent abode. It was only the deaths in 1894 and 1895 of his brother
Harry and his cousin Frank (Col. F. A. Fane), who had been his tenants
in Fulbeck Hall, that caused W. D. Fane to decide to occupy it himself.
Detailed records of alterations and repairs to the house and grounds
date from this time onwards,
Among the later correspondence of W. D. Fane, letters from his
sister Julia and her husband Robert Alexander, 1843-61, mainly record
their impressions of foreign travel. They reflect the brightness of Italy’s
beauty as well as its squalor and deficiencies : such deficiencies were
foremost when they found themselves stranded in Saryana, an out-of-theway place, owing to the flooding of the river Mafra and the King of
Sardinia’s refusal to build a bridge there. Fane’s own continental tour
of 1855 is recorded in letters to his mother and sisters. Other letters,
written 1866-74, provide observations on Australia and the colony at
Melbourne where Eane’s cousin Henry Edward Michel was leading a
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somewhat frustrated existence. Michel was full of grandiose schemes
for making a fortune, at one time excited by the Titchborne trial to
believe that he had found the real Arthur Orton living in the Bush, at
another bewailing that he had no money to invest “ for some of you
English people ‘, in the purchase and resale of town allotments in
Melbourne. “ I am as usual doing nothing particular ” he confessed,
“ though constantly amusing my mind by inventing great speculations
and companies which I can never get afloat ’ ’ . He was annoyed that,
being so far from Paris, he could not discover a permanent dye to hide
the grey hairs in his beard. Other letters relate to the sale to W. D.
Fane of‘pictures of Fane ancestors by the 12th and 13th earls of Westmorland, 1888-92. The 12th earl blamed the agricultural depression for
this horrible necessity, though it was some consolation that they should
remain in the family. W. D. Fane doubtless regarded it as an obligation
to help the head of the ,family, whom he used to address as ‘, my dear
Chieftain “. The 13th earl, when he succeeded in 1891, wrote
optimistically that by selling the Yorkshire estate he hoped to clear the
Northamptonshire property of every debt, and would then entail it on his
heir. Charles Fane, who was advising him, thought otherwise.
The summary of papers relating to W. D. Fane’s historical
researches reveals something of his keenness in this pursuit. Perhaps
the most interesting of the family records which he borrowed and copied
extracts from were the journals of his uncle, the Reverend Edward Fane,
covering the last decade of his long life as rector of Fulbeck. Edward
Fane was sixty-eight when this journal begins in 1851. He had just
become a widower and spoke sadly of his solitary home. He describes
very vividly his family, friends, and neighbours in the county and his
round of lively social life. He was intensely interested in the careers of
his children and all that concerned them, and his greatest happiness was
to have his family, around him at the Rectory. Though his six enterprising
sons were often far away, he always contrived to have his house full to
overflowing at Christmas with Fanes of all ages, and then the old man
loved to listen to “ the laughter and merriment going on.” Much time
was spent in visits to relatives, to his eldest son Henry at Avon, to the
William Fanes in London, to Rauceby, Blankney, and to Apethorpe.
In 1855 he wrote of Apethorpe: ,’ For thirty years or more I never
failed passing part of the winter there, leading a life exactly suited to my
ideas of pleasure. In the morning a cheerful breakfast: about twelve
off wood shooting until dark-then a jolly dinner, usually with a large
party in the house, and in the evening lots of whist.” Various local 1
events come to life in these pages, such as the welcome received by John
Reeve at Leadenham when he was invalided home from the Crimea in
1855. Reeve, who was very popular ‘, being quite ready to drink beer
and kiss the maids to any extent,” was so horrified to find all Leadenham, Fulbeck and Welbourn collected at the Hall, and a band playing
‘ See the conquering hero comes,’ that he escaped into the house and
refused to make a speech. There is little about Fulbeck church, where
the duty was performed by curates. When the Bishop came for a contirmation in 1861, the rector considered that their informal party, including a rubber of whist in’which the Bishop, of course, was not asked, to
take a hand, had been a success. The journals refer to repairs and
improvements carried out to the fabric in 1852-3 when the gallery was
removed, the church reseated, and two new stained glass windows
inserted. A new east window had already been executed under the
auspices of the ICamden Society. The Reverend Edward saw these
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changes as part of a universal zeal for restoring churches, with which
his own family had been infected. He noted in ,1854 that the reseating had been popular, as congregations were much larger than they
used to be.
Many aspects of W.V.R. Fane’s life are covered by his reminiscences
written in old age and arranged under such headings as ‘, My Parents,”
“ School Life: Eton, 1881-86," “ The Inner Temple r88g-1905,”
“ Military Service;” “ Melbourne Religion and Politics,” and ,’ Recollections of Life at Fulbeck before rgr4 and after.” When he was
thirty-two, his .cousin Major General Mildmay Willson offered him a
‘partnership in Peacock and Willson’s Bank, and it was agreed that he
should attend at the bank for six months before making a decision.
Eventually, having thoroughly investigated the bank’s accounts and
received quite satisfactory reportson its standing, he nevertheless decided
against such an investment, and against an occupation which not a few
Fanes had adopted. The summary of records concerning public offices
which he held gives some indication of the considerable extent of his
public services. As High Sheriff he, attempted to reduce the expenses
of the office by a scheme for buying a county coach, instead of each
sheriff having to provide his own, but was unsuccessful. At this
time four horses were used for the journey with the Judge down to the
City Court on the first day of the Assizes, but other journeys were usually
done with two., From a former sheriff, John St. Vigor Fox, he received
amusing instructions as to full dress and correct port when attending
Judges. Most important and difficult was to avoid hitting the Judge
over the shins with his sword when getting in and out of the carriage.
S u m m a r y
Letters and papers, private and official
(contd. from Report 17, p, 28)
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Letters and papers of W. D. Fane:
Early papers : ‘I letters from India’,,, letters from his parents and
sisters ‘$orn India and South Africa, 1835-40, 24; “ Cambridge
papers : notes, mainly mathematical, with examination
papers including Mathematical and Classical Tripos 1838,
1834-38, I parcel; notes on history and scripture 1830, 1833,
law notes [1838 or after], 3 books; personal accounts at
Cambridge and London, 1835-61, 4 books: vouchers: mainly
purchases of furniture 1838-84, household and personal x885-92,
3 bundles.
Records of his legal profession : Law books: fee books 182938,
184256, 3 ~01s.; drafts of opinions 1842-44, I vol.: drafts of
abstracts of title 1844, 1846, z ~01s.; legal glossary [1844 or
after], r vol.
Minutes of meetings of the Mercantile /,ILaw Commission (W., D. Fane, Secretary), 1.8.53-55, I vol ,‘.
Letters and papers ~al~armg~~
his tenure of the office of Legal As$dnt at the Board’ of
Trade, x847-67, 42.
Historical collections : in&djpK llbum of extracts, genealogical
notes 2nd coDi~c af m,.mumental inscriptions concerning Fanes
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and related families (with sketch of Fulbeck Hall after I8,Ig),
c. 1870-98; notes and extracts from Fulbeck parish records,
1694-1893; various lectures of W, D. Fane including ‘Church
Defence ‘, 1885; copies of Fane deeds at Fulbeck (1622-93)
made by H. P. Fane; W. D. Fane The Date of the Parish
Church at Melbourne, Derbyshire, printed 1895; pedigrees of
Ellis of Wellingore and Key of Leadenham by Mrs. E. Blanche
Tempest, with letters from her, r8go, and extracts from account
book of Keys of Leadenham; copy of Crimean diary of E.
Birch Reynardson, 1855, qff.: 4 letters from Lady Falmouth
about Fane and Nevill ancestry, 1888-89; copy of letter of
1850 from Duke of Wellington to Lady Westmorland describing Mr. Arbuthnot’s death, with 2 letters from Lady Rose
Weigall about same, ‘Igoo. ’ A Pedigree and Family Record ‘,
file including printed pedigree of descent from the four sons of
Edward III’ common to the families of Fane, de Salis and
other houses; extracts, made in 1893, from the journals of the
Rev. Edward Fane, 1851-62, 3opp.; pedigree of Nevilles,
Despencers, and Fanes, 19th c.; correspondence with R. T.
Gunton about letters at Hatfield HouSe from Sir Thomas Fane,
with extracts, 1883; extracts from Bodleian Library mss. concerning Fanes, made 1883-84. ‘ Incledon Letters ‘, copies of
16 letters mainly to Elizabeth Fane wife of Lewis Incledon of
Buckland in par. Braunton, Devon, from her brother Robert
Fane of Combe Bank, Kent, and other relatives, X672-99 and
one c. 1653-58, with letters concerning same from L. C. Webber
Incledon 1896-97, and notes by W. D. Fane. ‘ Ancestry of
Henry Nevill, Lord Abergavenny and Lady Frances Manners
compiled by Francis Bayley ‘, notebook of pedigrees
co&id by W. D. Fane, 1862. Abstracts of inquisitions post
mortem, wills and Chancery proceedings concerning Kentish
Fanes c. 1450-1541. Letters and accounts from Hardy & Page
about historical searches, 1886-92.
Later private correspondence and papers: letters from Robert and
Julia Alexander mainly from ‘Continent, 1843-61, 19; letters
from W. D. Fane to Miss S. M. Reeve, later his wife, 1861-77,
17; letters from W. D. Fane to his mother and sisters forming
a journal of Continental travel, 1855; letters to W. D. and Mrs.
Fane from Miss Eleanor Man, former governess, 1855-72, 14;
reminiscences of his early life: rough draft, ending at prep
school, fuller journal with extracts from correspondence, extending to 1850; letters from Henry Edward Michel from Australia
and from his relatives, 1866-80, 14; letters mainly about the
sale of pictures by earl of Westmorland and the family’s
economic difficulties, 1884-99, 33; letters and accounts concerning restoration of Apethorpe pictures purchased by W. D.
and H. P. Fane, ISgo-92, I packet; sale catalogues of pictures,
‘hocks, furniture etc. sold from Apethorpe in 1887, 1.892 and
from Fulbeck Hall in 1887, and of Lady Michel’s
F:hsQl, scrapbook labelled ‘ Pictures ’ : cuttings
ewspapers etc., letters, bills for purchase
and restoration, i -2; letters on death of H. P. Fane, 1894,
23: miscellaneous lette*g-+__pap_ers, 1864-96, 24; faculty to
remove Wife’s remains to Fulbeck,~~~~~es,_~ 1897.
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Letters and papers of W. V. R. Fane:
Personal papers: British passport, 1886; passport from Japanese
government, 1893; itinerary for Spanish tour with ,S. Massingberd, IgoT; letters and papers re proposal that he should
become a partner in Peacock and Willson’s Bank, including
bank’s profit and loss account and report on financial standing,
rgoo-oz, 25 items; his diary in South African war (Captain,
3rd Brigade, Lincolnshire Regiment), 19o2; miscellaneous
letters, 1905-25, 6; faculty, transfer of memorial tablet to
V. W. G. Fane from Osborne College to Fulbeck church, 1g21;
faculty for memorial to Major *,Gen. Sir V. B. Fane, Fulbeck,
with correspondence, 1925; ‘ Reminiscences ‘, with his Discourse
on Holy Communion and cuttings from Grantham Journal re
controversy over Corpus ,Christi, 1942.
Records of public office: , High Sheriff of Lincolnshire: appointments 1907, 1908, letters about appointment and from UnderSheriff and others, accounts of expenses and vouchers, calendars
of prisoners for trial at Assizes, Igq-og, 3 bundles. Deputy
Lieutenant : appointment, and letters,. 1911. Justice of the
’ Peace: letters re appointment as Vice Chairman of Quarter
Sessions, 1912, and to membership of Justices’ Advisory ,Comm$tee, 1923; memo. on Sunday fishing on R. Witham and
opening hours of public houses, undated; Sleaford Petty \
Sessional Division, list of magistrates, and lists of wapentakes
and parishes. ‘Chairman, Fulbeck Parish Council : miscellaneous papers 1894-1940, 6 items. Alderman & Vice-Chairman,
Kesteven County Council : various committee papers, 1915-38,
8 items or files. Colonel, 3rd Battalion of Lincolnshire Regiment : Continuation of Annals of 3rd Battalion, 19o2-14, typescript; letters about resignation, 1918, 6. President, Fulbeck
Miniature Rifle Club: book of minutes and accounts, 1907-15,
1921-28. Trustee, Tattershall Castle (National Trust) : letters
and accounts, mainly concerning wartime requisition, 1936-40,
I file. Chairman, ,Committee for Survey of Parochial Documents : minutes, memoranda, lists etc. 1937-39. Chairman
of Appeal Committee for restoration of St. Mary’s Guildhall,
Lincoln: printed pamphlet by A. Hamilton Thompson with
appeal and papers concerning same, 1935-38. Miscellaneous :
including papers re apportionment of diocesan quota in Loveden
Deanery, 1933; Leadenham and District Nursing accounts,
1938-39; abstract of accounts, King’s School, Grantham, 1939.
Historical collections: ‘ Fulbeck ‘, a binder of miscellaneous notes
and abstracts.
“ Fulbeck rectors ‘, a binder of annals of rectors 1560-1939,
with notes on advowson, rectory houses, and glebe.
‘ Caythorpe, Leadenham, Welbourn ‘, a binder of extracts,
notes, and articles.
‘ Topography ‘, binder including notes on Harlaxton Old
Manor House, Hougham, Houghton, and Spittlegate enclosure
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of 1693.
‘ Fane family notes ‘, a binder including notes on Fane portraits; notes on service records of Gen. Sir Henry Fane,
Lieut. Col. Charles Fane and General Mildmay Fane extracted
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from Army Lists 1907; ms. article ‘ The Batsons, Avon and
Upwood ’ 1910; printed article ‘ The Pedigree of the Fane and
Vane Family ’ with draft unpublished arti& in reply to that
of Keith Murray; various extracts from Fane documents mainly
at Mereworth Castle, 19o8; and copies of various pedigrees.
’ Lincolnshire Miscellanea ’ , a binder including copy of order
book of Capt. Hebb’s Company, Loveden Regiment of Voluntger Infantry 1803-08; list of Kesteven magistrates 1700-1848;
copy of will of William West of Firbeck 1646; note on owners
of Clovelly 1738-1884; Fane’s rough index to Kesteven ’
Quarter Sessions minutes 1674-1823 with z letters from Clerk
of Peace about his report on the county records 1908; list of
Acts of Parliament re turnpike roads in Kesteven compiled in
1924; printed article ’ The Old Bank, Sleaford ’ ,[1912], etc.
‘ Lint. Misc.‘, a binder including notes on charges at Kesteven Quarter Sessions and other information from files 1674-95;
unpublished articles on ‘ Pre-Ordnance Maps of Lincolnshire ’
’ Lincolnshire Monasteries ’ , ‘ Lincolnshire Prisons a
~%ury Ago ’ , and on effect of raising school leaving age in
Kesteven 1930; and paper on future of church schools.
‘ Apethorpe Papers ’ , a file including ‘ Apethorpe, an accoun$
of the Mildmays and Fanes up to 1762 ’ by Lady Rose Weigall,
copied from her ms. in 1893; catalogue of old books etc. in
two old oak boxes at Child’s; lists of documents from Apethorpe muniment room contained in 7 boxes moved to Child’s
Bank in 1904, with W. V. R, Fane’s list and report and
detailed catalogue of Box I; and transcripts of various Apethorpe mss. ‘ Kesteven Enclosures ‘, file containing duplicated
list of parishes with information re enclosure acts and awards,
with introduction; printed list of Kesteven enclosure and
drainage awards 1884; and various notes and letters.
’ Lincolnshire Monasteries ‘* file of notes, many about grants
of monastic lands.
‘ Pedigrees and Heraldry ‘, a file of pedigrees, alphabetically
arranged, of Fanes and related families and families seated in
neighbourhood.
’ Copies of Fane and Vane wills, letters etc.’ vol. I, 1426-1606,
vol. 2, from 1600 : notes on sources and abstracts or transcripts
of documents concerning Kentish Fanes, and extracts from
parish registers.
’ High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire 1154-1935 ‘, a folder of lists
and notes, with letters from Sir Alfred Welby.
W. V. R. Fane’s report on history of the finances of the
King’s School, Grantham, and information collected in
researches, 1941. Articles, ms. or typescript: ’ History of
Fulbeck ’ ; ’ The Plague in Fulbeck, 1609 & 1610 ‘; ‘ South
Lincolnshire Quakers in the 17th Century ‘; ‘ Inventory of the
Monuments of Superstition, 1566 ‘; article on Anne, wife of
the Hon. Henry Fane; article on the Car Dyke, with notes.
Miscellaneous: typescript notes ‘ Fanes of Bristol, and the
neighbourhood 1669-1757 ’ , given by John Fane; copy of
letter from Augusta Fane to Julia Alexander describing W. D.
Fane’s wedding, 1861; copies of 2 letters from Harriet Arbuthnot
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to Lady Georgiana Fane, 1827; typescript of text of Plough
Monday play at Clipsham, Rutl., with introduction, 1905;
lecture on the Baltic States: reports, letters, and notes re
Sempringham Excavation Executive Committee, 1938-39;
biographical notes on Fanes who were members of Gray’s Inn,
1938; and other notes, letters and papers concernin Fane
family history, with notes on the families of Petchel, !Xigges,
Storer, Reeve and Kyrton, 35 binders, files, or’ packets.
iMiscellaneous papers :
Account of John of Barkwith and Roger of Woolsthorpe for a
subsidy of a ,tenth and a fifteenth in the parts of Kesteven, 1332-33,
parchment roll; contemporary copy of bill and answer in
Exchequer : information of .Attorney General against various,
Treasurers and Collectors in Lines. who have not rendered accounts
for moneys collected since 1642, with answer of John Disney, one
of defendants [1660-671; indenture of return of Sir William Ellys
and Richard Ellys as M.P.s for Grantham between Francis Fane,
Sheriff, and Alderman and burgesses, 1702; table of fees to be taken
by Clerks to the Justices, made at Kesteven Quarter Sessions, 1753;
memoranda on various subjects by John, 10th earl -of Westmorland,
including notes on the war in North America and at sea and causes
of British failure, various lists of numbers of ships, description of
exercise to be observed by militia corps, 1781-82, 54pp.; Thomas
Lamb’s formulary book of mathematics, mensuration and land
surveying, begun 1783; a common-place book of verse, anecdotes
etc., probably made in India c. 1820; a book of notes, historical and
statistical, and verses, compiled by G. C. Pearson, Charterhouse,
1831-35; Lady ,Georgina [sic] Fane’s ticket for coronation, 1837:
book of farm accounts and family memoranda of Preston family of
Fulbeck, 1710-1860; copies of 4 letters from Louisa Hay Dashwood,
afterwards Fane, to her cousin Mrs. Geo. Haldimand, from India,
1809-12; copies, made 1910, of 3 letters from Henry Edward Fane
from India to his cousin Louisa Fane, afterwards Mrs. Sherbrooke,
1836-38; copies of despatches from Major General V. B. Fane commanding the 7th Division against the Turks in Mesopotamia, 19x7,
4 items; extract from letter from Lady Fane, from Cairo, describing
visit to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, 1920.
Miscellaneous maps and plans :
5 maps of the Netherlands, printed 1753, and ms. plan of part of
Java, showing route of 69th Regiment and English cdlumns
[ISIO-121, formerly belonging to COI. Charles Fane (d. 1813);
“ Sketches of lands in the parish and vicinity of Sleaford ” by
G. Norris, a book of ms. plans of pieces of land, possibly an exercise
[~st half of 19th. c.] ; Cross O’Cliff Hill near Lincoln, proposed
alterations to road, J. S. Padley, printed 1831; printed railway
plans from time-tables or share prospectuses, mounted in a book by
H. P. Fane, covering most railways of British Isles, also various
loose railway plans, North, Central and South America, Sweden,
Madras etc., c. 1868-82; part of Samaria, Palestine, showing British
front line, labelled ‘ Palestine Campaign map of ,Gen. V. B. Fane ‘.
Tracings : ‘ A map of the River Witham and the brook Brant with
adjacent towns, 1771 ‘; Leadenham enclosure award plan. 1778;
Sempringham Priory #Church, excavated 1939.
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Miscellaneous printed matter :
A True Relation of the Taking of the City, Minster, and Castle of
Lincfflne . . . together with a list of the names of the Commanders,
and number of common souldiers that was there taken, 1644; The
Levee : a Poem occasion’d by the number of clergy at the Duke of
le’s last Levee, 1756; The Trial of Lawrence Earl Ferrers
;: ih’e ’murder of John Johnson before the Right Honourable the
House of Peers . . . 1760; Bankruptcy Reform : in a series of letters
addressed to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., by C: Fane Esq., one of the
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Court of Bankruptcy, 1838; Outline
of a plan for improving the law of debtor and creditor, without
abolishing imprisonment for debt, by C. Fane, 1844; Reports of
the Proceedings of Public Meetings held at Calcutta to commemorate
the talents and attainments of the late James Prinsep, Esq., with
a biographical notice, 1840; 17th Annual Report of Royal Asiatic
Society of Great -Britain and Ireland, including obituary notice of
James Prinsep, I840; A Memorial for a son from his father, a
memorial for Anthony Mildmay from Sir Walter Mildmay, 1570,
published 1893; voters registers for South Lines. Division, 1874,
1880; Fane, pedigree by Arthur G. C. Fane, tracing descent from
royal houses, from 7th cent., 1923.
Accounts, personal and household
Account book of Hon. Henry Fane, including his accounts with the
Corporation of Lyme Regis, 178296, his personal and household
disbursements 1783-85, and Fulbeck timber accounts, temp. Col. H.
,Fane, 1848-1850.
Account book of the Hon. Anne Fane: personal disbursements, with
some for household, mainly at Fulbeck, 1823-31.
Game accounts: Fulbeck estate, 1881-1902, 1894-1905 (summary);
Mildmay Fane’s game register, 1885, r891-19oo; Fulbeck estate
game register, 1926-34, 4 ~01s.
Other household records
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Inventories : probate, of Francis Fane of Fulbeck, 1758; household,
effects at 7 Norfolk Crescent, Hyde Park, of the late Mrs. Fane
1855, with valuation 1863: same, property of W. D. Fane, 1867-8;
contents of iron safes, Fulbeck, 1886.
Papers concerning alterations to Fulbeck Hall and grounds: estimates,
specifications, contracts, accounts, plans, letters etc., 1894-1934,
12' bundles.
Copy of plans and elevations of Manor House, Fulbeck, with proposed
improvements for Julian Fane, 1961, 3 items. (Given by Julian
Fane Esq., 1961).
Sale particulars and catalogues
The Fulbeck estate, 1887, with contract for purchase by W. D. Fane.
The Apethorpe estate, Northants., 1st ed. 1892, with conditions of sale
and newspaper cuttings about sale.
‘ Estates around Fulbeck ’ : Ashby De La Launde, 1921; the Barnby
Manor estate, COS. Notts. and’ Lines., including Beckingham and
Fenton, 1879; Beckingham, Brant Broughton, Barnby-in-the-
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Willows, Thorpe-on-the-Hill, and North and South Hykeham, 1918;
part of Belvoir estate in Leics., Notts., and Lines., including
Barrowby, Sedgebrook, Bottesford, Ancaster, 1920; the Bloxholm
estate, 1917; the Boothby Hall estate, Boothby Pagnell, 1926; same,
remaining portions, 1926: Old Hall Farm, Brandon, in Parr. Houghon-the-Hill and Caythorpe, 1937: Brant Broughton, 1912; Court
Lees, Caythorpe, 1920; Church Farm, Panton, and Barnes’ Farm,
Caythorpe Heath, 1918; the Coddington estate in Parr. Coddington,
Newark-on-Trent, Winthorpe, and Holme, Notts., 1918; Coleby
Hall, ‘Coleby, 1933; Corby Heath Farm, Corby, 1918; Cranwell
and Rauceby, 1920; the Culverthorpe estate, 1917, remaining portions 1918: the Digby estate in Parr. Rowston, Billinghay, Walcot,
1877: Fillingham Castle estate, outlying portions, 1918; Fulbeck,
Beckingham, and Harby, Notts., 1876: Fulbeck, Bassingham,
Coleby, Thurlby, Wellingore, Ludborough, and Wyham-cumCadeby, 1903; the Grayingham estate, remaining portions, 1920;
Great and Little Hale, 1927; Harlaxton Manor estate, 1937; the
Harpswell estate, 1918; the Kiplin estate (of Mrs. Christopher H.
Turnor), Yorks., 1919: the Metheringham Heath estate, 1927; Sir
Robert Carrels charity estate, Metheringham, r9rg; Norwood Park
and the Cotmoor and Radley estate in Parr. Southwell and Halam,
Notts., 1875; Norwood Park, 1879; Osgodby Farm, 1919: Rowston
and Timberland, 1921: Silk Willoughby, 1920; Stragglethorpe,
1938; Stubton Hall estate, 1918; Sudbrook in par. Ancaster, 1916;
Syston Park estate, 1932; the Thorney estate, 1918; the Thurlby
estate, 1918; Welbourn 1871, 2 plans only; the manor of Welbourn,
1872.; Welbourn Hall, 1893; ‘Welbourn Manor, 1937: Whisby, Sotby
and Belchford, Gayton-le-Marsh, Mablethorpe and Metheringham
Fen, 1918.
‘ Fulbeck etc.‘, sale particulars, catalogues and posters: estate in Beckingham, 1880, plan only. Manor of Carlton Scroop and the Ashes
Farm, 1903. Caythorpe House, Caythorpe, 1939. Fulbeck: 32ac.,
1825; tlze Hare G Hounds and 42oac., 1832; posters for 9 sales,
1893-1932; houses and 34oac., 1920; 28ac., 1937. Fulbeck, Beckingham and Harby, 1876. Lincoln, D’Isney Place, catalogue of furniture etc., 1923. Somerton Castle and Bassingham, 1839. Somerton
Castle estate, 1885. Syston Hall: catalogue of furniture, pictures
and books 1923, builders’ materials, fixtures etc. 1928. Welbourn
cum Sapperton, plan only 1860. Welbourn, 1868. Welbourn,
Carlton-le-Moorland and Bassingham, 1885.
Miscellaneous sales of pictures, books etc. : books, mss., etc. of late
E. J. Willson, 1888; pictures, old masters and early English school,
1895; books, mss., engravings etc., including some of Lady Beryl
Gilbert from Revesby Abbey, 1918, 3 items; antique furniture etc.,
Stubton Hall, 1918; books and mss. from Syston Park, 1923, 2
catalogues, with note on sale of part of library in 1884; contents of
Mereworth Castle, Kent, and its pictures, 1923, 2 catalogues and
letter about pictures; military badges, medals etc., including medals
of Gen. Mildmay Fane and Lieut. COI. Charles Fane, 1927.
Various documents acquired from officers
of Fulbeck parish
Letters of instruction from Tithe Commissioners to Edward Humphreys,
churchwarden, on conversion of corn rents to rent charge, 1866-67,
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;; church rate assessment book, 1863-69; letters and papers of church-wardens concerning additions to churchyard, 186365, I bundle: plan
and elevation of village hall, with 3 letters from architects to A. Collingwood, 1896; miscellaneous parish vouchers and other papers mounted in
book, including vouchers 1751-1870, lease for a year from Francis Fane
to rector and parishioners of Little Brant Hill pasture (the Poor Close),
1722, agreements for renting Poor Close 1808, 1846, and other parish
accounts and letters 1881-93; miscellaneous papers of Overseers of Poor,
r7gr-1883, II; highways account 1837-38; valuations for parish rates,
1792, 1805, undated [before 18631, 1861, 1863, undated [before 18701,
g.items; school rate book, 1875: copy of will of Anne Corney with legacy
to poor, 1838; land tax assessments, collector’s duplicates, 1800, 1867-72,
and table of tax redeemed c. 1866, g; programmes, subscription lists, and
accounts of Penny Readings, concerts, and dramatic performances at
Fulbeck, mounted in book, 1865-68.
FARM RECORDS
In June rg66 Mr. Lloyd, with Mr. Collins of the Museum of English
Rural Life, Reading, spent a week touring Lincolnshire in search of
farm records. Circulars had previously been sent to about a hundred
farmers in the vicinity of Lincoln and in the wolds asking them if they
had any records of farming activities. About half replied, more than
half of them in the negative. There were, then, some twenty or twentyfive to be visited. Of these, some were found to have no records of
interest, some had records which they wished to keep, some had records
which they were willing to deposit temporarily, six made permanent
deposits.
The results were, on the whole, somewhat disappointing. Only one
farmer, Mr. G. W. Neave of Saxby, deposited records of any importance
earlier than the twentieth century. In several cases there were good
‘runs of accounts and/or diaries from ~gzo or rg3o but nothing before
that. This is partly because farmers, like other businessmen, are apt to
destroy records which are no longer of immediate use to make room for
those which are. Another major reason seems to have been a terrific
upheaval in the personnel of Lincolnshire farming particularly in the
period of agricultural depression betwwn the wars. Several farmers
told us of whole areas in which few if any of the families who farmed
there fif,ty years ago now remain. This is borne out by the fact that
one of the most considerable deposits of farming records (i.e. records of
freehold or tenant farmers, as opposed to larger estates) deposited at this
office came from a lady living in Kent (John West’s account books, see
Report 4 p. 32). Many other smaller groups of records have come in
from time to time. Few large deposits from solicitors do not include a
small number of farming account books and other documents, acquired
during the course of trusts and executorships.
Summary
Permanent Deposit
Mr. J. H. Bembridge, Anwick House, Billinghay : diaries and small
note books with farming and auctioneering memoranda, rgoo-rgz4,
27. (Run of accounts from rg3o not deposited).
Mr. C. H, Crust, Brook Farm, Burwell : account book, 1932-S; bank
books, 1920-32; valuation of fixtures, Toynton St. Peter, 1913:
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vat&hers and correspondence, 1920’s and rg3o’s, including correspondence re taking lease of Burwell Park Farm, 1924.
Mr. J. L. Herring, College Farm, Wrawby : account book, rgzo-21;
detailed yearly account books including labour accounts, rg2g-34, 5;
bank books, rgrr-42, 4; pocket diaries, rg2g-40, 7’; valuations and
tenancy agreements, Redbourne and Wrawby, x882-1920, 3; letter
and diagrams re underdraining, Wrawby, n.d.
Miss~~dbE;oo~~ ~h~ae~~m~~n~~” Legbourne : records of a farm at
: account book, 1903-35; lease agreements, sale particulars, valuation of tenantright (Louth Park) and
sale poster: r8g5-1936; few vouchers and letters, x885-1954,
including correspondence with Ministry of Agriculture re treatment
of land after 1953 floods; catalogue oi ,dispersal sale of Dudding
flock of Lincoln Long Wool sheep at Riby, 1913,
Mr., C, W. Neave, Brookfield, &vm, Saxby by Spridlington :
Saxby : lease, Ear1 of Scarbrough to Richardson, 18x0; labour book,
J. W. Dudding, 183g-44; “ Freeman’s Farmers Account Book,”
John Picksley, only final summaries filled in, 1841-5; account of
sale of stock at Mr. George Neave’s farm, Spridlington, 1899; diaries,
r8gg-rgo5, 4; account books, 1905-22, 2; wages account book,
rgog-3x; valuation dnd sale bill of farm stock, 1928, 1937. Twigmoor ilt Manton parish : account book and vouchers re claying of
lands, ~852-71; account book, 1872-83; plan of farm in occupation
of Mr. Neave, late rgth century.
Mr, J. Poucher, Manor Farm, West Barkwith : farms at No&on Fen,
later at West Barkwith: account books, 192x-52, 3; bank books and
statements, 1897-1942; inventories, valuations and auction lists,
1904-29, 14; files of vouchers, 1935-42.
R. H. Brett, Kirkstead, account book, r&94-g. (This was found among
diocesan records in the Registrar’s Room at Exchequer Gate, and
probably belongs to the private legal practice of one of the
registrars).
Deposited temporarily fat listing
Mr. E. M. Howard, No&on Rise : account book, 1825-45, including
farming, household and personal accounts. (A microfilm of this
volume is available at the Archives Office and at the Museum of
English Rural Life). Mr. Howard also has a large collection of
livestock paintings and prints.
Mr. G. Patchett, Mapleton Farm, Horsington: account book, agricultural work, carting and roadwork, 199-36; photographs of hay
leading, rick building and a Sunday School outing in farm carts, n.d.
Mr. J. M. Robinson, “ Clifton,” North Thoresby : farms at Thoresby
and Limber : farming diaries, a complete daily record of activities,
1928, x930-44; ditto, pocket size, xg20-21; x931-5, 1937-44; bank
books,’ 1922-45, 6; bundles of vouchers, 1940’s and rg5o’s. (Other
diaries in the possession of Mr. J. E. Robinson, Greenlands Farm,
Limber, make up a complete’ series from c. xg2o).
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Sir Francis Hill’ has now deposited at the Archives Office all the
Banks papers in his possession, which he had purchased after the dis-
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persal of the Banks Lincolnshire manuscripts in I@ and 1929. Most
of the family correspondence and a number of other items are printed
in his edition of Letters and Papers of the Banks Family of Revesby
Abbey, 1704-60, Lincoln Record Society volume 45, 1952, but there are
a large number of estate papers and other documents, some of very
great .interest, which were not included in that volume. The collection
has been sorted into categories, but not yet listed so it is not possible
to give a full description here; however the following summary list will
give a good idea of the contents.
Summary
Correspondence ‘: family and estate, printed in Hill, Letters and Papers,
1704-60, together with a few additional letters to Sir Joseph Banks,
1783-1819, c. 300.
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Estate : enclosure : Asterby and Goulceby act, 1776; Fleet, correspondence etc., 1791-4, II; Mareham le Fen act, 1743-4; book containing
notes of allotments in Wilksby, Moorby, Roughton, Haltham and
West Keal, late 18th cent.; similar book, Roughton and Haltham :
Fleet acre book, early 18th cent.; folder of correspondence re Horncastle estate and notes by Sir Joseph Banks on the duties of various
employees; Fulstow and Marshchapel estate, correspondence, copies
of deeds and case papers etc., I8th-early IIgth cent.; report on case
Floyer v. Burgess re small tithes in. Marshchapel, (printed), 1834:
Leverton sea bank, correspondence etc., 1792-1808, 6; Miningsby
tithes, correspondence, 1788-92, 22; vouchers for payments for
serving cure at Revesby, c. Ij20-1815; Tumby and Kirkby on Bain
tithes, correspondence, 1802, with copy of bill and answer in
Chancery re Tumby tithes, 1692, 12; rights of landowners of Soke of
Bolingbroke in the East and West Fens, 17th cent., c. 30; wood sales
account book, 1758-g; rental to show annual value of estate devised
by Joseph. Banks, 1735; account book, estate .building expenses,
1797-1814; papers re distribution of rice and herrings to the poor
by Sir Joseph Banks, ISoo-1801, 41; plan of Sheerwood [Shire Wood
in Revesby] by T. Fowler, mid. 18th cent.: miscellaneous correspondence and other estate papers not yet sorted, c. IOO.
Household, including gardens and park : miscellaneous correspondence,
vouchers etc. mainly re building operations, c. 171560, 29; folder,
“ Great grandfather’s buildings, 1716 etc.,” containing sketch plans
of improvements to house, 6; furnishing accounts, 1743, 2; plans of
gardens and proposed improvements by Edward Gardner of
Dunston, 1749, 5; plan of brewing plant, notes on amounts of beer
brewed and stocks of wine, 1749-1809, 5; inventory of kitchen
furniture, 1760; 2 small books each containing bills of fare for one
week, 1776 and n.d.; correspondence etc. ye fish ponds and stocking
them, c. 1788-1803, 28; correspondence, vouchers etc. re vinery,
1807, 12; correspondence re underdraining park, 1840-41, 7.
Personal : pedigree of Banks family from 14th cent., done about 1612,
signed Hen. Bankes; wills and related papers, 1726-1820, 14; inventories and executors’ accounts, 1737-59, 16; receipts for allowances
to children, etc., c. 1730-50, c. 40.
Public office : shrievalty vouchers, Sir Joseph Banks, 1794, 55.
Manorial : Revesby, verdicts and draft rolls, 1687-1790, c. 40.,
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Parish : Revesby : constables’ accounts, 1737, 1748, 1759; papers Ye
building new church, 1724-30, 3.
Political : newspaper extracts and draft letter from Banks to Sir Robert
Heron re controversy over 1806 County election.
KELHAM
Title deeds and documents relating to title of the Kelham family
of Gonerby, later of Bleasby Hall, pJotts..were deposited by Ravenscroft
Woodward & Co. of 15 John St., Bedford Row, W.C.I through the
British Records Association.
The ‘earliest Kelhams recorded in Lincolnshire are Richard &
William of Allington who were among the purchasers of a messuage in
Netherthorp, Gonerby in 1428 (I / I / IO). By 1600 there were branches
of the family throughout the Gpntham area, mainly at Allington,
Ropsley and Gonerby where among others Thomas Kelham was a
substantial husbandman by the time of his death in 159. T WO of his
grandsons, Robert and John became founders of the fortunes of the
family whose rise from husbandmen to landed gentlemen is illustrated
by this collection. John and his heir, also John continued a policy of
accumulation of land in Gonerby, the younger John also married in
1681 Avice, daughter and heiress of Robert Hickson of Gonerby, thus
enlarging his estates still further. On his death in 1724 leaving only
two daughters much of his estate was retained for the Kelham family by
the marriage of one of the coheiresses, Mary, to Robert, grandson of the
first Robert. The accumulation of land in Gonerby was continued by
Robert who was Rector of Billingborough, Walcot & Threckingham, and
author of a brief latin autobiography (Cragg ~/IO). He also bought
land in Barrowby (I / I 12) and elsewhere. He was succeeded in 1752
by his third, but only surviving, son Robert who was intended for a
legal career. Robert was able to assist his cousin Elizabeth Kelham,
daughter of Richard, rector of Coningsby, to recover her inheritance in
Coningsby and Horncastle. Richard had died in I729 leaving an
infant son and daughter. The son, Richard died at the age of 25 in
1748 having signed soon before this a marriage settlement entailing the
bulk of his estates, in default of issue, on the heirs of his intended bride
Mary Blow aged 50 of Horncastle, and also signed a will leaving his
estates to her and naming her his executrix. Probate of this will was
cancelled in I753 on the grounds that Richard had signed it while under
the influence of drink, and the settlement set aside as a fraud (3/5).
When Elizabeth died in I780 her inheritance, including Langworth
Grange and Hawthorn Hill Farm in Coningsby ( I /3-4) passed to her
cousin.
The series of title deeds for Gonerby thus accumulated, the earliest
being dated 1375 (I /I/2) contain topographical descriptions of property
valuable in creating a picture of the pre-inclosure parish, particularly a
parish altered by its position on the edge of Grantham. In 1624 mention
is first made of Windmill Hill in Arnold Field which lay to the south and
east of the village (I / 5 / 5). Although closes are mentioned in earlier
deeds the parish remained substantially unenclosed until 1807, after
the last of the Kelham purchases had been made. A decree in Chancery
was made in 1673 with the intention of limiting rights of common in the
Moor apparently because of over stocking. The Cow Pasture was
divided among the holders of messuages and\ cottages in return for
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renunciation of right of common in the open fields (71 I also Cragg
5/1/62). A brief series of terriers for 1752 and 1788 survive (~/I-IO),
*and help to establish the pattern of land holding in Gonerby in the
eighteenth century, but it is unfortunate that the Kelham field book
mentioned as the source of the terriers is not with the collection. A
detailed survey of all the Kelham Estates with plans was made in 1858
(~,‘II) after the enclosure.
Robert Kelham the lawyer who died in 1808 in his grst year was a
notable author of legal treatises and an enthusiastic antiquarian. It is
he who preserved, for their antiquity, the medieval deeds in the
collection, in particular the earliest, a late 12th century grant by Ralph
Grim to William son of Osebert of Bildiston of a virgate of land in
Bildiston. One of the witnesses of this deed, Ralph Geri was an
ancestor of Sarah Gery of Bilston, Leics. whom he married in 1752. He
also extracted from his father’s autobiography some rather incomplete
notes on the Kelham family of Gonerby (Cragg Z/IO). Although his
home was at Edmonto.n, Middlesex he seems to have retained his
interest in his native county as well as his estates there. His son Robert
died childless in 1811 and the estates passed to his nephew Robert Kelham
Langdale who took the surname of Kelham in 1812. It was he who
purchased the manor of Gibsmere in Bleasby and Bleasby Hall (2 /I)
near Newark which became the chief seat of the family thereafter.
Although the Lincolnshire estates were retained the family on its
I elevation to the ranks of the landed gentry and the pages of Burke (1906)
lost its close connection with its native county. In 1921 the whole of the
Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire estates were sold up by Herbert
Vavasour Langdale Kelham who owned small properties in London and
Littlehampton, Sussex, and the family sank again into obscurity.
Summary
Title deeds: Barrowby 1608-1708, 14 items; Coningsby 1674-1699, 1807,
7 items; Gonerby 1375-1866, g3 items: Bilston, Leics. late 12th
cent. I item; Bleasby, Notts. 1738-1921, 83 items: Marlborough,
Wilts. 1830, I item.
Family settlements : 1612-1913; IO items.
Wills: 1668-19o5, 5 items.
Surveys & terriers: Gonerby & Manthorpe 1752, 7 items: 1788, 2 items:
Allington , Barrowby, Billingborough, Braceby, Colsterworth,
Coningsby, Gonerby, Gt. Hale, Heckington, Little Humby, Sempringham, Scredington, Spanby, Bleasby, Notts. 1858, volume
with plans.
Leases & agreements : Barrowby, Billingborough, Heckington, Scredington, Spanby, Bleasby, Notts. 188819x3, 6 items; 20 Endell St.
Long Acre, London, 1903-1910, 12 items; Littlehampton, Sussex,
1934, I item.
Copy exemplification of decree in Chancery re limitation .of rights of
common in Gonerby Moor, 1673.
Enclosure Act: Gonerby 1804.
Abstracts of title & schedules of deeds : Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire
estates, 19o6-1920, 6 items.
Particulars & conditions of sale: Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire estates,
1921 with plans, g items.
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sums assessed and not exonerated and sums assessed and exonerated
with some estimate of annual value of the property. This information
continued to be given with modifications of practice or under new acts
of parliament. From about 1876-7 collectors’ duplicates had a heading
for recording >date of payment but this was not usually filled in, a tick
presumably showing that payment had .been made. Some additions to
the forms were made under the Finance Act of 1898 where particulars
were given of sums not payable because the taxpayer’s total income
was below @60 and of tax reduced where the total income was less
than i400. From about the same time these figures were certified by
the surveyor of taxes, later by the inspector of taxes. From 1929
further details were given including annual values under Schedule A
and the collectors’ forms had additional columns dealing with taxes
accounted for by the collector, amounts outstanding and arrears. The
collectors’* duplicates had the addition of schedules of deficiencies and
clearly from this date have information additional to that given in the
assessments. Throughout the period covered by the deposit collectors’
duplicates fill in gaps by losses in the assessments and it has been decided
for the present to preserve both the assessments and duplicates.
From about the middle of the eighteenth century duplicates of Land
Tax assessments were deposited with the clerks of the peace as a check
on the qualifications of those voting in county elections. Covering dates
for these duplicates for the parts of Lindsey, Holland and Kesteven have
been given in Archivists’ Report 1948-50 (pages 6, 12 and 16).
Summary
Parts of HoWand
Boston borough : assessments 1840-1949 (most years); duplicates
1868-9, 1875-1949 ( m o s t y e a r s ) .
Klloe : assessments 1896-1949 (most years) i duplicates 1867-98
(Moulton only), 18981928 (only relatively few parishes),
192849.
Kirton with Skirbeck : assessments 1925-26 (Wigtoft only), 1928-49
(incomplete); duplicates 1881-1922 (Only a few parishes, 1923-49
(many years imperfect).
Lzncoln City with Bracebridge, Branston, Canwick and Waddington:
assessments 1887-1915, I93649; duplicates 1921-28 (incomplete),
1928-41 (mainly complete), 1941-49 (South Ward missing).
Parts of Kesteven
Aveland: assessments 1832, 1838, 1864-5 (Dowsby only), 1885-6,
1893-1949; duplicates 18~81-1949 (many years incomplete).
Beltisloe : assessments 1946-49; duplicates 1942-49.
Flaxwell with Aswardhurn : assessments 1946-49; duplicates 194249.
Grantham and Soke with Winnibriggs: assessments 1936-49; duplicates 1942-49.
Langoe with Boothby Graffoe: assessments 1910-15, 1920-21
(N. %arle Only), 1935-49; duplicates 1935-49.
Loveden : assessments 1946-49; duplicates r942-49.
Ness : assessments 1896-7 (Braceborough only), 1898-9 (Carlby
only); 1899-I9% 19061918, 1925-29 (only a few parishes);
duplicates 1897-8 (Braceborough only), 1911-15.
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Pads of Lindsey
Aslacoe : assessments 18751902, 1907-9, 1911-15, 1931-49; duplicates 1927-8, 1934-49.
Axholme: (kept separate from Manley) assessments 1831 (Owston
only), 1936-49; duplicates 1929-35, 1943-49.
Bradley Harverstoe : assessments 1923-6, 1931-46; duplicates
1923-26 (incomplete), 1927-31.
Calcewaith : assessments 1915-19 (mainly Theddlethorpe only),
1927-29 (only a few parishes), 1935-49; duplicates 1905-6
(Hogsthorpe only), 1931-49.
Candleshoe with Bolingbroke : assessments 1831-71 (some years
defective), 1925-6 (Skegness & Winthorpe only), 1929-31,
1936-49; duplicates 1848-66 (some missing years & many only
for one or two parishes), 1925-6 (Skegness & Winthorpe),
1927-49 (mainly complete).
Corringham including Misson co. Nottingham : assessments 1825,
1830 (Lea only), 1936-49; duplicates 1925-6 (only 3 parishes),
1929-49 (most years incomplete).
Gartree with Horncastle : assessments 1899-1949 (mainly complete);
duplicates x924-49 (many years incomplete).
Hill : assessments 1900-49 (mainly complete); duplicates ~ 1841-47
(Ashby Puerorum omy), 1916-1927 (many years defective),
1926-49 (mainly complete); duplicates 1841-7 (Ashby Puerorum
only), 1916-49 (some years defective).
Lawress (with Aslacoe) : assessments 1875-1949; duplicates 1927-8
(incomplete), 1935-49.
Louthesk and Ludborough : assessments 1864-5, 1878-9 (Saltfleetby
only), Wg-91, 1900-49 (mainly complete); duplicates
1891-1935 (many years defective).
Manley : assessments 1809-1923, 1936-1949 (mainly complete);
duplicates 1916-23 (Waddingham only), 1929-32 (most years
defective), 1932-35, 1943-49.
Walshcroft : assessments 1885-1931, 1936-46; duplicates 18 2-1900
(only a few parishes), 1901-20 (many years incomplete 3 , 1931
(incomplete), 1935-49.
Well (with Aslacoe): assessments 1875-1902, 1907-9, 1911-15,
1931-49; duplicates 1927-28 (incomplete), 1935-49.
Wraggoe : assessments (with Aslacoe) 1875-1go2, (separately)
1907-15, 1931-4g; duplicates (Separately), 1926-28 (incomplete),
1935-49.
Yarborough : assessments 1805-6, 1817-18, 1884-1932 (some years
incomplete, Elsham & Saxby missing throughout); duplicates
18g7-1go1 (‘Barton only), 1901-23 (only a few parishes each
year), 1926-8, 1930-42 (some years defective Elsham & Saxby
mostly missing).
LINDSEY MANORIAL ROLLS
The Archivists’ Report no. 4 contains a summary list of manorial
documents deposited with the Lindsey County Council between 1934
and 1948. A more detailed list has now been prepared to supplement
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the register kept by Mr. B. C. Duddles, but no further work has been
done on the Kirton Lindsey rolls which are already calendared to 1399
and described in Report no. g.
Among the most important deposits was that by Mrs. A. I. Fane
of court and compotus rolls and papers of the manors of Careby cum
Membris and Little Bytham, property of the College of Tattershall
bought by John Hatcher M.D. in about 1560, and Fulstow, bought by
Sir John Hatcher in 1612-14. These documents should be considered
together with the related non-manorial records in the Holywell collection,
described in Report no. I, to which they. really belong. For Careby,
besides a series of 15th and 16th century rentals there are compotus
rolls, visus and onus compoti, between L#I and 1535, these being
chiefly notable for their detailed rent and repair accounts. The descent
and nature of the medieval manors of Fulstow have been fully discussed
by D. M. Williamson in L.A.A.S. Refiorts and Papers New Series vol. 4
part I, 1948-51. In the present collection (L.M.R. r6) are court rolls
for the manors of Fulstow Marsh, 1339-r 65, Fulstow Bek, 1322,
1492-1512, Fulstow Arsik, 1409-1511, Mars%chapel parcel of Louth
Park, 1547-1556, Fulstow and Marshchapel, 1541-1638. There are also
very detailed compotus rolls for Fulstow Arsik 1342-1446 (L.M.R.
16/r-4) which provide a valuable source for the state of manorial
economy in south Lincolnshire in the r4th-15th centuries. The earliest
has a rent receipt of k5 ~gs. 7id. and a considerable expenditure on wages
for labourers hired at task and the expenses of servants of the curia haymaking, reaping, and t,hreshing, which suggests that the commutation of
customary services for money rents was far advanced. It appears
that the surplus produce of the manor was sold, as a total of 412, gs. 8&d.
was received for salt, grain, apples, pears, cattle, poultry, eggs, pigeons,
hay and rushes. The expense account includes details of repairs to the
hall, grange and dovecote, and itemised payments for every agricultural
activity from ploughing to harvest, while on the dome is a full stock
account. Among the miscellaneous expenses are 2d. for parchment for
the court roll and 3s. 4d. for a clerk for the account.
Also deposited by Mrs. A. I. Fane was a single compotus of John
de Stayndrope, receiver for the manor of Eresby in 14og/10 (L.M.R.
12). The receipt consists entirely of rents from Spilsby, Willoughby,
Hogsthorpe, Ingoldmells, Toft, Toynton and Salffleethaven. The outgoings are much faded, but include a section for Alienor and Margaret
daughters of the lord, William de Willoughby, who died in December
1409. Apart from payments of 40/d to their servants, and 25d. to the
girls and two of their brothers for oblations at the major religious
festivals almost the whole account is ,concerned with their attire. Two
gowns were dyed black for zod., eight yards of black cloth for gowns
cost 32s., russet cloth for kirtles 5s., fOUr furs, two of miniver 44 and
two girdles bought in London 2s.
Among the other medieval rolls one for Gedney 1378/g (L.M.R. 25)
is exceptional. It contains thirteen courts of Philip le Despenser, all
very full, and a view of frankpledge of le Despenser, Robert de Roos,
Ralph Schelton and the Abbot of Crowland. At the V.F.P. the
amounts of amercements are given only for the tenants of le Despenser,
the name of their lord being inserted above the others. The presentments are typical and plentiful, particularly for breach of the assizes
of ale and bread. Bloodshed is also common. Topographical descriptions of land surrendered are very detailed, and besides conveyances
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there are a number of confiscations of land for buying or letting without
permission, marrying without permission and in one case for refusing
to look after’ the lord’s animals when eleoted to do so.
The court rolls of -the manor held by the Arnald family in Swayfield (L.M.R. 27) of which the earliest is dated 1318 cannot compete
with these for detail or condition as they are badly faded in places and
often written in a very crabbed hand, but they contain much of interest.
In ‘r347 (27/12) Thomas master of Grantham school appeared by
attorney in a plea of debt. References to charters for land being shown
in court are frequent and in 1335 (27/5) two such charters for a toft,
croft, and bovate, shown by William Legyard are enrolled in full. An
undated slip of parchment of the mid. 14th century (27/15) contains
notes of conveyances of land including a grant by Dm. William Colvil
to William Chamberleyn of 3 messuages, a mill, lands and rents in
Swayfield, and a grant by Juliana Vine to William Chamberleyn of a
mill in Le Westmilne. Most interesting of all is a mid. 14th century
funeral account surviving because a rental has been written on the
dome. ’ Unfortunately the heading which might have identified the
corpse concerned has been-cut of? and his identity has not been estab;
lished, but he was clearly a person of some substance. The funeral
seems to have taken place in London as there are payments for the
maintenance of the househ,old there before and after the event. The
will was registered by an official of the Bishop of London. The
Rector of St. Faith’s was paid 2s. for performing the burial, a vigil
was held at St. Paul’s church, wine and spices being available afterwards
for those taking part, and masses were said for the soul of the deceased
in various places before the burial including some by an unidentified
bishop for whom priests and a cross bearer were provided. On the
day of the burial 6s. 8d. was spent in oblations and 6s. 2d. distributed
to the poor of the neighbourhood. The tomb and its trappings must
have been magnificent, 6qs. 3d. was paid for a great stone for the
tomb but only r4d. for making it. There are payments for making
114 candles and 4 cressets, for draping the tomb and for ringing a peal,
besides purchases of cere cloth and spices for wrapping the corpse and
a coffin to put it in. The cost of the whole proceeding excluding
the household expenses was @3.6.8$d. This is a document of great
and curious interest as although instructions for funerals are not
uncommon in medieval wills it must be rare to find an item by item
account so detailed.
The sixteenth and seventeenth century rolls in this collection
provide a useful and varied source of information on the field laws
of manors and their administration. The largest and best preserved
series of 1~1~1s is that for the Liberty of Scatter which includes the vills
of E. Butterwick, Cleatham, E. Ferry, Hibaldstow, Holme, Manton,
Messingham, Northorpe, Scotton, and Yawthorpe. The Liberty belonged
before the dissolution to Peterborough Abbey and formed part of the
endowment of the Cathedral on its foundation. The court rolls begin
in r5ig, the courts being held from 1553 by tenants of the Dean and
Chapter of Peterborough, and continue with no significant gaps to
the early nineteenth century. They have been very carefully kept,
and extensively worked over, most notably by Edward Peacock whose
notes are now in the John Rylands Library (Eng. MS. 240). It is
perhaps worth mentioning here the excellent lists of bye laws which
regularly appear. That for 1578 (18/23) is particularly full, including
regulations for cropping and pasturing, orders that ditches should be
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scoured, fences, houses and chimneys kept in repair and Trent banks
maintained. The poor were provided for by an order that every man
should plant annually one peck of peas to each oxgang for their use
in a place to be agreed from time to time. ‘Catching coneys in the
lords warren or ducking and fishing in his marshes and waters were
strictly prohibited. Similar bye laws occur in many court roils until,
usually in the mid eighteenth century, they cease to be used for the
enrollment of anything other than surrenders or admissions, but
commonly only isolated or exceptional laws are entered, much having
to be deduced from the offences presented. On the east Lincolnshire
manors of the Earl of Lindsey for which late 17th cent. juror’s verdicts
are deposited (L.M.R. 1-7) among the commonest offences are allowing
fences to. fall into disrepair, breach of the commons, and breaking the
pound or assaulting the pinder who seems to have been the busiest and
most hard done by manorial officer. The Swineshead court rolls
(L.M.R. 8) contain numerous notifications of cows, sheep, pigs and even
horses which have strayed into the manor, been impounded, cried at
three markets and remaining unclaimed in a year are forfeit to the lord.
In 1641 three pigs were forfeit in this way and valued at 26/-, but after
they had eaten nine strikes of beans they were revalued by the homage
at 42 /-. In the same year at Swineshead ,two men were amerced for
coursing hares without permission. The verdicts for Spilsby one of
the Earl of Lindsey’s manors are interesting as among the amercements
for common agricultural offences are others which reveal the existence
of a thriving market town. Between 1686 and 1689 there are presentments, for sale of bad weight in butter, bread, hemp and flax. Mr.
Johnson of Boston was fined I /- for not cleansing his frontage before
his shop door, and Samuel Nickoles 2/- for emptying his garbage in
the butcher’s stalls. It is clear from these later court rolls and verdicts
that by the sixteenth century at least the presenting jury was the real
power in the manor, responsible for formulating the field bye laws and
enforcing them,
MASSINGBERD OF GUNBY
In August the Massingberd family -deeds and papers from Gunby
Hall were deposited in the office by Mr. John Montgomery-Massingberd
and the National Trust. The records of this family and estate are a
most welcome acquisition. They comprise title deeds from the early
13th century onwards, records of estate management dating mainly from
the late 17th century, but including two 15th century rentals of Bratoft
and ‘ town books ’ or ‘terriers of the open fields for Bratoft in 1520 and
1527 and for Gunby in 1588, and family and estate correspondence from
the late 17th century. It is hoped to begin the detailed listing of this
collection very soon. In the meantime, students are referred to the
report made by Miss Major after she had examined and briefly listed
these records in 1944 (Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological
Society, Reports and Papers, N.S., vol. 3 part I, pp. 8-11).
The deposit included a few items which were additional to the list
made in 1944. Most interesting are four account books of the merchant
Thomas Meux, who married Elizabeth, sister and subsequently heiress
of Sir William Massingberd, the 3rd baronet (d. 1723). Thomas was a
grandson of a younger son of the family of Meux of Kingston, Isle of
Wight, baronets from 1641 to 1706. His eldest son Thomas succeeded
to the Massingberd estates and took the family name in 1738. Through
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his second son, he was to be great-grandfather of the well-known London
brewer, Henry Meux, created a baronet in 1831. Two books, a ledger
and a day book of disbursements, both covering the years r6@-gg,
reveal Thomas Meux at Narva, in the firm of Cary and Meux. In two
other books, he. was at London : the one a ledger for the years 1700-11,
the other a book of invoices of goods shipped, bills of lading, and
accounts of sales mainly of the period 1705-11. Though there are still
occasional references to Gary and Meux of Narva after 1700, it is possible
that the war between Russia and Sweden had caused Thomas to transfer
to London, for Peter the Great’s armies were defeated by Charles XII
at Narva in 1700, and the town was taken by Peter in 17o4. A brief
inspection of t,he accounts suggests that after 1700 Thomas’s trade with
Russia was mainly through the Arctic port of Archangel. He had close
trading relations with his brother Samuel Meux, who belonged to the
,firm of Meux and Hale of Archangel. According to -the pedigrees
(Maddision, II p. 65g), his brother-in-law Henry Massingberd died in
Archangel, and he was probably partner in the firm of Andrews and
Massingberd to which reference is made in the accounts in 1707-g. A
third Meux brother, John, was in Antigua, in the firm of Sharp and
Meux, and played an important part in Thomas’s trade with the West
Indies and the mainland of North America. Exports from Russia and
Raltic ports included iron, fir deal, bides, bristles, beaver skins, flax,
hemp, ,linen, rosin, tar, pitch, potash, isinglass and, caviar. English
cloths were an important import and were of a variety of types : kerseys
from Leeds, ” ,Glosters ” and broadcloths, serges and other worsteds.
He also imported into Russia a great variety of manufactured goods,
hosiery, gloves, night caps, stays, hats, shoes, toys, Sheffield ware of all
sorts, pewter and tin, “ chariot bodies,” clocks, jewelry and china ware,
as well as apothecary’s wares, together with sugar and tobacco acquired
from his transatlantic trade. He was buying fish from New England,
tobacco from Virginia, and sugar, molasses, coffee, and cotton from
the West Indies. He supplied the American colonies and the West Indies
with manufactured goods of all sorts. Cargoes to New England were
mainly of cloth, including linens, India cottons, and silk lace. After
sales to the mainland, fish, New York flour and bread, and Indian corn
were taken on board and shipped to the West Indies. Some of his silks
and luxury textiles were acquired from Italy, through Leghorn, to which
port he shipped Baltic hides. Holland cloth, spices and indigo were
acquired through Amsterdam. In England he was supplying the Navy
Board with Russian hemp, at Narva he had been providing artillery
clothing, though for which army is not stated.
The rough letter book of William Thornburgh, 171218, doubtless
owes its presence here to the marriage of William Meux, later Massingberd, to Mary Thornburgh. William Thomburgh had just been dismissed
from his office of cashier to the East India Company and was being sued
by the Company for ,c;Z,ooo. Many of the letters relate to this suit, to
his trading concerns, and to his family’s affairs. His daily household
expenses at Islington for part of this period are also included.
Five other volumes concern the Massingberd household or estate.
Six pages of a book of household accounts 1767-80 had earlier been
used, probably by Thomas Meux, for lists of goods for several persons
in Moscow and for the Governor of Archangel. A note reads “ The
repeating watch sett about with diamonds I would if possible have
adorned on the outermost bottom of the outside case with the Czars
picture enameled, the.work neat and if possible very like him.” Another
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account book is of household and estate disbursements at Gunby in the
time of William Meux, later Massingberd, and is dated 17p-@. A book
of recipes, culinary and medicinal, has been compiled at various dates
from the early to the late 18th century and includes, besides such horrors
as snail water made from a peck of garden snails and a quart of earth
worms beaten to pieces alive, “ Grantham wetstones,” a sort of biscuit
containing carraway seeds. A book of estate rentals covers the years
1762-81, while Charles Parker’s accourrts with Peregrine Massingberd
which relate mainly to the estate are dated I&8-33.
Other additional items include several concerning public office held
by the family, and relate to the Shrievalty, Deputy Lieutenancy, and
Clerkship to Sewers Commissioners for Lindsey in the period 1650-1700.
Henry Massingberd, the Cromwellian supporter, whose quietus roll as
sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1655, is among these records, had been indicted
for high treasdn at Grantham in 1643, and was later created a baronet
by Cromwell in 1658. The passport granted to him by the Lords in
Parliament in 1646, to enable him to embark for Calais from any port,
is among these records. The general pardon granted to him in 1660 also
survives, together with his declaration publicly laying hold of His
Majesty’s pardon, subscribed before the Speaker of the House of
Commons. Other personal records are a bundle of family letters written
to Charles Langton Massingberd in the period 1855-84. Many of them,
dated 1866-67, relate to the marriage of his daughter Emily Caroline
(Lina) to Edmund, son of the Reverend Charles Langton, and the settlement to be made thereon, in view of the fact that Lina and her sister
Alice were the only heirs of their father.
Among miscellaneous items are copies of six letters of 1828-37
concerning the so-called Sir William Elwes, which were given to the
Massingberds since they knew ” some of that name to whom they might
be of interest.” This William Henry Elwes, a disreputable spendthrift,
seems to have been son of one of the three illegitimate sons of Sir William \
Elwes, the third baronet. These letters concern his attempt to induce a
cousin in America to settle with his creditors so that he might be released
from Morpeth gaol and press his claims to the Elwes estates, which, as
he asserted, would then pass to this Dr. Alfred Elwes. (For the fate of
the Elwes baronets and their descendants, see Sir B. Burke, A Second
Series of Viciss&&e.s of Families (1860) pp. rag-IO). There are also two
pedigrees, one of the late 19th century for the Massingberd family and
.a copy made in rgr7 of a pedigree of the B&oft family at the College
of Arms. Several additional title deeds and a bundle of settlements,
x648-1742, have also been deposited.
’ MOSSOP AND BOWSER
The office is indebted to Mr. J. C. Mossop for a further deposit of
documents mainly relating to the parts of Holland. Although most of
the deposit consists of title deeds, the topographical and family details
make a real ‘contribution to the history of the’area. The summary below
gives a general picture of the deposit and in the meantime some items
merit particular mention. A bundle of deeds relating to the Plough
Farm, Deeping St. Nicholas, has an original lease and release dated 1732
ot 220 acres of land in the fen, part of 10,036 acres chargeable with
taxes for drainage under acts of 16-~7 and 22 Charles II and also part
of 5,925 acres of the taxable land forfeited because taxes had not been
paid on them. Sir Francis Whichcote of Aswarby, bart., William New-
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land of St. Bennet Gracechurch and Samuel Perry of London released
the land to Timothy Perry of Bucklersbury mercer for &586 13s. 4d.,
being empowered to do so under a recited release in which Captain John
Perry, by direction of eight other persons, released in trust to them “ a
considerable portion of the 5,295 acres ” in trust to sell, partly to clear the
remainder of the land to be sold from any mortgage encumbrance, and
partly to hold the remainder to sell portions when more funds were required.
Captain John Perry was the person in charge -of drainage operations.
The eight persons Jane Tregagle of Aswarby, spinster, Jacob Preston of
Barton St. Laurence, co. Norfolk, esq., Jaspar Arris Borradell of St.
Martin in the Fields, esq., Samuel Horn of Bucklersbury, London,
mercer, Richard Browne citizen and mercer of London, Capt. John
Haselwood of Queensgate, Bartholomew ‘Case of London and James
Lambe of Rye, esq. were presumably proprietors or shareholders in the
fen. The ,5,g25 acres had previously been granted to Captain John
Perry, no consideration being named, by Sir Francis Whichcote, bar?.,
John Blackwell of Stamford, gent., John Weyman of Spalding, gent.
and James Fortrey of Ely esq., proprietors of 250 acres and entitled to
act as a quorum for levying drainage taxes (H.D. 70 /2). These deeds
add to the information given by W. H. Wheeler in A History of the
Fens of South Lincolnshire (2nd edition, Boston, pp. 321-2) and shed
light on the families connected with fen drainage in the eighteenth
century.
Another item of interest for family history concerns the building up
of a farm in Donington from grants of enclosure allotments and by
exchanges by the Dodds family, graziers, of Burton Pedwardine and
Donington. The property was later conveyed to Nathaniel Cooke, newspaper proprietor of The Strand, London, and a trust deed of 1845 shows
the relationship between the ‘Cooke and Ingram families, Herbert Ingram
of the Strand, also described as newspaper proprietor, being a trustee.
Nathaniel Wedd of Boston, merchant, was also related. (H.D. 70/3).
Another packet, relating to houses in Albert Street, Holbeach, gives
references to a great house at Holbeach in occupation ‘partly of Ann
Claypon, widow, and later by John Spinke Bennet, apothecary. Some
light is thrown on the descent of the Claypons, later bankers, also on
the Townsend family of Sutton, farriers and blacksmiths in 1792 (H.D.
70/2). A Mr. Samuel Palmer late of Spalding merchant and then of
Sutton St. Mary, victualler, is mentioned in 1824, presumably related
to the Palmers referred to in Archivists’ Report, -12, pp. 20-21 (H.D.
70/3). A packet concerned with 113 acres of arable in Pinchbeck has an
abstract of title showing the descent of the ‘property and of the manor
of Wakes, Pinchbeck (H.D. 70/3). Some Whaplode ,deeds have particulars of the Buckworth family linking up with those deposited from
the office of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1963
(Archivists’ Report, 15 pp. 11-15).
Properties of interest include deeds for Mill House, Boston road,
Gosberton, showing the descent of the mill, described in sale particulars
of 18g1 as a post windmill with round house under (H.D. 70/7) and
another ,mlll, disused in 1737 as a windmill and messuage in Mill gate,
Whaplode is later said to be an ancient messuage on the highway
formerly called Millgate or Kirkgate leading from the church to the fen,
1834 (H.D. 70/ 26). There is reference to the sale of a share in the
sloop Alpha of 48 tons in 1814 (H.D. (7o/rg/5). An unexpected find
is a collection of letters, orders from Whitehall and a sketch plan relating
to a proposed extension to the churchyard in Whaplode Drove in the
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hope of obviating the necessity’ for a burial board there, 185860 (H.D.
70/30/73-80). These papers seem to have come in with documents
relating to the arrangement of a mortgage for the Revd. Robert Hollis
who was perpetual curate of Whaplode Drove in 1867 (H.D. 70130).
Summary
Algarkirk, cottage and land, 1839-1905 (3); Deeping St. Nicholas, Plough
Farm, 17321870 (22); Donington, Dovecote farm 1768-1891, plan
on deed of 1874 (64); Fleet, farm & land, 1805-41 (I O), includes
abstract of title Rose & Crown Inn 169o-1805; Gedney, farm &
lands, plan, 1799-1901 (80) the same, lands accumulated by the
Walker family, 1842-1916, (20); Gosberton, messuage, windmill,
bakehouse & land, n8o8-1921 (33); Holbeach, 4a. lands formerly
commonable, 1815-75 (IO); Holbeach Drove, 2 cottages and a piece
of. land late an encroachment from the waste 1814-77 ,(Io); Holbeach, 3 acres of land, 1710-1897 (16); the same, plot in fen,
1858-98 (5); the same, a close formerly of Henry Hawley bar-t.
1865-70 (7); the same, a close formerly held with Pinchbeck Wakes
manor, 1728-1916 (4); the same, the site of two houses in Albert
St. 1722-1842 (28); Moulton, grocers & blacksmith’s shop, west of
road to Fosdike, 1780-1865 (20); Long Sutton, 32 acres, deed & sale
particulars & plan ~811-95 (22); the same, closes, abstract from
1676, 183946 (I I); Sutton Bridge leasehold of the Crown, land
reclaimed from river Nene in Wingland, plan, 1863-70 (3); Sutton
St. James & Gedney, plots of pasture coming to trustees of the
Independant Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, 1811-1916
(39); Sutton St. James, plot of arable east of Balkins drove,
1758-1921 (24); farm & lands (late Jacob Baldwick) in Sutton St.
Nicholas, sketch plan, 1743-1893 (71); a close in the Rakes in
Swineshead, 1722-1926 (33); farm and lands in the Rakes, Swineshead fen, 1712-1882 (40); close in the East Fen, Toynton All Saints,
abstract 1841-70 (I): close late of Joseph Cade, abstract from 1762,
1815-1915 (13); ancient messuage & windmill in Millgate, Whaplode, 1737-19o9 (17); close near Hurdle tree bank, Whaplode,
1819-73 (20); close near Holbeach & Spalding, turnpike, Whaplode
1825-1928 (23); cottage & land in Whaplode drove, plan, 1814-89
[~184]; copyhold m Whaplode drove of Rev. Robert Holhs, 1708-189,1
0.
Other counties: Lark hall farm, Isleham, co. Cambridge, plan, 1837-1915
(13); Abbey farm, Great Massingham, co. Norfolk, 1783-1920 (5);
Longwood house, Nayland, co. Suffolk, plan, 1745-1864 (64).
PEAKE, SNOW, AND JEUDWINE
During the past eighteen months a considerable amount of time has
been devoted to the cleaning, sorting, and arrangement of the deposit
received from the Sleaford solicitors, Peake, Snow, and Jeudwine. This
deposit is the largest ever received from a firm of solicitors, and it arrived
in 118 boxes, some conventional-sized tin deed boxes, others larger.
The records had undergone complete disorganization, and only two or
three boxes still contained their original contents. Moreover the contents
had been subjected to long exposure to dirt and to pigeons, and the
items and bundles were filled with and embedded in a thick gritty loam,
peculiarly penetrating and lung-clogging. The difficulties of sorting
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were increased by the presence of much ephemeral matter, as most of
the papers of the late 19th and of the 20th centuries had apparently
never undergone any form of weeding. The records have now all been
cleaned, classified, boxed, and numbered, and a brief summary list has
been made. It has not yet been possible to undertake detailed study of
any part of this collection, and it remains to catalogue those classes
which merit further investigation. In spite of its forbidding appearance
on first encounter, this deposit contains some historical records of considerable importance, and it should become a mine for the student of
the history of Sleaford and district.
The firm is one of some antiquity and distinction. The following
notes on it are based on county directories, on The Clerks of the Counties
1360-1960, ed. Sir E. Stephens, and on information contained in the
records. It can be traced back in this deposit at least to 1782, to
Benjamin Cheales. Cheales served as Deputy to Robert Langton
Bankes, Clerk’of the Peace for Kesteven, and in 1798 was appointed
Clerk. From 1798 to 1866 a member of the firm held the ,office of Clerk
of the Peace. Articles of partnership dated 1808, but not executed,
survive between Cheales and William Forbes of New Sleaford. Both
were described as attorneys of the Court of King’s Bench at Westminster
and solicitors of the High Court of Chancery. Forbes agreed to pay
Cheales half of the value of the partnership, to be estimated at the rate
of two and a half year’s purchase of the net annual produce. The
partnership was to be for fifteen years, but was to exclude Cheales’s,Clerkship of the Peace, his Clerkship of the General Meetings of Lieutenancy
and his place of Receiver General ,of the Taxes. Although this deed
was not executed, apparently a partnership was entered into then, for
two bill books dated 1808-18 and 1817-22 are labelled “ C & F “. When
Cheales died in 1824, Forbes succeeded him as Clerk of the Peace. Both
men held key positions in the administration of Kesteven, as they were
also Clerks to the Lieutenancy and Treasurers for the North and South
divisions of Kesteven: By 1826 Forbes had taken William Foster into
partnership, probably the Foster who is found receipting bills in the
bill book of 1808-18. This partnership was dissolved in January 1834,
and by 1841 the firm was Forbes and Moore.
Maurice Peter Moore had been admitted solicitor in 1831. His
father was the Rev. Dr. William Moore, vicar of Spalding 1825-66, a
prebendary of Lincoln, and distinguished as Chairman of South Holland
Quarter Sessions and President of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society.
His mother was Anne Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Maurice
Johnson of Spalding. The Rev. Edward Moore was one of his brothers,
a Lincolnshire incumbent who was Headmaster of Spalding Grammar
School 1861-66, vicar of Spalding 186689, and likewise became Chairman
of the Holland Bench of Magistrates and a Prebendary of Lincoln.
Forbes was dead by 1842 and Moore’s patent of appointment as Clerk
of the Peace is dated 19 January in that year. He also became Clerk to
the Lieutenancy, Clerk of Gaol S’essions, Clerk to the Magistrates, and
Clerk to the ‘County Court established by Act of 1841. The County
Treasurership he held for one year only. By 1849 Moore had taken
into partnership Henry Peake (admitted solicitor 1846), son of Rob&t
Peake of Burrough on the Hill, Leics. In 1851 Henry Peake married
Eliza, sister of Charles Kirk of Sleaford, one of a family of architects
with whom the firm had close business connections from the time of
William Kirk, County Surveyor of Leicestershire (d. 1823), to that of
Herbert Kirk (b. 1853), County Surveyor for Kesteven and Diocesan
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Surveyor. During his illness before his death in 1866, Moore had
appointed Peake as Deputy Clerk of the Peace. His death, however,
ended the connection between the firm ‘and the Clerkship of the Peace.
The xfirm retained his name for a few years, and in 1867-68 was known
as Moore, Peake, and England. Charles England dropped out between
1874 and 1876, by which date the firm had become Peake and Snow,
by the addition of Henry Snow, who had been practising as a solicitor
in Sleaford, as a separate firm, since at least 1861,. Henry Peake’s son,
Henry Arthur Peak6 (b. 1855) had been brought into the firm some
years before his father’s death in 1886, and by 1892 Norman Edward
Snow, son of Henry Snow, had joined. On his death in 1937 J. G.
Jeudwine, who was already in the firm, became a partner.
Some of the records in this deposit are those of another separate
firm of Sleaford solicitors, that of Holdich, which was established at
some date between 1826 and 1841 and seems to have continued until
19x9. Two bill books for 1849-60, for example, are for W. H. and C. W.
Holdich, kngwn as the firm of William and Walter Holdich. T. H.
Holdich, the last member of this firm, was Clerk of the Peace and of
the Coitnty Council for Kesteven from 1902 to 1919. Peake, Snow and
Son evidently took over this practice, prebably in 1919.
A large proportion of the deposit consists of records relating to the
affairs and estates of the firm’s clients, who included the principal landowners of the district& Among these were the Marquess of Bristol, and
the families of Fane, Whichcote, and Allix. The family represented by
the greatest bulk of material is that of Peacock and Willson. Some of
the records relate to descendants of the marriage of Anthony Peacock I
of South Kyme (d. 1809) and his second wife, Mary Wilkinson. Such
are the papers concerning the Rev. John Peacock and Miss Sophia
Peacock. The majority, however, relate to the descendants of his first
marriage, with Harriet Taylor. They include papers concerning the
affairs and executorship of the Rev. John Willson, whose daughter Mary
married the second Anthony Peacock of South Kyme in 1806, and from
whom the family inherited their property in Lincoln. Their son Anthony
Peacock III took the surname of Willson in 1851 and was the builder
of Rauceby Hall. Much survives concerning the affairs of his sons
General Sir Mildmay Willson Willson, Walter Edward Willson, the Rev.
Vere F. Willson, and Arthur Bruce Willson. The Percy family of Guy’s
Cliffe, Warws., had records of the, Lincolnshire estates which they
inherited froh the 5th and last Duke of Ancaster. In 1823 a Qivision
of the late Duke’s real estates was made between Bertie Bertie Greatheed
of Guy’s Cliffe and Brownlow Bertie Mathew, each being son of one
of the sisters of the 5th Duke, and the survey and valuation then made
is to be found in this deposit. Bertie Bertie Greatheed died in 1826,
and was succeeded by the Hon. Charles Bertie-Percy, who had married
his granddaughter. In 1823 Greatheed and Mathew also acquired, under
the Duke’s will, a lease from the ‘Crown of the manors of East and West
Deeping. The firm held the stewardship of this manor and were
agents for the lessees, and two volumes of Forbes’s correspondence dated
1824-32 throw light on local conditions and on the Crown’s policy of.
estate management. Many of Forbes’s letters were from William
Custance, the Crown Surveyor and Receiver for the Lincoln district.
Other families represented among the clients’ accumulations are those
of partners of the firm or their relatives.
Many of the title deeds which are now only listed by place will
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doubtless be found, when catalogued, to relate to the affairs of clients
whose papers are separately listed. An unexpected find was a fine series
of medieval deeds mainly srelating to Aslackby and the region to the
south of Sleaford and dating from the 13th century.
A variety of interesting business records are contained in this deposit.
Perhaps most valuable are those of the Sleaford Bank of Peacock and
Handley, founded by Anthony Peacock I in 1792; Used in conjunction
with some material in the Fane collection, these records would make
possible a detailed study of this country bank up to its take-over by
Lloyd’s in, 1912. Among the directors who acquired the Strafford Collieries Company, Yorkshire, in 1874 were Henry Peake and the Sleaford
architects Charles Kirk and Thomas Parry. Records in this deposit
concern its administration for the period 1868-93. Later on other Sleaford
residents acquired interests .in a rubber estate in Ceylon and became
directors of the Dorpet Rubber Company. All aspects of the Company’s
affairs are copiously illustrated for the period 1919-47. The presence
of these records is due to the fact that Jeudwine was a Director and
Secretary of the Company. Other business records which merit special
mention are those belonging to George Plews of Caythorpe, an auctioneer
and valuer. Besides three diaries, there are 14 notebooks containing
his valuations of personal effects, farm stock, and tenant right and his
accounts of goods sold by him in the years 1861-69.
Records of the public undertakings and companies which the firm
served as clerks are on the whole disappointing in that the main series
_ of records, such as minute and account books, are absent. They have
been passed on to the other bodies who subsequently assumed responsibility for administration.
The early bill books have been compiled with much care and detail
>’ and give a good picture of the firm’s activities. Only a few have been
deposited, however, and the majority remain at Sleaford.
The boxes to which reference is made in the following summary
measure IO’X 5 x 14 inches, though a few are slightly larger.
Supmary
, Title Deeds
Deeds, mainly medieval: Aslackby, 2 boxes.
Authorpe; Billingborough; Bulby; Burgh le
Marsh; Dowsby; Folkingham; Graby; Hale; Hanbeck; Bridge End
in Horbling; Laughton; Lincoln; Morton; Pointon; Walcot; Wildmore Fen; Briggs family of Buckminister, Leics., 1632-38; MainWaring ~family of Cheshire and Lincoln City, 1587-1720, 3 boxes.
Deeds, miscellaneous : Alford, with Hogsthorpe, Strubby, Bilsby,
1619-1793, 29 items: Barlings (West Langworth in), 1737-1838, IO;
Bicker, 1706-1836, I O; B a r h o l m , 1761-1811, 7; Beckingham,
1720-1871, 28; Billinghay, 1658-1876, 8; Bourne, 1672-1824, 12;
Branston, 1850, 1862, 2; Burgh le Marsh, 1629-1798, 4; Coleby,
1580-1684, 35; Deeping St. James, St. Nicholas, and Market and
West Deeping, 16381884, 4 boxes; Ewerby etc., 1819-56, 3;
Frampton, 1744-1838, II; Fulbeck, 1592-1817, 2 boxes; Gosberton,
1729-1846, 3; Grantham, 1816, 2; Great and Little Hale, 16 0-1828,
4 boxes; Halton Holgate, 1620, 2 items; Haydor (Kel%y in),
1579-1728, IO; Heckington, 1746-1842, 6; Helpringham, 1624-1866,
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31; Holbeach and Whaplode, 1624-1748, 5; Ingoldmells, 1541-1692,
18; Kirkby-on-Bain, 1626, 2; Kirkby Laythorpe, 1788, 1812, 2;
Kirton in Holland, I77o-1879, 5; North Kyme, 1836, 1866, 2;
Langtoft, I’677-1848, 32; Leadenham, 1826, 2; Leasingham,
1679-1733, IO; Louth, 1595-6 and 1711, 5; Mablethorpe, 1661,
1674, 2; Martin by Timberland, 1819-31, 2; Metheringham,
1581-1820, 4; Morton, 1702, 1827, 2; Moulton, 1698-1791, 8;
Navenby, 1828-69, 12; Osbournby, 1606-1866, 26; Rauceby,
1634-1790, ;I; Ruskington, 1803-74, 5; Skidbrook, 1645, 3; Sleaford,
1646-1881, 13; Spalding, 1727-1875, 5; Stamford, 1666, 1672, 2;
Sutterton etc. 1669-1833, 3; Swaby, 1828-70, 5; Swineshead,
1698-1863, 9; Tallington, 1599-1748, 23; Theddlethorpe, 1447-1632,
5; Thorpe by Wainfleet etc., 1641-1743, 3; East Torrington,
1555-1878, 82; Uffington, 1589-1810, 15: Walcot and Timberland,
1795, 1849, 2; Whaplode, 1725+2, 6; Winthorpe, 1554-1658, 16;
and 30 single deeds relating to Lines. parishes, 1588-1917; miscellaneous final concords, I8th-19th c., 92; illegible and unidentified,
in&ding sundry bonds, 43.
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Beds. : Eaton Socon, 1775, I. Cambs. : Whittlesey, 1743-1849, 20.
Hunts. : <Great Stukeley, 1738, I. Leics. : Earl Shilton, 1783, I;
Thurmaston, 1679, I. Mid&. : Stanmore and Edgware, 179.3-1822,
4. Norf. : King’s Lynn, 1655, I. Northants. : Glinton and Peakirk,
1813, 1846, 2; Northborough, 1733-1802,9; Northampton, 1707-1848,
8; Stamford Baron and Pilsgate, 1656, I. Notts. : Nottingham,
1856, I. Rutl. : Whissendine, 1695-1704, 12. Yorks. : Beverley,
1726, I; Kingston-upon-Hull, 1834, 3.
Deeds, arranged accordink to families: Bacon family, Sutterton
(property of Captain Willsonj, 1711-1839, 20 items. Bertie family,
Uffington, Tallington, Orby etc., 155’6-1839, 57. Branston family,.
Horncastle, 1622-1731, 25. Buckworth, Green, and Johnson
families : Spalding and Pinchbeck, I7th-19th c., 2 boxes; Fleet,
Surfleet, Baston, Cowbit, Leverington, Cambs., I6th-19th c., I
box; Moulton, Dembleby and Whaplode Drove, I6th-19th c., I box.
Burton family, Billingborough, Sempringham, Leverton, 1717-1855,
24. Milnes family, Beckingham, Hykeham, Thorpe on the Hill,
I7th-19th c., 3 boxes. Peacock family, Walcot, I8th-19th c., I box.
Quincy family, Aslackby, Billingborough, Walcot, Folkingham,
Melton Mowbray, Leics., 1579-1690, 12 items; Thorold and Welby
families, Foston and Marston, 1622-1809, 18.
Wills, Settlements, etc.
Probate copies of wills and administrations, 18th and 19th c., 2 boxes.
Releases of personal estate, legacies, and other documents concerning
testamentary affairs, I box.
Settlements: marriage of Caroline Fane and Charles Chaplin, ISc+Ig,
3 items; marriage of Richard Thorold & Frances Tunnard, 1824-26,
4; Holdich and Maydwell family settlements, 1808-66, IO; Maydwell
and Moore settlements etc., 1744-1834, 25; earl of Tankerville’, will
and Settlement, 1739, 1757, 2; Hales family settlement, 1695, very
decayed: other miscellaneous settlements’, 2 boxes.
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Clients’ Bundles
Clients’ bundles, 1st series
Allix family, Willoughby Hall estate: estate papers and correspondence, 1862-1912; account books, rentals etc. r896_IgIz,
4 boxes.
J. D. Barnard’s Trust (Peake family, beneficiaries): wills, trust
accounts, correspondence, vouchers, 1806-1944, 6 boxes.
Executorship of William Bemrose, formerly of Denver, Colorado,
later of Caythorpe, 1908-23, I b o x .
Executorship of Marmaduke Bennison of New Sleaford, builder
and stone mason, r875-1909. Includes builder’s bill book,
1859-75, I box.
E. H. Boot’s trust (Saxton beneficiary). Property at Willingham
by Stow, 1875-1922, I box.
Marquess of Bristol’s estates : letters and papers, sales and- estate
business, 1869-1912, 6 boxes.
Charinton family estate (Spalding, Gedney, Cowbit,< Holbeach
Drove and Dogdyke): rentals, vouchers, estate papers, including copy of terrier of lands of Gedney Pawlet, Abbot, Welby
and Burlion in 1631; papers in- suit, Ash v. Moore, concerning
the will and trust of Miss Charlotte Charinton, 1882-90; including papers of the Rev. Canon Edward Moore about building
of organ, St. Paul’s, Spalding, in 1887-88, 1845-90, 5 boxes.
Executorships of W. N. Clay and Col. A. N. Clay. Properties in
Cambs., Devon and Essex, 1875-98, I box.
Executorship of ‘Charles Clements of Old Sleaford, gent., including
probate copy of will of r86g, 1848-1908, I b o x .
Cragg family : estate and personal papers, case papers, etc.,
1856-1920, 5 boxes.
Dorpet Rubber Company (estate in Ceylon) : correspondence,
reports, accounts, circulars of Rubber Research Board and
Planters’ Association of Ceylon, 1919-47, 14 boxes and I parcel.
Thomas Dove’s trust: trustee and executorship accounts, 1837,
rentals, 1838-46; settlements, correspondence and papers about
estates at Deeping etc.; plan of lands’ in Bourne, e. 19th c.
1826-1908, I box and 2 ~01s..
Fane family: estate and family papers, 1851-97, 4 boxes.
Bertie Bertie Greatheed and Brownlow Bertie Mathew: valuation
and partition of estates in Ingoldmells, Addlethorpe, Orby,
Winthorpe, Croft, 3urgh, Hogsthorpe, Mumby Chapel, Manthorpe, Willoughby, Bilsby, Thurlby, Theddlethorpe, Leake,
Leverton, Fishtoft, Skirbeck, Navenby and Swaby, 1822-24.
Administration of William Robert Harris, agricultural implement
maker of Old Sleaford, 1890-96, I box.
Executorship of Miss E. J. Haynes of Manhattan, New York:
property in Bourne, Langtoft, Deeping, 1877-1919, 2 boxes.
Administration of Robert Heald, 1880-96, I box.
Johnson family of Spalding : Ayscough Fee Hall and other
properties. Various ‘executorships. 1828-c.1920, 7 boxes.
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Miss M. A. Johnson’s trust (Johnson Hospital, Spalding, established under the will of Miss E. A. Johnson, whose sister and
legatee was Miss ‘M. A. Johnson). Includes title deeds, Crowland, and papers in suit, Fletcher v. Fletcher. r737-1901, 3
boxes.
General William Augustus Johnson of Witham-on-the-Hill : estate
papers, including tracing of plan, Witbam, 1872. x866-94,
2 boxes.
Kingrf;;ily leases, Ashby de la Launde and Martin, x773-1832,
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William James Laing’s trust : accounts, correspondence, estate
papers re property in Deeping St. James and. Market Deepmg,
1849-98. Includes account book, survey of property, and
executors’ accounts of William Laxton of Market Deeping,
1808-38. 2 boxes. .
William Laxton: executorship and trusteeship accounts, 1837, 2 ~01s.
Executorship of John Isaac Lyon of Spalding, farmer: will, 1843,
farm account books, vouchers, etc,, 1841-48, I box.
Trust of William Mitton of Digby, farmer: accounts, correspondence, r883-1915, I box.
Trust under the will of the Rev. William Moore, D.D., 1866.
Includes book of receipts and disbursements on account of
Moulton chapel, 1814-35, and executorship papers of Miss Ann
Durham (d. 1861), 18x4-1930, 4 boxes.
Nottingham Building Society: draft mortgages etc., 1934-40, I box.
Trust under will of the Rev. John Peacock, 1884: accounts, corres, pondence, etc., 1832Igor; with papers relating to the estate
of Miss Sophia Peacock, 18gr-1906, I box.
Peacock and Willson’s Bank, Sleaford : documents concerning
partnerships, r8rg-1908; papers relating to mortgages, lawsuits, bankruptcies etc. of clients, c. r88o-1918; papers about
take-over by Lloyd’s, 1912, 5 boxes.
George Arthur Peake: papers concerning estates, Sleaford, Wils<ford, Leasingham, c. 1880-1925, 7 boxes.
Percy and Heber-Percy family of Guy’s Cliffe, Warws. : estate
papers and correspondence, with rentals, accounts, sales,’ wills.
Lines. estate in B&by, Theddlethorpe, Navenby, Leake, Leverton, Fishtoft, Skirbeck etc. 1855-1923, 5 boxes.
Petchel family trusts: William Petchel of Heckington, farmer and
grazier (will 1861), and Thomas Petchel of Potterhanworth,
farmer (will 1866). Accounts, vouchers, estate papers,
c. r86o-19x2. 3 boxes.
George Plews of Caythorpe, auctioneer and valuer: 3 diaries,
1861-66; 14 note-books containing accounts of valuations and
sales of property, 1861-69. I box.
The Misses R. E. and A. E. Sewell of Legbourne Abbey and Walmsgate Top: papers re estate, including Wickenby, Scopwick,
Kirby Green, Windmill Inn at Amber Hill near Boston, etc.
r884-1925, I b o x .
1 Sleaford Corn Exchange Company, 1857-1928, I box.
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Sleaford D,evelopment Company : contracts, draft conveyances, etc.
mainly relating to Northlands estate, Sleaford, 1934-39, 2 boxes.
Smith trusts: under wills of George Smith of Evedon, 1872, and
Edward Smith, x879. 18721908. 2 boxes.
Seth Smith’s trust, with papers concerning Figg trust. Include
copies of court .roll, manors of East and West Deeping, 1705-86,
and marriage settlement of Mary Ann Figg of West Deeping
and Seth Smith of Market Deeping, 183.5. 1705-1897, 2 boxes.
Mrs. Susan Jane Snow, deceased,, of Putney: correspondence and
accounts, 1887-1914, 2 boxes.
The Strafford Collieries Company, Yorks. : documents re acquisition
in 1874 and subsequent administration, X868-93, 2 boxes.
Jesse Thurlby’s “trust : case papers, correspondence etc. Ruskington, Lines., and, West Kensington, Middx., 1882-95, I box.
James Ward of Boston: estate and executorship papers. Leasingham, Sutterton, Kirton Fen, Heckington Fen, Helpringham,
and Burton Pedwardine. 1867-97, 2 boxes.
Trust of William Wardby of Elm, Isle of Ely: will, 1830; papers,
including Wardby v Richards, r88o-gr. I b o x .
Whichcote family : drafts of settlements and wills, with correspondence and estate papers, I829-rgor, 4 boxes.
Williamson and Hunt families: family and estate papers. Gedney,
Pointon, and Aslackby, 1827-1925, 2 boxes.
Willson and Peacock families : include title deeds, Cawse Manor
Farm and St. Giles’ Farm, Lincoln, 1668-1740; copies of title
deeds and leases of, Dean and Chapter and Vicars Choral
property in Lincoln, 1824-72. The Rev. John Willson’s
affairs and executorship, 1850-54. Anthony Willson, formerly
Peacock (d. 1866) : estate papers, correspondence, executorship papers, with book of reference to Lincoln estates and
inventory of contents of Rauceby Hall, 1850-78. Papers re
marriage settlements of.Miss M. G. C. Willson and Capt. C. H.
Hall, 1869, and of Miss L.~ M. Willson and Capt. V. H. J.
Scott, 1875. Walter Edward Willson (d. rgoo): papers concerning affairs and executorship, 1885-19or.
General Sir
Mildmay Willson Willson (d. 1912): mainly estate papers c.
1869-1912. The Rev. Vere F. Willson’s affairs (d. 1917):
include inventory of heirlooms, Rauceby Hall, 1917; ‘executorship papers, with vouchers; draft conveyances, building plots,
Lincoln, c. 1914-46; correspondence about Lincoln estate and
estate plans, 1919-21; estate papers, Walcot. Arthur Bruce
Willson (d. 1923): estate papers, Holdingham, 1916-19;
executorship, 1923-24. Lt. Corn. J. Cracroft Amcotts: draft
conveyances etc. re sale of building plots on Lincoln estates,
1943-52. 19 boxes.
Clients’ bundles, 2nd series, 103 boxes, including :
Ashby de la Launde, sale of glebe, 1912. Ancaster, purchase of
new burial ground, 1906. Anwick corn rent, 1904-05. Mrs. Ann
Brittain of Sleaford, accounts of trustees and executors, 1829-30,
2 vols. Culverthorpe estate, sale particulars, IgIg. Digby estate,
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papers re sale, 1877-78. John Walker Dudding, probate of wit&
1862. Executorship of Thomas Duckering of Martin, c. 1874-1915,
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Dawson
including book of farm diary and accounts, 1904-14.
family of Leverton: farm account book, William Thompson
Dawson 1818-44, executors’ account 1844148, settlement Penelope
Dawson and Walter Cl&g 1845, settlement Eleanor Dawson and
Benjamin Anderson ‘Smith 1845, abstract of title to cottages at
Wellingore 1876, copy of will of William Dawson of Lambeth 1821.
Deeping Hives: papers re compensation of frontagers on Welland
bank in Deeping St. James by Trustees for draining Deeping Fen, ,
1825-28. Fulbeck: sale of glebe 1885; papers re sale of rectory
_ house and purchase of the villa for rect,ory 1892-94; correspondence
about purchase of schoo1 site 1895-96. Sale particulars, with plan,
of a mill, factories and other business premises in Sleaford, late of
John Payne deceased, 1883. 2 farm account books, C. Harris,
Wood Nook, Grantham, 192426. ‘Great and Little Hale Burial
Board, papers, 1892-99.. Helpringham: papers re sale of land,
Surveyor of Highways to G.N. Railway, 1881-84; case papers and
correspondence; Vicar and G.N. and G.E. Railway, 1883-97.
Little Hale Fen road, correspondence as to whether a public
highway, 1908-09.
Papers re bankruptcy of <Charles Walter
Holdich of Sl,eaford, solicitor, 1884-86. Executorship of the Rev.
M. E. Jenour of Evedon, including personal and household accounts
1909-16. Kirkby Laythorpe : mortgage of glebe to build labourer’s
cottage ‘on church land 1868; correspondence re addition to
churchyard 1891; tithe rent charge and glebe rents, accounts of
rector with the firm 1850-1900, and vouchers and other papers,
-1918. Leasingham tithe rent charge: tithe rental, including
accounts between rector (Rev. Edward Trollope from 1843) and
firm, 1841-93, 2 vols., with accounts, statements, correspondence
1881-19o6. Quarrington: papers re footpath diversion 1899, All
Saints’ Church site 1911, glebe 1912-17. Sleaford Social,- Club,
articles of association, 1919-20. Sleaford Railway Station refreshment .rooms, application for licence and papers, 1904. ‘Sleaford
Laundry Co., purchases of premises and agreement as to water
pipe, 19o1-12. Bishop’s palace, Southweld: papers re conveyance from York Archbishopric to .Bishop of Nottingham, ISSO-81.
Timberland glebe, agreements, agency papers etc. 1865-19o2.
Papers concerning appeal for .the reduction of rates assessed on
tithes in Sleaford Union, Canon C. W. Foster organizer, 1920.
Draft conveyance of site of Cranwell R.A.F. College by Sir J. H.
Thorold and others, 1920. Executorship of William Wadsley of
Algarkirk Fen (d. 1875), including account book 1875-94.
Clerkships to i:nstitutions, public undertakings, and companies
Alvey’s School Charity, Sleaford : case with opinion and draft petition
to Lord Chancellor, 1840; vouchers, with some annual account
’ sheets, 1840 and 1880-97, 2 boxes.
Billinghay North District Drainage Trustees : correspondence, vouchers,
rates, proxies etc., r874-c.1935, 4 boxes.
Blankney, Linwood and Martin Drainage Trustees: Martin and Linwood
Inclosure Act, 1787: Act to drain lands between the Dales Head
Dyke and the River Witham, 1797; Blankney, Linwood and Martin
Drainage Act, 1832; 2 books of reference to plans (missing), mid.
19th c.; correspondence 1884-1933, 3 boxes.
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Digby Separate Drainage : correspondence, accounts etc., 1869-c. 1935.
3 boxes.
Sleaford Gas Company: draft articles of association rgoo; share certificates and transfers cancelled on conversion to LI shares 1902;
correspondence, vouchers etc., 1873-1902. 3 boxes.
Sleaford Navigation : James Creassy’s report on proposed navigation
from Sleaford to the River Witham, 1774; John Hudson’s report
on means and expense of draining the Dales in Walcot, Timberland, Martin, Linwood, and Blankney, 1796; share certificates and
transfers, 17g4-c.1840; draft and copy transfers, correspondence
and other papers, c. 1810-80. I b o x .
Sleaford Water Company: report of as to arrears of dividends, rgoo;
correspondence, statements of accounts, returns of height of water
I box.
in reservoir etc., r87g-1916.
Timberland Drainage: Act of 1839; labour account book rgoo-og; draft
accounts r85o-1904, 1934; vouchers c. rgro-30; rate lists 1843-1924;
rate book 1929-30; correspondence 1905-34.
Witham Drainage, 6th District : minute book of Commissioners, prefaced by Act of 1762, 1862-1927; abstracts of accounts, 1910-16;
correspondence, notices of meetings etc., 1865-1927.
Clerkship to the Magistrates
Records mainly of the Sleaford Petty Sessional Division, but including
licensing sessions records and some Quarter S’essions material:
draft minute book, Sleaford Petty Sessions, 186667; book of
informations and applications for summonses to be served on
putative fathers of bastards, 1860-73; accounts of expenses oi
witnesses and police, 1865-98, 4 small books; correspondence and
other papers concerning proceedings, r&65-94 and 1905-58, 15
boxes; informations, complaints, and summonses, 1923 and rg4860, io boxes; lists of constables, 1884-1929, I box; lists of parishes
with names of Surveyors of Highways, 1882-g; affiliation orders,
r8g2-1914, I bundle; papers re. foot and mouth disease, 1881, I
bundle; accounts of fines received and their apportionment, 1870s
and 1880s; British Board of Film Censors: lists of films passed for
exhibition, 1924-34; particulars of licensed premises in Sieaford
Licensing District, e. 20th c., and other papers.
Registrarship of Sleaford County Court
Correspondence, r887-98, 2 bundles.
The Firm’s Own Records
Bill books: 1782-1861, 8 vols., a very incomplete series.
Letter books: 1853-54, 1857-58, 1861-62, 1917, xgrg, 5 vols.
General correspondence, bundles chronologically arranged, 1876-1944,
some gaps, 16 boxes.
Draft conveyances and abstracts of title, 19th c., 7 boxes.
A large file of writs mainly from central courts, 1835-66.
Miscellaneous : articles of partnership (not executed), Benjamin Cheales
and William Forbes, 1808; notice from W. Forbes to William
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Foster of termination of partnership, 1834; patent of appointment
of Maurice Peter Moore as Clerk of the Peace, Xesteven, 1842,
with two forms for appointment of a Deputy by M. P. Moore, not
used, 1850 and undated, and lett’er re his right to appoint a
deputy, 1866; bank book, Messrs. Moore & Peake in account with
Peacock, Handley & Co., x864-69, r-e-used, as call book, 1924-26;
Mr. England’s diary of appointments and work done, 1869-74;
diary for 1844, William Hungerford Holdich; apprenticeship
indentures, kept by Holdich, r82o-1925; Lawyer’s Companion &
Diary, 1905; Norman Snow’s exercises on legal subjects during
training, ISSg-go,
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Estate: Ashby Puerorum, undated: Billinghay and North Kyme, 1860,
2 plans; Billinghay and Dorrington, lands of Mrs. J. Mackinnon,
1873; Billinghay Fen, James Wells’s field, undated; Branston,
estate of the late Charles C. Pears, 1866: Bucknall, e. 19th c.;
Butterwick and Leake, estate of C. W. Holdich, 186o; Digby estate
in Digby, Rowston, Walcat, Billinghay, 1876; Dogdyke and
Billinghay Dales, estate of E. and A. Maslin,, undated: Ewerby
Thorpe, estate ‘of trustees of the late William Burcham, 1864;
Ewerby, Ewerby Thorpe, ,Asgarby, and Kirkby Laythorpe, estate
of T. P, Tindale, 1875; Fosdyke: Charles Dodd’s estate in
Frampton and, 1851, his marsh 1859, estate belonging to trustees
of late Charles Dodd 1863, an estate 1878; Foston, estate belonging to William Welby, as enclosed in 1795: Fulbeck, tracings of
plans on enclosure 1804, and showing entailed estate, after 1840;
Hale: tracing from tithe map of estate in Little Hale Fen, Great
and Little Hale 1843, a farm in Little Hale Fen 1858, cottages at
Great HaIe [mid. 19th c.] , Little Hale [rgth c., very dilapidated],
Abbey Parks Farm, tracing [c. rgoo]; the Harts Grounds estate,
William Petchell’s trust, 1859; Heckington, estate of late Mr. Gadd,
undated; Irby [e. 19th c.]; North Kyme: tracing of map and
survey of lordship belonging to earl Fitzwilliam 1724, lands in,
1864; Leverton and Benington, estate of late W. T. Dawson,
1844; Metheringham, unlabelled [rst half of 19th c.] ; Minting,
[e. 19th c.] ; Navenby, estate belonging to trustees of James Rollitt,
1846; Pickworth 1864 and undated; Marquess of Bristol’s estate in
- Quarrington, Sleaford, Holdingham, Leasingham, and Brauncewell, tshowing course of projected railway, 1863; Ruskington:
estate of John Moor in Anwick and 11863, estate of trustees of late
Wm. Burcham 1864, rough undated plan: Scredington, estate of
trustees of John Barnes, tracing undated: Skegness and Burgh le
Marsh [e. 19th c.] ; Sleaford, property of devisees of late Thomas
Clipsham, I&@; Surtleet and Gosberton, 1868; Wellingore, estate
for sale 1857; Willoughby, estate in Mawthorpe of the Hon. C. B;
Percy 1843 and 1848.
Salop : estate in Wellington belonging to Mrs, A: Brittain [e.
19th c.].
Public houses, alterations and improvements (plans submitted to
Licensing Sessions) : Ancaster, Butchers’ Arms,. 1950; Billinghay:
Coach and Horses 1936, Ship Hotel 1948; Burton Pedwardine,
King’s Arms, 1948; Caythorpe, Waggon and Horses, 1948; Chapel
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Hill, Crown Inn, 1950; Digby, Red Lion, 1948; Dorrington,
Packhorse Inn, 1948; Great Hale, Rose and Crown rg48; Little
Hale, Bowling Green Inn, 1948; Heckington, Railway Hotel, 1948;
Helpringham, Nag’s Head, 1948; Holdingham, Jolly Scotchman,
1,940; Kirkby Laythorpe, Queen’s Head, 1936; Leasingham, Duke
of Wellington, 1953; Martin: Royal Oak rg4g and 1950, Red Lion
1952; South Rauceby, The Bustard, 1948; Ruskington, Shoulder
of Mutton, 1948; Scopwick, Royal Oak, 1940; Scredington, Blue
Bell, 1948; Sleaford: Queen Inn 1938 2 plans, The Grapes 1939,
White Bull 1939, Rose and Crown rg4o 2 plans, Cross Keys 1948,
Nag’s Head 1951, Marquess of Granby 1951, White Hart 195x
and 1952 3 plans, Carre Arms 1954.
Miscellan&us : Boston Ocean Dock and Railway, 1881: Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield Railway, portions of plans of Hougham,
Dry Doddington, Claypole, Balderton and Newark; Eastern
Counties Railway Extension 1847, printed: Evedon, roads in,
undated; Ewerby, proposed diversion of. foot road, 1874: Ewerby
Thorpe, sketch showing John Tindale’s obstructions to drainage,
undated; Holbeach parish and town, printed 1846; Kyme Eau, and
‘two branches of Sleaford River above Sleaford, and works proposed for making ,a navigation from the R. Witham to Castle
Causeway, r7g2; Lincoln, Thomas Maples Winter’s residence and
mercantile premises, 1847; Mareham, Coningsby, and Thimbleby :
allotments in Wildmore Fen [rgth c.]; Sleaford, no. 2 North
Parade, 1948; Spalding and Weston, lands ‘, benefited by the
Lord‘s drain “‘, 1800-01, tracing; design for fitting up a kitchen
for C. Pearson, esq., undated. Cumb.: Whitehaven Dock [e.
20th c.]. Nort~utants. : Northampton, Mr. Duley’s property in
St. John’s Lane, 1855. Yorks. : Robin Hood’s Bay, printed
view of Mount Pleasant Building Estate [late 19th c.]. Surrey:
River Wey Navigation, the Ham Haw Cut, 1847.
Sale Particulam, Catalogues and Posters
Late 19th and early 20th centures. 3 boxes.
other Records
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Manor of East & West Deeping (Crown Estate): letter books of William
Forbes as agent for the lessees, 1824-32, 2 ~01s.
Deeping manorial: manor of East and West Deeping, draft court roll,
x836-37; manor of Deeping Wakes, draft court rolls 187~gg, with
gaps; correspondence file, rgrS-28.
Articles of association of various companies: Adamantine clinker and
fire-clay Company, 1913; Ward and Dale Ltd., 1908; Sleaford
Brick Company, rgrg; Sleaford District Produce Supply Company,
rgo~; Sleaford Gas Company, undated: Lafford Estates Ltd., 1g36.
Herbert Kirk’s historical collections : notes on church bells in the
Sleaford area, history of Sleaford and its buildings, lists of sheriffs,
clerks of the peace, and acting magistrates for Kesteven, pedigrees
of families of Cheales and Kirk, late 19th c., I vol.
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SIBTHORP
In June I$% Sir Francis Hill, on behalf of Mrs. E. Dudley Pelham,
made a second deposit of documents of the Sibthorp family. A summary
list of the previous deposit in 1g61 will be found on pp. 54-5 of
Archivists’ Refiort 12. It is unfortunate that so few documents have
apparently survived relating to a family which played so important
a part in the hist,ory of the county and, more especially, the city of
Lincoln in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Only a few scattered
title deeds and other papers relate to their estates while the correspondence, although more plentiful, covers a limited period and there is
no evidence at all for the political career of the most interesting member
of the family, and one of the most cohourful characters in the history of
Parliament, Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp, for many years
M.P. for Lincoln, implacable opponent of Catholic emancipation, parliamentary reform and, above all, of railways. Most of the letters are
addressed to his father, ‘Cal. Humphrey, son of Dr. Humphrey Sibthorp
(r712-97), Professor of Botany at Oxford for 36 years, during which
period he is reputed to have delivered one lecture. (D.N.B.)
Doctor Sibthorp’s younger son, John, succeeded to his father’s
professorship in 1784 and died in 1796. Like his father he studied
medicine and there are a number of letters written when he was a
medical student at Edinburgh in 1779 and 1780 and also on his later
botanical expeditions to the Mediterranean countries which bore fruit in
his posthumously published ‘ Flora Graeca ‘. At Edinburgh he found
little to recommend in his studies, his fellow students (“ there are few
attending the Classes that have any pretension to the title of Gentlemen “), or in the town (“ time would fail me to relate the numerous
instances of Scotch Nastiness that I am by this time acquainted with “).
He took much greater pleasure in his botanical expeditions and there
are some fine descriptions of the life of the places he visited. Particularly
interesting is his description of a journey from Venice to Naples in 1786
when he was about to depart on his first Greek expendition (z Sib.
41137). The first stage, from Venice to Bologna, was by a slow-moving
river boat crowded with “ comedians, singers and tumblers ” leaving
Venice after the Carnival. Sibthorp shared a cabin with two opera
singers who “ might have lulled me to sleep had not a forward son of
Vestris by violent springs and repeated kicks kept me awake “.
John Sibthorp’s elder brother, Humphrey, was Colonel of the South.
Lincolnshire militia during a period when the Irish rebellion followed
by fears of a French invasion kept the militia fully occupied. At one
point the Sibthorp family represented the three lines of defence against
Napoleon: the ,Colonel’s sons Henry and Charles were, respectively, in
the fleet cruising off Boulogne and in a cavalry regiment on the Kent
coast, while Colonel Humphrey and his militia were in reserve near
Colchester.
Henry Sibthorp is the &son of whom we learn most from the
correspondence : in the two deposits there are about 120 letters from him
to his father, mother or brother Charles. In them we can follow his
career in some detail from his entry into the Navy as a midshipman on
the frigate “ Penelope ’ in ‘r7gg until shortly before his death when
H.M.S. ‘ Ajax ’ was accidentally destroyed by fire in the Dardanelles
in February 1807. Most of his eight years in the Navy were spent under
the command of his first captain, George Blackwood, known to his
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officers as ‘ Bluebeard ’ from the regular decease of several successive
wives. Blackwood survived the loss of the ‘ Ajax ’ and went on to
become an admiral. To judge from a number of letters which he wrote
to Colonel Sibthorp he had a high opinion of Henry: in 18oo he wrote
that “ in two years more I should be very glad to have him one of my
Lieutenants. Perhaps a name like his might be found on some Ship’s,
Books at the Navy Office, and as such things are done every day, a Hint
to you will be enough ” (2 Sib. 4/61). A midshipman had to serve
seven years before he could expect promotion to a lieutenancy; no
similar name can have been found to make it appear that Sibthorp had
served longer than he really had, and he waited until 1805 before he
finally achieved promotion. By then he had been an acting lieutenant
for several years and had seen service on many stations from Ireland
to Egypt. Of all his duties the least popular was that of waiting off
Boulogne for the French invasion. He spent nearly ‘a year on this
service, in 1803 and 1804 and his letters bear witness to the boredom and
frustration of the English fleet. The French moved their invasion barges
up and down the coast so close to their shore batteries that they could
not be attacked. At one moment invasion seemed imminent, at the next
it seemed an impossibility and the whole Boulogne encampment a trick
to keep English ships tied down there. In January 1804 Sibthorp says
that in all the extensive chain of huts there was no sign either of smoke
or of people moving (2 Sib. ~/III), yet two months later he is expecting
invasion at any time (122). In August he reports, “ Here all dread of
invasion is’ over and everybody is anxious t’o get over the water to see
the flotilla, we generally carry four or five bucks every time we go ”
(Sib. 2/4/25).
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Summary
(of. 2 Sibthorp; for the earlier deposit see Refiort 12 pp. 54-5)
Title deeds: Lines. : Grainthorpe, 1659-1703, 3; Lincoln and Cold
Hanworth, 1665, I; Winthorpe and Mumby, 1669, I.
Herts. : North Mimms, 1659, I.
Wills and settlements: 17o7-96, 5.
Estate papers : calculation of income of Col. Humphreym Sibthorp,
c. 1800; corresp., etc. re North Cotes estate, 1692, late 18th cent., 7.
Correspondence, 1774-1822, 147.
Misc. : copy of Charles I’s charter to Lincoln, 1633; South Lines. Militia,
vouchers for uniforms, 180511, 4, and letter from Lord Cornwallis
thanking them for their patriotism in offering their services in
Ireland, 1798; grants of swan marks, 1641, 1663, 2.
Printed: Lincoln poll book, 1780; election address to citizens of Lincoln
by Coningsby Sibthorp 1814.
TALLENTS
A deposit of title deeds and other papers relating to Lincolnshire
received from Tallents & ‘Co. of Newark, Notts. and mentioned briefly
in the last report has now been calendared. The title deeds cover the
17th to mid 19th centuries and mainly relate to those Lincolnshire
parishes within easy reach of Newark. Detailed topographical information contained in them must be of value to students of the history of
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this area. The longest series of deeds is for Claypole, 1613-1820
(I/ 11-15) many of the properties mentioned coming into the hands of
the Scrimshaw or Scrimshire family which flourished there throughout
the period. Three notebooks (2/g) contain notes on the family, tradesmen’s accounts, and all manner of jottings of the mid 18th century, the
most interesting being a note of the disbursements of John Scrimshaw
as constable of Claypole, 1755-6. With these, though in what connection is not clear, is a printed pamphlet of testimonials from persons
claiming to have been cured of stones, worms, and other ailments by
consuming a Noble Elixir. The William Scrimshaw who bought a cottage
in 1800 was perhaps the “ Bill Scrimsher of Claypool ” whose prowess
as a wrestler is recorded in two Lincolnshire ballads and whose reward
for his fame was, if they are to be believed, a threat of eviction by the
landlord, Sir Robert Heron of Stubton. (Lines. Historian vol. I no. 2
and vol. 2 no. 5).
Other series of deeds include those for a farm in Foston bought by
the Rev. Thomas Stanley of Stubton in 1785 (r/3/ II) for which there
is a survey of 1779 among the papers of John Fisher, tenant at that
time (211). With the survey are seven recipes for medicines for cows
and horses presumably belonging to Fisher. A messuage in Grantham
was sold in 1746 by the executors of Elizabeth Rudkin subject to the
charge, under her will, of providing three grey great coats turned up
with white, to the value of 20s. each, ,yearly on Christmas day for three
of the poorest men of Grantham. There is also a deed of 1780 relating
to the Wheatsheaf in High St., Grantham, possibly the hostelry known
as the Three Draines in 1746. No Wheatsheaf in Grantham is mentioned
in the early county .directories (I / ~6). Deeds for Swinderby include a
translation of letters patent of Henry VIII granting the manor and
rectory, together with other previously monastic lands, to Richard Disney
of Norton Disney and William Ryggs of Clerkenwell in 1544 (2 /x5),
and a settlement of the manor on the marriage of Rebecca Spateman
and Gervase Disney, 1672 ( I /21). Among the bundles of client’s papers
are several relating to the Welbourn Hall estate (2/6-7) which passed
on the death intestate of Mrs. Millicent Ridghill in 1840 to a nephew
John P. Dulamy De Butts of the U.S.A. matters being complicated by
the fact that he had been born during the War of Independence, there
being some doubt as, to whether his father was in active service of
enemies of the crown at the time of his birth, a circumstance which
would have deprived him of any right to inherit. ,The estate was sold
in 1860 to the Disbrowe family and by them in 1871 to Richard Burchall
of Ossington.
The collection includes a number of fine estate plans (3 /I-17),
notably a copy made in 1806 by John Bullivant of the plan by Joseph
Dickenson dated 1732 of lands in Ailby, Greenfield and Haugh belonging
to Willoughby Wood esq. and a plan of 1806 by Bullivant of lands in
S. Thoresby and Swaby also belonging to Willoughby Wood. There is
also a fine 18th century plan of the manor of Threekingham. A plan of
the Little Bolton Hall estate, Lanes. by T. Tinker of Manchester dated
1716 (3 / 16) is embellished with a drawing of the Hall and gardens.
Summary
Title deeds: Lines. : Bassingham, Bicker, ,Carlton le Moorland, Frampton, Kirton in Holland, Wigtoft, Wyberton, 1791824, 16; Algarkirk
& Kirton in Holland, 1748-1800, 8; Long Bennington & Foston,
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1684-1856, 22; Broughton, 1862, 1868, 2; Carlton le Moorland,
1611-1784, 25; Carlton le Moorland, Bassingham, Southwell, Notts.,
1746-1826, 13; Carlton le Moorland, Sleaford, Swineshead,
1703-1738, 7; Carlton Scroop, 1809, 5; Claypole, 1613-1820, 1x7;’
Claypole, Westborough & Dry Doddington, Balderton, Notts.,
1620-1771, II; Fulbeck, 1662-1781, 35; Grantham, 167g-1800, 13;
Leake, Leverton, Saxilby, 1622-1781, 13; Gt. Sturton, 1806-1814, 3;
Swinderby, 1672-1849, 14; Westborough & Dry Doddington,
~612-1827, 40; with West Ashby, 1674-1748, 8. Lanes.: Little
Bolton, Eccles, 1635-1810, IO.
Clients’ papers : Lines. : Dr. Dixon Colby of Stamford Baron, executorship, 1756-1766, g; .Disbrowe re Welbourn Hall, 1859-1872, 28;
Fisher of Foston, 1764-1831, 7; Frankish re Bracebridge Heath,
1853-1871, 124; James of Fulbeck, re malting house, $656-1888, 3;
Middleton, re manor of %&derby, 1814-38, 4; Rev. J. Ridghill of
Welbourn, re admission & induction, 3; Mrs. M. Ridghill of Welbourn Hall, administration, 1838-1872, 28; Mrs. J. M. Robinson
alias Hughes re Ruskington & manor of Anwick, 1850-1873, 15:
Scrimshaw of ‘Claypole, 1631-1755, 25; Rev. J. Storer of Haugham,
case re enclosure, 1836, IO; J. Thompson of Bassingham, executorship, 1877-1881, 7; Wells re ICorringham, 1819, 5_
Notts. : Horner of Brough, executorships, 1834-1892,~ 115; Derby:
Kirby of Little Hallam, Ilkeston, 16gg-1817, 38.
Wills and administrations : 1671-1812, 7.
Maps & plans : Lines. : Aby Grange estate including Beesby, Strubby,
Withern, 19th cent. with Thoresby, 19th cent.: Long Bennington &
Foston, 19th cent.; Claypole, ,177o; Gosberton, copy enclosure award
& plan, 1801; Greenfield, Ailby, Haugh, 1732: Somerton Castle
Farm, 19th cent.: Spanby, early 19th cent.: S. Thoresby, Swaby,
18o6; S. Thoresby, Gt. & Little Greenfield, Swaby, Haugh, Ailby &
Aby, 1841; Threekingham, 18th cent.
Beds. : Langford, 1830; Hunts. : Easton c. 1818; Lanes.: Little
Bolton Hall estate, 1761, 1807; Leics.: Evington, 1863.
Manorial : Barrowby, court book, 1722-1807.
Other papers : Apprentice indentures, Newark, 1707-1710,; presentment
of jurors of Lincoln re ,liability to repair Bargate Bridge Rd. n.d,
particulars & conditions of sale The Marquis of Granby, Soho, 1871.
WINN
Mrs.. F. L. Baker of Fir Tree Cottage, Nettleham, has deposited
papers of her grandfather Henry Winn of Fulletby (r8r6-rgr4), parish
clerk, poet and shopkeeper. This collection is of considerable interest
by reason of the character and powers of expression of this remarkable
and self-educated man, his official position and his lifelong residence in
his Wold village. During his lifetime he had published .many poems
and articles of an historical nature as leaflets or booklets and in the local
press. Recently Mrs. Baker has published a selection of his verses under
the title of The Poems of Henry Winn (Gainsborough 1965). She contributed to The Lincolnshire Historian no. .6, autumn 1950, his views
on the depopulation of villages and more recently to The EPworth
Witness and Journal of the Lincolnshire Methodist History Society his
notes on nonconformity and Wesleyan Methodism in Fullefby, both j
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taken from a book of notes he prepared to be kept in Full&by church
of which a typed copy has now been deposited (Winn 513 pp. 48-56,
18-22). Mrs. Baker made much use of her grandfather’s papers in
A Short History of the Church of St. Andrew of Fdetby published in
1966.
In the account of Henry Winn’s life with which she prefaced her
edition of his poems Mrs. Baker wrote of his difficulties following the
early death of his father, a shoemaker, his enterprize in changing his
business from shoemaking to a grocer, draper and druggist shop, his
efforts in self-education which enabled him to act as parish clerk and
schoolmaster, his hist,orical and poetical writing and his peaceful and
temperate life. Fashions in poetry change, men are now rarely selfeducated nor in an age of specialization do they seek to take all learning
for their province. Snch men as Henry Winn belong to the Victorian
era but few have left surviving writings both illustrating their own lives
and thoughts and reflecting in their writings the life of their own villages
to ‘the same extent.
His papers were divided between the descendants of his married
daughter Mrs. Marshall of Branston and the present deposit is Mrs.
Baker’s share, together with copies ,of some of the items in the hands
of other members of the family. His diaries, unfortunately, are only
known to have covered the years 1844-46 and much of his correspondence must not have been kept. A diary and Sunday school teacher’s
diary for 1844 are known to exist. Many entries in the deposited diary
1845-6 (Winn I/ I) deal with the routine of his life, his attendance at
church and comments on the sermon, his Sunday School teaching, his
duties as parish clerk, his attendance at Methodist meetings, his work
as a shopkeeper, with menti’on also of his acting as a letter writer for
others, of his holding the office of constable and his work for the Savings
and Clothing Club at Full&by and for the Tetford Sick Club. .He sees
a travelling menagerie at Horncastle, goes to ‘Skegness where a lifeboat
regatta and meeting of the Wainfleet branch of the Shipwrecked fishermen and mariners’ Society is in progress, visits Boston where the church
is having a thorough repair, attends a meeting at Horncastle concerning
the Corn laws and another, at a Baptist ,Chapel there, on Temperance.
He remarks on the excellence of the West Ashby #Church Singers, music
in divine service being a great novelty at Fulletby. He also kept a
Sun,day School teacher’s diary for the year 1846 (Winn 1/2), and there
is a small group of letters dealing with a visit to London in 1850 (Winn
r/3). No such details of his life appear to have been recorded
systematically again or at least not preserved, but a letter book with
copies of outgoing and incoming letters 1888-93 (Winn I 18) shows the
development of the views and character of the semi-retired shopkeeper,
with a wide range of correspondence on matters religious, political,
archaeological and historical. Two other similar volumes are. known
to have been compiled. In his nineties he composed “ Touches on
Times Past ” printed in Mrs. Baker’s edition of his poems, and wrote
his ‘ recollections of a nonagenarian who has lived all his. life in the
village of Fulletby ‘. (Winn 3/5)_
The deposit includes six note books in which he copied his poems,
with some repetition and re-arrangement, and six note books on various
historical topics relating to Fulletby. There are also two drafts entitled
‘ Collections towards an historical and archaeological account of Lincolnshire ’ but these do not appear to have been continued. He compiled
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notes on folklore, customs and remedies in Lincolnshire (Winn 3/1)
including the cure for the complaint known as frog by putting a live
frog, held by one leg, into the patient’s mouth till it was sucked to
death and for headache the alternatives of a halter by which anyone
had been hanged tied about the neck or moss growing on a human skull
dried and taken as snuff. He compiled also a collection of provincial
words and phrases current in mid-Lincolnshire which it is thought he
did not publish because of the production for publication of detailed
work by Edward Peacock. His glossary, a typewritten copy of which
is in the deposit (Winn 5 / 614) was considered by Mr. S. Ellis of the
University of Leeds to be honest and accurate work. Also deposited
are typewritten copies of a dissertation on parish registers, and some
correspondence on church bells with Thomas North.
In addition to ‘the personal, poetical and historical papers there is
a small collection of documents acquired or written by Henry Winn in
virtue of his offices such as a duplicate of the return made by the rector,
‘W. M. Pierce, for the 1831 census (Winn 2/1), a printed statement of
accounts for Fulletby National School 1851-54 (Winn 2/2) letters regarding the giving notice to quit by the new rector J. Jackson in 1854 to
labourers who had had allotments on the glebe (Winn 2/8-13) the
minutes of meetings held concerning the restoration of the church
1855-56 (Winn 2/ 16) copies of letters made available to him on a
dispute between W. M. Pierce and J. Jackson, on the subject of chancel
repair and a memorial window to the former in 1856-7 (Winn 2/17)
abstract of accounts of the Tetford Benefit Club from its beginning in
1827 to 1893 (Winn 2125) and a copy of the conveyance of a plot of
land for Fulletby school in 1907 (Winn 2136) with some other miscellaneous items. The deposit includes two albums of newspaper cuttings,
many being Henry Winn’s contributions, an album of cuttings of pictures of Lincolnshire notables and another of cuttings and pictures of
Lincolnshire buildings and scenes (Winn 6/1-4).
WITHAM DRAINAGE
On 12th October the Witham 3rd District Drainage Board deposited
records of various drainage authorities, of which a summary list follows.
Summary
Witham 1st and 3rd District Commissioners: minutes, 3rd) District,
x762-1933; rate books, ditto, 1932-4; cash book, ditto, 1934-7; cash
book, 1st and 3rd District, 1934-6; ledger, ditto, 1934-5; Witham
Drainage Acts, 1761, 1881; Woodhall Spa Gas and Water Act, 1889;
report on Witham Drainage, Hawkshaw, 1877; report on Boston
Harbour and Outfall, Wheeler, 1870; report on Witham Outfall,
Charles Frow, 1864; certificates of election of Commissioners, 1st
District, 1762-rgrg, 3rd District, 1787-1894; corresp., vouchers and
working papers, c. 1870-1930, 2 boxes.
River Bain Drainage Board: minutes, 1923-34; committee minutes,
areas A, B and C, 1923-33; ledger cash book and petty cash book,
1923-34; rate books, 1924-34 and n.d.; corresp., vouchers etc., 20th
century.
Bardney etc. Drainage : minutes, 1843-1934; accounts, 1844-1935; rate
books and assessments, 1844-1934; Bardney Drainage Act, 1843;
Ditto, Amendment Act, 1856, with related papers, 1855-9; report
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of J. E. Williams on state of engine, machinery and drainage, 1881;
printed plan of Witham, 1803; corresp., vouchers and other papers,
c. 1862-1934, 3 boxes; plans, 1857.
Greetwell District Drainage : minutes and draft minutes, 1861-1930;
accounts, 186x-1934; rate books, 1870-1933, 33 VOlUmeS; a&S of
parliament and related papers, 1861-4; declarations of commissioners and officers, 1861-1930; vouchers, yearly bundles and
files, 1861-1934; corresp. and other papers, 1861-1934; Fiskerton
engine house, plans, contracts etc. re building and new boilers, 1861.
1879, 19o2; plans, r86o-1sj14.
Kirkstead Drainage Board : minutes, $23-34; accounts, 1924-34; rate
books, 1925-34; vouchers, 1g3o-34; corresp., agendas and other
papers,
X923-34.
Plans made for the Lincoln Commissioners of Sewers: Holton Beck,
Langworth River, Wickehby Drain, Friesthorpe and Faldingworth
Drains,, 1846-51; farm in Langworth, 1850; flooded lands in Swine-
thorpe, Snarford, Wickenby and Friesthorpe, 1844.
OTHER GIFTS AND DEPOSITS
Messrs. Bates and Mountain: Additional deposit working files, Caistor &
Market Rasen offices, early 20th cent., unlisted.
I. S. Beckwith, esq.: vouchers for goods supplied to Haxey School,
1893-1904, 17 items (Misc. Dep. 184); letters and notes re Burnaby’s
yard, Gainsborough (Misc. Don. 261).
Mrs. Christopher Blackie : Newton family of Culverthorpe, letters mostly
late 17th cent., two small boxes, unlisted, <but apparently related to
Newton Papers in the Monson deposit (Misc. Dep. 197).
British Records Association: -on behalf of the Public Trustee, survey
and plan estates of Rossiter Lenton, Donington, Fleet, Holbeach,
Quadring, Swineshead, 1791 (B.R.A. 1384) on behalf of Messrs.
Williams and James, (Grays Inn, deeds of cottages and closes in
Beckingham, including former Quaker meeting house, 1746-1828,
3g items (B.R.A. 1062) the same, abstracts of title and deeds,
Spalding, ‘Cowbit and Weston, 1684-1848, II items (B.R.A. 1073)
on behalf of Messrs. Young, Jackson, Beard and King, London
W.I, deeds re messuage and lands Coleby by Scunthorpe, Walcott,
West Halton, Winterton In& 1690, cottages, blacksmith’s shop
and land, East Kirkby, part given for a Wesleyan school 1go8,
1877-1908, 6 items (B.R.A. 1171) on behalf of Messrs. Simmons
and Simmons, EC.2, deeds re Grantham and Gonerby Igth-20th
cent. (B.R.A. 1487) on behalf of Messrs. Young, Jackson, Beard
and King, W.I, deeds and settlements EColtman family of Hagnaby
Priory, 2 boxes, unlisted (B.R.A. 1162) on behalf of Messrs. Baileys
Shaw and Gillett, W.I, deeds, abstracts, copies, estates of James
Whiting Yorke, Beesby manor, North Kyme, Boston, Skirbeck,
Fishtoft, Swinhope, Stamford, largely 18th-19th cent., Yorke family
settlements and probates, personal accounts re rents, interest on
bonds, mortgages, notes of hand, Samuel Whiting, 1753-81 (B.R.A.
1208) deed re Ashby de la Launde, 1371, provenance unknown
(B.R.A. 0’) on behalf of. Messrs. Ravenscroft, Woodward & Co.,
deeds re Boston & Sibsey mainly Broughton family of Boston,
1730-1845, Broughton fam. Chancery papers c. 1846-56; on behalf
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of the Goldsmiths’ :ompany, deeds and papers re marriage settlk‘ment Rev. John Creighton of Yarborough c. r7go-1814, draft
marriage settlement and papers Samuel Solly of Eagle 1816-21, trust
deeds and mortgages Dashwood family of Well, re Well, Alford,
Claxby and other Lines. estates 1792-3 (B,R.A. 1157) on behalf
of Miss D. Nicholson, Tenterden, Kent, appointments as solicitor+
and commissioner for oaths, Thomas Nicholson of Barton on
‘Humber, 1813: licence to teach 1789 and marriage settlement 1784,
and other p&rsonal deeds, Rev. James Walter: apprenticeship indenture, as tailor, Samuel Nicholson of Brigg 1824, probate of Mrs.
Frances Walter of Market Rasen 1850 (B..R.A. 1499) on behalf of
Messrs. George H. Whiley Ltd. deeds re Wyberton, Spalding and
Pinchbeck 17th cent.-mid 18th cent., misc. deeds Holbeach, West
Rasen, Laughterton, Thurnby, co. Leic. 18th cent. (B.R.A. 1411,
*417> 14521 1493).
Revd. T. J. Budge, ,Custodian of Historical -Documents East Midlands
Baptist Association: minutes, lists of members, accounts etc. Salem
,Chapel formetly Liquor Pond ‘Street Chapel, Boston, ISIS-xgzg;
minutes of church and deacons’ meetings, Scunthorpe Baptist
church, x920-38. (3 and 4 Bapt.)
Messrs. Burton and %o. : deeds etc. Ellison, Sibthorp and Bromhead
families, 5 boxes, unlisted (B.S. 16).
Mrs. C. R. ‘CoIlis: deeds and abstracts re cottages in Heighington,
x767-r8gg. (Misc. Ron. 266).
Miss G. W. Cave: additional deposit miscellaneous vouchers 1952-56,
driving licence 1921; diary and household accounts 1965 (Misc. Dep.
157).
Sir Weston ICracroft-Amcotts by gift of E. K. Chatterton, esq..: copy,
codicil to will of Charles Weston of Somerby Hall, nr. Brigg, clerk,
1780, mortgage of Park Ings pasture in Howsham, 1801. (Misc.
Dep. 187).
Messrs. Conquest, Clare and Binns, with the good offices of the archivist,
Bedford County Record Office, six packets of deeds re an estate at
#Great Hale and a capital messuage called The Parks of Charles
John Bullivant Parker, esq. second son of Wm. Parker of Hanthorpe, esq., 18th cent.-1906, unlisted. (Misc. Dep. 198).
Miss P. Dadd, on behalf of Scunthorpe Church extension Society: cash
book of the Society 1922-29. CMisc. Dep. 185).
Frank Dawson, esq. : Bundles of court papers (manorial) mainly 18th
cent.-early 19th cent. for Belleau, Burgh-le-Marsh (2), Hundleby,
Partney, Saltfleet, Spilsby, ‘Great Steeping, Toynton, Welton-leMarsh, Willoughby le Marsh, Withcall, Winthorpe, and a few
accounts of Hollway & Co. for holding courts c. 1836, found in the
old Town Hall, Spilsby. (2 Dawson).
Deeping Fen District Drainage Board: Additional deposit, unlisted.
Major G. Dent: deeds relating to Dorrington, unlisted. (2 Dent).
Archivist, Derbyshire ‘Co. Record Office: sale particulars and plan,
Roxholme Hall estate, 1920. (Misc. Don. 273).
G. S. Dixon, esq: : Tennyson d’Eyncourt papers, wood-keeper’s account
book, Thurlby :Wood, Lea, for Henry Dalton df Knaith, 1792-1821;
Gate Burton field Ibook, Hutton family, 1822-4; similar book, Louth
estate, Hutton family, 1822; similar book for I farm at Tealby and
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for Scatter, c. 1s26-32 (2 T.D,EI Dz/8-II) p r i n t e d c a t a l o g u e ,
accounts, vouchers, correspondence, re_+le of books of the Revd.
Henry Hodgson, 1816; account for letters and parcels, George
Tennyson, 1801; letters to George Tennyson 1805, 1818, 1819, 1820,
letters to Charles Tennyson 1813, 1815-18, 1810-58; vouchers re
estate of Mrs. Jane Dalton c. 1817-19; rental and valuation, Henry
Dalton’s estate at Walesby, 1810 (2 T.D.E. H95-Io6).
Family or collected items, farm accounts Thornton le Moor, 18,11-44,
corn sales 1829-63 and farm accounts 1844-68, Seacby; farmer’s
diary and accounts 1860 ( ? Barton area); catalogue for furniture
sale Thorpe Hall, Louth, 1885; labourers’ wages vouchers, on string,
for Mr. Dixon 1832; deeds Normanby le Wold & Claxby 1665,
1669, Nettleton 1641, trust deed Revd. T. Dixon, advowsons Laceby
& Eyworth, co. Nott. lands in Toynton & Walkeringbam 1793;
abstracts, deed re Duke of Ancaster’s estates 1778, estates in Withcall, formerly Thomas Panton, and Spilsby 1826; agreement for
sale & purchase Nettleton advowson 1877, probates Gervas Lassells
of Gainsborough 1779, Jacob Philips of Terling, co. Essex 1826, ,
Mary Philips of the- same, 1844; papers executors of Edward
Scrivener of Barnetby le Wold 1870.
East Midlands ,Gas Board : minutes, Epworth Gas Co. 1865-1948. (Misc.
Dep. 195). ’
Capt. Jeremy Elwes, with the good offices of the co. archivist, Northampton: estate papers, mainly surveys and valuations Appleby,
Bigby, Brigg, Kettleby, Risby, Roxby, Sawcliffe, Wrawby, 18th
cent.-19th cent. (5 Elwes).
Folkestone Public Library, the librarian, by the good offices of the
Director, Lincoln city libraries, art gallery and museum: copy
partnership agreements Messrs. Burton and Scorer, 1873; agreements, partners and shareholders, Messrs. Robey, Lincoln, engineers, ironfounders etc. 1875, and memoranda, 7 items. (Misc.
Don. 268).
Messrs. Gray, Dodsworth and Cobb, Yorks., with the good offices of
the co. archivist, East Riding: deeds re Winteringham 1709-1857
(Misc. Dep. 191). With the good ‘offices of the Borthwick Institute
of Historical Research: Fairfax and Lodington family deeds, $racebridge, Washingborough & Heighington, I box; manor of Thoresway, 19th cent., I packet: Kelfield in Owston I8th-19th cent. I
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packet; Tetney, I8th-19th cent. z packets; Manthorpe and Gonerby,
I7th-18th cent. I packet, unlisted. (G.D.C.).
The lord bishop of Grimsby: letter of appointment of Charles Sheffield,
rector of Flixboro’ with Burton Stather, as rural dean of Manlake,
1869, with covering letter from *Canon Francis Amcotts Jarvis to
Canon Rust c. 1933 (Misc. Dep. 193).
Messrs. Gross and co. with the good offices of the West Suffolk Record
Office: deeds re Bassingham, large collection, unlisted. (Gross).
Mrs. G. M. Harper: deeds re a cottage, Blyton, 1742, probates John
Smithson of Little Corringham, 1823, Jon Sharp of ICorringham
1842, 4 items. (,Misc. Dep. 179).
Sir David Hawley, bart. : additional depbsit, unlisted.
Sir Francis Hill : subscription book, Lincoln Liberal Association, 1910-35
(Hill 20); on behalf of Miss J. S. N. Hayward, records of Beau-
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mont Fee manor as described in Lincolnshire Architectural and
Archaeological Sot. Reports and Papers vol. 33 (Hill 21); exchequer
receipts Lincoln, for various payments mid 16th cent.-1662 (Hill
23); book of receipts for payments under the will of Robert Gale
vintner and citizen of London, part of the charity estate was at
Claypole and the. city of Lincoln was one of the beneficiaries, 1629-81
(Hill 24); deed re a rent from a plot of land in Louth, Alfred of
Horncastle to Ralph Alinpanche, seal, 13th cent. (cf. Regktrum
Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln V, p. ZOO), deed
re a toft in Wellingore, Ralph le Roper and Matilda his wife to
Wm. Carpenter of Wellingore, 13th cent., deed re the manor of
Harmston, 1673 (Hill 25).
Holland County ICouncil: clerk, printed minutes & reports 1964-7;
treasurer, departmental ‘and other ledgers, unlisted.
The Clerk, Kesteven County Council: minutes of County Council and
Committees, 188g-various dates 1948-55.
Messrs. Langley, Phillips and Coleman : deeds re farm in Cherry Willingham, 19th cent., 2 packets (L.P.C. I/IS, 20).
Geoffrey Larken, esq. : deeds and personal papers re Larken family,
I bundle; letters to the late ‘Canon Hubert Larken, from Bishops
King, Swayne, Nugent Hicks, suffragan bishop Hine, and Canon
J. H. Srawley (Larken).
The Lord Bishop of Lincoln: confirmations, 1962-65.
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Lincolnshire Local History Society : Holland Old People’s Association,
essay competition, ‘ My Parents and Grand parents ’ 1 9 6 5
(L.L.H.S. 28), account books, John Stow of Barton, blacksmith, by
gift of John Quickfall Stow of Barton, 1843-55 (L.L.H.S. 29).
Parts of Lindsey, Director of Education: Irby in the Marsh County
Primary School, log books 1881-1965, registers of admjssion and
withdrawals 1880-1965, registers of attendance 1964-5, an unused
punishment book (S.R.).
Surveyor, Lindsey County Council : two papers re Brigg turnpike 1839,
I852 (Lindsey misc. paper 1049).
Lincoln City, Waterworks department with the good offices of the
director of Libraries, Art SGallery & Museum: Lincoln waterworks,
record of pipes laid 1858-1961, meter rentals 1914-37, time sheets
etc. not continuous, 1919-61, ‘analyses of expenditure 1926-33.
Lindsey Old People’s Association : Files of Lindsey Old People’s Welfare
Committee, including essay competitions, 1954-65.
P. Lounds, esq. : parish magazines, Grantham area, 1891. (Misc. Dep.
189).
Messrs. Lucas & Wyllys, Great Yarmouth, with the good offices of the
borough archivist: deeds re the Belnie estate in Gosberton, with
a survey 1815, probate Richard Millington 1811 and admon. Diana
Walpole 1836, 1811-36 (IO). (Misc. Dep. 188).
Mrs. McCallum: manuscript entitled ‘ Gleanings of the history and
legends of the parish of Northorpe,’ 1864, said to ‘be by the Revd.
Dr. Dodd. (Misc. Don. 272).
Mr. and Mrs. J. Mattless, by the good offices of the curator, Newark
Museum: blacksmiths’ ledger, Geo. Garrett of Brant Broughton,
c. 1895-1907. (Misc. Dep. 186).
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Sir Clive Milner Coates, by the good offices of the archivist for the
North Riding of Yorkshire: an artificial collection, deeds Allington
1621-1804 (I O) ; A n c a s t e r , Sudbrook and Willoughby 16go;
,Aslackby 1648; Barrowby and Sewstern, co. Leic. 1749; Bassingham
’ 1677; Beckingham 1779; Long Bennington 1707-1754 (6); Bourne
1683, 1753; Braceby 1683; Brandon 1675; Brant Broughton 1604;
Cawthorpe in Bourne 1718; Coleby, South Hall etc. 1615-59 (3);
Dry Doddington and Westborough 1621; Easton 1663, 1679; Fenton
in Beckingham 1764; Fulbeck 1731; Gelston I&I, 1712; Great
Gonerby, Royal Oak Inn, 1722; Grantham misc. 1614-1703 (5);
Grantham, leases by borough, 1646-80 (3); Hough on the Hill
1640-90 (8); Hougham ,r66g-1705 (4); Houghton, Walton, Spitalgate 1600-1712 (5); Kirton Lindsey 1725:_ Louth, Mercer Row and
Kidgate, 1650; Manthorpe & Gonerby 1798; Osbournby i650; Pinchbeck 1647; Great Ponton’1603; Pointon 1653; Sapperton manor etc.
1668; Somersby by ,Grantham 1697; Southrey 1650; Sutterton,
Fishmore end, 1703; Westborough 1696; misc. probates 1591-x812
(8); Grantham quarter sessions, misc. items detached from rolls,
x793-1813 (7). (Misc. Dep. 178).
J. Montgomery-Massingberd, esq. and the National Trust: Langton
family journals r7gr-1853, temporary deposit.
Messrs. W. K. Morton and Sons, printers: files of the Sleaford Gazette
newspaper 1858-1957.
Messrs. Mossop and Bowser, additional deposit: deeds, Mr. Henry
Thompson and others, in Gedney, Fleet, Holbeach, Lutton, Moulton, Sutton St. James, Littleport, Isle of Ely; Brancaster, Middleton Hall and Stanhoe, co. Norfolk; Coupar Grange, co. Perth,
unlisted. (H.D. 71).
Mrs. Newburn: abstract of title John William Denne Johnson, esq. to
lands in Crowle, Eastoft, Haxey and Derrythorpe, 1824-76. (Misc.
Dep. 190).
Messrs. Norris and Miles, with the good offices of the Worcester ,co.
archivist: deeds re cottages and lands in Chapel Hill, near Swineshead, ref. to Smock Mill r%og, 4 packets, 1720-1860; also with them,
original will Charlotte Norris of Grantham 1826. (Misc. Dep. 180).
Bought from Oxfam, Oxford, by the good offices of the Oxford County
Record Office.: deeds Waddington, formerly part of the Highfield
Close, in manor of Somerton Castle, r83g-rgo6 (3); Grantham, nos.
20-21 Wharf Road, Spittlegate, 1857-19o1 (8). (Misc. Don. 260).
Mrs. Freda Plumptre and A. T. Popplewell, esq. : deeds re Goxhill copyhold 1735-1806, enclosure act Goxhill 1773, sale particulars, farm
at ‘Goxhill (plans) 1882; deeds re freehold in Wootton and Goxhill
1686; deeds re copyhold in Eckington, co. Derb. 1814. (Misc. Dep.
194) *
Public Record Of&e, for Department of Education and Science, additional deposit : building plan Gainsborough Trinity National School
1871.
J, T. Rhodes, esq. for the 4th and’6th Battalions, Royal Lincolnshire
Regiment, T.A. : photographs of officers rgzos and undated, 5 items.
(Misc. Don. 267).
Messrs. John Roberts Associates: pawnbrokers’ ledgers, found at
Dernestall House, Lincoln, rgr7-rg, 1929-33. (Misc. Dep. 192).
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Dr. Alan Rogers: plans, Swaton vicarage, 1844, (Misc. Dep. 1g6).
Mrs. E. W. Scorer, additional deposit: tracings of plans of Lincoln
Castle 1783-1831; blue print, plan for proposed church and institute
at Lincoln, ‘St. Giles, W. G. Watkins 1928; photocopy, grant of
arms to Lindsey County Council 1935.
Messrs. Shakespear, McTurk and <Graham, estate agents, with the good
offices of the Leicester %o. Record Office: sale particulars Panton
House farm (plan) 1924; bulls, Lincoln Red Shorthorn Association
1926, Gilbey’estate Little SCoates (plan) 1927, part of Great Postland
estate, Crowland (plan) 1927, Red Lion Inn, Revesby, 1933, Hatton
estate 1936 (plan), Caythorpe House rg3g (plan h photos.), Angel
Wells Farm, ,Castle Bytham (plan) 1943. (Misc. Dep. 182).
Alex. Speir, esq. : handbill re letting the Newark Charity estate ,at Claypole, ,1873. (Misc. Don. 27o).
L. P. Stephenson, esq. : accounts of surveyor of highways, Walmsgate,
1840-68. (Misc. Dep. 181).
Mrs. N. M. Smith, additional deposit : Lincolnshire deeds, artificial collection, unlisted. (Misc. Don. 238).
The Revd. R. Pinder Symonds : genealogical notes on families of Barton
and Pinder, Timberland. (Misc. Don. 269).
Messrs. Taylor, Glover and Hill, Epworth: deeds, court papers, clients
bundles, r8th-19th cent. ,, unlisted.
Messrs. Thimbleby and ‘Son, Spilsby; van load of deeds, manorial records,
estate and other clients’ papers, r7th-20th cent., letter books from
c. 1850, unlisted.
Miss J. Thomas: deeds re cottages in Pinchbeck turnpike road east,
Market Street west, now occupied by The Triangles, x711-1918, IO
items. (Misc. Don. 263).
The late H. V. Thompson, esq. : printed items including mid 19th c.
poem ‘ Lord Yarborough’s hunt ‘, and, broadsheet on the appearance of an angel in Gainsborough church, 1819, 5 items. (Misc. Don.
262). Also 5 local acts of Parliament (Misc. Don. 259).
Me&. Toynbee, Larken and Evans, additional deposit : receipt for
securities held on behalf of the Monson School, Burton by Lincoln,
from the charity Singleton’s dole, and order directing payment to
the Monson School account 1891-2 (T.L.E. 15/376), faculty for
rebuilding the north and south chapels, South Carlton, and for
making a footpath, 1897. (T.L.E. 15/750).
Major H. B. Turnor: papers relating to the public work etc. of the late
‘Christopher Turnor of Stoke Rochford; deeds and papers re Stoke
Rochford etc. estates, unlisted.
A. Walker, esq. : Printed Visitation articles, Stow archdeaconry, 1815.
(Misc. Don. 265).
Messrs. Walters and Hart, additional deposit: deeds re cottages in
Wilsford 1808-63. (Misc. Dep. 172/4).
N. N. Willietts, esq. by gift of Mrs. Enderby: deeds re cottage and
closes, later farm and closes, Saltfleetby, 1723-1879, 45 items. (Misc.
Dep. 183).
Women’s Institute Scrapbooks, 1965 : West Pinchbeck, Alford, Grasby
district including Searby.
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Karl Wood, esq., by the good offices,,of Mrs. E. H. Rudkin; deeds re
messuage and lands, Springthorpe and Corringham, 1676-1739;
cottage and hempgarth in Waddingham 1701; messuage in church
lane, Gainsborough, 1682; draft demise of the manor of Scatter,
1550; handbill re sale, Pinfold cottage in Upton, 1862; deeds re
Misterton 1719-88 : marriage settlement Francis Sibrey of Babworth
co. Nottingham & Mary Morton of Whitehouses in Ordsall, co.
Nottingham 1793. (Misc. Don. 264).
The Revd. M. Wright on behalf of St. Michael’s C.. of E. controlled
School, Louth: minute books 1874-1957, bank books 1894-1941,
petty cash account 1896-1916, some other misc. accounts; plans,
insurance policies, 1889-1938; correspondence 1907-40. (S.R.)
Messrs. Wright and Son: various types of account, not continuous, as
builders and contractors, Lincoln, 1866-68, 1913-20, 1931-41, wages
book 1942-43, letter book re goods in transit etc. 1927-51; personal,
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accounts executors Mr. Wright, 1886-93, 1915.
Great Yarmouth, librarian Central Library, with the good offices of
borough archivist: bond to make further assurance re messuage
and pasture in Greenefield, Tydd St. Mary, 1695. (Misc. Don. 271).
The Earl of Yarborough: additional deposit of documents selected by
agreement with Lord Yarborough from the list of Archivists’
Report 16, pp. 34-5. Some documents remain at Brocklesby,
especially those relating to Brocklesby and other estates. currently
held with it.
DIOCESAN
RECORDS
CONSECRATIONS
Series of consecration records ,only seem to have been filed, in
this diocese, since about the middle of the 18th century. A series of
‘consecration papers and deeds from c. 1775-1867 is mentioned in
Archivists’ Report 1948-50 (p. 47) as having been listed and indexed
and some consecration bundles from the Alnwick Tower covering&7301838 (numbered 268-271 and referred to in Archivists’ Report 1950-1,
p. 33) had ‘been similarly dealt with at the same time. Occasionally
consecrations are found entered in the main series of bishops’ registers,
presumably as precedents, and there are also two volumes of registers
of consecrations 1812-61, which were also listed and indexed some
years ago.
During the present year Miss Susan Green has been working on
consecratEon bundles from 1867, a continuing series for which there
are deposits to 1965, and on a subsidiary series of bundles of consecration papers 1861-1924 listing them chronologically giving parish,
types of document included, object to be consecrated and date. The
consecration bundles may contain the conveyance for the site of
church or graveyard, the petition to the bishop to perform the act of
sonsecration, the sent’ence on consecration and memoranda of the
consecration service. The petition may set out historical details concerning what has happened to a former building on the site, and show
the circumstances leading up to the request for consecration.
The
memoranda may have details of the preacher and other clergy in
attendance, and record texts, lessons and hymns. The main emphasis
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of the records, however, is on the legal background, to the title to the
soil, the fact of consecration and for what purposes the building or land
is to be used. When plans of the site are included these may well be
helpful in establishing boundaries for current enquiries. There is not
usually much architectural information. This is more likely to be
found in the petition fo,r a faculty which normally should precede the
petition for consecration. (It may be mentioned in passing that sometimes church buildings appear to have been launched into being without benefit of either faculty or consecration so far as surviving records
go). The subsidiary series of consecration papers 1861-x924, consists
largely of correspondence regarding the consecration and bills of costs,
sometimes with draft petitions or sentences. The correspondence may be
brief and formal, but some incumbents wrote at length, for example the
Reverend Henry Usher of Saltfleetby St. Clement, who was worried
at the increasing cost of his project (a familiar story) worried as’ to
who would come to the consecration of his new church since the ceremony was in August, wished that the Chancellor of the Diocese, W.
G. F. PhiPimore, would attend in person (“ quite out of the question ”
a replied the Chancellor) and was anxious concerning a drift way on the
site and whether it should be referred to in the sentence (Consec.
Papers 128, 1886).
James Banks Stanhope of Revesby Abbey,
impropriator of the church, wrote “ I cannot be at Revesby that day
but I will see that Zunch,eon is provided for his lordship at Revesby
Abbey if he wishes to accept and would like to see my house “, on the
occasion of the consecration of an addition to Revesby churchyard
(Consec. Papers I, 1866).
The numbers of consecrations of additional burial grounds and
new churches reflects the increase in population, but probably with a
time lag, and other factors would sometimes be at work. The largest
number in any one year was 17 in 1928.
Both series, consecrations and papers, include Nottinghamshire
parishes from 1866-1882. Mr. L. B. Barley is kindly indexing the
list of consecration papers, the consecrations themselves having been
previously indexed by place. A further series of consecration working
papers from c. 1924 is arranged alphabetically but has not been listed.
FACULTY PAPE,RS
Faculties or licences to do some specific work on churches and
sometimes on other church properties, only seem to have been recorded
from the seventeenth century and then not in any great number till the
middle of the eighteenth century. Papers in bundles, perhaps kept as
precedents rather than as complete series, were in the Diocesan Record
Office when it was set up in 1935 and are noted in Miss Major’s Handlist
of Lincoln Diocesan Records pp. 61-2. Other bundles were found in the
Alnwick Tower, dating from the mid. seventeenth century to c. 1830.
Further papers 1831-59 were found in the Registrar’s room at the
Exchequer Gate and are described in‘drchivists Report 12 p. 57. Registered copies of the sentences or grants of faculties are also to be fuund
in the Faculty books (Archivists’ Refort 1950-1 pp. 33-4) and more
osccasionally copies appear at the back of eighteenth century court.books
and Libri Cleri for the archdeaconry of Stow as well as in the main
series of bishops’ registers. Canon R. E. G. Cole described some seventeenth century faculties in Associated Architectural and Arch&o&al
Societies Reports and Papers vol. 30 part I, 1909.
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Miss G. W. Cave who calendared the faculty papers 183159 is now
kindly working on a calendar of the series of faculty papers
which continues~ from 1860 to the present day, Before 185 , as was
noted in Archivists’ Report 12 page 57, no great enthusiasm 8or church
rebuilding and restoration was reflected in the faculty papers. Presumably some time lag operated here, also at this time, and in the post 1860
period, church restorations noted in the Associated Architectural and
Arclzological Societies Reports and Papers did not all appear to proceed
with benefit of faculty. Sir Francis Hill in “ Early Days of a Society,”
{Lincolnshire History and Archeology No. I 1966) has written of the
mfluence on church building and furnishing from 1844 of the Lincolnshire Diocesan Architectural Society (at first known as the Louth and
Lincolnshire Architectural Society) in its turn influenced by the theories
of the Tractarians and the Cambridge Camden Society. The Reports
and Papers noted above provide much evidence for “ a study of the work
of church ‘ restoration ’ and repair, for good or ill ” mentioned by Sir
Francis as likely to be of great interest, and this evidence is supplemented. and confirmed by the faculty papers during the period under
review, 18&&o, especially where both plans and specifications are *
available as is frequently the case. These papers also cover parishes in
the archdeacom-y of Nottingham then in the diocese of Lincoln.
For most of the parishes for which these papers exist there are
petitions, plans and specifications, citations, sometimes a copy of a vestry
minutes and sometimes correspondence. These papers, especially the
plans and specifications are of value for architectural history and might
have relevance for current work on buildings,
In the period 1831-49 only fifteen faculties for any type of work are
recorded and twenty one for the period 1851-59. There is an immediate
increase from 1860-80, numbers per annum varying from nine in x871
to thirty two in 1878, the total being three hundred and fifty six. Of
these twenty one were for buildings other than churches; and twenty for
vaults, the removal of bodies or monuments. Some were concerned with
memorials, such as windows and other features. About forty were for
rebuilding ,of churches, but by far the greatest number were for ‘ restoration.’ The citations show the range of work covered by this term which
might even be used for what was in fact a complete rebuilding. At
Benniworth in 1874 there was a proposal to take down and rebuild the
chancel,. with a new vestry at the north side, to take down the roofs and
upper portions .of the nave and aisle walls and rebuild and reroof them,
to build a new arcade on the north side of the nave, to buikl two new
buttresses on the south side and one new buttress on the north side, to
restore the walls of the nave and aisle where necessary, to rebuild the
upper storey of the tower, to insert new windows, to re-floor and re-seat
the whole church, to provide a new pulpit, lectern, communion rail and
table (Fat. papers 1874/8). Not all restorations were quite so far
reaching, but many involved considerable structural alteration and
replacement. In these twenty years the attention paid to roofs and walls
might represent work made essential by years of neglect but this was
combined with the need for extension of space and the demands of
ecclesiological fashions and liturgical requirements. Creature ‘comforts
were also provided for by the addition of ‘* a warming apparatus.”
On the one hand the terms of proposals suggest that churches were being
rid of cluttering detail, but on the other, if galleries and box pews were
being swept away, new proposals represented a new positioning and
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often new’ furnishing of such features as fonts, reading desks, pulpits,
organs, screens and floor surfaces, with what could be regarded
as additional decorative clutter in the east end by the provision of
elaborate reredoses. There are a number of faculties -providing for
reredoses both as part of a general scheme or as individual innovations,
for example at Long Sutton in 1877, a reredos with a stone frame with
a centre piece, a representation of our Lord’s last supper, in carved
alabaster, the whole measuring seven feet in_ len@h and ,three feet in
height (Fat. papers 1877/20). Little opposition appears to have< been
made to these extensive changes. Occasionally an individual protest
would be made where rights were affected such as at Leasingham
regarding the removal of the manor pew over an associated vault (Fat.
Papers 1863 /ro). At Tydd St. Mary, however, opposition which may
have existed elsewhere without finding expression burst forth in contestation in the Consistory Court, a number of case papes being with the
faculty papers, Various objections were voiced and opinions expressed.
The introduction of “ Pugin ” benches into the church was distasteful
to the majority of the parishioners, being too low, open behind,
exceedingly cold and indecent for ladies. Since Mr. Lowe came to the
parish he had raised a choir consisting of twenty to twenty-five boys
and introduced so much chanting, singing and intoning that the services
could not be understood by the majority of the worshippers and he had
introduced processions and banners which were most distasteful to the
majority of the parishioners. It was not a fact that neither of the churchwardens was a communicant as one of them, with the most influential
members of the congregation, had left the church and attended and
communicated in an adjoining parish. None of the principal inhabitants
would subscribe to the restoration fund because the present clergy had
kept the parish in such a state of ferment that the money which might
have been spent about the church had been frittered away in litigation.
There are indeed papers relating to this case from 1873-79 (Fat. Papers
1879-23).
Miss Cave’s calendar has been indexed by parish by Mr. L. B.
Barley who has continued his kind co-operation with her work. A list
of architects concerned with this restoration work is given herewith,
William Adams, Wisbech: Tydd St. Mary 1870, 1879.
J. B. and Wm. Atkinson, York: Langton by Wragby 1865; East Barkwith 1867: Everton Co. Nott. 1869.
J. P. S. Aulzu, London: Eakring 1880.
Bailey, Charles, Newark: Thorpe Co. Nott. 1879.
Bellamy and Hardy, Lincoln: Middle Rasen Tupholme 1861.
Blomfield, Arthur, London : Lincoln St. Peter in Eastgate 1869;
Cabourne 1871: Warsop (with E. M. Forster) 1876; Lincoln St. Paul
1877.
F. Bodley, London: East Retford Co. Nott. 1872.
Bodley and Garner, London : Brant Broughton 1874.
J. Brown & Son, Grimsby: Holton le Clay 1869.
Edward Browning, Stamford: Sutterton 1861: Snelland 1862; Burton
on Stather 1865; Sempringham, Bourne 1868; Fosdyke 1869; Stamford St. John 1877; Stamford St. George ~878; Weston All Saints
Co. Nott. 1879.
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William Butterfield : Pinchbeck 1863.
R. ‘H. Carpenter, London: Dunston 1874.
R, H. Carpenter and B. Ingelow, London : Blankney 1878.
Charles Cawthorne, South Retford, builder: Grasby 1868.
Ewan Christian, London: Bole Co. Nott. 1865; Holbeach 1866; Melton
Ross, Upton 1867; Caunton Co. Nott. 186g; Sturton le Steeple Co.
Nott. 1870; High? Toynton, West Ashby, Kneesall Co. Nott. 1872.
Robert Clarke, Nottingham: Lincoln St. Mary Wigford 1871; Nottingham St. Anne 1878.
Richard Clement Clitherow, Hull: South Ferriby 1869.
Henry Clutton: Moorhouse Chapel Co.’ Nott. 1860.
James Coulson; builder, Carrington : Carrington 1872.
John Croft, Islington: Cold Hanworth 1862.
Edwin Dalby, London: Sutton St. Anne Co. Nott. 1877; Sutton Bonington Co. Nott. 1878.
John Dobson : Sudbrooke 1861.
Drury and Mortimer, Lincoln: South Hykeham 1868; Metheringham ,
1870.
Robert W. Edis, London: Bilsthorpe memorial chapel 1879.
Evans and Jolley, Nottingham: Beeston Co. Nott. 1875; Cotgrove Co.
Nott. 1877.
Benjamin Ferry, London: Riby 1867.
G. Fish, builder: Nottingham St. -Paul 1877.
James Fowler, Louth: Waithe, Waddingham, 1860; Market Raven,
Dalby, Fotherby, Wold Newton 1862; Ludford, Rigsby, West
Retford Co. Nott., Marsh Chapel, Stickford, South Reston 1863;
North Coates 1864; Thorpe ‘St. Peter 1865: Snitterby, Waltham
1866; Normanby le Wold, Boughton Co. Nott., Binbrook St. Mary
1867: East Halton, Epworth, West Rasen, Swallow, Cherry Willingham, Laceby 1869; Claxby, Freiston 1870; South Ormsby, Nettleton
1871; Nettleton, Mareham le Fen 1872; Benington, Spridlington,
Clareborough Co. Nott. 1873; Roxby, Benniworth, Old Somerby,
Upton, Snarford, Healing 1874; Hibaldstow, Sixhills, Wrangle,
South Elkington, Hockerton Co. Nott., Saltfleetby St. Peter 1875;
West Halton, Colsterworth, Blyborough, Market Deeping 1876;
Bardney, Wroot, Muckton, Goxhill, Clee Carlton Scroop, Market
Rasen, Mavis Enderby 1877; West Halton, Epworth, Willoughby,
Shelton Co. Nott., Newton on Trent, Thoresway,, Bigby 1878;
Thimbleby, Butterwick, Blyton, Hawton Co. Nott. 1879; Lenton
1880.
Henry Goddard, Lincoln: Washingborough 1860; house in Vicar’s
court 1862; Springthorpe, Althorpe 1864.
James Girdwood, London : Scredington 1868.
T. E. Greene, Barrow’: Barton on Humber 1861.
J, H. Hakewill, London : Leadenham 1861; Scarrington with Aslochton
Co. Nott. 1867, Thoroton Co. Nott. 1869; Welby 1872.
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Henry Hall, London : West Leake Co. Nott. 1877.
T. C. Halliday, Greetham: Gunby 1868.
J. Treadway Hanson, London: Stamford All Saints 1878.
W. A. Heasell, Nottingham: Nottingham St. Mark 1875.
Hine and Evans, Nottingham: Dunham Co. -Nott. 1862; Darlton
Chapel 1863; Aisthorpe 1866.
Thomas Chambers Hine and Son, Nottingham: Whatton 186$ Coningsby 1870, Mansfield Woodhouse Co. Nott. 1875; Ordsall Co.
Nott. 1877.
Hooker and Wheeler, Brenchley : Manton 1861.
Jackson and Heazell, Nottingham:
Thomas Graham Jackson, London
Jackson and Truman, Nottingham:
R. W. Johnson, Melton Mowbray:
‘Lenton 1870.
: Stamford All Saints 1871.
Nottingham St. Peter 1873.
Boughton Co. Nott. 1879’.
G. P. Kennedy and R. Dalgleish, Glasgow: Theddlethorpe St. Helen
1865.
Kirk and Parry, Sleaford : Wilsford 1861.
Charles Kirk, Sleaford: Ruskington 1861; Heckington 1x66; Dorrington, Dembleby. 1867; Ancaster, Horkstow, Swineshead, Barrow
1868; Stubton 1869; Burton Pedwardine, Howell 1870; Osbournby
1873; Navenby 1875, Scothern 1876, Wellingore, Horbling 1878;
Branston 1879; Marston 1880.
Charles Kirk and Sons, Sleafordi Digby 1880.
John T. Lee, London: Swinderby 1878.
Martin and Sons, Castle Hill, Lincoln: Bishop Norton 1868.
Charles Neale, Mansfield : Wollaton 1870.
C. J. Neale, Mansfield: Sutton in Ashfield Co. Nott. 1868; Harworth
Co. Nott. 1869.
David Parkinson, Clayworth: Cottam Co. Nott. 1868.
Walter H. Parksinson, Leeds: Stapleford Co. Nott. 1877.
J. L. Pearson, London : Bracebride 1874, Babworth Co. Nott. 1878.
F. C. Penrose, London: Coleby 1864.
James Richardson and Sons, Stamford: Dowsby 1863.
Frederick Robinson, Derby: Brinsley Co. Nott. 1878.
Rogers and Marsden, Louth: Hatcliffe 1862; Legbourne 1867.
George Gilbert Scott, London: Spalding 1865; Grantham, Alford, Nottingham St. Mary 1866; Grantham 1868; Witham on the Hill 1873;
Skirbeck 1874; Branston 1875.
George Gilbert Scott junior: Wickenby 1877; Wyberton 1880.
Note: It has not been possible always to be certain which of
the above were by Sir George Gilbert Scott and which by his son,
Sometimes this is stated in Reports and Papers.
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F. Shilcock, surveyor, Bourne: a cottage, Bourne 1880.
Smith and Broderick, Hull: Willingham by Stow 1879.
Wm. Smith, London: Moulton 1867; Long Sutton 1877: Spilsby, Sutton
St. James 1878; Winthorpe 1879.
Stevens and Robinson, London and Derby: Kirkby in Ashfield Co.
Nott. 1862; Skegby Co. Nott. 1869.
Richard Charles Sutton, Nottingham: Arnold Co. Nott. 1876; New
Radford Co. Nott. 1878.
Isaac Sweeting, clerk of works, Clumber estates: West Drayton Co.
Nott. 1873.
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Wm. Thompson, Grantham : Aunsby 1860; Grantham 1875.
Henry Mimes Townsend, Peterborough: Girton Co. Nott., Tydd St.
Mary 1879; Calvefton Co. Nott. 1880.
George Vialls, London : Timberland 1880.
Samuel Dutton Walker, Nottingham: Wilford Co. Nott. 1868; Nottingham St. James 1879.
Wallis and Son, builders: Minting 1862.
William Watkins, Lincoln: Lincoln St. Mark 1871; South Carlton,
Communion rails, 1875; Lincoln St. Nicholas 1879.
i 1878; Lincoln St.
Watkins and Scorer, Lincoln: Lincoln St. Botoph
Nicholas 1879.
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Webster, / Wollaton : South Muskham Co. Nott. 1878.
James Whitton, surveyor, Lincoln: Friskney 1878 (report only).
R. J. Withers, London: Tetney 1861; Rand 1862; West Barkwith,
Harmston, North Reston 1867; Great Grimsby 1874.
l?. H. Wyatt, London: Shelford Co; Nott. 1875.
Robert Young, Lincoln, builder: Cotgrove Co. Nott. 1877.
PARISH
RECORDS
There have been a number of new and additional deposits of parish
records this year, and more requests for documents to be listed in situ
have been received. Of these the largest collection reported on is that
preserved in the Parochial Library in Boston and listed in 1965, but
omitted from the last report. One of the most interesting collections
listed is at Bassingham where a large group of documents relating to
tithes dating from the 17th to 2&h centuries could only be given a
summary examination. It includes a tithe book dated 1614-37. giving
persons’ names, their tithable stock, crops, and sums paid. Starting
from the back of the book are notes for the same period arranged yearly
under types of tithe, and occasional general notes on glebe leases, communicants and other matters. The vestry minutes for, the same parish
, run from 1651 to 1860 and include appointments of constables and
surveyors and notes of lettings of closes belonging to the town. Between
I659 and 1675 there are details of lands let for keeping horses, the
profits going to the overseers of highways. A plan of the parish dated
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1654 shows houses and enclosures, and has a list of owners and occupiers
with reference numbers to the plan.
Among the records deposited are the parish registers and some
modern parish papers of Immingham which were brought in for treatment after their recovery from the Great Eau in which they had, been
dumped in a safe stolen from the church. Although the earliest register
had to be divided into four to facilitate drying, and the parchment .has
suffered from its immersion only a few pages at the beginning and end
are completely illegible. It is only in the twentieth century that running
ink becomes a problem, so that the worst affected registers in this respect
are the most recent.
One Parish ‘Council, Ingham, has deposited 20th century minute
books, accounts and other papers as well as its enclosure award, a
development which is welcomed, and Epworth Parish Council has
deposited comparatively recent account books.
Summary, deposited
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Bag Enderby: marriage register 1813-37 deposited by the Rev. C. R.
Evans.
Long Bennington : volume containing miscellaneous papers from the
parish chest relating to the overseers of the poor etc. r8th-19th
cents. deposited by the Rev. C. Kingsley Burdon,
Cammeringham : additional deposit, correspondence re church and
chancel repair 1948-1966, deposited by the Rev. A. J. Virgin.
Carltan le Moorland: registers 1562-1812, marriages to 1837, title deeds
re parish property 1621-1870, constables’ account book 1738-1807,
overseers’ account book 1736-71, poor rate book 1850-1, settlement
certificates, apprentice indentures, bastardy bonds etc. 18%19th
cents., surveyors’ of highways account books 1760-1838, ms. music
book (psalms and hymns) 1817, conveyance of school site 1858,
deposited by the Rev. C. R. Evans. See also list of records not
deposited.
Epworth Parish Council : account books 1946-62 deposited by T. ,A.
Rimmington, Esq.
Fillingham : additional deposit, correspondence re School, church repair
and Civic Service, 1959-66, deposited by the Rev. A. J. Virgin.
Gosberton : additional deposit, overseers’ account books 1832-6, book
containing occupiers’ names, amounts of land etc. apparently used
‘for rate assessment c. 1836, “. Collectors’ Monthly Statement ”
books 1854-62, rate books 1837-79 title deeds re land in Gosberton
1839-41, cattle plague rate book 1866, church scrap book c.
r8go-1934, plan of proposed road improvement at Gosberton Church
,Corner, n.d. deposited by the Rev. A. J. Sangster.
Immingham: deposited for drying out after immersion in river water,
registers 1564-1963, conveyance of site for vicarage 1956, mortgage
of benefice 1957, fire insurance policy x957-8, assessment for dilapidations 1963, tenancy agreement re site for school playground 1913,
plan of new playground 1943, conveyances & leases 1911-63, licence
to hold divine service in the Immingham Dock Mission Room 1907,
papers re war graves 1914-32, plans & correspondence re St.
Michael’s Church Hall, Gt. Coates 1962, deposited by the Rev.
A. H. Grainge.
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Ingham : additional deposits, churchwardens’, overseers’ and constables’
account books 1827-1886, vestry minute books 1853-1891, correspondence etc. c. 1957-66, Youth Club membership lists and minutes
1961-63, deposited by the Rev. A. J. Virgin.
Ingham Parish Council : enclosure award with plan 1770, general account
book x921-59, order book for contributions to parish poor rates,
rgoo-21, clerks’ files 1946-53, correspondence re parish property
1865-6, specification, account and receipt re Ingham Sewage
Authority 1874, solicitors’ accounts 1875, 1914, financial statement
1933, notice under Road Improvement Act 1934, Ingham and
Cammeringham Welcome Home Fund bank book and statements
1945, extracts from provisional rights of way map 1953, street
lighting agreements 1951, 1956, receipt book 1944-51, sketch plan
,of part of parish boundary n.d., O.S. 6” sheets 52/5, 6, 9’ 1886 and
52lS.W. & N.W., 1905; 1949, Ingham Hospital Association minute
books, account books and collectors’ books 1924-48, deposited by
the clerk to the council.
Scatter : registers 1593-1876, banns book 1823-1911, terrier 1746, churchwardens’ account book 1824-1933 including a few poor law accounts
& memos. 1783-1818, vestry minute books ~681-1865, overseers’
account book 1818-31, surveyors’ of highways account book
1812-34, enclosure award with plan 1820, deposited by the Rev.
A. J. Bishop.
Skinnand: register of baptisms 1813-1955, deposited by the Rev. C. R.
Evans.
Somersby: register of marriages 1813-36, deposited by the Rev. C. R.
Evans.
Stapleford: general register 169,1-1755, deposited by the Rev. C. R.
Evans.
Sutterton : additional deposit, registers 1538-1924, terriers and inven- tories 17o7-1864, plans of glebe lands 1872 and 19th cent., specification for house in Sutterton Fen 1860, conveyance 1862, churchwardens’ account book 1775-1900 including rate lists, churchwardens’ vouchers 1785-93, memo. agreement re hanging bells etc.
1720, lists of appointments to the select vestry 1822-g, notice of
meeting to elect a Commissioner for Black Sluice drainage n.d.,
settlement certificates, removal orders, bastardy bonds and vouchers
c. 1750-1850, title deeds etc. re charity lands 1556-1773, account
book of distributions of doles to the poor 1’667-89, vouchers re
charities c. 178o-1890, conveyances re National School 1865, 1907,
copy law of sewers 1607, dikereeves’ account 1786-7, copy petition
re taxes temp. Eliz. I, copies indictments against Wm. Colvile and
others of Sutterton for forcibly taking possession of a messuage
and premises belonging to Sir Wm. Houson Kt. Lincoln Assizes
July 1616, rates of wages exhibited at Holland Q.S. Apr. 1676,
assize of bread for Kirton and Skirbeck Waps. 1790, Act. amending
law re solemnisation of matrimony 1823, receipts for collections for
sufferers in Quebec & St. Johns Newfoundland 1845, 1846, non
residence license to Rev. W. G. Nott vicar of Sutterton 1853,
particulars of allotments in Holland Fen 1839, deposited by the
Rev. J. Warwick.
Tetney Parish #Council: inclosure award 1779, deposited by Mr. R. T.
Hastie, with the good oilices of Mr. Rex Russell.
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Walcot by Folkingham : copies of curates’ licences 1804-76, copies of
non residence licences 1806-79, copy of instrument re procurations
1879, churchwardens’ accounts and vouchers 1695-1874, constables’
accounts and vouchers 1697-1861, overseers’ receipt and payment
book 1836-56, poor rate book 1837, settlement certificates, removal
orders, examinations, apprenticeship indentures etc. 1695-1875, surveyors’ of highways accounts and vouchers 1700-1875, highway
rate book 1837-55, land tax collectors receipts and assessments
r&og-42, marriage licences r7g5-1950, notices of banns 1835-58,
certificates of ‘registration of deaths 1837-1922, deposited by the
Rev. F, R. Money.
Willingham by Stow : registers r562-rgrg; duplicates of bishops’ transcripts 1828-31; accounts of parish officers, churchwardens, overseers of the poor and constables x789-1830; churchwardens’ disbursements 1830-86 with vestry minutes 1831-51; copy citation for
faculty for church repair 1926.
Listed but not deposited
Bassingham : registers 1572-1949, banns books 1823-1939, terriers and
inventories r6or-1935, tithe book 1624-37, papers re rect,ory and
tithes r7th-18th cents., tithe receipt and payment book 1859-82,
tithe valuation book 1842, tithe award and plan 1851, case papers
etc. re tithes c. r84o-1930, vol. labelled “ Tithe Rent Charge Commutation ” rgr6 and 2 similar ~01s. n.d. and used as cash book
rg27-qzg, “ Ledger ” containing an alphabetical list of names
with reference numbers for property to tithe map 1914, agreements
re lease of glebe rgo6-20, dorrespondence re sale of old rectory
1947-50, churchwardens’ and overseers’ account book 1714-93,
churchwardens’ account book 1794-1924, plans, faculty and correspondence re restoration 1860, faculty for stained glass window 1935,
vestry book 1651-1849, constables’ account book 1745-1832, overseers’ account books 1789-1856 including constables accounts 1836
and surveyors’ of highway accounts 1835-8, poor rate book 1873-4,
settlement certificates, bastardy bonds, apprentice indentures etc.
1700-1840, surveyors’ of highway account books 1745-1860, draft
schemes, correspondence etc. re charities 19th cent., charity school
account book 1774-1856, conveyance of school premises 1855, plan
of parish showing enclosure 1654, copy enclosure award, no plan,
1655, certificates of discharge, Witham and Steeping Catchment
Board 1930-5, survey of parish ? 1773, plan of parish and book
of reference 1833, valuation book mid. 19th cent., registers of
preachers and services 1875-1961, mortgage of rates 1859, correspondence etc. rgth-20th cents., roll of honour 1914-18, Graffoe
Magazine 1925-1939.
Boston: transcripts of registers and index 1564-1638, copies of registers
1803-12, banns books r78g-1959, terriers and inventories 1690-1864,
notes on vicarage endowment and schools, account book of Rev.
Samuel Partridge 1785-1827, plans, conveyance etc. re vicarage
rgth-20th cents., churchwardens’ accounts and vouchers r7rg-1831,
title deeds etc. re chapel of ease, lands at Welton and Mumby,
19th cent., title deeds, vouchers, plans, estimates etc. re Blenkin
Memorial Hall 1736-1934, conveyance of additional burying ground
1828, deed securing right to use room in Guildhall for vestry meetings 1855, correspondence, plans and accounts re church fabric
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c. 1843-1949, vestry minutes 1705-r857, briefs and forms for special
services x762-1948, overseers’ accounts 1783-1796, poor rate book
1780, correspondence and accounts re charities rgth-20th cents.,
conveyances, agreements, valuations, correspondence, cash books
etc. re schools r76g-1915, deed, correspondence, exam. papers etc.
re Ogle prize for scripture 1864-79, church Sunday School Council
minute book agog-39, enclosure award with map of Haute Hunter
or Holland Fen 1769, papers of Rev. Samuel Partridge r8th-19th
cents., elevation of design for Town Hall ,& Market House n.d.,
case papers ‘Thomas v. Armytage rgor-2, P.C.C. standing orders
20th cent,, bishop’s directions re duties of parish lecturer n.d.,
print showing new reredos mid.-late 19th cent., letter of organist &
choir master re choir & church music etc. 1892, statistics of church
work and finance 19x5-16, schedule of incomings & outgoings of
benefices 1916, confirmation lists 1853-1904, offertory book 1867-82,
Acts of Parliament re Boston and area 1758-1812, printed list of
claims re Boston East Inclosure 1812, Report re Drainage of Wildmore and East and West Fen, Rennie, 1800, case of Petitioners
against Act for making Kyme Fen navigable 1792, Resolution of a
Meeting of Proprietors ,re Wildmore Fen intended Drainage and
Inclosure 1799, burial ground papers 1852, Burial Board papers
late 19th cent. papers re churchyard improvement 1862, letters on
history of church etc. George Tebb c. r8go-g6, letters re appointment of verger 1849, account book of steward of district committee
of S.P.C.K. 1813-49, North Holland United Rural Deaneries minute
book 1888-qog, Holland I and II Rural Deaneries Chapter minute
book 1909-25, album containing newspaper photographs of Boston,
preachers’ books rg43-rg5g, visitors’ books rg3g-60, service registers
1892-1943, autograph poem of Jean Ingelow presented to parish
library in 1952 by Rev. W. J. Lattam, parish Year Books and
Reports 1893-1905 printed, survey of manors of Roos Hall, Hussey
Hall, Hall Garth 1708, Act & letter re building of Bostop Bridge
1808-12, catalogues of books in the church library 1818, 19, n.d.,
printed pamphlets by Rev, S. Partridge 1803-12, minutes re Armed
Association of the Inhabitants of the town of Boston and the hamlet
of Skirbeck Quarter 1798, agreement re lease of glebe at Wigtoft,
autobiographical notes of Rev. S. Partridge, vol. of letters, cuttings
etc. of Rev. Mr. Blenkin 1850-91.
Carlton le Moorland: registers of baptisms 1813 to date and marriages
1837 to date, tithe award with plan 1849, conveyance of National
School to Trustees 1858. See also list of records deposited.
Norton Disney: registers 1578 to date, banns book rgo6 to date, tithe
award with plan 1839, constables’ accounts etc. c. 174o-1800, notes
on parish history 19th cent.
Tetford: register r7og-1759 and loose folios in disorder 16th to 17th
cents., vestry book 1576-1621, marriage certificate 18og, temporarily
deposited for repair.
Thurlby by Lincoln: registers r5gg to date, banns book 1825-1944,
churchwardens’ and overseers’ account book 1783-1826, overseers’
account book 1827-36, surveyors’ of highways accounts 1839-40,
preachers and service registers 1898 to date.
Well : listed while temporarily deposited, registers 1649-1955 (marriages)
1963 (baptisms) 1966 (burials): banns book 1824-rg64; briefs
- 1684-1690, recorded in earliest register.
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RIXORDS I N O T H E R C U S T O D Y
BOROUGH OF LOUTH
On Oct. 28th the three assistant archivists visited the town hall
at Louth to inspect records in the possession of Lot& Urban District
Council. Some of these had already been listed in 1950 .(Re#ort 1950-51,
pp. 57-8); these were checked with the old list and do not appear in
the summary below. The minutes of the corporation and its committees
are in a strong room on the ground floor, but the records of the burial
board, title deeds and other documents in tin boxes have been relegated
to a basement.
Summary
Minutes: Town Council, 1885-1940; ditto, acting under Public Health
Act, 1878-rg81; Estates Committee, x88g-rg3g; Watch Committee,
r886-1920; Finance Committee, r85o-1940; Sanitary Committee,
rBgo-1928; Waterworks Committee, 1922-40; Fire Brigade Committee, rBg4-1989; Technical Instruction Committee, rSgr-1938;
’ General Purposes Committee, rgr4-85; Town Planning Committee, 1988-g; Reconstruction and Rivers Committee, x917-22;
Housing Committee, IgIg-40; Public Health Committee, x928-40;
Highways and Lighting Committee, rBg2-1940; Electricity Committee, rgor-40; Railway Committee, r88g-qor; Smallpox Committee, 1888; Contagious Diseases in Animals Gommittee,’ r866-1916;
Hubbard’s Hill ,Committee, 1@7-13; Sewage Disposal Committee,
rgo8-16; Commissioners for Paving, Watching etc., x825-92;
Explosives Act and Petroleum Act, r874-1918.
(N.B.-Later minute books, including many of the above Committees, were not listed).
Borough estates : title deeds and counterpart leases, IBth-19th
centuries: rentals, 1815-60; case papers, IBth-19th centuries.
Committee papers, late 19th and early 20th centuries.
School: corresp. etc. re site of British School, 1840.
Burial Board: minutes, accounts, letter books, registers of fees, registers
of burials, registers of purchasers of graves, notices of interment,
from c. 1850. ,
REVESBY AlBBEY
On October 10th the three assistant archivists went to the Revesby
estate office to list documents belonging to Mr. C. W. P. Lee. Some
were brought there by Mr. Lee from his house; others are kept permanently in the office.
The majority of the Banks papers at Revesby Abbey were dispersed
after the death of James Banks Stanhope in ‘1904. Some went to Yale
University and other public and private collections throughout the world;
others were purchased by Sir Francis Hill and have recently been
deposited by him (see p. 27). Some however, remained at Revesby
and it is these, together with Stanhope family papers, which were listed.
Summary
Estate records : Surveys: Revesby, 1718 (2, one with rental, 1721, and
notes, 17&o); Revesby, Tumby, Mareham on the HI, Leverton and
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other parishes, 1748, 1751, 1765; Revesby, Mareham le Fen, Tumby
and East Kirklby, 1790; Revesby, 1794; Haltham, mid. 18th cent.;
Holbeach and Whaplode, 1660; Holbeach, Whaplode, Fleet and
Moulton, mid. 18th cent.; Fulstow and Marshchapel, 1595; F&tow,
1843; Marshchapel, 1595, 1619; Mareham le Fen, 1794.
Rentals: all estates, with accounts, 1791-1818’, 4; ditto, 1828-9; ditto
(audit rentals), annual volumes 1865-1934; possessions of Revesby
abbey, mid. 16th cent.: Holbeach and Fleet (Crawley and Bonnell
families), 1684-1705, IO; Horncastle, Mareham on the Hill, West
Ashby, Roughton, Thimbleby, Haltham, Upper and Lower Toynton, 1758-67.
Enclosures : Mareham award and plan (copy), 1744; Wilksby, Moorby,
Haltham, Roughton and West Keal, field book of new enclosures,
1773-5; Wood Enderby act, 1792, and notes, 1793; extract of Banks’
allotments in Mavis Enderby and Bolingbroke, 1801.
Other estate documents: book of lease agreements for farms, 1765-71;
book of exchanges between tenants, Revesby, Tumby, Horncastle
and Holbeach, 1802; books of estate memoranda, Holbeach, 1695,
1764-80; book of copies of correspondence between William Banks
and the Bishop of Carlisle re renewal of Horncastle lease, 1750; misc.
account book containing rental and accounts of wood sale 1805-7,
farm and labour accounts 1806-7, and accounts of Sir Joseph Banks
with the Horncastle Navigation and the Sleaford and Tattershall
Road, 1793-1803; property tax corresp., 1807-9, and book, 1815;
claims of parson of Stickney to tithe of Stickney Grange, 1714; rebuilding of Wilksby church, estimates etc., 1787; Revesby, plan of
park and plantations, 1850, and other documents re house and park,
19th cent.; a few misc. estate letters and other papers, including some
draft letters of Sir Joseph Banks.
Political papers (Stanhope): corresp., notes etc. of Edward Stanhope,
. c.1870-90, including: letters from Lord Salisbury, 1884, 3; letters
and notes on agriculture, army affairs, Conservative party organisation, Indian affairs.
Personal papers : Banks : inventory and administration account of estate
of Joseph Banks, 1741-3; “ Personal Estate Account ” of the late
Joseph Banks, 1741-57; account between George Banks and William
Banks, his guardian, 1741-57; ditto, Collingwood Banks and same,
1741-55.
Stanhope : l’etters, Duke of Wellington to Viscountess Mahon, 1836-49,
86; Earl Stanhope to son Edward, 1851-75, c.200; a few other family
letters, 18th-19th cent.; Col. J. H. Stanhope, notes on military
history, poems, etc., early 19th cent. (including a long poem on
Spain and the Peninsular War, finished in winter quarters, 1812);
Hon. E. Stanhope, various souvenirs of his career, c.1850-go; a’
large number of printed pamphlets and offprints on various subjects
by members ‘of the family, 18th-19th cent. (e.g. the 3rd Earl’s
interest in printing, navigation, music, mathematics, etc. and the
5th Earl’s historical studies).
Miscellaneous: notes by Lord Mahon on a conversation with Louis
Philippe in 1848 (privately printed, 1873); “ Palmerstoniana,
reminiscences and anecdotes collected from the conversation of Earl
Stanhope,” 1864 (ms. book): a plough play (? Revesby) copied by
S. S. Banks, 1779; accounts between Sir Joseph Banks and Claud
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Nattes for sketches of Lincolnshire churches; articles of association,
reports and corresp. ye the National Penny Bank, 1875-87. (The
Hon. Edward Stanhope was chairman).
RUSTON AND HORNSBY LIBRARY
At the suggestion of the Registrar of the National Register of
Archives the archivist asked permission to visit this library which is a
reference library and has also an archival character. Its librarian described its function and. arrangement as being geared to production, but
although some items were subject files of a collected nature, a real
beginning has been made in rescuing from the various departments
such records as they do not use for, immediate reference which are
organ&d on an archival basis. In particular may be mentioned books
of contracts with agents in various parts of the world, letter books,
general and personal, registers of engines made, registers of parts of
steam engines, records of tests of early oil engines with details of modifications, records of aeroplanes made during the rgq-I8 war, series of
Ruston’s trade publications, series of catalogues on products in which
Rustons has been interested arranged on a subject basis, registers of
photographs of various products, albums of actual photographs. This
development compares very favourably with what was shown the
archivist on a visit in the qps and represents an asset to the firm
whose value in practical matters as well as for prestige will no doubt
be increasingly appreciated as it develops. In particular, a close liaison
with each department with arrangements for systematic transfer, and
the custody of noncurrent records of all departments, would make of
this library a first rate business archives centre.
The collection of subject files based on correspondence, occasional
survivals of newspaper cuttings and of miscellaneous files of archival
material which have not survived’ as series, supplement the archival
material and are obviously of much use in dealing with enquiries.
The archivist congratulated Mr. Hooley the librarian on his achievements and was very grateful for the facilities given to her and Mrs. Bee1
to explare the library. A brief list of some of the principal contents was
made and sent to the National Register of Archives.
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USE OF THE OFFICE
This year nearly a hundred more people have worked on documents
in the office, 531 as against last year’s total of 434, and the total number
of readers’ visits was 1,900. The figures include the usual range of
students, amateur and professional, differing in age, abilities and topics
sfudied, and as usual in recent years, including some students working
for postgraduate degrees. They also include groups working on records
under the direction of tutors, from the Bishop Grosseteste and Stoke
Rochford Colleges of Education, the use of the office .during day or
weekend schools, two for teachers, arranged by the Lindsey County
Council Education Committee and another for local history by the Adult
Education Department of Nottingham University, also a series of evening
classes taken by Mr. Lloyd on ‘ How to use your local record office ’
arranged for the Lincoln Adult Education Centre by the Workers’
Educationa Association. Smaller groups included some classics pupils
and their masters from Lincoln School, an archive unit study group,
some members of the Evington, co. Leicester Boys’ Club and a group
from the Netherthorpe, co. Derby, Grammar School. Visitors for a
general tour of the office included the Mayor and Sheriff of Lincoln and
their ladies, Mr. Ebert of the Education department, Lismore, Australia,
Mr. Collingridge the officer from the Public Record Office responsible for
keeping in touch wit+ local record offices, some members of the Lincoln
and Lincolnshire Association of the Federation of University Women,
and a group of guides to the city of Lincoln. Responses to enquiries
and short searches totalled 491 and 1,569 Copycats and 2,891 frames
of microfilms were supplied. Miss Susan Steele spoke on archives as
a career at the Christ’s Hospital ,Girls’ High School, Lincoln, and the
archivist spoke to the Woodhall and District Round Table and the Horncastle Local History Society on the work of the office with some
references to archives regarding their .respective localities. The archivist
also took part in opening a discussion on the conflict between the use
and custody of records at the British Records’ Association Conference.
The office continues to be open from IO a.m. to I p.m., 2 p.m. to
5 p.m. Monday to Friday, and IO a.m.-r p.m. Saturday, except before
Rank holidays. The office will be closed to readers during the fortnight
October znd-14th 1967. Intending readers are advised to write to the
archivist before visiting the office.
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PUBLICATIONS
Sir Francis Hill’s Georgian Lincoln, Cambridge, 1966, draws extensively on documents here both for Lincoln affairs and for the county
background. The holdings of this office, in common with those of many
others, have contributed material for the first volume to appear of Tlte
Agrarian History of England and Wales, volume 4, 1500-1640, edited
by Mrs. Joan Thirsk, Cambridge, 1967. Mr. Rex Russell continues his
History of Schools and Educhtion in Lindsey &o-1902 with the third
part, ” The Church of ‘England and the Provision of Elementary
Education “, based largely on the records of the Diocesan Board of
Education and other diocesan records, published by Lindsey County
Council Education Committee. Mr. J. S. English, the Gainsborough
librarian, has produced a short check-list of Lincolnshire directories,
showing what are available in the archives office as well as at other
’
libraries in the county.
Mr. I. S. Beckwith has published an article on “ Transport in the
Lower Trent Valley in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries ” in
the East Midland Geografiher volume 4, part 2, 1966. Records of the
Dean and Chapter of Lincoln formed the basis of Mr. Watkins Shaw’s
“ William Byrd of Lincoln “, Music and Letters volume 48, number I,
1967. Records of the Dean and Chapter and the early Lincoln Common
Council minute books were extensively used by Professors K. Cameron
and Stanley J. Kahrl in “ The N Town Plays at Lincoln “, Theatre
Notebook volume 20, number 2, Winter 1965-6. Mr. A. E. B. Owen
makes some reference to Lincolnshire examples in “ Records of Commissioners of Sewers “, the latest in the series of “ Short Guides to
Records ” in Histwy, volume 52, number 174, 1967. Sir Francis Hill’s
article, “ Early Days of a Society “, in Lincolmhire History and
Awhaeology number I, 1966, is based on the records of the Lincolnshire
Architectural and Archaeological Society, which are deposited here.
Reports of this office, 1948-50, then annually up to the present one
are available at 2s. 6d. a copy, plus postage; standing orders for them
may be placed. The Index to Archivists’ Reports 1948-58, is available
at 20s. plus postage.
FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Gifts of books, offprints, pamphlets, notes on or lists of documents
have been received with much gratitude from Mr. R. H. Adams, Mrs.
F. L. Baker, Mr. L. B. Barley, Mr. I. S. Beckwith, Mr. D. C. Bowser,
Mrs. Brace, Mr. C. Brears, Dr. J. H. Chalmers Clarke, Professors K.
Cameron and Stanley Kahrl, Mr. I. ‘G. Cooke, the Revd. J. Cooper,
Mr. G. S. Dixon, Mr. R. Drury, Mr. R. Gilyard-Beer, Messrs. Groves,
Air-Commodore Levis, Mr. Paul Morgan,’ Miss F. A. R. Murray, the
Revd. Canon L. D. Ravins, Mr. Rickard, Dr. Alan Rogers, Mrs. E. H.
Rudkin, Mr. Watkins Shaw, Mr. A. J. Watkinson, Mr. C. E. Welch and
Mr. Neil Wright. Reports have been received by gift or exchange from
the county archivists of Bedford, Berkshire, Caernarvon, Cambridge,
Devon, Durham, Glamorgan, Hereford, Hertford, Kent, Lancashire,
Greater London, Northampton, Nottingham, West Suffolk, Wiltshire,
Yorkshire, East Riding and the archive departments of the House of
Lords, the libraries of Leeds, Nottingham and Sheffield, the Lambeth
Palace Library, the Nottingham University Library, and the National
Register of Archives, West Riding sections. Further reports and publications have been received from the publishers of Architecture East
Midlands, the East Midlands Baptist Association, the Boston and South
Lincolnshire Archaeological Group, the Gainsborough Public Library,
the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Lincoln City
Library, the Lincolnshire Local History Society, the Lindsey Education
Committee, the National Maritime Museum and the Stamford Library.
JOAN
VARLEY,
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Archivist.
C. M. LLOYD,
First Assistant Archivist.
MARY E. FINCH,
Second Assistant Archivist.
SUSAN STEELE,
Third Assistant Archivist.