A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire. Originally published by London Record Society, London, 1985.
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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
This section covers family collections still in private hands; collections deposited in record offices and libraries are described under those headings. The collections were identified from references in the HMC Reports and additional lists at the NRA. In most cases they are described in relation to the individual or family traditionally associated with them, although the ownership may now be vested in trustees or other bodies, from which permission to consult the records should be sought.
420. Marquess of Anglesey, Plas Newydd, Anglesey
Not visited. See list at NRA. See also 123, 458, 500.
a. Inventories, 16C (city of London, Charterhouse).
421. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, Wilts.
Not visited.
a. See HMC (58) Bath IV, p. 127, receipts for rent, 16C (151); ibid. p. 159, ref. to purchase of house, 16C (25). See also Bath V, for casual refs. to parts of London.
422. Duke of Bedford
See TS report made in 1948 (NRA 10492), pp. 68–9 and Guide to Russell Estate Collections for Bedfordshire and Devon (Bedford, 1966). The records are at the Bedford Office, 29A, Montague Street, London WC1B 5BL.
a. Deeds. F1/1–13, F2/1–46, and A2/1–2 (missing in 1983 but known from earlier lists or abstracts on cards): deeds, 15C–16C (158); deeds and a rental, 13C–16C (53); deeds 16C–17C (44). R1–17: deeds, 16C–17C (4, 5, 20, 38, 42, 54, 61, 151). A1/1–12: deeds, 16C–17C (44). B/1–13: deeds, 17C (53). C/1–13: deeds. 16C–17C (158). D/1–11: deeds, 17C (118). E/ 1–10: deeds, 17C (156). G/1–7: deeds, 16C–18C (18).
423. Trustees of the Berkeley estates, Berkeley Castle, Glos.
Not visited. See I. H. Jeayes, Descriptive catalogue of the charters and muniments . . . of Lord Fitzhardinge at Berkeley Castle (1892).
a. Charter 581 (Catalogue, p. 182): grant, 1417, incl. advowson of 18.
b. Select books 68(1) (Catalogue, p. 315): inventory, 16C, of household goods (Shoe Lane).
424. Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Derbys.
See NRA Report 20594/4, p. 60: rental, 1527, lands of James Burton (incl. London, not necessarily city).
425. Goodwyn MSS
See HMC list (NRA 5914). The MSS belong to C. W. Goodwyn, Esq., Hinton House, 132 High Street, Amersham, Bucks.
a. Bundles 1 and 8, containing 97 items, form a collection of surveyors' particulars of houses and leases, with some plans and correspondence, concerning properties in and near London for the period c. 1660–c. 1680. The following parishes and other locations in the city are covered: 18, 22, 25, 45, 46, 62, 64, 101, 105, 108, 142, 148, 158, Aldersgate Street, Austin Friars, Bevis Marks, Birchin Lane, Bishopsgate Street, Blackhorse Alley, Broad Street, Bucklersbury, Coldharbour, Durham Yard, Fenchurch Street, Fish Street Hill, Fleet Street, Foster Lane, Gulley Key, Lothbury, Lumber Street (probably not Lombard Street), Milk Street, Mincing Lane, Old Bailey, Old Jewry, Queen Street, Rood Lane, St. Martin le Grand, St. Martin's Lane, St. Sithe's Lane, Throgmorton Street, Tower Dock, Tower Hill, Warwick Lane.
426. MSS formerly of F. W. Leyborne-Popham
See HMC (51) Mr F. W. Leyborne-Popham, 103: ref. to inventory of house in St. Martin's Lane (possibly 93 or St. Martin le Grand). These MSS are now in a number of collections and the inventory has not been traced.
427. J. C. G. Millar, Esq.
15C deed (112), in 1982 in care of Mr. Millar, 25 Greenland Avenue, Derby. Transcript deposited in GL.
428. Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, Sussex
Archives incl. 17C a/cs for Lothbury House; see Arundel Castle Archives, ed. F. W. Steer (1972) ii, 127.
429. Duke of Northumberland
Not visited. For the records, apply in the first instance to the Northumberland Estates Office, Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland. The 16C and later records of London property concern holdings outside the city.
a. Cartulary, 14C (Davis, no. 1306; The Percy Cartulary, ed. M. T. Martin, Surtees Society 117, 1911): incl. 13C–14C deeds (1, London unspec.).
430. Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Leics.
Not visited.
a. See HMC (24) Twelfth Report, Appendix IV, pp. 145, 384, 477: correspondence, 16C–17C (refs. to church(es) of 17 and 20, and to property by Bishopsgate).
431. Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, Hatfield, Herts.
Not visited. There are microfilms of the calendared MSS in BL (M/485, 1–127). For relevant material, see HMC (3) Fourth Report, (4) Fifth Report, (6) Seventh Report, (9) Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, Parts 1–24, to which abbreviated refs. are given below. The material is 16C and early 17C in date. In addition to the items noted here, there are numerous incidental references to localities in the city.
a. Deeds, leases, and copies thereof: 45, HMC (9) Pt. 19, p. 310; 58, HMC (9) Pt. 21, pp. 361–2; Austin Friars, HMC (9) Pt. 9, p. 150; Thames Street, HMC (9) Pt. 13, p. 263.
b. Rent receipts: 18, HMC (9) Pt. 2, p. 149, Pt. 13, p. 178; 19, HMC (4), p. 216.
c. Misc. refs. to property and tenancies in letters, petitions etc.: 25, HMC (9) Pt. 12, p. 219, Pt. 15, p. 452; 45, HMC (9) Pt. 20, p. 191; 47, HMC (9) Pt. 10, p. 112; 64, HMC (9) Pt. 11, p. 88; 99, HMC (9) Pt. 4, p. 73; benefices of 13, 19, 99, 101, HMC (9) Pt. 7, p. 112, Pt. 13, p. 243, Pt. 14, p. 328; Bishopsgate, HMC (9) Pt. 8, p. 361, Pt. 13, p. 47; Fleet Street, HMC (9) Pt. 14, p. 279; brewhouse called Hartshorn, HMC (9) Pt. 14, p. 72; Holborn, HMC (9) Pt. 23, p. 90; Moorfields, HMC (9) Pt. 7, p. 298; Newgate Market, HMC (9) Pt. 24, pp. 102–3, 208; New Inn, Clements Inn, Lyons Inn, HMC (9) Pt. 4, p. 73; Old Jewry, HMC (4), p. 217; Custom House Quay, Queen's Wharf, HMC (9) Pt. 2, p. 520, Pt. 5, p. 145; St. Martin's Lane (possibly 93 or St. Martin le Grand), HMC (9) Pt. 22, pp. 278, 384, 392; St. Martin (cf. above), HMC (9) Pt. 24, p. 216; St. Paul's churchyard, HMC (9) Pt. 1, p. 138; Steelyard, HMC (9) Pt. 8, p. 268, Pt. 24, pp. 102–3, 208; Tower Hill, HMC (9) Pt. 3, p. 428; London (unspec.), HMC (9) Pt. 14, p. 124.
d. Inventories: 25, HMC (5), p. 262, (9) Pt. 1, p. 318, (9) Pt. 6, p. 199; Fleet Street, HMC (9) Pt. 13, p. 267; Holborn, HMC (9) Pt. 8, p. 544.
e. Plans: Duke's Place (site of Holy Trinity Priory), HMC (5), p. 192, (9) Pt. 14, p. 48; Royal Exchange, HMC (9) Pt. 14, p. 338.
f. Lists of inhabitants: Blackfriars (25), St. Katharine's precinct, and St. Martin le Grand, HMC (4), p. 222, (9) Pt. 2, p. 105, Pt. 13, pp. 219–27, 240.
432. Salwey family MSS, Ludlow, Salop
Not visited.
a. See HMC (13) Tenth Report, Appendix IV, p. 409: letters patent, 16C (44), apparently not among the Salwey MSS deposited in Shropshire RO.
433. H. V. Shebbeare, Esq.
See HMC list (NRA 5774): deed, 17C (62).
434. Uppark, Sussex
The Meade-Fetherstonhaugh deeds (NRA 2576), formerly at West Sussex Record Office, incl. (nos. 373–534) 16C and 17C records of property in 19, 20, 42, 75, 87, 101, 152, Cheapside.
435. Verney family, Claydon, Bucks.
Not visited. See HMC list comp. 1978.
a. Deeds, 1599–1626 (London, incl. St. John's Street and possibly all outside the city).