|
A Sample of Genealogy & Topography Books Home Page
The titles displayed are only a small sample of our stock. Our books cannot be bought through any other website. Please bookmark our site.
Bedfordshire
THE VISITATIONS OF BEDFORDSHIRE … 1566, 1582 … 1634, ed. F.A. Blaydes, Harleian Society, Vol. 19, 1884; numerous pedigrees; index; xv+234pp; large 8vo; title page frayed and repaired, rebound in plum cloth with orig. spine laid down (the remounted backstrip now heavily worn), a firm volume, a little rubbed and marked, remnants of an old label on front fixed endpaper. £28.00
VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND: BEDFORDSHIRE, A. Doubleday & W. Page, 4 volumes including index volume, reprinted, 1972; frequent maps and illus. (including armorial); 4to; orig. gilt dec. red cloth, ex-library copies with brief internal library marks and classification no. in gilt on spines, a little rubbed, one vol. worn on spine, otherwise generally sound copies, no dust-jackets. £120.00
Berkshire
[Manuscript] Bond, 1784, of Osman Vincent, of Newbury, banker, Richard Budd, of Chatham Place, London, Doctor of Physic, and William Budd, of Newbury, gent., in the sum of £1,000. The condition of the obligation is the performance of covenants mentioned in a tripartite indenture of the same date. Other persons mentioned include John Ambrose, Elizabeth Susanna Ambrose, Samuel Vines, Richard Read. Signatures of the 3 bondsmen with 3 red wax seals affixed, and signature of one witness. Two embossed revenue stamps. Written on paper, in very good condition. £12.00
[Manuscript] Indenture, 1858, between Rev. Edward Fane, Rector of Fulbeck, co. Lincoln, and Henry Edward Fane, of Avon Tyrell, co. Hants., esquire, of the one part, and Richard Malins, of Bracknell, butcher, of the other part: conveyance of land in Binfield, bounded on the north by land belonging to the Binfield poor, on the east by land or gravel pits in Easthampstead. Reference is made to a Binfield Enclosure award, 1817, to the P.C.C. will of Edward David Batson, to a 1840 indenture enrolled in the High Court of Chancery, and to a schedule of deeds going back to 1788. Other persons mentioned include Robert George Cecil Fane, John Hardy, Thomas Whittaker, John Purdue, Thomas Lacey, James Farrer, and William Eyre. Written on a single sheet of vellum, bearing two red wax seals and one blue revenue stamp, in good condition, folded. £15.00
[Manuscript] Indenture, 1865, between Charles Cave, of Bracknell, gent., and Joseph Norris, of Sunninghill, builder: reconveyance of a messuage at Sunninghill, formerly in the occupation of Francis Simmonds, late of Mrs. Gough, since of Sarah Temple, and then of Joseph Norris. Some history of the property is related including earlier documents and the allotment of a piece of land to George Norris under the Sunninghill Enclosure Award. Other persons mentioned include John Norris, William Gough, Mary Gough, George Tindel, Heziah Tindel, William Langley, Mary Langley. Signatures of witnesses. Written on vellum, with red wax seal of Charles Cave, blue revenue stamp, in very good condition, folded. £15.00
[Manuscript] Indenture, 1873, between Walter Carrington, of Wokingham, baker and grocer, of the one part, and Lawrence Davis, of Twyford Mill, parish of Hurst, miller, of the other part: re mortgage of messuages and hereditaments in Wokingham, “ … facing a certain street there called Broad Street on the East and abutting on the garden formerly belonging to Miss Catherine Wise afterwards to Timothy Hare Altabon Earl, esquire, and now to William Tyndell Biscoe, esquire, formerly an orchard and belonging to Samuel Prince and afterwards to Giles Blackman on the South … and on the street called Shute end otherwise Sheet end on the remaining part of the North …”. The document is accompanied by a later reconveyance indenture, dated 1876, involving the same two parties. Other persons mentioned include Nathaniel Basnett, Mrs. Keeling, John Rogers Wheeler, William Wilson Wheeler, William Exall, James Chambers, William Terne, William Hall Comber, Richard Breach, Miss Hallett, Paul Watkins, William Goodchild, Charity Chambers, and John F. Sargeant. Signatures of witnesses. Written on two large sheets of vellum, bearing 4 red wax seals, one blue revenue stamp, in very good condition, folded. £18.00
[Manuscript] Indenture, 1880, between Walter Edmund Gwynn, of High Street, Colnbrook, Bucks., grocer, of the one part, and Thomas Hodson, of Bracknell, inn keeper, of the other part: re mortgage of freehold hereditaments and land at the Roundabout in Binfield, and assignment of insurance policy for securing £100 and interest at £5 per annum. The document is endorsed by a later reconveyance indenture, 1892, between Joseph Hodson, of Nottingham, builder, John Watkin, of 39 Eastbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, lodging house keeper, the mortgagees, and Walter Edwin Gwynn, the mortgager. Other persons mentioned include Henry Goddard, William Laird, Jane Gwynn, and Charles J. Lane. Signatures of witnesses. Written on two large sheets of vellum, bearing 3 red seals, 2 red revenue stamps, in good condition, folded. £14.00
[Manuscript] Indenture, 1807, between Charles Dubber, of Charnham Street, parish of Hungerford, but in the County of Wilts., shoemaker, of the one part, and Joseph Woesmond, of Hungerford Newtown, parish of Hungerford, in the County of Berks., yeoman, of the other part: re assignment of a messuage or tenement and premises at Hungerford Newtown, formerly occupied by Thomas Noon, who purchased it from John Jackson of Newtown. An earlier assignment indenture of 1797, involving Henry Pettit, of Shefford, is referred to. Other persons mentioned include William Smith, Charles Purton, George Ryley, and Samuel Westall. Signatures of witnesses. Written on a single large sheet of vellum, bearing red wax seal of Charles Dubber, one blue revenue stamp, in good condition, folded. £18.00
|