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Hertfordshire
TIMBER-FRAMED BUILDING IN HERTFORD & WARE, Harry Forrester, Hertfordshire Local History Council, 1964; 14 illus.; 52pp; 8vo; orig. green wrappers, lightly used. £5.00
THE VISITATIONS OF HERTFORDSHIRE… 1572 … 1634, WITH HERTFORDSHIRE PEDIGREES FROM HARLEIAN MSS. 6147 AND 1546, ed. W.C. Metcalfe, Harleian Society, Vol. 22, 1886; numerous pedigrees; index; viii+181pp; large 8vo; a few internal library marks and classification no. in gilt on spine, orig. gilt dec. plum cloth, worn, heavily on spine. £25.00
VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND: HERTFORDSHIRE, ed. W. Page, 5 volumes including index volume, 1902-1937; frequent maps and illus. (including armorial); 4to; index vol. rebound in red cloth gilt, other vols. in red library half-morocco, rubbed, firm copies, all with brief internal library marks and classification no. in gilt on spine. £135.00
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN HERTFORDSHIRE FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS, R. Whitmore, Batsford, 1976; illus. with 145 photographs; with accompanying narrative; 4to; orig. cloth, dust-jacket, lightly used. £9.00
TRING: A PICTORIAL HISTORY, B. Woodhouse, 1996; 181 illus., with accompanying narrative; maps on endpapers; index; 4to; orig. pictorial cloth, lightly used. £7.00
DOMESDAY BOOK: HERTFORDSHIRE, Phillimore, 1976; orig. text with translation on page opposite; sketch map; index of persons, index of places; A5; orig. card covers. £5.00
POPULATION, ECONOMY AND FAMILY STRUCTURE IN HERTFORDSHIRE IN 1851, Volume 1: The Berkhamsted Region, N. Goose, Univ. Hertfordshire Press, 1996; including indexed 1851 census returns for Little Gaddesden, Frithsden, Great Berkhamsted, Northchurch, Wigginton, Aldbury, Puttenham, and Tring; 414pp; 4to; orig. pict. card covers, lightly used. £8.00
A GUIDE TO ST. ALBANS AND VERULAMIUM, R.L.P. Jowitt, 2nd edn., 1948; illus. and plans, index, xii+220pp; small 8vo; orig. cloth, marked, spine very faded. £6.00
Huntingdonshire
[Manuscript] Manor of Somersham with the Soake: surrender, 1817, by Thomas Blinkhorn, of Cambridge, baker, in consideration of £300 paid to him by James Nutter the younger, of Cambridge, merchant, of a parcel of land at Bluntisham, being an allotment made to Mary Blinkhorn under the Enclosure Act in lieu of 5 acres and 2 roods of arable land and meadow, formerly Carrington’s. The surrender was made, according to the customs of the manor, “out of court by the rod” into the hands of the Lord by the hands of two customary tenants, Robert Wheaton and Thomas Watts, to the use and behoof of James Nutter the younger. Signatures of Thomas Blinkhorn and Thomas Watts, and the mark of Robert Wheaton. Written on two sides of paper, bearing embossed revenue stamp, with a couple of small stains, otherwise in very good condition, folded. £10.00
THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES FOR HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ed. S.C. Lomas, Alcuin Club, 1906; arranged by parishes, with index of names; x+58pp; 8vo; orig. green cloth-backed boards gilt, a sound copy. £15.00
ST. IVES IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, B. Little & H. Werba, 1974; 37 illus.; index; [6+]65pp; 8vo; orig. cloth gilt, dust-jacket, good copy. £5.00
Kent
[Manuscript] 1777 indenture, between William Munk, of Appledore, John Munk, of Snave in Romney Marsh, and George Munk, of Folkestone, of the one part, and Jeffery Munk, of Kenardington, and Jeremiah Curteis, of Rye, co. Sussex, of the other part: lease for a year of a messuage with barn, stable, etc., and a parcel of meadow or pasture land in Appledore, formerly in the occupation of William Saxton deceased. Two witnesses including Abraham Butler. A neat document written on a single sheet of vellum, bearing five red wax seals, two blue revenue stamps, in very good condition, folded. £18.00
[Manuscript] Indenture, 1840, between William Wraight, of Challock, yeoman, of the one part, and Julius Gaborian Shepherd, of Faversham, gent., of the other part: re conveyance of a life estate in a messuage, land, etc., at Molash, “late in the several occupations of [blank] Hysted, widow, and Jane Hodge … bounding to the Queen’s Highway towards the East and South and to a Lane called Rock Wood Lane and to lands formerly of the heirs of Henry Pierce towards the West and North …”. Other persons mentioned include Thomas Wraight, William Coveney. Signatures of witnesses on reverse side. Written on one large sheet of vellum, bearing one red wax seal (of William Wraight) and one blue revenue stamp, in good condition, folded. £12.00
WHERE TRAVELLERS REST: THE STORY OF RICHARD WATTS’S CHARITY, ROCHESTER AND THE “SIX POOR TRAVELLERS” HOUSE”, L.H. Bell, Rochester, 1926; frequent illus., 57pp; 8vo; orig. cloth, slightly stained on top outer corners of both covers. £10.00
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