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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, Vol. 59, 1962; including The Surrey Protestation Returns, 1641/2, a transcript of the extant returns for the county; illus. with 7 plates; xii+110pp; 8vo; orig. card covers, lightly used. £15.00
[Manuscript] Manor of Fauxhall in the County of Surrey, Special Court Baron: Surrender and Admission to copyhold premises within this Manor and Conditional Surrender thereof to the Trustees of the National Freehold Land Society”, dated 25 February 1874. A colour plan shows the property concerned, i.e. “All that tenement, counting house and premises known as Number 238 Clapham Road in the parish of St. Mary Lambeth …” Persons mentioned include George Hart, William John Wild, Alfred Lafone, John James Andrew, William Henry Mardon, James Langdon, Charles Gilpin Mordaunt, Martin Munro and Thomas Beggs. A single large sheet on vellum, folded, good condition. £9.00
MORTLAKE PARISH REGISTER (1599-1678), transcr. and ed. M.S. Cockin & D. Gould, Borough of Barnes History Society, 1958; index, 4+vii+117pp; 4to; orig. card covers, sound copy. £14.00
PUTTENHAM UNDER THE HOG’S BACK: A SOCIAL STUDY OF A SURREY VILLAGE, R. Dugmore, 1972; 17 illus.; index; xii+156pp; 8vo; orig. gilt dec. cloth, dust-jacket. £9.00
ASHLEY HOUSE (WALTON-ON-THAMES) BUILDING ACCOUNTS 1602-1607, Surrey Record Society, Vol. XXIX, 1977; index of persons and places, index of subjects, xxix+84pp; 8vo; orig. cloth. £8.00
THE STORY OF ESHER, I.D. Stevens, 1966; 11 illus.; appendix; index; 128pp; 8vo; orig. pictorial cloth. £8.00
A SHELL GUIDE: SURREY, B. Watkin, 1st edn., 1977; many illus., coloured map, 192pp; orig. cloth, dust-jacket. £15.00
A HISTORY OF SURREY, VOL. IV, Victoria History of the Counties of England [1912], reprinted, 1967; including Hundreds of Brixton, Wallington, and Tandridge; illus., xvii+464pp; folio; orig. gilt dec. cloth, good copy. £42.00
Sussex
[Manuscript] Apprenticeship indenture, 1832. Alfred Carr, son of Sarah Carr, of East Street, Brighton, widow, is put apprentice for the term of 6 years to George Dash, of Duke Street, Brighton, tailor. Manuscript on a standard printed form. The apprentice has to agree inter alia not to commit fornication nor contract matrimony within the term, nor play at cards or dice tables, nor haunt taverns or playhouses. Bearing three red wax seals and one blue revenue stamp. One witness. Written on a single sheet of parchment, in good condition; has been folded. £35.00
KIMPTON’S POPULAR GUIDE TO ARUNDEL, ITS CASTLE, CHURCHES, PARK, &c. &c., publ. C. Kimpton, Arundel, 1900; xix+37pp; small 8vo; orig. stiff wrappers, sound copy, covers sunned. £10.00
THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, AND MANY OF ITS FAMILY RECORDS, printed for private circulation, William Pollard & Co., Exeter, 1898; edition limited to 100 impressions; a collection of biographical records with photographs on opposite page; [4+]71pp; 4to; orig. green morocco-backed cloth boards, gilt dec., a.e.g., frayed at top of backstrip, spine a little faded and marked, a firm volume. £75.00
BRIGHTON’S CO-OPERATIVE ADVANCE 1828-1938, W.H. Brown, n.d. [circa 1938]; “with the Jubilee history of the Brighton Equitable Co-operative Society Ltd, 1888-1938”; frequent illus.; 184pp; small 8vo; a little spotting to contents, orig. green cloth gilt, without dust-jacket. £9.00
CALENDAR OF THE WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS IN THE ARCHDEACONRY COURT OF LEWES IN THE BISHOPRIC OF CHICHESTER, British Record Society [1901], reprinted by Kraus Reprint, 1968; “together with those in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Peculiar Jurisdiction of South Malling and the Peculiar of Battle …”; index of names; xix+529pp; 8vo; orig. card covers, virtually as new. £35.00
ARUNDEL: BOROUGH AND CASTLE, G.W. Eustace, 1922; list of subscribers; frequent illus.; appendices; index; 280pp; 8vo; light spotting to contents, orig. cloth gilt, a firm copy, spine faded. £22.00
[Manuscript] Will of Richard Weller, of Salehurst, gentleman, made 28th June 1738. He leaves five pounds to be distributed among the poor of the parish of Salehurst. Others receiving bequests include his wife, his nephew Richard Weller, of Battle, sister Susanna May, cousins Charles Hook and Richard Hook, Elizabeth Hider, of Hawkhurst, and his kinsmen Richard May, of Tunbridge, and John Benden. Property mentioned includes copyhold land called Salehurst Meadows, two pieces of land at Winchelsea, and a silver spoon (an heirloom?) marked “FNRW”, which he leaves to his brother, Francis Weller. This appears to be a draft copy of the will, and a note at the bottom says it was proved at Lewes, 9th October 1739. 4to. 2 sheets on paper, a little torn at edges and slightly stained. £12.00
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