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Manorial Documents. Large collection of attractive manuscript English manorial documents, 17th to early 20th c., covering a wide area of localities, mainly on vellum (approx 100).

Norfolk - George I. An attractive vellum manuscript Recovery document, dated 16th February 1721, in which William Doyly in his own person petitions against James Mynde, for three messuages, fifteen acres of land, four acres of meadow and eight acres of pasture in North Repps, fine large portrait of the King in initial letter, engraved decorative top border showing Royal coat of arms, rose, thistle, etc., with fragments of Royal wax seal (1).

Suffolk. Important and scarce medieval manuscript vellum manorial roll for the Manor of Lydgate [Lidgate] for the court held on Monday 18th October,in the 21st year of Richard II [1397] and also for the Court held on 13th January 1397, the document on two sides gives an invaluable record of the feudal system in operation, recording the names of the jury, amercements (fines) for trespassing on the Lord's land with various animals, swearing of fealty by villeins, fines for various offences, precept for the apprehension of various villeins who have fled the manor, grants of land to be held by rent,amercements for various transgressions against another person, election of officers, swearing of fealty by villeins, permission to occupy new houses, etc., with accompanying translation of the main areas covered in the document, together with an in depth inventory, identification of place names referred to with their present day locations in and around Newmarket (1).

Yorkshire - George I. An attractive vellum manuscript Recovery document, dated Easter term (May 23rd) 1802, fine large portrait of the King in initial letter, together with highly decorated top border, written in attractive calligraphy, the document relates to Nicholas Piper's claim against Thomas Lambert for one messuage, one garden, five acres of land, five acres of meadow, five acres of pasture in Pickering, with defective Royal wax seal contained in tin skippet (1).

Manuscript leaf. Single vellum leaf from a French Psalter, possibly Rouen, mid 13th century, twenty-five lines of text to each side in a well formed early Gothic liturgical hand, two double-line initials in gold, blue and pink, numerous single line initials and flourishes, abrasion to some areas with several small holes, approx. 250 x 170 mm (1).

Manuscript leaves. Eleven 17th century vellum manuscript music leaves, double-sided in red and black ink, with seven staves per page and accompanying Latin lyric, some capitals in blue, a little browning to corners, each approx. 530 x 360 mm (11).

Caxton (William). The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated by William Caxton, 1480, 2 vols., (Phillipps/Pepys manuscript), pub. George Braziller in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1968, orig. mock brown leather gilt, a little rubbed, in slipcase, folio (2).

Bindings etc., mostly 19th-c., incl. Poems and Ballads by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1st-3rd Series, new ed., 1894-1917, Works by W. Somerset Maughan, 12 vols., c.1903-1933, plus Journals and Journalism: with A Guide for Literary Beginners, by John Oldcastle, 1880, pub. Leadenhall Press, c.1882, etc., an 1830 manuscript cookery recipe book (with only 10pp. filled in), etc. (3 shelves).

George III oval mahogany 2 handled tray, inlaid with lyre, music manuscript and foliage, 62cm

Cookery. Four manuscript receipt books, 19th century, each with an abundance of recipes and cures including apple pudding, furniture cream, toothpaste, to disinfect a room, etc., some leaves missing, many loosely inserted slips of paper, etc., all in contemp. bindings, 4to (3)

Cookery. Manuscript receipt book, watermarked 1838, approx. 150 leaves, includes many recipes such as lemon cheesecake, mince pies, ice cream, ginger bread, bakewell tart, lobster sauce, jug'd hare, mock turtle soup, ginger wine, oyster soup, etc., also included to the rear are some cures to kill ants, clean marble, make hair grow, etc., written in ink in a clear hand, contains approx. forty blank leaves, contemp. red morocco, recent crude reback, together with two other 19th century receipt books, both in contemporary bindings, all 8vo (3)

Cookery. Manuscript receipt book, 18th/early 19th century, containing approx. eighty recipes for dishes and wines including lobster patties, oyster loaves, plumb cake, lemon wine, etc., some recipes dated early 19th century, also at the rear of the book are approx. twenty pages of cures (worms, cancer, burns, etc.), recipes for dyes, killing rats, etc., some leaves removed where it was originally used as an accounts book in the late 18th century, about half of the leaves remain blank, contemp. vellum with remains of brass clasp, 8vo (1)

*Devon. Contemporary manuscript copy of the Charter granted by King Edward VI, to Barnard Hampton, on the 14th March 1552, of the Lordship and Manor of Fremington in Devon (1)

*Essex - Letters Patent. Large impressive manuscript vellum document, dated 12th June 1710, by order of Her Majesty made under the Great seal of England, in which The Right Honourable Richard Earl Rivers, Viscount of Colchester, Constable of Her Majesty's Tower of London, General of the Horse, etc., appointing William Harvey (descendant of Dr William Harvey) his deputy Lieutenant for the county of Essex, with large wafer seal and signature of Rivers (1)

*Harvey (William, descendant of Dr William Harvey). Three manuscript vellum wills of 1721, 1723 and 1724, listing his last wishes, referring to his property, estates and Manor, bequests to various members of his family and friends including Sir John Cotton, that he be buried in the family vault at Hempstead, in Essex (where Dr William Harvey was buried), etc. (3)

*Obligation Bonds. A good collection of attractive manuscript vellum obligation bonds, 1615/1666, a number retaining their original pendant wax seals (11)

*Old English Inns. Collection of attractive large sheet manuscript vellum indentures, 19th c., all detailing the sale of old drinking houses including The Inkerman Tavern, The George Inn, Horse Shoe Inn, Hare and Hounds, King David Inn, Bath Bridge Inn, Talbot Inn, Angel Inn, White Hart Inn, etc., all retaining their original wax seals (14)

*Prosecution of Felons. Manuscript vellum document, dated 13th January 1772, in which it relates that a number of burglaries, felonies, larcenies and thefts have been committed in the Parish of Membury, Devon, and that several persons guilty of the crimes have not been brought to justice on account of the great expense in the prosecution of these offenders, the document sets out to form a co-operative of twenty-seven people to fund the prosecution of such offenders, who commit burglary in dwelling houses, outhouses, or feloniously take or steal or carry away cattle, goods or chattels of us, or break hedges, steal wood, rob gardens, orchards, turnip fields etc., the signatures of all the members and their seals are affixed at bottom of document (1)

*Slavery. Manuscript Proposal of the Royal African Company responding to the House of Commons request 'for ye better settling of trade to Africa and securing of same to this Kingdom and ye Plantations', c.1709, 1pp., comprising forty-one lines of text written in a neat hand to one side only, folio (1)

*Water Mills. Fine manuscript vellum document with wax seals, dated 29th July 1799, granting the rights to a stack of corn mills (known by the name of the New Mills) in Ledbury, Herefordshire, detailing its waterways, mill ponds, weirs, the repair and upkeep of the mills of its cogs, straps, cords, gearing, gates, stiles, rails, the barring of the use of the mills at high water or flood time (which would injure the wheels of the mills), together with rights to timber, spreading of dung, muck and manure, rights to mines and minerals, with attached reparation document (1)

*Manuscript leaf. Large folio manuscript vellum leaf from a Missal or Psalter, [Siena c.1460], single vellum leaf written on both sides with five lines of large latin script & five lines of black musical staves on red lines, with two initial 'Es' to one side of the leaf (70 x 50 and 70 x 60mm), initials illuminated in gold, dark and light blue, green and white tracery (both within gold frames), upper miniature decorated with flowers and the lower with leaves, outer margin trimmed to text, approx. 480 x 320mm, mounted. (1)

*Manuscript leaf. Large folio manuscript vellum leaf from a missal or Psalter, [Siena c.1460], single vellum leaf with latin text written below each line of music, with a single initial 'E' (70 x 55mm) illuminated in gold, dark & light blue, green and white tracery, margin trimmed with slight loss, approx. 485 x 320mm, mounted (1)

Medicine. Manuscript student's exercise book, c.1760, 136 leaves, the first leaf of text titled 'Dr Smiths Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physick', includes list of contents at front and sectional headings throughout followed in each case by neat manuscript text on each condition, including inflammation, spasms, rickets, putridity of the body, rheumatism, gout, apoplexy, palsy, epilepsy, angina, consumption, diabetes, smallpox, poisons, bites of mad dogs, etc., written in ink in a clear hand, contents leaf relaid and strengthened, approx. twenty blank leaves, contemp. vellum, small 4to, contained in modern purpose made cloth book-box, together with another 19th century medical manuscript exercise book in a modern cloth binding (2)

Ogilvie (John). The Theology of Plato, compared with the Principles of Oriental and Grecian Philosophers, 1st ed., 1793, 205pp., single ad. leaf at rear, bound with Mendelssohn (Moses, a Jew, Late of Berlin), Phaedon; Or, the Death of Socrates, translated from the German, 1789,lacks pages 157-164, some spotting and light browning to margins, contemp. boards, worn, together with Watson (R.), An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, 1796, some spotting and light browning, untrimmed, orig. boards, crudely rebacked, 12mo, plus The Oeconomy of Human Life ... translated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an Ancient Bramin, to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered; in a letter, from an English gentleman residing at China, to the Earl of ******, pub. Birmingham, 1790, half title present, eng. frontis., some spotting and light browning, contemp. sheep, rubbed and worn at extrems., 12mo (3)

Biblia Pauperum. The Golden Bible Picture Book, 2 vols., Fine Art Facsimile Publishers of Switzerland, 1993, facsimile volume with photolithograph facsimile illuminated manuscript leaves hightened in gold leaf, a.e.g., silk endpapers, orig. gilt dec. full red morocco bound by La Reliure d'Art du Centre bookbinders in Limoges, France, accompanied with a detailed explanitary volume, orig. red qtr. morocco, both oblong folio, contained in purpose made perspex slip-case (1)

Sykes (Major Percy Molesworth). The Glory of the Shia World. A Tale of a Pilgrimage translated and edited from a Persian Manuscript ... assisted by Khan Bahadur Ahmad Din Khan, 1st ed., 1910, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., dec. to text, orig. dec. cloth gilt, slightly faded on spine, 8vo (1)

*Denbighshire & Flintshire. Speed (John), Denbighshire and Flint-Shire, both sold Sudbury & Humble, 1610 or later, together two hand coloured engraved maps, the former with 10 cm closed tear, each approx. 380 x 510 mm, not laid down, together with an 18th century manuscript estate map of Tallin Green (North Wales), approx. 320 x 390 mm, all framed and glazed(3)

Three manuscript Deeds of Assignment: 1. Sale of lease of 1000 years of 1 meadow (2 acres) and close (1/2 acre) in parish of Kington (Herefordshire) from Richard Powell to John Langford - 6th June 1606 or 1607 (James's 4th year) & Rescript memo assigning it to John James 1632 2. Deed of Assignment of land in Latin from Sir Thomas Morgan, Jas. Walsh & Wm (?) to John Robinet of 11 acres of arable land and a parcel of arable lying in Calveshill (?) April 20, 1489 or 1490 3. Grant of house, garden and field for William Germayn, Clerk, and his wife to Roger Polle, ca. 1363

BRUCE, WILLIAM S. (Antarctic explorer and naturalist) Manuscript office copy (signed by Bruce) of a letter to Lt. R. J. Gould, R.N., from Oxton, Berwickshire, 25.8.17. Three pages, large 8vo., written on the reverse of "Tow-Netting Record" sheets of the S.Y. Scotia, Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.

STOW, JOHN. A. Summarie of the Chronicles of England..Imprinted by Ralph Newberry and Henry Denham 1587. 16mo., later maroon roan (upper inner joint broken, title and Gg4 supplied in manuscript). Black letter. STC 23326. Sold not subject to return.

GEORGE IV, when Prince Regent. Manuscript warrant licence, signed "George pr", one page, folio, hinged (torn into five peices, royal signature unaffected).

CRICKET SCOREBOOK. Two printed scorebooks of cricket matched completed in manuscript by Beatrix Herbert, 1895-1906. James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co., and John Wisden. Folio, orig. cloth gilt and roan backed cloth gilt. (2).

ALBUM, mid 19th c., tall 8vo., cont. half roan boards (worn, backstrip detached), containing engraved topographical views of British Isles (Rock & Co. etc); two Swiss coloured views (laid down), other pencil drawings of views, several of dogs, and a few watercolours, with an early Christmas cards, many items loose corner mounted, manuscript copies of poems etc.

COOKERY. Two manuscript vols., 8vo., cont. calf (rebacked). 19thc. contaning numerous receipies and remidies, with indexes. Including "Pigeons Transmogrified", "Magnum Bonum Plums" and cures for "Hooping Cough", deafness and cholera (2).

COOKERY. Late 19th c., manuscript in ink, containing approx. 160 pp. of recipies, including "Lady Harwood's receipt. Beef Liver for Gravy" 4to., cont. maroon roan gilt (lacks backstrip, crudely repaired with tape).

REYNOLDS, JOHN (1790-1868). writing master and headmaster of Arlington House Academy, Chadwell Street, Islington. Pen and ink writing master's board in trompe d'oeil style, with some hand colouring (some damages); Diary for May 1826, manuscript, 29pp., 4to., orig. wraps. other loose engravings.

ASHLEY-COOPER, F.S. ed. The Rev. John Mitford on Cricket. Nottingham 1921. Padwick vol 1 389, 7883; Cricket: An Heroic Poem by James Love. Nottingham 1922. Contains a manuscript transcription of William Goldwin's The Cricket Match, 1706; A Cricket Song by N. Felix. Nottingham 1923. Reprint of the 1864 edition. Padwick vol 1 6601. Together 3 vols., 8vo., orig. wraps. (3).

BELDHAM, WILLIAM "Silver Billy" 1766-1862. Original manuscript, 2pp., 8vo., author unknown, dated 5 june 1867, descibing a visit to Mrs. Beldham, aged 91, at Tilford, and relating events from Beldham's last apperance at Lord's until his death, "He never stopped to the last. He would often leave his house.with his bat under his arm, knocking up a ball upon it, and continue the same practicer without ever dropping the ball, till he got to the ground, which was two miles off". Sold with a typed transcript.

LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, editor. The Guide to Cricketers..W. & T. Piper (1853). 12 mo., cont. qtr. red raon, spine gilt. After p.22 in manuscript.

SCOREBOOK. Original printed scorebook page, completed in manuscript, of a match played between the England Eleven and Twenty-Two on Langton Wold, 12 September 1850. One large folded sheet (some wear at folds). The Players include Alfred Mynn, Wisden, Box, Felix etc.

Thorpe Benjamin : A Selection in Prose and Verse from Anglo Saxon Authors. 1834; two other books; and seven 19c manuscript deeds on vellum.

HOLMES James. Manuscript Notes on Weaving. n.d. 2vols First Year and Second & Third Year. 8vo with numerous tipped in samples and two others on needlework. (4)

19th century MANUSCRIPT - 8vo size notebook, containing both contemporary and original works, all in the same hand, various subjects, English, French and Italian text, worn and well used plain bds, leather spine

Charles Buchel, (1872-1950) A MOST STRIKING PORTRAIT OF THE ENGLISH AUTHORESS URSULA BLOOM (1892-1984), the subject seated, half-length, holding a small volume, on the promenade at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1932, exhibited at The Royal Portrait Painter's Society, 1932 (manuscript inscription on back of frame). 90cm x 70cm, (35.75in x 27.75in), in an earlier (18th century) giltwood frame.

A manuscript cookery book, inscribed and dated 1861, and other later cookery books and pamphlets

Manuscript two page Sale Particulars written by Thomas Hearne, 1797, 2 pages (320 x 200mm.), Particulars and Conditions of Sale of a Valuable and any desirable free hold Estate situate at Lillingstone Dayrell near Stowe in the County of Bucks 3 miles from Buckingham

A number of 18th and 19th century manuscript Inventory's, modern half green cloth, protective wrapper, cloth ties, spine lettered in gilt

Manuscript Album - Tour of England, tour of the country by Philip James de Loutherbowg in 1807, 4to (310 x 240mm.), pages numbered, index of places visited on pp. 136-7, manuscript clear and not faded, contemporary half calf.

Manuscript inventory of the goods and furniture of Holt-Castle by the decree of the Dowager Lady Coventry in the handwriting of the Rev Robert Master, 1795-96, 4to (305 x 230mm.), contemporary marbled papers wrappers, modern presentation case, with ties, spine lettered in gilt

Widmore, Richard, An Enquiry Into the Time of the First Foundation of Westminster Abbey ... to which is added An Account of the Writers of the History of the Church, London, 1743, 4to (245 x 210mm.), vignettes, folding facsimile manuscript letter at end, front free endpaper-B detached, contemporary half calf, front cover detached, worn, armorial bookplate of Charles Lyttelton

Hanley and the House of Lechmere, London, Pickering and Co, 1883, 4to (220 x 180mm.), half title, lithographed frontispiece, and photograph duplicate of the frontispiece pasted opposite, title vignette, hand-coloured coats of arms, initials, leaves within black ruled border, 2 photograph's pasted onto verso of front cover, and manuscript genealogical table of the Lechmere family on the verso of the back cover, stiff backed boards

Guide to Sandown Park, Stafford & London, Hill and Halden, 1854, small 4to (180 x 120mm.), title within black ruled border, title vignette, 2 plates, title margin with ownership stamp of Walter N. Landor, manuscript ownership description on front free endpaper, original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt

A History or Description, General and Circumstantial, of Burghley House The Seat of The Right Honourable The Earl of Exeter, Shrewsbury, printed and sold by J. W. Eddowes (and others), 1797, 8vo (195 x 120mm.), folding frontispiece plate, title with King's College London library stamp, with cancelled stamp, [bound with]: An Historical Account of The Antiquities in the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Lincoln, Lincoln, printed and sold by W. Wood (and others), 4to (190 x 120mm.), tail-piece, [bound with]: Paulden, Thomas, An Account of the Taking and Surrendering of Pontefract Castle, and of the Surprisal of General Rainsborough in his Quarters at Doncaster, Anno 1648, Oxford, printed at the Theatre, sold by R. Clements (and others), 1747, small 4to (190 x 110mm.), later half calf, rebacked, spine lettered in gilt. Contemporary manuscript letter pasted in between the second and third works

Knight, Edward Walker, A Circumstantial Account of the Preparations for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles the Second, and A Minute Detail of That Splendid Ceremony, London, T. Baker, 1820, 8vo (260 x 160mm.), facsimile manuscript letter, and 10 engraved plates, new endpapers, later cloth backed spine, rebacked

Manuscript Album - Abbott, W., Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer, Paper Hangers, Manufacturer of Window Blinds, High Street, Royston, 1829, tall 4to (323 x 200mm.), engraved head-piece, eight leaves of manuscript invoice descriptions, and prices charged, modern stiff board paper wrappers

Manuscript Album - An Inventory of the Furniture, Plate, Linen, China, Glass ... in the Mansion House of Hull, ca. 1836, 8vo (200 x 155mm.), 19 leaves, [Bound with]: A Catalogue of an Extensive Sale of Plate & Linen ... to be Sold by Auction, by W. W. Hyde at the Mansion-House on Wednesday, March 16th, 1836, Hull, by George Lee, 1836, 8vo, contemporary red morocco backed spine, rubbed

A Narrative of the Preparations at Hatfield House, The Seat of the Most Noble the Marquess of Salisbury, for their Majesties and the Royal Family to Review the Volunteer Corps and Militia of The County of Hartford, on Friday, 13th June, 1800, London, for J. J. Stockdale, 1818, small folio (250 x 200mm.), coats of arms in-laid illustrations, contemporary manuscript letter tipped in on verso of back cover, contemporary red morocco gilt, two coats of arms stamped in gilt onto front cover, g.e.

DRIED PLANTS, scrapbook labelled 'Botany' and dated 1872, containing dried and labelled specimens, plus manuscript text, folio.

THE SCOTCH THISTLE, 5 vols.1900 - 1905. An amateur magazine, each containing manuscript, drawings, watercolours and photos and a circulation list, each copy being unique., plus 1 leather binder. (6)

NORTH v SOUTH at Lords July 1850, a handwritten scorecard together with two letters from the M.C.C., relating to the manuscript card, (3).