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[Cayley document] Paperwork re
Elizabeth Cayley of Buckingham
An accumulation of perhaps 80 misc papers resulting from the 1899 death of
Elizabeth Cayley. Much of the paperwork is routine, but we noted a London
Gazette with an appeal for creditors to make their claims; a typescript copy of
her will which mentions Kirby, Box and Tibbetts relatives; her bank book;
legacy papers and much solicitor's office correspondence; a catalogue for
the sale of her household furniture and effects annotated with prices - eg a 100
piece dinner service fetched 23/-. (ref T120) £38.00
post-free Not for export
[Carter Family of Buckingham] Large
Collection of Miscellaneous Minor Papers
Ranging in dates from 1852 to 1902, much of the paperwork concerns
Richard Carter, died 1884. The collection appears to have been rummaged through
several times and this is all that remains - a few hundred minor papers, predominantly
from the 1880s and 1890s, including such things as local traders bills, dividend
statements, a few small account books and much routine day-to-day correspondence etc.
Latter papers concern Richard W Carter, presumably a son. The collection (ref
333/12) £40.00 post-free Not for export
[Denchfield Family of Boycott] Family
Paperwork
Richard Denchfield died in January 1853, leaving a widow [Alice?] and children
William, Eliza and Mary Ann. Here's your opportunity to acquire a quantity of family
papers - mainly dating from the mid-1850s but one or two earlier - including bonds,
tax papers, many bills with spike holes in them, etc etc, hours of contemporary
research material here showing how Richard's widow carried on the farming business -
apparently well enough to be able to afford a four-poster bedstead for £2/5/- as
well as all the day-to-day farming expenses. Richard's oak coffin cost less than
£5. About 90 items altogether, predominantly small stuff. (ref 212/1) £35.00
post-free
Not for export
[Elkington documents]
An accumulation of 1830s Elkington paperwork, much of it generated by
the death of John Adams, a Buckingham blacksmith. A lot of the papers are
routine stuff, but there are plenty of items with original Elkington signatures,
including those of William of Bicester, John and Martha of Buckingham and
Richard of Buckingham. We also noted a couple of admons for Ann Adams
Elkington who died in 1833. Hours of research, and of course everything
here is the 'primary evidence' genealogists are urged to seek out. Approx
130 items in all. (ref T118) £45.00
post-free
Not for export
[Ive documents] Land Tax Paperwork
A small collection of papers dated 1818 concerning George Ive's Land Tax.
He appears to have owned property in Amersham, Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St
Peter, though what those properties were isn't shown. 5 items, mostly
printed forms with manuscript insertions. (ref 6538) £10.00
post-free Not for export
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The Parish Church of St Mary, Amersham
9th ed, nd but 1950s? church booklet in two-tone green & white
card covers. Unusually clean copy, F. (ref 150/91) £1.50 UK
post-free
Reflections of Amersham
Jean Archer, 40pp, 17 photo-ills. Ignore the story book style - there
is much local history to be found. Old fold in top corner of cover but still G. (ref
150/98) £2.50 UK post-free
Amersham Through the Ages
Monica Mullins, Amersham Museum, 1998. A5 booklet in green card
covers, unpaginated but c35pp, several ills inc full page map of Old Town. Dates and
events from AD1. In print at *£3.70, this F copy (ref 40/109) £2.50
UK post-free
Amersham Through the Ages
Monica Mullins, Amersham Museum, 1998. A5 booklet in green card covers,
unpaginated but c35pp, several ills inc full page map of Old Town. Dates and events from
AD1. In print at *£3.70, this F copy (ref 100/28) £2.50
A Concise History of Amersham
12mo booklet of 37pp in green card covers, a 1982 reprint of a 1906 reprint of the
original which appeared in T H King's Family Almanack of 1887. Nice clean copy, VG.
(ref 100/42) £2.50
UK post-free
Another copy though perhaps not quite so clean. (ref 210/62) £2.50 UK post-free
Amersham Official Guide
Nd but early 1990s guide, 36pp in pictorial card covers, folding
street map at end. VG. (ref 210/61) £2.00
UK post-free
[Beaconsfield] Gentleman's Magazine, August 1810
Pp99-200 cloth bound, nice copy but with some scattered foxing.
Contains a full-page steel engraving of Beaconsfield Church on p105. (ref 1362) £10.00
The History of Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield & District Historical Society publication No 4, 1975.
Usual green card covers, 112pp, 24 ills inc photos. This copy has become partially
unglued, so that the first few leaves are almost detached. There was almost certainly a
blank fep & if there was, it is missing. Contents clean, covers becoming dogeared.
(ref 110/23) £4.50
UK post-free
[Brill] Sale Particulars for Garfield
House
Garfield House, together with 4 plots of land - one called
Leatherslade Garden, another called Lady Mead, plus a couple on Muswell Hill - came up for
sale at The George in Aylesbury in 1920. There's no site plan but none is implied in
the text. Tenants mentioned are Pointer, Adams, Wheeler, Dodwell. (ref 360/4)
£10.00
UK post-free
[Buckingham paperwork] Papers concerning
the Review of the Church Lads Brigade at Benthill, 1914
A thousand church lads of the Oxford Cadet Regiment (from Aylesbury,
Eton, Oxford, Reading Slough, Windsor, Wycombe etc) met up at Benthill in 1914. A
collection of c60 items, all concerning the expenses and contributions by local people.
(ref 5005) £35.00 post-free Not
for export
[Buckingham] Election addresses
3 printed addresses 'To the Inhabitants of the Borough, Parish, and
Neighbourhood of Buckingham' by prospective MP Harry Verney. All are dated 1831 and are in
nice clean condition. (ref G443/12) £12.00
UK post-free
The Roll of Burgesses for the Borough of
Buckingham 1913-1914
Folio size, 10pp listing the 728 burgesses, their places of abode and
their qualification (as burgess). Several pencil annotations o/w a nice clean copy in
plain paper covers. Folded into 4. VG. (ref B165) £10.00
UK post-free
[Buckingham Congregational Church] Receipt for
Deeds
Signed by two of the trustees of the Society of Independents, this
1885 receipt is for three bundles of deeds obtained from the Solicitor's office. The
contents of the bundles is not detailed. (ref T116/36) £2.50
UK post-free
[Buckingham] Deeds relating to a Cottage in
Bonehill Lane
5 parchment deeds (an 1810 lease & release, an 1822 mortgage and
an 1829 lease & release) for a cottage 'formerly in the occupation of Phyllis Beason,
since of John North, late of... William Jones and now [in 1829] unoccupied'. The 1822
mortgage was taken out by William Jones so he appears to have lived in the cottage from
then until 1829 when he sold it to Edward Cripps Westly, a local carpenter. (ref 44/268) £18.00
post-free
Not for export
[Buckingham] Sale Particulars of
Properties on Market Hill, High St & Well St
1911 printed particulars for the following properties:-
Tomb's Yard [23 High St] with 4 Tomb's Yard
2 shops & premises in the Bull Ring [fronting Market Hill]
1 & 2 Market Hill
54 Well St
Occupiers are variously listed as Gibbs, Densham, Swift, Marshall, Dudley, Carey
and Holland. This particular copy was used for the sale of lot 6 (54 Well St) to the
occupier James Holland, and it bears his signature. Decent condition. (ref
333/20) £10.00
UK post-free
[Buckingham] Grocer's Customer Account
Book
Reynolds & Sons red account book showing articles bought between
1904 and 1906 - only the 1st quarter of the book is used. In the printed prelims
Reynolds lists their 'General Groceries and Italian Goods'. (ref 333/17) £6.00
post-free
Not for export
[Buckingham] Deeds to Property in Well
Street
A small but early group of 5 deeds to 'all that cottage or
tenement.....heretofore a shop situate standing & being in Well Street in Buckingham',
together with an undated but probably 1747 abstract giving details of an earlier [1624]
deed. The deeds here on offer range in dates from 1706 to 1747. The group (ref
206/25) £60.00 post-free Not for export
[Buckingham & Gawcott] Sale
Particulars for Primrose Hill Farm
The 71 acre 'very valuable small pleasure farm' Primrose Hill Farm lay
in Gawcott. With it came the 29 acre The Wood Ground, a 13 acre plot of building
land 'close to the town of Buckingham', and the 2 acre Kirby's Meadow fronting the Bourton
Road and running down to the Ouse. The tenants were Thomas Watts and W J
Gough. Accompanying the particulars is a large multifolding coloured site plan of
all 4 properties, due for sale at The White Hart, Buckingham, in 1890. The outside
[as folded] is grubby but this is acceptable given the age. (ref 360/3)
£15.00
UK post-free
[Buckingham document]
Legal Correspondence - Vicar in Debt
Two documents dating from 1787 are on
offer here. The first is a 4pp document, 3pp of which are devoted to legal thoughts on the debts of the Vicar of
Buckingham, Philip Bigg Roberts who appears to have borrowed £150 from his
curate William Eyre. The curate had to resort to the law in order to get his money
back. The situation was complicated by the vicar having already borrowed
£160 from a James Bradford, and the document sets out the background and asks
where Mr Bradford stands in the matter. In a modern hand is pencilled some
historical detail about the vicar. Manuscript on paper, worn along old
folds and small holes where folds cross, worn & torn at the top edge.
The second item is a transcript of the 1785 deed in which Philip Bigg
Roberts borrowed money from James Bradford. This is manuscript on 3 large
paper sheets and at the end a local solicitor is asking for guidance from
Lincolns Inn. This is worn and torn, but given the age not unduly so.
Interesting situation, and we wonder how it was resolved. (ref
6921) £12.00 post-free
Not for export
[Buckingham document] Conveyance of
Public House
This 1807 deed records the selling by Goodman to Bates of 'All that piece or
parcel of ground with the appurtenances.....in a certain street there called
Well Street.....and all that messuage or tenement standing and being on part of
the said piece or parcel of ground commonly called or known by the name or sign
of The Bell now and for some time past hath been in the tenure or occupation of
the said John Bates the younger.....'. Manuscript on two large parchment
sheets and signed by all parties concerned. (ref 44/238) £20.00
post-free
Not for export
A History of Chalfont St Peter and
Gerrards Cross
G C Edmonds, 1968. 111pp, 8pp of plates (one of which is a
gloriously evocative photo of 'The men who built St James Church Gerrards Cross,
1859' some with the tools of their trade), map eps. Decent enough copy in
decent enough d/w with clear plastic protective wrapper, G. (ref 0000)
£6.00
[Chesham] Sale Poster
Early (1835) printed poster announcing the forthcoming sale at the Crown
Inn of 'two desirable dwelling houses near the Market House', being sold on behalf of the
executors of the late Mr Joiner. Two sitting tenants are named as Stedman and Joiner
(no christian names). Although described as dwelling houses the poster also mentions
that they are 'admirably situated for trade, fitted up with bow shop windows, fire places
and cupboards'. Size approx 11"x17", single-sided so ideal for framing,
extensively waterstained but quite probably unique - very few posters of this age appear
on the market. For those into provincial printing, this was produced by W Hepburn,
Chesham. (ref 5502) £22.00
UK post-free
One Thousand Years in a Village Church - The
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Denham
Hazel Harries, 1998. A5 in photo card covers, 66pp, several small
drawings in the text. Appendixes include pedigrees of Bowyer, Hill and Way. In print at
£7.50, this F copy (ref 40/51) £4.50
UK post-free
[Dinton/Cuddington document] Schedule of Lands in
Dinton & Cuddington
A schedule drawn up by the Board of Agriculture in 1891 of 539 acres of land
owned by Lt Col Goodall of Dinton Park. About 500 acres lay in the parish of
Dinton, the rest in Cuddington. The schedule is particularly useful to both local
and family historians in that it breaks the 539 acres down into 9 blocks (inc 3 farms) and
shows who are the occupiers. Manuscript on large parchment sheet [approx
27"x23"], nice and clean though multifolded. If you think your ancestor
might have been one of the tenants, by all means check with us before you buy. (ref
60/21) £18.00 post-free Not for export
Fawley Church and Parish
Anon nd typical church guide pamphlet of 10pp, 5 ills. (ref 7224) £1.00
UK post-free
[Gawcott document] Copyhold Admission
This 1887 manorial admission records the surrender of a copyhold on
'two messuages two tenements and two closes of pasture containing two acres and a plot or
allotment of land containing four acres and thirty one perches.......in Gawcott.....' by
John Edward Bartlett Esq of Peverel Court, Stone, in favour of Messrs Henry Hearn
& John Cheesman of Buckingham, Edward Harper Ridgway of Bourton and George Warr of
Gawcott. Some interesting detail, including the fact that the 'said messuages or
tenements are now in the respective occupations of William Turvey, Mark Bennett, Benjamin
Bennett and John Harris.......'. Manuscript on parchment, signed by the Steward of
the Court. (ref B165) £10.00 post-free Not for export
[Great Horwood - see Nash]
A Country Parson -
The Hambleden Valley 1937-1979
1994 edition of Wilfred Watts 1979
book. A4 size, green paper covers, plastic spiral bound. WW was
rector of Hambleden for over 40 years and wrote this little book shortly before
he died. This copy is offered at the 1994 published price. (ref
0000) £3.00
The History of the Borough of High Wycombe from 1880 to the
Present Day
L J Mayes, 1960. Tall 8vo, 94pp inc index, 8 plates. G in G d/w. (ref 8278) £20.00
Another copy
The condition of this copy is marginally better, and the d/w is about the same as
the copy above. Most d/ws on these books seem to suffer from wear & tear at the
tops & tails of the spines. (ref 550/38) £20.00
[Lillingstone Lovell] Grant of Land to extend
burial ground
1889 land grant (signed) by James Bogle Delap. Parchment. Site plan.
(ref B165 - also on the Oxfordshire list) £8.00 post-free Not for export
Sale Particulars - Long Crendon
The agricultural holding Lopmede was put up for sale in 1923. These
printed particulars include a schedule of the plot numbers based on the Ordnance Survey.
There may have been a site plan - if so, it is missing. (ref 0000) £8.00
UK post-free
The Manor and Parish Records of Medmenham
Arthur H Plaisted, 1925. Large 8vo, 445pp inc index, 34 ills as required, teg.
Scattered spotting here & there, though most pp unaffected. Depite the foxing,
this is without doubt the best of the few copies we've had of this scarce volume (the bulk
of the printing having been destroyed by fire), so VG. (ref 2515) £45.00
The Parsons and Parish Registers of Medmenham
Buckinghamshire
Arthur H Plaisted, 1932. A thick 481pp inc 3 indexes filling 79pp, 20 ills
as required, sketch-map eps. Of particular interest is the transcript of the
registers for the period 1654 to 1930 enhanced by the Bishops Transcripts for the period
1575 to 1653, between them taking up well over half the book. Scattered slight
foxing here & there but a nice tight and tidy copy of this uncommon book. VG.
(ref 3553) £50.00 post-free in the UK
[Nash & Great Horwood] Sale
Particulars of 4 Plots of Land
Printed particulars of these 4 plots of land which came up for auction
at The George Inn, Winslow, in 1854. An accompanying hand-coloured site plan shows
the location of the fields. Complimentary copy from the auctioneer, folded &
posted to Wm T Buckell of Nash, still bearing a pair of penny reds plus postmarks.
The outside (as folded) is quite fragile due to damage by silverfish and careless
unfastening & thus parts are missing (affects part of the text of the Gt Horwood
property). (ref 4078) £18.00
UK post-free
[Northall] Important Collection of Deeds,
Documents and Indentures for Property at South End
An incomplete run of deeds and documents going back from the mid-20c
to 1673 when John Kidgell leased [for 2000 years] to his son Thomas a plot of land known
as Thirty Acres (but actually measuring 28) 'next a certain lane there leading from
Southend Greene towards Ivinghoe on the West part, next Middlecroft Field on the East
part, next Southend Green on the East part and next the land of Dr Smith on the fourth
part'. The boundaries of the land seems to have changed little - if at all - over the
years as in a 1906 conveyance it is described as 'Firstly All that piece or parcel of land
situate in the south end of Northall.....bounded on the north west by an accommodation
road leading to Southend Farm, on the north east partly by the premises hereinafter
described.....and containing by admeasurement altogether about thirty acres one rood and
twenty five perches more or less, and Secondly All that cottage or tenement now divided
into two tenements.....together with the orchard adjoining.....' [this 'second' property
was acquired in 1885]. The documents chronicle a succession of occupiers and
interested parties for well over 250 years and, although it is a broken sequence, it is
possible to back track from 1906 either by names of people involved, or by mention of
dates of earlier indentures, or by reference to Thirty Acres, all the way to 1673.
In all there are 45 items [11 of which are earlier than 1780] including a rather ragged
collection list for the Northend Silver Jubilee Celebration 1935 which lists almost 50
names, a printed poster for the 1885 sale of the 2 cottages [damaged but frameable] and a
scarce 17th century marriage settlement - this item alone would fetch at least £50 were
it to be offered on the open market. The collection (ref 77/10)
£200.00 post-free Not for export
[Olney] Parish Church Appeal for the Roof
Restoration Fund
4pp printed appeal letter issued in 1931 to coincide with the bi-centenary
of the birth of William Cowper. Old tears repaired. (ref L056) £4.00
UK post-free
[Padbury document] Deed
Concerning White Bridge Furlong
This 1836 deed records a family arrangement concerning
a 15 acre plot of land known as White Bridge Furlong 'bounded on the South West
by the Steeple Claydon Road and elsewhere by a stream which formed the boundary
between the parishes of Padbury and Steeple Claydon. The parties involved
were Thomas and Alexander Shillingford, John and Mary Kightley (all 4 signed the
deed) and William Harwood, the only party local to Padbury. Manuscript on
2 large parchment sheets. (ref 307/63)
£18.00 post-free Not for export
Pitstone Windmill
David Wray, 15pp pamphlet, undated but recent. 5 photo + other ills
inc double page centrefold diagram showing internal workings. (ref 6312) £3.00
UK post-free
Stoke Poges Church
25pp typical church pamphlet, nd but perhaps 1960s, 12 photo-ills. G. (ref 100/35)
£1.50
[The Manor of Tingewick] Admission of
Copyholder at Jack O'Lantern
This concerns a house, garden & 4 plots of land together with part of the
river at Jack O'Lantern (part of today's Grove Farm). The total area was over 14
acres. Contemporary copy of 1878 entry in the court rolls, parchment, grubby as
folded. (ref 333/16) £8.00 post-free Not for export
[Tingewick] Miller's Bill
This is a small bill for a quantity of 'foreign barley'. Hand-written bill
from E D Pollard & Sons, 1896. (ref 333/43) £2.00
post-free Not for export
St Mary the Virgin, Turville
Revised church pamphlet, 1998, with new photographs. Oblong A5, 15pp in
paper covers. (ref 210/31) £1.00
UK post-free
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses -
Buckinghamshire
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986. Pp1-30
in pictorial card covers, descriptions of 102 Buckinghamshire buildings, many of which are
ill'd (inc 25 photos). VG copy (ref 1897) £5.00
UK post-free
Records of Buckinghamshire
Vol 18 Pt 1, 1966. Includes 21pp on 18th Century Chalfont St Peter
Overseers Accounts; 10pp on Wall Paintings in Padbury Church; 9pp on The Select Vestry of
Hawridge; 15pp on Field Systems in Ibstone. (ref 150/77) £4.50
Vol 18 Pt 2, 1967. Includes 11pp on Northend Farm House, Long Crendon and 14pp on 17th Century Token Issuers of Chepping Wycombe. (ref 150/76) £4.50
Vol 19 Pt 1, 1971. Includes 7pp on Medieval Building & Repair of the Chancels of Datchet, Iver, Langley & Wraysbury Churches; 9pp on The Crendon Needlemakers; 13pp on The Buckinghamshire Straw Plait Trade in Victorian England and 6pp on Canal Settlement in Fenny Stratford. (ref 150/73) £4.50
Vol 19 Pt 2, 1972. Includes 28pp on The Buckinghamshire Lieutenancy; 13pp on The Railway Era in Buckinghamshire; 5pp on The Boundaries of Over Winchendon and 5pp on The Diary of a Country Schoolmaster for 1864. (ref 150/70) £4.50
Vol 26, 1984. Includes 18pp on The Restoration Militia in Buckinghamshire 1660-1745; 6pp on The Civil War Destruction of Boarstall; 9pp on Law Enforcement - Crime & Punishment in 17th Century Buckinghamshire; 12pp on Wall Paintings in Broughton Church. (ref 150/79) £4.50
Vol 27, 1985. Includes 9pp on The Verneys & The Sequestration in the Civil War 1642-1656; 12pp on The Development of the Borough of Buckingham AD914-1086; 7pp on The Manor & Abbey of Burnham and 6pp on Wall Paintings in Padbury Church. (ref 150/78) £4.50
Ordnance Survey Geological Map - Sheet 255
3rd ed, 1922, multi-section map with linen back, in original slip-case.
Ex-Berkshire County Library though apparently not looked at for over 35 years. Centred on
Beaconsfield and covers the approx square Hughenden-Rickmansworth-Hillingdon-Marlow. G.
(ref 350/16) £8.50
Hand-Written Buckinghamshire 'Directory'
Early 19th century 200pp notebook, the unknown compiler noting down everything he
felt relevant about the county and the various towns & villages. Extracted from
Howard's 'State of Prisons' are very interesting notes on gaols and bridewells at
Aylesbury, Buckingham, Newport Pagnell ['Bridewell - 2 cells in the back court of a public
house 7ft by 6 1/2 and 6ft high, the apertures in the doors 10 inches by 9....'], and High
Wycombe ['This prison was lately removed from High Wycombe to West Wycombe and the keeper
was dismissed at the Michaelmas Sessions 1778 for inattention...']. There's also
much on local elections, inscriptions on important gravestones/memorials, rectors &
patrons of churches etc. We'd imagine that today the greater part of the contents
can be tracked down somewhere on the internet, so this item being a contemporary private
collection of facts & figures is perhaps only of interest to the serious
Buckinghamshire collector or perhaps one of the museums. (ref 2776)
£90.00 UK post-free
Probate Records of the Archdeaconry Court of
Buckingham 1483-1650 and of the Buckinghamshire Peculiars 1420-1660
Index Library, British Record Society vol 114, 2001. Tall 8vo, plum cloth
boards, 483pp inc indexes, main contents are alphabetical by surname. The number of
entries is well over 15,000. F copy of a book still in print at £32 + £5 postage,
our copy (ref 2211) £28.50
NB the few documents listed amongst the books above are just a small selection from our stock of perhaps 15,000 items covering much of Britain - many of which relate either to Buckinghamshire people or Buckinghamshire property. Email the names or locations you are researching and we'll provide details of anything we have that might link up.