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[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  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   Not for export

The Rose Family - Rayners and Tyler's End Green
Miles Green & Evelyn Clark, 1982. 40pp booklet in card covers, 29 photos + other ills inc 1812 and 1886 map of the Penn/Loudwater/High Wycombe/Hazlemere area as eps. Bottom corner of 1 leaf badly creased o/w G. (ref 2324)  *£2.50

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

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

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

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

Another copy though perhaps not quite so clean.  (ref 210/62)  *£2.50

Amersham Official Guide
Nd but early 1990s guide, 36pp in pictorial card covers, folding street map at end.  VG.  (ref 210/61)  *£2.00

[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

Souvenir Programme - Beaconsfield 700th Charter 1269-1969
100pp booklet with some good ills, local adverts etc. Although primarily to do with the celebrations, there is a fair amount of historical material inc a photo of the 1269 Royal Grant of the right to hold an annual fair. G. (ref 150/31)  *£2.50

[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 of 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

[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  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

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

[Buckingham] Group of 10 Manorial Documents
Ranging in dates from 1798 to 1851, the documents relate to a copyhold cottage & land. In 1798 the cottage, newly built by James Tunks "on waste ground...situate within the Prebend of Buckingham near unto Dancer's Brick Kiln there, the Public Highway leading from Buckingham to Bourton lying on the South West and Great Port Field lying on the North East side thereof...". In 1816 James Tunks surrendered his copyhold in favour of Michael & Mary Westley. The Westley family retained the copyhold until February 1851 when it was surrendered to Rev Eusebius Andrewes Uthwatt. As the 1851 census was taken shortly afterwards it may be possible to identify where the cottage was situated. (ref 6870) The group  *£30.00  Not for export

[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)  *£1.50

Buckingham: A History of a Country Market Town
Muriel T Vernon & Desmond C Bonner, 1969. 116pp, several plate-ills. Nice clean copy, VG in grubby & sl torn but G d/w. (ref 2511)  £10.00

[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   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

[Buckingham] Deeds relating to 6 Cottages at Nast End or North East End
8 parchment deeds, including the probated copy of the will of local innkeeper John Watts who died in 1827. The documents chronicle events from 1772 to 1834. For the first 40 years the then 4 cottages were owned by James then George Bradford. In 1815 the cottages were sold to John Watts and, though he died in 1827, they remained with his widow & daughters until 1834. As with many property deeds of this period the exact location of the cottages isn't specified but all clearly relate to the same properties. Occupiers mentioned include Harley/ Jolley/Wesley/Gibbs/Hill/Harris/Goode/Little/Watts/Emerton (1772), Daff/WestleyBailey/Phillips/ Willis/Leeson/Batchelor/Wells (1815) and Daft/Westley/Bailey/Tarry/French/Wilson/ Phillips/Willis /Leeson/French/Stanley/Westley/Batchelor/Wells (1834). The collection (ref 44/270)  £30.00 Not for export

[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   Not for export

[Buckingham]  Butcher's Customer Account Book
J T Griffith, High St, brown account book covering the period 1935 and 1945 occupies about half the book.  Soon after the account is opened the proprietor's receipts stuck into the book record the butcher as J W Scrafton.  (ref 333/18)  *£5.00   Not for export

[Buckingham]  Solicitor's Ledger
This ledger, commencing in 1857 and going through to 1861, was used to compile clients bills as work progressed.  Most clients were local, though business was clearly coming in from much of North Buckinghamshire and South Northamptonshire.   Over 500pp of manuscript in several different hands, some of it rather hurried and not particularly easy to read.  Thick heavy ledger, very worn & dampstained parchment boards, leather label on spine largely missing.  Alphabetical index at front contains upwards of 200 different clients.  (ref 333/11)  £45.00   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  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

The Book of Chesham
Clive Birch, 1975.  Large 4to (a bit bigger than A4), 164pp inc index, scores of photos & other ills, map eps.  A particularly nice fresh copy, easily VG in scored & price-clipped but still VG d/w.  (ref 1733)  £18.00

[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

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

Fawley Church and Parish
Anon nd typical church guide pamphlet of 10pp, 5 ills. (ref 7224)  *£1.00

[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  Not for export

[Great Horwood - see Nash]

[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  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

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

Milton Keynes - A Pictorial History
Dennis Mynard and Julian Hunt, 1994.  4to, unpaginated but 173 captioned ills, mostly photos, followed by bibliography.  Very nice clean copy with a bump in the top edge of the front board, Fin VG d/w.  In print at £13.99, this copy (ref 625/19)  £8.00

[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

[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   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

In Pitstone Green there is a Farm
Pitstone LHS, 1979. A4 in pictorial card covers, unpaginated but c50pp full of text and evocative photographs. The history of the farm sheds light on agricultural life, and there are very good articles on the windmill, the great barn, the canal, enclosure...all well set out and a credit to the Society. VG. (ref 6891)  *£5.00

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

[Shalstone]  Papers concerning James Owen of New Farm/New House Farm
James Own was the tenant farmer, and this collection dates from the period 1890-1906.  James died in 1904 and it would appear his widow continued the farm at least for another couple of years as there are several bills for farm supplies dated 1906.  All 30 items are minor ones.  The collection (ref 333/14)  *£12.00   Not for export

[Steeple Claydon]  Claydon Sack Co Billhead
this 1907 invoice is for a pair of plough reins @ 3/-.  (ref 333/35)  *£2.00  Not for export

Stoke Mandeville - Where There's More Crows Than Folk
Alan Dell & Richard Pearce, 1992.  4to, 125pp inc index, 58 mostly photo ills, useful bibliography, map eps.  A history of the parish from 1797, the date of the Inclosure Act.  F copy but without d/w.  The title is now out of print.  (ref 0000)  £8.50

[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   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  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

Hilltop Villages of the Chilterns
David and Joan Hay, 1983 rep.  Large 8vo, 245pp inc index, 27 ills, 5 maps, map eps.  The story of 4 little villages beside the Icknield Way - Cholesbury, Hawridge, St Leonards and Buckland Common.  Small inscription on half-title page.   Still in-print at £9.95, this VG copy in G price-clipped d/w  (ref 210/11)  £6.00

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

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

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

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.