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[Hewett family] Abstract of Title to [unstated] Property in Moreton Morland & Eagle
This undated but evidently 17th century abstract gives very brief details of land transactions ranging from 18Eliz [1576] to 19Car2 [1668]. William [described as Citizen] was the first of several Hewetts to be involved in these properties and is mentioned as acquiring the lands by conveyance in 35Eliz [1593]. Later on there is hint of a challenge that this 'conveyance' was merely a lease. Little information can be gleaned about the Hewetts, though William had two sons, John and Solomon. William also seems to have had a brother [Sir] John who somehow acquired the rights to the properties. Manuscript on paper which, as folded, became stuck together and has been holed by careless unfolding with the loss of some text. However, abstracts of this age are unusual. (ref 554/26) Priced for condition at £15.00 post-free 
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[Williamson/Dymoke document]  Marriage Settlement
This very significant family document dating from 1734 comprises the settlement made on the marriage of Thomas Williamson of Alford to Mary Dymoke of Sausthorpe.  In manuscript on single large parchment sheet, and bears the signature Thos Williamson.  (ref 5403)  £28.00 post-free 
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The Enclosures of Alkborough 1765-1768, West Halton 1772-1773, Whitton 1773-1775, Scotter & Scotterthorpe 1708-1820
Rex C Russell, 1981.  A4 in photo-card covers, 25pp, 6 large folding parish sketch-maps showing how things were at the time of enclosure - very useful when tracing field names etc, and the book explains the process of enclosure, its immediate results, and the making of the modern landscape in these four North Lincs parishes. Essential background material for both family and local historians.  F.  Several copies available, each at £5.00 post-free in the UK

The Medieval Churches of Barton on Humber
Geoffrey F Bryant, 1984. A4 size in card covers, 33pp, many ills showing the structural development of the churches through the centuries. G. (ref 2676) £5.00 post-free within UK

Boston, Tattershall and Croyland
M R Lambert & R Walker, 1930. 139pp, 13 ills from pencil drawings. Predominantly Boston, the Tattershall & Croyland sections occupying just the last 15pp. The gilt lettering on the spine is rather indistinct but the book is easily G. (ref 103/46) £15.00

[Boston]  Mortgage Deeds to 4 Houses in Innocent Street
The 4 houses were mortgaged throughout the 23 years (1842-1865) covered by these 6 parchment mortgage deeds,most of which concern local bricklayer/builder John Lynn.   (ref 489/5)  £25.00 post-free 
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[Boston, Sutterton & Friskney document]  Sale Particulars of Farm, Houses, Shops & Land
Printed particulars for the 1855 sale of:
Sutterton - several fields and a farmhouse (about 80 acres in all) near Sutterton Station tenanted by John Cutforth.
Friskney - a very small plot of land tenanted by William Harrison.
Boston - a shop, house & premises in Wide Bargate & Mastin's Row, occupied by Thomas Atkinson and James Pindard.
             - 4 cottages in Cheapside (Smith, Botterill, Brown, Ward).
             - 4 more cottages in Cheapside (Widow Allen, Miss Hildred, Messrs Kelly and Bean).
             - 2 cottages in Fountain Lane (Mrs Ridlington & Serjeant Ledsham).
Quite a dilapidated state, worn and torn along old folds and almost in 3 pieces, also quite grubby and waterstained.  From the manuscript annotations it seems clear this is the auctioneer's own copy used to record prices and purchasers of the various lots comprising the Sutterton property.  The redeeming feature is the plan of the Sutterton property.  There doesn't appear to have been a plan showing the Boston properties - if there was (and we think not) it hasn't survived.  Half price due to condition.  (ref 637/32)  £9.00 post-free within UK

A Lincolnshire Village - The Parish of Corby Glen in its Historical Context
David I A Steel, 1979. Tall 8vo, 242pp, lots of photo & other ills. A study of change and continuity in a rural community since the 17th century. F in VG d/w. (ref 103/47) £10.00

[Dembleby] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 2 'proprietors' and the 11 occupiers, together with the amounts due. Printed form with manuscript entries, single sheet approx 13"x16". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/29) £18.00 post-free
 
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[Donington] Several 18th century deeds are in stock, all apparently unrelated.

[Donington paperwork]  Correspondence re Proposed New Burial Ground
A couple of dozen letters and copy letters dated 1897-1899 in which the local burial board were attempting to obtain approval from Whitehall.  Such long-winded correspondence which after 2 years had made little or no progress at all.  Offered for the local history interest in that a new burial ground was being considered in the late 1890s - but be warned, it is all routine stuff.  (ref 637/31)  £10.00 post-free 
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[Dunsby] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details 5 'proprietors' and the same number of occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 8"x13". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/16) £12.00 post-free
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[Folkingham] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details about a dozen 'proprietors' and a similar number of occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 15"x18". Nice clean piece of local history, though several drawing- pin holes. (ref 222/19) £15.00 post-free
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[Gosberton and Quadring]  Abstract of Title to Lands
This undated but approx 1817 abstract lists details of property deeds and documents, and the parties involved, going back to 1687, when Henry Brown bought 'one moiety or half part of a decayed house and yard with a barn and a moiety of one acre of arable ground (more or less) thereto adjoining lying against the Cross in Westhorpe in Gosberton....'.  In 1695 he bought the other half.  The following year he bought'all that messuage one cottage and 12 acres of land arable & pasture.....in the several parishes of Gosberton als Gosberkirke & Quadring.....'.  In his 1704 will Henry Brown left the property to 'my only daughter Margaret Browne a barn and one acre and a halfe of hempland lying under the same where a house formerly stood lying in Gosberton.....next a place called Cold Hurn Barr and the Queen's Highway north and west and the lands of Edward Haw east allsoe two acres of pasture lying in Quadring in the said county of Lincoln between the lands of Mr Toller south and the Lord George north and abutts upon the lands of the said Mr Toller west and a way leading to Dunstoft east Allsoe three acres of pasture called by the name of the Brick Lampe pasture whereof one acre lies in Quadring aforesaid and the other two acres in Gosberton aforesaid.....Alsoe two acres more of pasture lying in Quadring.....Also five acres and a half of arable and pasture called by the name of Dunstoft lying in Gosberton.....'.  All this was to remain in the family for many years - Henry Brown's daughter Margaret married John Northon and on her death in 1781 the property was left to her son Edward.  Edward died about 1793 unmarried and left the property to his sister Ann Buckworth.  However it seems the property somehow devolved to Foaker relatives as this abstract was drawn up with the eventual aim to sell the property - which had been in the same family for well over 100 years.  Manuscript on 12 large paper sheets with a 13th as the covering sheet.   (ref 7024)  £15.00 post-free 
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[Haceby] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 3 'proprietors' and the 5 occupiers, together with the amounts due. Printed form with manuscript entries, single sheet approx 13"x16". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/20) £15.00 post-free
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[Helpringham] Several 18th & early 19th century deeds are in stock, all apparently unrelated except for a group of 3 dating from 1710-1713 involving Thomas Blackstock (& 6 sisters) & Richard Stenton.  Not for export

[Kirkby Underwood] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 2 'proprietors' and 2 of the occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 8"x13". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/11) £12.00 post-free
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[Laughton] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 5 'proprietors' and 5 of the occupiers, together with the amounts due (this is the Laughton in South Lincs). Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 7"x9". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/12) £12.00 post-free
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Lincoln Castle Official Guide
12pp pamphlet with 7 photos & plan. Undated. (ref 103/39) £1.00 post-free within UK

Revised Map of the City of Lincoln with Bracebridge, Boultham, Canwick and St Giles
Scaled at 10" to the mile, this 22"x34" multifolding map is dated 1945. Grey card covers, G. (ref 103/30) £8.00 post-free within UK

[Newton] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 3 'proprietors' and the 18 occupiers, together with the amounts due. Printed form with manuscript entries, single sheet approx 13"x16". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/31) £18.00 post-free
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[Osbournby] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 20 'proprietors' and a similar number of occupiers, together with the amounts due. Printed form with manuscript entries, single sheet approx 13"x16". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/32) £22.00 post-free
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[Owmby document]  Abstract of Title to The Carr
This 1850 abstract of title provides details of deeds going back to an 1809 lease and release, which in their turn refer back to a 1773 lease & release.  In 1809 this 13 acre plot of land was called the Oxpasture Carr Close - it is also referrred to as simply Carr Close - and in 1831 it was still shown as being 13 acres so we can take it that this 1850 abstract provides a 77 year potted history of the various owners & interested parties such as mortgagees.  Principal names are Hinton (1773), Fawcett (1787), Burwell (1809), Bromhead (1826) and Dudding (1831).  The abstract is in manuscript on 22 large paper sheets with a 23rd as the covering sheet.  (ref 384/1)   £16.00 post-free 
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[Owmby documents]  Deeds to Home Close (also called The Homestead), The Paddock, Sandhills, Corner Plot & Cottages
In 1860 John Walter Dudding borrowed £2000 on a farmhouse, 16 cottages (14 of them newly built) and several blocks of land totalling 30 acres which he'd bought in 1852.  The loan was repaid in 1862, though by JWD's  executors as he'd died in December 1861.  The mortgage and reconveyance are both in manuscript on parchment.   (ref 384/2)  £18.00 post-free 
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[Owmby documents]  Deeds to Blakey Bottoms
This pair of 1863 deeds relate to a 5 acre plot of land bought by Fillingham labourer Charles Fenton for £330 and immediately mortgaged for £200.  Both deeds are in manuscript on parchment and both bear the signature Charles Fenton.  The conveyance bears a useful hand-coloured plan, also a schedule of earlier deeds going back to 1795.  (ref 384/3)  £18.00 post-free 
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[Pickworth] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 9 'proprietors' and a couple of dozen occupiers, together with the amounts due. Printed form with manuscript entries, single sheet approx 13"x16". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/33) £20.00 post-free
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[Rippingale] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 7 'proprietors' most of whom are also shown to be occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 12"x8". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/21) £12.00 post-free
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[Scotter & Scotterthorpe - see Alkborough]

[Scott Willoughby] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 4 'proprietors' and 5 occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 9"x11". Nice clean piece of local history, though the edges are a little rolled. (ref 222/24) £12.00 post-free
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[Sempringham] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 9 'proprietors' and a dozen or so occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 8"x13". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/22) £15.00 post-free
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[Stamford] Half-Year House Tax Return, 1782-1783
Duplicate copy of the return listing the 6 Stamford parishes, who were the Assessors/Collectors (2 for each parish), and amounts collected. Manuscript on thin & quite worn parchment, bears signatures of 3 aldermen. NB this is a summary, not a detailed list. (ref 554/24) £15.00 post-free 
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[Swaton] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 4 'proprietors' and 4 occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 8"x13". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/23) £12.00 post-free
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[Threckingham] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 8 'proprietors' and 10 of the occupiers, together with the amounts due. Manuscript on paper, single sheet approx 8"x13". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/14) £15.00 post-free
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[Walcot] Land Tax Assessment for the Parish, 1825
The actual Assessment, signed by various officials, for the year 1825-26. Details the 10 or so 'proprietors' and about a dozen occupiers, together with the amounts due. Printed form with manuscript entries, single sheet approx 13"x16". Nice clean piece of local history. (ref 222/25) £15.00 post-free
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[West Halton - see Alkborough]

[Whitton - see Alkborough]

Living and Learning in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 1830-1890
Rex C Russell, 1994. 236pp, several ills. The history of adult education in North Lincolnshire, describing Mechanics' Institutes, Mutual Improvement Societies, Libraries & Reading Rooms, Night Schools, Penny Readings, Temperance Movement & Adult Education, Literacy & Illiteracy etc. 4to in card covers, M. (ref 6744) £6.50

Seventeenth Century Lincolnshire
Clive Holmes, The History of Lincolnshire series vol 7, 1980. 279pp inc index, 16 plates. New copy, M in M d/w. (ref 2472) £9.50

NB Land Tax Returns for the year 1830 for the following Aveland Hundred parishes are also available. All are on printed forms with manuscript inserts. All bear signatures of the various officials. Prices include first-class postage(ref 669)   Not for export

Aslackby £15.00                  Dembleby £15.00                   Dunsby £12.00                  Dyke £15.00

Falkingham £15.00              Haceby £12.00              Hackonby £15.00            

Kirkby Underwood £10.00             Laughton £12.00                         Newton £15.00

Pickworth £15.00         Rippingale £12.00         Scotwilloughby £12.00         Sempringham £15.00

Spanby £15.00                Swaton £10.00                Threckingham £12.00               Walcott £15.00

Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire 1360-1375
Lincs Record Society vol 30, 1937. Large 8vo, 92+325pp inc 2 indexes covering 75pp. Transcribed in the original Latin, but accompanied by translation into English of the more difficult bits. The 92pp introduction supplies a detailed background and over-view of events. Eps spotted, black lettering on spine rather worn & traces of former yellowed sellotape at base of spine. G. (ref 2800) £20.00

A Handlist of the Records of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacons of Lincoln and Stow
Kathleen Major, 1953. 122pp inc index. One of the greatest problems to the researcher is knowing what records exist. This book goes a long way to solving that problem. VG. (ref 103/25) £12.00

Lincolnshire Returns of the Census of Religious Worship 1851
Lincoln Record Society vol 72, 1979.  Usual tall 8vo format, 95+317pp inc index, contents arranged geographically.  This is not the detailed population census, nevertheless there's valuable detail on churches, chapels etc, together with numbers attending etc etc, all perhaps of more interest to the local historian than the genealogist - quite surprising just how many chapels (and several houses)  are featured.  Nice copy, easily VG, of a vol that's still in print (at £25).  Our copy (ref 1525)  £15.00

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 Lincolnshire people or Lincolnshire property.  Email the names or locations you are researching and we'll provide details of anything we have that might link up.