Includes leases, deeds, assignments, copies of court rolls, letters of attorney and releases concerning land in Guilden Morden and Over owned by the corporation of Beverley, Yorkshire. A full list is available on request.
Papers concerning property in Guilden Morden and Over, Cambridgeshire
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- ReferenceGB 12 MS Add.3864
- Dates of Creation1605-1705
- Language of MaterialEnglish .
- Physical Description37 item(s) 37 items paper paper
Scope and Content
Arrangement
All were at one time stitched together, and paginated 1-72. they have now been separated, but items 1, 4, 5, 9, 22, 23, 29, and 31 were gathered and bound, 1905. Items paginated 65-67 are missing.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
Purchased by Robert Metcalfe DD of Trinity College, Cambridge (d. 1653) and bequeathed by him to his native town, Beverley, Yorkshire. These items appear to be strays from the Beverley Corporation archives. Purchased from J. Corbet Anderson.
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Bibliography
See G. Poulson, History of Beverley 1 (1829), pp. 455-8.