Manors of Buckland Filleigh and Weare Gifford, Devon: Court rolls and other financial papers

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.3299
  • Dates of Creation
      1334-1585
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      3 archive box(es) 3 Boxes paper paper

Scope and Content

Court rolls of Buckland Filleigh for: 1334, 1346-7, 1350-3, 1397-8, 1408, 1446-53, 1455-8, 1473-9, 1500-11, 1514-17, 1521-2, 1524-7, 1529-30, 1534-5, 1538-9, 1542-51, 1554-7 (an admission, 1548), 1559-62, 1564-5; court roll of Ford manor, probably in Milton Abbot, 1566-7; estreats of fines for Buckland Filleigh for: 1517-18, 1551-2, 1558-9, 1562-3, 1583-5, imperfect, late 16th cent., with notes of fines, 16th cent.; accounts of William Robyn, reeve of Weare Gifford, and of Richard Gylle, reeve of Buckland Filleigh, 1449-50; audited accounts for Weare Gifford and for Buckland Filleigh, 1471; accounts of Richard Peke, reeve of Buckland Filleigh, 1499-1500. With the above are 2mm. estreats of fines at Middlesex sessions assigned to the liberty of the dean and chapter of Westminster, 1846, used as wrappers for CUL MS Add. 3298 and 3299.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased of Hereward T. Wake, 10 Oct. 1894.

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Bibliography

See T. Risdon, Chorographical Description, 1811. For the sale of the Buckland-Filleigh estate see under Catalogues, North Devon, 1861 in BL main catalogue.

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