Court Rolls of Sir John Thynne

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  • Reference
    • GB 133 RYCH/62
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1568-1569
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item, 12 membranes.

Scope and Content

Court rolls for various manors belonging to Sir John Thynne of Longleat, Wiltshire. The manors lay in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Herefordshire, and the rolls record the following sessions:

  • Frome and West Woodland (Somerset), 27 September 1568;
  • Wemisforde [? Winford, Somerset], 4 October 1568;
  • Bagendon (Gloucestershire), 5 October 1568;
  • Buckland and Laverton (Gloucestershire), 6 October 1568;
  • Corsley (Wiltshire), 10 October 1568;
  • Lullington (Somerset), 15 October 1568;
  • Deverell Langbridge and Mounton Deverell (Wiltshire), 19 October 1568;
  • Kingston Deverell (Wiltshire), 26 October 1568;
  • Walton (Somerset), 23 March 1569;
  • East Horrington (Somerset), 24 March 1569;
  • Frome and West Woodland, 28 March 1569;
  • Lullington, 29 March 1569;
  • Kingston Deverell, 30 March 1569;
  • Deverell Langbridge, 31 March 1569;
  • Corsley, 1 April 1569;
  • Winford [?], 3 April 1569;
  • Bagendon, 6 April 1569;
  • Buckland and Laverton, 7 April 1569;
  • Sutton parva (Wiltshire), 10 April 1569;
  • Deverell Langbridge, 8 September 1569;
  • Frome and West Woodland, 22 September 1569;
  • Lullington, 23 September 1569;
  • Walton, 27 September 1569;
  • Buckland and Laverton, 1 October 1569;
  • Bagendon, 3 October 1569;
  • Kemisforde [? Kempsford, Gloucestershire], [?] October 1569;
  • Kingston Deverell, 10 October 1569;
  • Corsley, 13 October 1569;
  • Whitteborne [? Whitbourne, Herefordshire], 20 October 1569.

Acquisition Information

Rylands accession no. R39328. Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £5 in July 1915.

Custodial History

Formerly in the possession of Canon J.E. Jackson, editor of John Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections.