DEEDS.

There are many deeds of the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries relating chiefly to the townships of Upton, Newton Hoole, and Bache. From the witnesses to many of these deeds may be extracted the names of sheriffs, mayors, and other officers not to be found in Ormerod's History of Cheshire.

To a deed of grant by Peter de Arderne to Peter Dumville is the seal of the grantor, 3 crosses and a chief, with the motto, frange, lege, tace.

To a deed of the date of 1302 is a seal with the motto, frange, lege, tecta (lecta?), tege.

In an undated 13th century deed, Reginald de Grey, and in another Thomas de Boulton, appears Justiciary of Chester, and Wm. de Praers as Sheriff.

In another undated deed Wm. Trossel appears as Justiciary, and Philip de Egerton as Sheriff of Chester.

1307.-Sir William de Ormesby, Justiciary, and Hugh de Brichull, the Mayor.

1310.-Benedict de Stanton, Mayor, and Hugh de Bruchull and Alexander Hurel and Hugh de Queleleh, Sheriffs. 1313.-Hugh de Audelegh, Justiciary, Richard de Foulehurst, Sheriff of Cheshire.

1315.-Benedict de Stanton, Mayor, Gilbert Dunfet and William del Peake, Sheriffs.

1319.-Robert de Holand, Justiciary, William de Modbirlegh, Sheriff.

1420.-William Troutebek, Chamberlain of Chester. 12 Edward II.-John de Radclif, Constable of the Castle of Ryddlan.

There is a grant by Roger de Davenport, rector of the parish Church of Hawardyn, with a fine seal of a kneeling figure under a rich canopy adoring the Virgin and Child.

Grants to the Abbey of St. Werburgh. Two deeds in 1460 and 1483 help to determine the site of the Church of St. Chad at Chester (which, according to Ormerod, is uncertain).

Besides the deeds above noticed, there are many others where the Witnesses are Justiciaries, Mayors, Sheriffs, and other officers of the City or County of Chester; and a number of early deeds by the Daniells of Aresbury.

I beg leave to express my thanks to Sir Philip GreyEgerton for his hospitality at Oulton Hall.

66

ALFRED J. HORWOOD.

THE MANUSCRIPTS OF SIR EDMUND FILMER, BART., AT EAST SUTTON PARK, CO. KENT.

In the library is a list of 13 manuscripts; the first is thus noted: "Parcel of a Leiger book belonging to the Abbey of Leeds." But unfortunately this volume is not now in the library, and Sir Edmund Filmer knows nothing of it. Tanner in his Notitia Monastica mentions it thus: "Cartularium penes dom. Ed. Filmerum, baronettum, 1727." And Hasted saw it in 1774.

66

A copy of Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia, in 4to, 71 pp.-Begins-Take her in her original. Endsdue regards to their honors, and reverence to their virtues. (This work has been printed more than once.) Commentaries on the Pentateuch.

History of the reign of King Henry III., by Sir Robert Cotton. (This has been printed.)

Palicanta, by Sir R. Filmer.

A folio volume containing extracts from the court rolls of Luddenham. (Customs, &c.)

Folio volumes containing Common-places, some miscellaneous and some legal, by Sir Thomas Raymond.

A 4to, of 14 leaves, 1640.-Observations on my journey through France. (By Sir E. Filmer.) He embarked at Rye in November 1640, and arrived at Dieppe. He visited Rouen, Magny, Pontini, St. Denis, St. Germain, St. Cloud, Vincennes, Paris, Orleans, Blois, Tours, and Richelieu.

A Latin oration, Declamatio prima, on the theme Stet pro ratione voluntas (14 leaves), dated from Trinity College, Cambridge, 1608.

Presentation copy of Harman's Defence of Archbishop Williams, 1649.

The

Among some letters is one dated 1712, Oct. 15, from E. Filmer to Sir Robert Filmer of East Sutton. writer dates from the port of Mahone in Minorca. He complains of the heat, of bad pay, and want of common provisions, and of the hatred of the inhabitants to England.

A very early undated deed, whereby Emma de Asefeld, for the love of God and the health of her soul, and the souls of her ancestors and their heirs, gives to God and

* In 1574 Ric. Drelond writes himself as the owner of this volume.

the church of St. Melne and St. Nicholas of Ledes and the canons there serving God, together with her corpse, all her manor of Benstede, &c. The witnesses are Geoffrey the priest of Horsburdenne, John the chaplain of Lamberherst, John of Kenebelle, William the clerk of Lamberherst, Richard of Wimbelregge, Edwin of Lindregge, Sibil, daughter of the grantor, Hamon fitz Hamon, William of Cnolle. Part of a large oval seal remains the device is a female figure.

To a deed of 4 Hen. IV. is the seal of Gerard Braybroke; seven mascles.

12 Hen. IV. A grant by Elizabeth Scrop, daughter of the Earl of Athol. Fine seal.

Hen. IV.-A deed with the seal of R. Brigge, Lancaster king-at-arms.

2 Hen. V.-Seal of Gilbert Talbot, lord of Irekenfeld and Blakemere. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Talbot; 2d and 3d, two lions passant.

2 Hen. V.-Seal of John Mepersale; fretty, a chief. 16 Hen. VIII.-Will of Robert Hessey of Sutton Valence.

1520.-Grant of arms by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, to Robert Filmer of East Sutton. The arms are-sable, 3 bars or, in chief 3 cinkfoils or. The crest-on a wreath or. and sa., on a broken corslet gold, a falcon volant proper.

1536.-Will of John Master of the parish of East Sutton.

Many early deeds relating to lands in East Sutton. ALFRED J. HORWOOD.

THE MANUSCRIPTS OF SIR GERALD FITZ-GERALD, BART., AT THURNHAM HALL, LANCASHIRE,

Sir Gerald Fitz-Gerald sent to the Record Office a large collection of deeds and miscellaneous instruments, ranging from the reign of Richard I. to the end of the 17th century. They have been sorted and put in chronological order in several classes. Calendars of the charters and rolls, and lists of the less important documents in bundles, have been made. On these calendars and lists the following notice is founded.

The deeds relate chiefly to lands formerly belonging to the abbey of Cokersand, co. Lancaster; lands in Thornham, Chester, Maudesley, Magna Hole, and other lands in the counties of Lancaster, York, and Lincoln.

Here is the original foundation deed of Cokersand Abbey, co. Lancaster (an establishment of the Premonstratensians or White Canons), by T(heobaldus) Walteri. (1).

This charter is printed in Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. vi., p. 906, but the word salinis in the original is by mistake printed silvis.

There is deed of assurance, temp. Richard I. by John [de Lacy], Constable of Chester, to William, son of Michael de Furneis, of the vill of Turnum (Thornham). It states that John has yielded or restored to William his right (rectum suum), to wit, the vill called Turnum, with the appurtenances, which the said Michael held, yielding to John and his heirs a mark of silver yearly, in lieu of all service, to be held by William and his heirs free from all execution of John's pleas (de executione placitorum suorum), and with all rights (rectitudinibus) pertaining to the said vill. (2.)

In the reign of John, Roger de Lacy [son of John de Lacy], grants the vill of Thurnham to William de Furneis and his heirs, he and they doing the same services to Roger and his heirs, as the charter of his father John shows. (7.)

In the reign of Richard I., Paul Abbat of St. Mary de Pré, co. Leicester, gave lands in Oxneith to the said William de Furness; and William granted the abbat certain easements. They got William to swear in the chapter on the Gospels to observe his part of the contract. (3.)

About the end of the 12th century, is an acknowledgment by Nicholas, the son of Azariah, that he is bound to pay yearly to the prior and monks of St. Mary, Lancaster, 88. yearly, for two messuages, which they held "de hospitalariis in villa de Lancaster." (5.)

To a grant of land in 1316, John Banastre de Banco* is a witness. (19.)

The grantor, Roger de Slene, in a deed dated in 1324, states that he does it "in legitima potestate suâ;" an unusual phrase for a man. One of the witnesses is Gilbert de Suthworth, the sheriff. (23.)

*Notwithstanding the name, he does not appear in Foss's Tables of the Judges.

In 1336, John de Harrington grants to Thomas de Slene, his heirs and assigns, 40 cartloads of turf, yearly, to be taken from his moss (mussâ suâ) of Thurn; and sand. (26.)

By an early deed, John de Parles granted to the prior and monks of St. Mary, Lancaster, his naif John, son of John, son of Hamo, with his issue and chattels, paying yearly to the abbey one pound of cummin. One of the witnesses is Henry de Lee, sheriff. (4.)

In the reign of Edward I., John de Parles enfranchises his naif William, son of John, son of Hamo, the newly made freeman paying yearly 2d. to the prior and monks of St. Mary, Lancaster. Among the witnesses to this deed is Henry Lee, sheriff of Lancaster. (10.)

In 1306, John le Ray was prior of St. Mary of Lancaster. (14.)

In 1315, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester and Steward of England, granted licence to John de Harington to enclose his park of Thornham. (18.)

In 1318, King Edward, by patent (tested at York), granted free-warren to John de Haverington in his lands in Ouskwyk, co. York, Haverington, co. Cumberland, and Thornham, co. Lancaster. (21.)

In 1326 is a deed settling a question about tithes from Slanyngess, between the prior and monks of Lancaster and the prior and convent of Norton, made at a chapter held at the chapel of Gayrstang. (24.)

In 1344 is a commission from Simon de Islep, John Byroun, and John de Haryngton, canons of Lincoln, by the authority of letters of Pope Clement VI. (dated at Avignon, 29 Feb. in the second year of his pontificate), to William Bacheler, canon of Lincoln, to decide the dispute between the prior of Lancaster, in York diocese, and Thomas de Clopton, rector of Walton, in Litchfield diocese, concerning tithes of veneson, pannage and herbage in the woods of the Earl of Lancaster. (28.)

In 1485 is a grant of houses and lands to Nicholas Grene, chaplain of the chantry in the Lady Chapel at the south side of Lancaster church, founded under the will of John Gardiner (under the provisions of which will the grantors made the grant). (59).

In the reign of Henry VII. is a decree of divorce in the episcopal consistory of Litchfield, of Thomas Heskette, of Rufford in Crofton, from Elizabeth Flemming his wife; the marriage having been a mere form, forced on them in their minorities, and always protested against by the wife. (68).

In the reign of Henry VIII. (1536 or 1546) is a decree (within the diocese of Chester) of divorce of Thomas Mollyneux from Elizabeth his wife, the marriage having been forced upon them when of the respective ages of seven and six years. (72.)

In 1547, is a will, dated May 28, 1547, with the letters of administration attached; noticeable because two of the witnesses to the will were legatees under it. (75.)

To a deed dated 1552 is the autograph signature of H. Suffolk (Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk. (76.)

In 1607 is an appointment of Robert Dalton of Thirnham to be deputy steward of the late monastery of Furness by William Earl of Derby, K.G., to whose great grandfather, Thomas Earl of Derby, the stewardship was granted in tail male by the Abbat John, about the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII. (94.)

In 1640 is a deed of sale for 6l. 108. of a Fyer house or burgage, &c., in Thornby. (119.)

In 1641, a deed of sale for 381. of a "Fyer house or "Burgage house," with barn and garth, in Hornby. (120.) In 1461 is a rental of the lands of the Abbey of Cokersand. (Class III., 1.)

In 1520 is a rental of the manor and demesne of Claghton, and an inventory of house furniture. (3.)

In 1507, a survey of certain lands and tenements appertaining to the late monastery of Fournes, lying in Lonsdale, co. York. (4).

Copy of verses (17th century), beginning

Let the Tunn onbroach,

and town council, and a variety of much interesting SIR W. H. B. matter relating to the town, its internal regulation, and its relation to other countries.

In the 9 Hen. VI. Thomas Worsted was mayor. The first entry is headed, Congregatio, Monday, Oct. 2, . 9 Hen. VI. There was great complaint against the men of the King of Denmark. Notices of the elections of officers. Affeerers of the leet. Regulations for paving. All the town business.

11th year begins with, Congregacio, Vigil of All Saints. Rewards of players (histrionum). A bill exhibited ex parte histrionum, they desiring an increase of pay. It was granted that each of them should have for his fee, 20s. and clothes for that year, and that the grant should last for that year only, and they shall go through the town with their instruments from the feast of All Saints to the feast of the Purification.

Repairs of St. Margaret's Church, and of the bridges. Election of constables. Election of churchwardens of St. Margaret. Common council. Admission of apprentices who had completed their term of apprenticeship.

20 Hen. VI. Complaint of about 40 men using to trade to Denmark of extortions of the King of Denmark's officers.

27 Hen. VI. Statute of tailor's craft (in English). No man to practise unless apprenticed, and has paid 40d. to the mayor, and certain other fees, which were to go to the sustentation of the procession upon Corpus Christi day. For miscut or misfit a tailor was to make amends.

A portfolio of letters, from which those of interest are noted below.

1629, May 19. Henry Spelman (at Barbacan) to Richard Hovell, Esq., at Hillington. Explaining the act of his servant in driving a stake in some land where a stone was.

1638, April the last. E. Mansell (the King's tentmaker, at Clerkenwell Hill,) to (Hovell?). If you please to have a large square tent of 18 feet or 6 yards long, and 6 yards brode, the roof must be all dubble, the skirts single canvice 6 foot high, paynted vallence and cruell frindg round about the topp of skirts; a curtain of canvice to drawe cross the tent to devid the tent in two romes, one rome to view your armes or to take your muster in, the other rome to dine in; one tent-pole, all ropes, cordes, and lines, a hamper full of tent stakes, a mall to drive the stakes into the ground, a hatchet for to sharpen the tent stakes when they are blunted, a spayde to make a trench round about the tent when it raynes. The tent being thus fitted, being made of good canvice, will cost 201.

1639, June 5. R. Hovel (at Hillingdon) to his son Richard. Has received warrant for musters; 800 are to march. Some new directions in the warrant.

1642, Dec. 3. Copy of letter (dated from Norwich) by J. Hubbart, W. Paston, J. Spelman, and others, to Sir Richard Hovel, and others. Tells that the enemy (foreign forces) were then off the coast of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. Tell them to meet at the sign of the King's Head at Norwich, to advise and assist in prevention of danger.

66

1646, Sept. 5. Hamon le Strange* to Sir Richard Hovel. "I suppose you understand what your self are charged with, together with me and others, towards "Mr. Solle's pretended imprisonment."-The almshouses of Gaywood during the siege.-Appoints a day to meet and confer.

1657, July 13, Munday. Oliver Cromwell to MajorGeneral Lambert. "Sir, I have sent this bearer, Mr. "W Jessop, to you for your commission as major"general, as also your other commissions, to whom I "desire you to deliver them enclosed and sealed up in a paper. Your loving friend, Oliver, P." 1660, April 21. Sir Horatio Townsend to Sir William Hovell. Orders him to march with the troop to Lynn to secure the peace of the county, and particularly of that town.

66

1660, Jan. 17. Sir Robert Kemp to the same. Order for muster.

1660, Feb. 4. Sir Horatio Townsend (at Westminster) to the same. There is to be a new levy: each troop of 50 or 60 men; if possible none under 2001. are to be rated. If two persons are joined for one horse they are to be rated equally.

1660, Feb. 7. Sir Robert Kemp to the same. Sends his commission ;-directions about moving troops, and rating.

* On his seal of arms here, there is no bendlet over the lions.

FFOLKES.

SIR W. H.B.

1662, Nov. 8. The Duke of Albemarle (at the CockFFOLKES. pit) to the same. Directs him to apprehend. . . . Swallow, called Colonel Swallow, and send him to the Tower.*

1662, Nov. 10. Townsend's order for 20 men to conduct him to the Tower.

1662, Nov. 20. Receipt by Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, for the body of Robert Swallow.

List of those who made default in supplying horses.. Freebridge and other hundreds. (Some were rated at one horse, and some for half a horse.)

1666, May 12.† John Chicheley (on board the Fairfax, at Chatham,) to`. . . In the last engagement he had many killed and wounded. Notices the Dutch information as to the movements of our fleet. The prince's ship's mast went by the board while tacking, and this stopped the fight. (3 pp. The writer gives an account of the fight.)

There are four portfolios of letters to Sir Martin Folkes, President of the Royal Society, and five folios of papers by and collected by him on various scientific and literary subjects.

Among the letters I noticed several from the Duke of Richmond (in France), 1739; and,

1731, March 25, Edinborough. Colin McLaurin to Sir M. Folkes, asking for his interest to get made clerk of the Pipe, which office was about to be vacant by death. (4 pp.)

1736, July 28, and other dates. Other letters by McLaurin.

Letters from foreign savants, in Latin and other languages.

1738, and other years. Letters by Montesquieu. 1738, July 26, St. Malo. Letter by Maupertuis. 1739. A letter by Buffon, and several by Edmund Prideaux (abroad).

1742. Letters of Browne Willis, Fontenelle, De Reaumur, and the Abbé de Girardin.

Many letters by Madame Geoffrin about Polybius. 1739, Oct. 10, Paris. A letter (in English) by Voltaire.

1739. Letters by A. Trembley and Paul Vaillant. ALFRED J. HORWOOD.

THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE REV. SIR HENRY GUNNING, BART., of HORTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

These comprise the Diplomatic Correspondence of Walter Titley, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Denmark. He was appointed to the post in 1728 and his correspondence here reaches to the year 1756 :

Also the Diplomatic Correspondence of Mr. Gunning afterwards Sir Robert Gunning, Bart., K.B., who was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to same Court in 1765, and afterwards to the Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg; and his papers extend from 1765 to 1774.

Of Titley's Correspondence there seem to have been twenty-two (and perhaps there were more) numbered volumes; but of the volumes numbered I. to XXII., those presumably numbered V., VIII., XI., XII., and XVI., are absent. After the dates in vol. XXII. there are loose letters and volumes not numbered of Titley's Correspondence.

The volumes containing the Gunning Correspondence are not numbered; but the dates of the letters prevent any difficulty.

Copies of the letters from foreign ministers and other persons abroad to Mr. Titley and Sir R. Gunning, will probably not be found in our own State Paper Office.

The notes subjoined of the contents of the volumes will show the many sources whence our representatives abroad received information.

VOL. I.

1728, Dec. 18.-Appointment of Walter Titley as Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Denmark, vice Lord Glenorchy.

Same date. The King's letter to the King of Denmark. Titley's first letter is dated Copenhagen, 4 March 1729.His letters are to Visct. Townshend, Mr. Tilson, the Honble. Edward Finch at Stockholm, Cyril Wich at Hamburg, the Earl of Chesterfield at the Hague, and the Baron Solenthal.

The warrant for his committal to the Tower was dated the 20th of Nov. 1662. See Calendar of State Papers.

I think the month should have been June instead of May. It is, however, noticeable that vol. xiii., does, in point of date, natu. rally follow vol. x.

thought himself rich enough to afford himself his own picture. What he could procure elsewhere was bad and ill done;-at last was informed that one of the best painters then in London had copied twenty years ago a famous picture of Sir Godfrey Kneller, drawn when both painter and subject were in their prime;-asks him to accept it. 1736.-Scheme (under the King of Denmark's sanction), by the Danish West India and Guinea Company, for disposing of 450 plantations on the island of Santa Cruz in America, valued at 135,000 rix dollars, which, with the 45,000 raised in money make up 180,000 rix dollars, to be drawn in August or September 1737. (They were Sugar and Cotton Plantations.)

1736, March 16. Dublin.-Copy of the Duke of Dorset's letter to the Duke of Newcastle about a Danish ship, the "Golden Gem."

Narrative of the proceedings in relation thereto.

1736, March 26.-Copy of letter by Lord Chief Justice Rogerson to the Duke of Dorset, about the same.

1735.-Petition by John Rogerson and Michael Ward, about the same.

Copy of a letter by Henry Rose (an Irish Judge), about the same matter.

VOL. XV.

This vol. contains original letters by Lord Harrington, H. Walpole, Sir Cyril Wich, and Mr. Tilson; letters to and from E. Weston, at Whitehall; and drafts of replies by Titley.

1736, July 10. Fredericksburg.-Baron Solenthal to Titley. Compliments on the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess of Saxe Gotha (on the part of the Prince Royal of Denmark).

The like from the Countess Reussen to Titley (on the part of the Princess Royal).

Papers about the Angel galley.

1737, 18 Oct.-E. Finch, at Stockholm, to Titley. Part in cypher. ·

1737, Nov. 30.-George II. (copy of letter by), to the Queen of Denmark, announcing the death of his Queen on the 20th of Nov.

VOL. XX.

1742, January 2, n. s. to the end of the year. Titley's correspondence with Lord Harrington,, Mr. Burnaby, Mr. Schulen, R. Trevor (at the Hague), E. Weston, the Hanoverian Ministers, R. Tigh, Consul at Elsinore, and M. de Solenthal.

.174, Feb. 16.-Lord Carteret to Titley. Tells that Lord Harrington resigned; and that the King appointed him (Carteret) on Friday the 12th.

Correspondence between Lord Carteret and Titley. Titley's Conversation with Schulin, the Danish Minister. Letters from H. Grote, and Guy Dickens.

VOL. XXI.

1742, Jan. 4 to end of 1743.* Correspondence between Titley and Lord Carteret and the Duke of Newcastle.

Letters from Schulin, Guy Dickens (Minister at Stockholm). Richard Edgcumbe (of Grosvenor Street), writes to Titley asking favour for the bearer, Mr. Elliot, who wanted to establish a correspondence for carrying on Trade in Cornwall.

Letter from J. Cope at Hamburgh.

Account of battle of Dettingen. Letters from Weston, Cope, and Grote.

1743, Sept.-Jo. Richardson, at Worms, to Titley. He says that on the th instant an end was put to the Treaty.

Same date.-Letter from Lord Carteret, at Worms. 1743, Nov. 29.-Lord Carteret to Titley; about proposed marriage between the Duke of Cumberland and a daughter of the King of Denmark.

VOL. XXII.

1744, Jan. 6 to the end of November. New cyphers sent in this year.

In January Titley sends to J. A. Ballaque a medal struck on the occasion of the marriage of the Prince of Denmark with the English Princess.

Lord Carteret tells Titley that the French partizans in Sweden and Russia represented that the King's wish to have a second marriage in His Majesty's and the King of Denmark's family was an indication of his encouraging Denmark to disturb the tranquillity of the North :-he was to represent it as purely a family matter.

1744, April 13.-Carteret to Titley.-The French are beginning to set Russia against Denmark, as intending to attack Holstein. Asks him to get the King of Denmark to tell his Ambassador at Moscow to assure the Empress that he will not do so, or anything to the prejudice of the Ducal family of Holstein.

Letters from Carteret and Trevor, and from Tyrawly at Moscow; Tighe and Cope.

The last letter in the volume is dated Nov. 27, Mandall, from Robert Stedman, who supplied intelligence.

The following volumes contain the Diplomatic Correspondence of Mr. Gunning, afterwards Sir Robert Gunning, Bart., K.B.--He was Envoy Extraordinary to Denmark 1765 to 1771; to Prussia in 1771; and to the Court of St. Petersburg in 1772.

Folio, 1766, April 22-1766, Dec. 19.-H. S. Conway (St. James) to Mr. Gunning (at Copenhagen).-There is a copy of a letter from R. Woodford, at Hamburgh.-Nearly all are in cypher decyphered.

Folio. Copies of Mr. Gunning's correspondence with Foreign Ministers. 1766, April 5 to 1768, Feb. 13. (58 pp.) Letters to Sir John Goodrick, at Stockholm, Sir Geo. Macartney, at St. Petersburg, Viscount Stormont, at Vienna, Philip Stanhope, at Madrid, Sir J. Yorke, at the Hague, Sir Andrew Mitchell, at Berlin, the Rt. Honble. Edward Weston, the Earl of Rochford, at Paris, Mr. Wallace, Consul at Bergen. The greater number are to Sir Andrew Mitchell; and mostly directed to be in cypher. Folio. Copies of letters. 1766, April 6 to 1767, Feb. 21.

This volume has been mutilated.