Title:
A parchment-bound volume
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
SMYTH FAMILY OF HILL HALL ESTATE IN THEYDON MOUNT
Level: Sub-Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS
Level: Series
D/DSh M16-18 Manors of Thaxted `with the Borough'; Spencers Fee, Coldham Fee and Horham Hall
Scope and Content:
A parchment-bound volume containing copies of the following:
(i) A valuation of livesock and corn [probably at the late priory of Ankerwick in counties Middlesex, Surrey and Buckinghamshire] (folio 2)
(ii) Rents and debts unpaid, outgoings and lands not leased at Ankerwick, giving names, amounts and nature of debt in some cases, (folio 2d)
(iii) Survey of the manor of Theydon Mount, giving the field- names, state of cultivation, a creages, names of tenants paying quit-rents, and rents out of the manor (folio 3)
(iv) Survey of the lands at Ankerwick and of the demesnes of Wyradisbury .Buckinghamshire, giving field names, state of cultivation and acreages (folio 4)
(v) The like of lands belonging to Ankerwick Pernish in Egham, Surrey (folio .4d.)
(vi) A true note of the gatheringe of the fiefteenes had of Jon Helperby Countstable [of Wyrardisbury, Buckinghamshire] who gathered the same... written the last of June 1586', giving names of landowners, acreages on which tax assessed and amount paid (folio 5)
(vii) Settlement, 4 February 1576, whereby Sir Thomas Smyth entailed all his estates, so that they might `continewe and be in the name, blud stock and Kinred of the said Sir Thomas Smithe' [very detailed clauses] (folio 7-9d.)
(viii )Will, 10 March 1576/77, of Sir Thomas Smith, Knight (folios 11- 13d.) [see John Strype, Life of Sir. Thomas Smith (1820 edition), Chapter xvi, in which the will is paraphrased in detail].
(ix) Notes on the Will to show that the executors had not performed the terms of it (folios 14)
(x) Grant (Lettes Patent), 20 February 1573/74, to Sir Thomas Smythe, Knightt., of the manor of Wyrardisbury Buckinghamshire and meadow called Queens Mead in Wirardisbury, now annexed to the Honour of Windsor, for a term of 30 years, at and annual rent of £13 6s. 8d. (folios15,16)
(xi) Extracts from court rolls of the manor of Wyrardisbury, 21 Henry VII-27 Henry VIII (folio18)
(xii) Surevy of the demesne lands of the manor of Wyrardisbury, giving field-names, locations, acreages and state of cultivation (folio19)
(xiii) Admission, 6 November 1554, of Thomas Smithe, Knight, and six others (named) to cottage, etc., called Church House, copyhold of manor of Wyrardisbury, to the use of the parish church there (folio 20)
(xiv) Instructions for the making of a survey of the holdings of tenants, rents, customs, etc., [apparently of the manor of Wyrardisbury] (folios 20d-21)
(xv) Survey (Rental) of the manor of Wyrardisbury (detailed) (folios 21d-24)
(xvi) Memorandum of the customs of the same manor (folio25)
(xvii) `A perfect note of every mans grounde' within Wyrardisbury on 19th January 1553, giving names of owners and occupiers, acreages and state of cultivation (folio 25d.)
(xviii) A note of lands in Wyrardisbury `being in the occupation of forreyners' [details as in (xvi)] (folio 26)
(xix) Order agreed to by the inhabitants of Wyrardisbury for the keeping of cattle on commons for the year 1552/53 (folios 26f-27)
(xx) Another copy of (i) and (ii) above (folios 28d-30)
(xxi) Debts by `specyaltye' and `desperate' debts owing to William Smythe, Knight, March 1604 (folios 31-32)
(xxii) `The precepts of a father to his childe' detailed precepts of conduct at the bottom of which is written `The advertisement of Sr Robert Cissill [Cecil] late lord Treasurer to his sonne 1612' (folios 33-34)
(xxiii) Sir Walter Raleigh's letters to James I and to his wife, and his speech before his execution, 1618; a description of Raleigh's conduct at his exeation and his poem written on the night before (folios 36-38)
(xxiv) [folios 39-111 are blank]
(xxv) `A gennerall collection of all the Offyces in England with theire Fees in the Queenes guft' (folios 112-132). [This would appear to be a list of literally every office under the Crown ranging from Lord High Treasurer with his fees of £368 to lowly messengers at 41/2d.per day.]
Dates of Creation:
c.1618
Extent:
1 vol.