| Description | 1. Leases of West Sherborne house, Hampshire, and bond, 1639-1748 (Pococke lessees); agreement about unspecified leasehold proprty involving Edward Pococke, Chievely Berks, 1645; probate inventory of the unadministered goods and debts of sir Thomas Parry, Hampstead Marshall; the single item being a bond with Giles and Richard Pococke, Chievely, 1626. Lease of Good Antors, Chievely, Berks, Pococke, 1649, 1693.
2. Lease of tithes on Werg farm, Mildenhall, Pococke to Grinfield, 1711, 1716; lease of Hill Coppice in Christian Malford, Wall to Pococke, 1722; admission of Edward Pococke, clerk to a copyhold estate in the manor of Mildenhall, 1707.
3.Mildenhall leases; Stinchcombe grist or fulling mill, Hyde to Westbury of Elcot mill, Preshute, 1679, and to Bayly, 1687; Whyting al Werg grist mills, Plaisteed, 1690, Hyde to Hedges, 1723; Lower Farm House, Nourse to Baker, 1709. Peirce trust deed, 1646; probate of the will of William Peirce, Stitchcombe, and inventory, 1668 PCC; probate inventory of Robert Smith, Mildenhall, 1617; Marlborough lease; house on N side of Newland street alias St Martins street, Peirce to Hinton, 1617.
4. 'The survey of lord Bolingbrokes farm' at Poulton, Mildenhall; detailed description of lands in common fields, c1700.
5. Correspondence on various family and business matters, including two letters (one very fragile) about mrs Audrey Allen, 1752-1772.
6. Mildenhall parish records, probably accumulated by rev Edward Pocock: Churchwardens' accounts, 1633, 1638, 1679, nd c 1680, 1686, 1688, 1690; accounts of the overseers of the poor 1661, largely relating to a bastard rate levied to cover the cost of a bastardy case involving Thomas Thurman, 1661, with a report on the background of the matter, 1658. Glebe terrier of the rectory, 1692. The terrier of 1705 in the Diocesan archives (D1/24/148/6) is based on this, but without a note of the tithe on squire Nurse's warren, and the signatories, some of whose ages are stated.
7. letter to revd Pococke at Mildenhall from Catherine Brice of Melksham about collecting a dividend, 1774.
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