| Description | 1. Latin document setting out the right to tithes for various lands (with translation dated 1816).
2. Draft letter following a query by Mr Philpott of tithes payable. Mentions Nethermore Farm, Naish Hill and Stanley.
3. Notes on Nethermore, Naish Hill and Stanley. Queries if Stanley could be exempt from tithes as it was formerly a monastery.
4. Note on a map showing certain lands as tithe free.
5. Two documents concerning the grant to William Sharington of various estates including Avebury, Winterbourne, Charlton and Barbury Leaze.
6. Jun 1813 Letter from Mr Philpott concerning the tithe status of Nethermore Farm and Naish Hill.
7. Undated list of farms, their tenants and brief commentary on each.
8. May 1813 Note regarding tithes of the farm occupied by the Crockers.
9. Copy/draft of memorandum, written in shorthand, concerning the lease between Martha Davenport, William Davenport Talbot and Thomas Mansell Talbot and Isaac Joyce of Lacock, malster. Mentions lease to Joyce of property at the south west corner of Lacock High Street; John Mortimer; Henry Joyce Mulcock aged 2 years, Sarah, Isaac Joyce's wife, Mary Hunt of Lacock. Witnesses William Styles, Edward Banks, Thomas Pierce, Joseph Crocker, John Moore, William Crook, Edward Banks.
10. Memorandum taken from old writings to endeavour to ascertain which farms in the parish of Chippenham belong to a religious house so are tithe free. Farms mentioned are Naish Hill, Nethermore and Wick Farm.
11. Jun 1766 Memorandum giving the rates paid by the demesne lands of Lacock over the previous 35 years. Includes a description of the demesne lands.
12. Tithe list 1789.
13. Tithe list 1791.
14. Memorandum consisting of notes of the history of Lacock tithes, and Nethermore Farm in particular.
15. "The Tyth Pigg" - a poem.
16. Notes of history of Nethermore Farm, back to Henry VIII, when Stanley was an abbey.
17. History of tithes back to 1656. Names mentioned are Thomas Mitchell (1656), Richard Mitchell, James Montague and Mary Kington (1714), Charles Lloyd and John Ivory Talbot (1718), John Talbot and Charles Lloyd (1721), Gilbert Lake and James Berry (1724), John Talbot and Benjamin Harkins (1733) William Lovegrove (1756).
18. May 1777 Agreement between Reverend Edward Popham, on behalf of John Talbot, and 21 tenants, with their signatures, regarding payment of tithes.
19. Draft document concerning payment of tithes for Nethermore Farm. |