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1. 17 Sep 1915 Letter to Charles Henry Talbot from Neville Chamberlain having driven to Lacock to see his ancestor Daniel Chamberlain's house, and asking if he could come and see Charles about the family link to Lacock.
2. 19 Sep 1915 Letter to Charles Henry Talbot from Neville Chamberlain about his ancestors in Lacock, and arranging to come and visit.
3.Rough copy of Charles Henry Talbot's notes on Corsham Church, sent to Canon Venables June 1882.
4. 16 and 20 Sep 1928 Letters to Mr Goff from F E Brightman at Magdalen College Oxford about Baynard brass rubbings.
5. May 22 1914 Notes by Charles Henry Talbot entitled "A remarkable house at Chippenham, and the successive houses at Bowden Park" following a 1914 drawing in the Building News of the front of a house in Chippenham. Refers to the incomplete house on Bowden Hill built around 1720 for Mr Styles.
6. 29 Sep 1911 Notes and queries sent by Charles Henry Talbot to Wiltshire Times on the Johnson family: specifically on the Lacock ancestors of Reverend Samuel Johnson, perpetual curate of Cirencester etc, whose family were from Bowden.
7. 12 and 15 Aug 1916 Draft letters from Charles Henry Talbot to the clerk of Lacock parish council concerning rights of way along the late canal towing path which has just been disputed.
8. 27 Sep no year, letter to Charles Henry Talbot from George Bailey concerning a small shed erected at his farm at Lacock which Charles has ordered to be removed, which George Bailey has done.
9. Draft of the Herbert family tree, no dates of family or date of note.
10. Small undated paper with notes on vicars of Lacock by Charles Henry Talbot: Robert Stapleton in 1616, Neasbett (Nesbitt) in 1648 and John Barnes in 1674.
11. Page from the Devizes Gazette, 18 Aug 1881, about a paper read by Canon Jackson on eminent ladies in Wiltshire history, including a paragraph on Ela, Countess of Salisbury.
12. 1952 Newspaper cuttings and letters concerning the origins of the name Piccadilly, from Colin Hooton and correspondents.
13. 5 Oct 1871 Mounted newspaper cuttings on the harvest festival at Lacock.
14. 16 Jan 1868 Mounted newspaper cuttings on the agricultural society and cottagers' vegetable show at Lacock.
15. Undated notes by Charles Henry Talbot on Cleeve Abbey.
16. Undated booklet on Bewley Court by Harold Brakspear, with plans and photographs. Includes an undated letter to Mrs Burnett Brown from Dora Hinton enclosing the booklet given to her late husband by Mr Foley, a statement of accounts of the restoration of Lacock parish church, 1862, and Lacock parish expenditure for the first month of 1835-1836 by Thomas Shearn, overseer.
17. Typed notes by R H Foley on old Lacock concerning the market cross, manors and manor courts. Undated.
18. Three rough pages, one apparently a cover for "Wilts notes and queries", one mentioning homage and a manor, and one on the back of part of a letter about animal welfare, on places in the parish of Lacock. |