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2027 - Merriman, Porter and Long, solicitors of Marlborough

1 - Business records

2 - Clients' records

1 - Various Clients' records

2 - Merriman family

3 - Ward family

4 - Popham of Littlecote

1 - Estate

2 - Household

3 - Family

4 - Legal

1 - Estate

1 - Littlecote

1 - Popham grants of arms

2 - Abstract of settlement, marriage settlement and appointment of jointure on the marriage of Miss Marianne Popham with Charles Eyre

3 - Settlement on the marriage of F L Popham with Elizabeth Block, and related papers including some later legal papers, Mortlake and Gillingham rentals, and correspondence

4 - Agreements to let various farms

5 - Notices to quit various properties, and some notices by tenants to leave, with some related correspondence and lists of tenants (at back)

6 - Legal papers, inventories and correspondence relating to F W Popham’s estates

7 - Deeds and correspondence relating to various Popham estates including Oakhill and Charnham Street, Hunstrete and Rudge, as well as documents relating to the enclosure of Winterbourne Monkton

8 - Deeds for Browne Mead

9 - Legal papers and correspondence concerning F W Popham’s estates

10 - Agreements, correspondence, memoranda, accounts and vouchers, inventories, sale catalogues and insurance policies relating to the Popham estates including Littlecote and Hunstrete and cases between Popham and Mundy, and Popham and Cherry. Many inventories are connected to affidavits or other legal items, and one is an inventory of household furniture of the late Richard Perry of Hammersmith. Correspondence is mostly between solicitors. Deeds contain: 1880 release of the executor and trustee of Richard Perry deceased; 1883 agreement between Lady Mundy (formerly Isabella Popham) and F W L Popham for sale and purchase of furniture etc at Littlecote, Hunstrete and elsewhere, part of the estate of the late E W L Popham; agreements as to sale and purchase of furniture and effects belonging to the estate of Francis Leyborne Popham between George Charles Cherry and George Bramston 1882; agreement for sale and purchase of furniture at Littlecote, Hunstrete and elsewhere between Lady and F W L Popham 1883; agreement for sale and purchase of farming stock between Lady Mundy and George Bramston 1882; agreement for purchase of stock on Soley Farm from the executor of F L Popham to the testamentary guardians of F W L Popham 1882; chancery order confirming an agreement for sale of plate etc to F W L Popham from Lady Mundy 1883

11 - Popham v Cherry chancery papers: copy chief clerk’s certificate of completion of receivers’ security; copy affidavit of the fitness of Mr Merriman as receiver of rents in Wilts and Berks

12 - Legal papers concerning F W Popham’s estates

13 - Case regarding fishing rights on Popham’s land on the River Kennett, and some correspondence relating to it

14 - Agreements, accounts and correspondence, including accounts between Merrimans and the gamekeeper, relating to hunting, shooting and fishing on the Littlecote estate

15 - List of shooting and fishing rights for the Littlecote estate

16 - Draft agreement for shooting at Chilton and Ramsbury between F W L Popham and A Bradshaw

17 - Memorandum of an agreement between Thomas White Waldron and F W L Popham for shooting rights in Balaam’s Wood, Ramsbury

18 - Agreement for letting fishing and shooting rights at Chilton

19 - Accounts of land on the Littlecote estate for shooting rights

20 - Agreements to let properties 1-16 Littlecote Road

21 - Legal papers relating to Littlecote

22 - Lease of Littlecote and The Weirs with shooting and fishing rights from Popham to Baring

23 - Legal papers relating to a dispute over the highways in Chilton Foliat between Francis Popham and Lovelace Bigg

24 - Release and assignment of premises at Chilton from James Hill, John Hill and others to Edward Popham, John Pearse and their trustees

25 - Legal papers, abstracts and correspondence relating to the purchase by E W L Popham of the Chilton Foliat estate from Fulwar Craven

26 - Deeds relating to lands and properties in Chilton Foliat

27 - Agreements to let properties 1-29 East Marsh, Chilton

28 - Lease of School House, Chilton Foliat from Popham to Revd F J Wilson

29 - Legal papers and correspondence concerning the enclosure of land at Chilton Foliat

30 - Deeds and correspondence relating to Rudge Farm

31 - Contract for erection of a new cottage and buildings at Rudge Manor Farm from F L Popham to R N Hoskings

32 - Deeds, correspondence and a plan relating to Picked or Picket Field, Hungerford, 1860-1861, with one deed of 1821, and papers relating to an agreement between Popham and the Board of Ordnance over Picket Field 1821

33 - Conveyance of a piece of land called Helsonsclose in Charnham Street, Hungerford, Hamblen to Popham

34 - Papers relating to the bankruptcy of John Welch, tenant of the Bear Hotel, Hungerford

35 - Draft agreements for letting Undy’s Farm in Hungerford

36 - Deeds relating to Winterbourne Monkton. Parties: William Pearce, Thomas Pearce, Sarah Pearce, Robert Cooke, Elizabeth Burges, Robert Harper, William Midwinter, Thomas Vilett, Thomas Blunsden, Francis Eatwell, Lawrence Skeate, Edward Grinfield, John Dyer, Rachael Pearce, Henry Merewether, George Butler, Thomas Boxwell. Includes copy wills and extract from enclosure award for Winterbourne Monkton, with draft notice of acceptance of allotment.

37 - Draft agreement for letting cottages at Winterbourne Monkton

38 - Legal papers relating to the Monkton estate

39 - Deeds relating to lands and properties in the parish of Ramsbury: Eastridge Lot Meadow, Back Lane and others. With some correspondence

40 - Counterpart terms for letting Park Farm, Ramsbury

41 - Legal items relating to Elm Down and Park Town Farm in Ramsbury, the property of the Lanfear family, and agreements with the Pophams

42 - Conveyance of a piece of freehold land in Ramsbury from the trustees of the will of W Rowland to F L Popham

43 - Documents relating to the bankruptcy of Leonard Slade Richens of Oakhill Farm, Froxfield

44 - Contract for erection of 2 new cottages and outbuildings at Petwick Challow from F L Popham to Mrs J Phillips

45 - Papers relating to the claim by Charles Rendall on account of a tenant of General Popham’s called Webb

46 - Papers relating to Foot and Mouth Disease, mostly from Samuel Woodman

47 - Papers relating to Popham v Hughes

48 - Accounts, rentals and affidavits relating to the lunacy of E W L Popham

49 - Draft agreement for lease of Knighton Farm to Alfred Neate

50 - Affidavits by Thomas and William Merriman verifying portions of the Popham estates in the matter of Edward Popham’s lunacy

51 - Littlecote estate bills and some agreements, including some relating to Edward Popham’s lunacy and Popham v Cherry, and Merrimans’ receivership

52 - Chancery documents relating to Popham v Mundy 1880, and Popham v Cherry 1882, including reports on Darrels’ Chapel in Ramsbury, Little Bedwyn School and Hungerford National School

53 - Legal papers, valuations, reports, correspondence and accounts relating to Popham v Popham and Popham v Cherry, and the succession of Francis William Leyborne Popham to the Littlecote estates

54 - Miscellaneous legal items: declaration by Joseph Smith as to the late Dorothy Popham and property belonging to the Littlecote estate 1834; extract from lease between F W L Popham and Rev E Hammond for Chilton House nd; affidavit of Isaac Shier as to cleaning the river Kennett nd; copy will of Thomas Durnford Hutchins 1884; memorandum of Henry Brown against John Newman, a suspected poacher in Winterbourne Monkton, 1888; memoranda between General Popham and W R Brown concerning the management of Popham’s estates 1831; contract between Benoni Mullings and F L Popham for 2 new cottages and cattle sheds at Winterbourne Monkton 1869; confirmation of payment to F L Popham by William Cannons, defendant, 1874; agreement for letting the Stags Head Public House, Charnham Street,to John Phillips 1854; draft petitions in the matter of Edward William Leyborne Popham, a person of unsound mind; notes of purchases from Popham in Rudge 1810; declaration by John brown of Elm Down, Ramsbury concerning Rudge Farm, nd; deed relating to Mrs Eyres’ marriage settlement 1854; draft declaration of T B Merriman as to General Popham’s signature to exchange the Froxfield award; copy oath of court, Berkshire 1782; draft agreement by James Hill as to effects of Roger Tiler in Calcutta 1811; draft declaration by William Rogers as to the illegitimacy of Francis Popham, the son of Mrs Dorothy Popham’s husband 1854; memorandum of agreement for the letting of Scrope Farm 1880; order for adjournment of petition in the matter of the Froxfield and Fyfield inclosure 1823

55 - Various papers relating to Rudge Road

56 - Draft agreement for letting Chilton House from Francis Leyborne Popham to R H Lewin

2 - Hunstrete

3 - Other

2 - Household

3 - Family

4 - Bills

5 - Miscellaneous

5 - Gundry family of Marlborough and Chippenham

6 - Walker Heneage

7 - Wootton Rivers estate (St John's College, Cambridge)

8 - Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway: Marlborough District

9 - Kennet and Avon Canal

10 - Clark (Hughes) of Preshute

3 - Official and Public Office records

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