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2664 - Talbot family of Lacock

1 - Estate

2 - Household

3 - Family

1 - Talbot family

2 - Davenport family

3 - Feilding family

4 - Other

1 - Pedigrees

2 - Correspondence

3 - Diaries and journals

4 - Accounts

5 - Legal

1 - 17th century version in English of a letter of Robert bishop of Salisbury setting out the endowment of the vicarage of Lacock; glebe, tithes, house and an annual payment from the abbey (rector).

2 - Pardon to John Croke of Wick. Enrolled Memoranda Roll January 1449. Fragment of Great Seal.

3 - Writ of Precipe to the Sheriff of Wiltshire (preliminary to a fine to be levied) by Henry Sharington, knight and Anne his wife to Edmund Pyrton, of Little Bentley, Essex, esquire and James Paget of Grove Place, Hants esquire according to the agreement made between them relating to Sharington's Wiltshire estates and manors.

4 - Probate of the will of Robert Paget citizen and alderman of London. PCC. Fragment of seal. His daughter, Anne, married Henry Sharington.

5 - Deed of covenant between William Sharington and Oliver Hyde, Abingdon, Berks, gent on marriage of John Sharington, brother of William, and Anne Ketwiche, daughter of Thomasine, now wife of Oliver. Signed by me Olyver Hyde. Seal a gem, a man's head.

6 - Letters patent to William Sharington of office of under Treasurer of the King's mint at Bristol. Great Seal incomplete.

7 - Abstract of the royal pardon granted to Sir William Sharington by King Edward VI.

8 - Letters patent appointing Sir William Sharington, as one of two commissioners to receive 200,000 crownes of gold, the first payment of 400,000 crownes for the return of the citie of Boulogne to "Henry the Frenche Kying". Receipt dated at Leyghes 15 June 1550. Great seal.

9 - Letters patent pardoning Sir William Sharington for his misdemeanours as keeper of the royal mint at Bristol, with restitution of his goods and estates on payment of £8000. Finely illuminated with royal portrait and fine impression of the great seal.

10 - Extract from Pipe Roll, that William Sharington knight is quit of the sum of £12,866.12s.2d. due to King Edward VO for his Wiltshire manors.

11 - Deed of arbitration by Sir Hugh Stucley and Edward Baynard esquire, arbitrators chosen by Lady Dame Grace Sharington and by Harry Sharington, esquire, 1556 to resolve their disputes. Grace to have the mansion house at Lacock and manors of Lacock and Seend; Harry to have the demesnes of Lacock and Bewley mansion house of Bowden, Lacock. Also arrangements about personal belongings.

12 - Notarial instrument of John Clerk, diocese of Bath and Wells, confirming a papal license to Henry Sharington and his wife, Anne, to be exempt from the strictures during Lent, including permission to eat meat. Notarial mark.

13 - Letters patent of a general pardon to Henry Sharington of Lacock, esquire. Greater part of seal.

14 - Inspeximus of a record of Quo Warranto in Queen's Bench against Henry Sharington concerning all his manors, lands and estates. Two sheets entitled "A breviat of the contents of the Quo Warranto brought against Sir Henry Sharington" by Gilbert Gerrard, the King's attorney. The summary is numbered 146 in the Story Maskelyne calendar of deeds (see 2664/1/2A/615)

15 - Will of Sir Henry Sharington of Lacock, (unexecuted) and inventory.

16 - Will of Sir Henry Sharington with two copies

17 - Various legal documents relating to the Bromley family.

18 - Wills and related material for various individuals.

19 - Letters patent of a general pardon to Olive Stapleton of Lacock, wife of Robert Stapleton. Great seal broken.

20 - Letters of induction and institution of Robert Stapleton to the Vicarage of Lacock; both with signature, seal and counterseal of Robert Abbot, bishop of Salisbury.

21 - Office copy of the will of Lady Stapleton.

22 - Letters and other items to Sir John Talbot concerning the estate of Sir Henry Jones, of which Talbot was one of the executors.

23 - Sir Thomas Ingram's Warrant for a Privy Counsellor: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Includes the oath of a privy counsel and acquittance of John Wolley receiving £26 fee for swearing in Thomas Ingram to the Privy Counsel (4 documents).

24 - Copy of the decree concerning Sir William Keyte baronet and Dame Dorothy Keyte widow, and John Packington baronet, Dame Dorothy his wife and John Packington esquire their son concerning the proposed marriage between John Packington and Margaret Keyte, daughter of Sir William Keyte.

25 - Marriage agreement between Sir John Packington and Dorothy his wife, and William Kyte and Margaret his wife.

26 - Additional articles on the marriage of Mr John Pakington.

27 - Will of Henry Sutton with grant of advowson.

28 - Patent for Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster to Thomas Ingram.

29 - Accounts relating to Sir John Talbot's executorship of the late Sir Henry Jones and as trustee of his daughter Frances, a minor. Mostly accounts of the agents, John Barfoot and William Norton.

30 - Appointment of John Mason as master of the Hospital of Christ in Sherborn.

31 - Release by Lord Belasyse of the executorship of Dame Frances Ingram's will.

32 - Documents relating to Lord and Lady Belasyse's trust estates.

33 - Legal writing in French, written by Anthoine Wright, notaire of London, and in the presence of Jean Chardin, Knight, of the parish of St Martin in Leister-fields near London, giving authority to Sir Daniel Chardin to travel to the West Indies to ask for and receive from Francois Martin and Louis Pilauvine and all others living in the Indies and adjacent countries all the sums they owe to Sir Jean Chardin and all effects belonging to him, whether jewels, coral or any other thing, without exception and to give receipts having the full force of Sir Jean's own signature. In case of refusal or delay to take any legal measures to pursue and procure sums and effects without need of further authorisations than the present document.

34 - Letter of probate and administration: Sir Thomas Slingsby, Baronet, deceased of Sowen, Yorkshire and St Martins in the Field, Middlesex.

35 - Documents relating to the case of Colclough and Ivory in Chancery.

36 - Will of Samuel Beresford of Weston under Liziard, Staffordshire, extracted from the registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Includes bequests of land in Shropshire.

37 - Legal documents relating to Henry Sutton and others, mostly diocesan, all in Latin.

38 - Presentation of William Hallifax as rector of Old Swinford.

39 - Business papers relating to disputed money belonging to Robert Nightingale.

40 - Correspondence, vouchers and legal documents relating to Henry Davenport acting for Thomas and Mary Ivory in a legal dispute.

41 - Correspondence and other documents relating to the legal disputes over the will of Madame Chardin.

42 - Copy of last will and testament of the Right Honorable Thomas, Lord Mansel.

43 - Bundle of wills, a bond and an institution marked Mr Hall, Berkhamstead.

44 - Two agreements relating to Mary Elizabeth Davenport, later Mrs Mytton, and her marriage settlements.

45 - Release of the demands of the estate of the late John Webb, late rector of Bredon, from Joseph Ayliffe of Broad Street Hill, London, soapmaker, and Ann his wife, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Haselwood late of Wick, Worcestershire, to Prideaux Sutton.

46 - Will of William Saunders of Cote, Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire.

47 - Bill, wills and other legal papers relating to the marriage between the Duke of Richmond and Lady Mary Bruce;

48 - Inventory: John Ivory Talbot, Sheriff and Samuel Martyn, gent, his attorney accounting for the issues of his office.

49 - Deed of trust by Sir John St John of Battersey, Surrey to Walter St John and Gilbert Talbot, concerning Lucie Howe, daughter of Sir John St John and now wife of Richard Grobham Howe.

50 - Probate of the will of Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, wife of Thomas Gaisford the younger esquire.

51 - Photocopy of the death certificate of John Henry Gilchrist-Clark, who died in 1902 aged 41.

6 - Politics and public office

7 - Patronage and societies

8 - Research notes

9 - Photographs, prints, sketch books and music books

10 - Recipe books

11 - Newspaper and magazine cuttings

12 - Miscellaneous

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