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865 - Chafyn Grove family of Zeals

1 - Marriage settlements, trust deeds, etc.

2 - Wiltshire Deeds

3 - Estate

4 - Manorial

5 - Legal

6 - Probate

7 - Public Office

8 - Bullen Reymes

9 - Electoral

10 - Militia, yeomanry and volunteers

11 - Personal

12 - Accounts – household and personal

13 - Household

14 - Almanacs and diaries

15 - Miscellaneous

1 - Ms. mathematical text book. A note at the back about forecasting the year’s weather from that of the 12 days after Christmas is dated 1594.

2 - Ms. book of questions and answers on Christian doctrine, citing the early fathers and confirming the doctrine of transubstantiation.

3 - Ms. instructions for various methods of warfare (a device for aiming cannon; a method of calculation of the amount of powder to be used; a machine for breaking down walls and the firing of a petard). Illustrated with four small drawings.

4 - A short ms. history of Henry III’s reign, with eight loose pages of insertions to be made in the text.

5 - Latin oration, apparently a school exercise.

6 - Ms. text book of geometry and surveying, compiled by Gilbert Diglen. With numerous diagrams.

7 - Rough copy Act, 1661, for insurance of houses in London against fire.

8 - Several ms. rhymes, on love and death and some comic subjects, including a carnival in Venice, and village club, and Bullen Reymes playing bowls at Ipplepen (Devon).

9 - Two copy letters on questions of faith and conscience, from the bishop of Rochester and W Montague.

10 - Mock catechism against the intruding ministers and the Puritans.

11 - Letter from lord Fitzharding asking for contributions towards building a market house at Bruton (Somerset).

12 - Printed brief for the inhabitants of Melcombe Regis (Dorset) after a fire had destroyed 37 houses there. 2 copies.

13 - Copy petition by the inhabitants of Lyme Regis (Dorset), 1670, for a renewal of an allowance from the Crown for the maintenance of the Cobb. [i.e. the quay]

14 - Copy of James II’s dying words and a speech by prince Charles Edward Stewart (2 copies).

15 - Papers relating to the Grove family of Ferne, including a printed pedigree (c.1820), a copy confirmation of their arms, 1577, and ms. notes on the family.

16 - Paper printed on the frozen river Thames. The printer inserted the name of each customer (in this case John Grove) into a border already set up, and presumably printed one copy.

17 - Copy Act ( 1 Jas.II, 1685-6), for building a church in Melcombe Regis (Dorset) to be the parish church of Radipole, and making the old church of Radipole a chapel belonging to it.

18 - Doggerel rhyme about a gymnasium, and part of a prayer; probably both by William Chafyn Grove.

19 - Volume containing extracts from theological and moral works, copied Julia Elizabeth Chafyn Grove.

20 - Miscellaneous detailed statements of pay, conditions, and losses in the army, 1792-1848. These appear to be notes made by W C Grove for his own use.

21 - Season ticket of admission to the Great Exhibition.

22 - Subscription list for the Patriotic Fund for widows and orphans of men killed in the [Crimean] war.

23 - Printed rules for the government of Zeals almshouses.

24 - Printed of E. Coker and Yeovil (Somerset) registers, relating to the Bullock family, 1698-1871.

25 - Certificate of Julia Elizabeth Chafyn Grove’s having visited the Holy Land.

26 - Programme “des theatres de son altesse le Khedive” [Cairo] for a performance of Aida and Adrienne Lecouvreur.

27 - Four letters to Miss Grove in answer to her complaints about an interment inside the church at Portesham (Dorset).

28 - Copy transfer of Wincanton National School from the managers to the school board for 21 years.

29 - Pedigrees and letters about the Grove family.

30 - Pedigrees of the Chafyn family, compiled by Canon Jackson.

31 - Two letters and two notes on genealogical topics : Troyte, Grove, Chafyn and Orchard families.

32 - Letter from the rector of Hinton St. George (Somerset) about the family of Bernard Hutchings (1668-1733) and a copy of the inscription on his tombstone.

33 - A small bundle of ephemeral papers.

16 - Extraneous

17 - Non-archive

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