Search

Start Over Type charter Collection Somerset Century 13th Century

Collection Info

As with other series shelfmarked MS. Ch. and MS. Rolls, this is an artificial collection created from a range of archival sources, and the provenance of individual items is not always known.

The collection as catalogued in 1878 comprised MSS. Ch. Somerset 1-50, and MSS. Rolls Somerset 1-15, of unrecorded provenance. Several documents relating to the Hastings family, earls of Huntingdon, are probably from the collections of Thomas Carte (-1754) (see E. Craster, History of the Bodleian Library (1952), p. 101).

MSS. Ch. Somerset 51-174 and Rolls. 16-17 are later accessions, including:

  • MSS. Ch. Somerset 86-163: title deeds for Kingston Seymour, 14th cent. (acquired with MSS. Ch. Northants. 38-48: New Summary Catalogue appendix II).

Browse this collection.

1. MS. Ch. Somerset 40b

Date Range:
1299 - 1299
Preview:

BRUTON. Agreement between the priors of Bruton and Horsley on one part, and Richard de Naylesworth and Gilbert his son on the other, that the latter shall have one acre above their tenement of Luddesmore and enclose it, and the said religious shall have freely all the close which they had on the Monday before feast St Thomas Apostle 19 Edward [I], and all the land between the meadow of Horemere up to the place called Wancroft, and also Chirchefurlong. [No date, a little after 1299.] .

2. MS. Ch. Somerset 49

Date Range:
1270 - 1271
Preview:

SWERDLING (Manor of) [Parish of Petham, co. Kent]. Sir Werresius de Valoyngnes, kt., quit-claims to Cecilia who was wife of Brandan Cokkel , and their heirs or assigns, all services and customs he and her and their ancestors were accustomed to make to him and his ancestors, for the lands and tenements held of him of his manor of Swerdling, but saving to him and his rent of assize in money, hens, heysilver, Romesedt(?), honey, etc. For this quit-claim and present charter in the 55th year of K. Henry III on Ash Wednesday the said Cecilia gave 4 marks.