All Saints WATCH RATE Printed letter, in large type-face, with manuscript inserts, summoning William Highman, of the King David, St. Michael's Hill, to appear before the Alderman of All Saints for non-payment of his rates 'for paying the Salaries and Wages of the Night-Constable and Watchmen... Signed John Haythorne. 1834. £10.00

BAPTIST MILLS BRASS WORKS

Baptist Mills BILL - Thomas's Account of Wages &c paid... Account of the B.M. Compt. from Sept. 29th to October 13th 1711. Manuscript listing 15 items, one side of sheet 12«" x 8«", with totals for 'Trade' and 'Waggons'. Piece torn from top left corner with loss of a couple of words. Impressed ownership stamp. 1711. £95.00
¶ Includes 'To the Melters at Baptist Mills... £31.2.0d', 'To the Mill men & Soderers £16.6.6d', 'The Smiths & Labourers £8.4.0d', 'Keinsham Mills ... to the Millmen... £43.13s...' Material relating to the Baptist Mills works is very scarce. The works were started in 1702 by Abraham Darby. An Arthur Thomas, Pewterer, was one of the original group of Quakers who started the works, and a John Thomas was assistant to Abraham Darby, so the 'Thomas' might possibly refer to either of those men. The christian name of Mr. Thomas has been torn away.

Bedford (T), Published by COOKE'S FOLLY Sketched from Nature by T. Hulley. Lithograph, printed surface size 7" x 10", plus margins, in a buff mount, size of mount 12" x 16". c1840. £70.00
¶ Shows a stone wall in the foreground with a man leaning on it looking at the view, ships on the Avon, and the Severn and the Welsh hills in the distance. Cooke's Folly slightly to the right of the picture.

Besley (William) OBLIGATION BOND to Thomas Neast of Bristol, Victualler for £120. In English and Latin, printed with manuscript inserts. 1p, sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Small wax seal. Signed by Besley and 2 witnesses. 1729. £24.00

Bristol Avon River Board FIFTEENTH AND FINAL STATUTORY ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended 31st March 1965. 45pp., wraps, small folio. Illusts. 1965. £8.00
¶ Includes sections on drainage, fisheries etc.

Bristol Boundaries REPORT UPON THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY of the City of Bristol. 10pp, with 4 hand-coloured plans by R.K. Dawson, on 2 sheets. Scales 4" and 1" to 1 mile. Folio, recent paper boards. 1832. £36.00

Bristol Bridge City Engine LABEL OR TICKET Size 3«" x 4", printed on stiff paper, decorative border, small table for waggon weight Gross, Tare and Net. 'William Sayer' bottom right. Not filled in. T. Lane, Printer, Redcliffe St. 1822. £18.00

Bristol Steamship Company PROSPECTUS Capital £250,000 in 10,000 Shares of £25 each. 1p. Folio, folds, on adjoining leaf are printed Application form and Banker's Receipt form. 9th Jan. 1872. £25.00
¶ 'It is beyond dispute that owing to the absence of a well appointed and regular service of Ocean Steamships the Merchants of Bristol are placed at a great disadvantage...'

Bristol Waggon & Carriage Works SPECIAL LIST FOR COAL MERCHANTS Corn Merchants, Millers.... 4pp. 20" x 12", folds, illustrating 25 types of cart, with prices for different sizes etc. of each model, brief description. Some slight browning at fold on front page. July 1905. £32.00

Building works REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Works and Buildings... on the Bristol Building Act Amendment Bill (xii pp.)... with... MINUTES of Evidence taken before J.M. Herbert and A. Poynter, At the Guildhall, in the City of Bristol, respecting the Bristol Building and Improvement Act Amendment Bill. 39pp., folio, disbound. 1847. £30.00
¶ Concerns proposals to widen Bristol Bridge, improve access to Clifton, to the Railway Station etc., and demolish properties in central Bristol, creating Victoria Street, etc.

Central Unit for Environmental Planning SEVERNSIDE A Summary of the Feasibility Study. 27pp., wraps, spiral binding. 1971. £10.00

Charities IN THE MATTER OF THE CHARITIES OF ALDERMAN JOHN WHITSON being some of the Municipal Charities of the City of Bristol, together with the Foundation called the Red Maids School.... Order by the Board of Charity Commissioners setting out sums payable yearly. 3pp., folio. 1905. £8.00
¶ Includes money for the poor of Clearwell, in Gloucestershire, Burnett in Somerset, poor widows in Bristol etc.

Clark (J.A) Drawn by NEW GUILDHALL, BRISTOL. To the Right Worshipful James Gibbs, Esq., Mayor of Bristol, by whose exertions during his period of office the plan for erecting a new Guildhall was greatly forwarded, and by whom the ceremony of laying the Foundation Stone was performed on the 30th of October 1843. Tinted lithograph, size approx. 8" x 12", plus margins, some spotting to margins. Published by George Davey, Broad Street, Bristol, Oct. 30th 1843. £55.00
¶ Shows several people in the fore-ground.

Clifton CONVEYANCE of a lot of Ground and Messuage thereon being No. 1 Victoria Place, near the Victoria Rooms in the Parish of Clifton... Charles Highnam and others to George Barry. Small plan showing plots on verso. 2 large vellum sheets, wax seals... together with.... MORTGAGE of the same property by the Bristol Benefit Building Society. 3 vellum sheets. 1848. £16.00

Clifton LETTER regarding the terms of a lease for no. 2 Harley Place. From J. Warne in Clifton to A. Sarel in Surrey St., Strand, London. 1«p, 4to, address panel with broken wax seal on verso, Bristol postmark. The letter is in response to a letter from Mr Bernard which is on the first page. 20th July 1831. £12.00
¶ 'Messrs. Hayman and Co. have given an estimate of £45 for the painting and as they intend papering the Drawing Rooms and bed Rooms it will cost from 25 to 30£ more'.

Clifton OFFICE EXTRACT OF RECOVERY Jonathan Harwood demandeth against Thomas Ward Six Messuages Six Gardens.... Fifty Acres of Pasture Twenty Acres of Wood One hundred acres of Furze and Heath.... in Clifton. 1p, blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Impressed tax stamp. Michaelmas Term 1784. £16.00
¶ Extracted c1816.

Clifton Theological College MEMORANDUM and Articles of Association of Clifton Theological College Trust. 13pp., printed wraps, sm. folio. 1936. £8.00

Clifton WATERCOLOUR Amateur watercolour of a view looking south from Clifton, probably from Royal York Crescent, across the docks and rooftops of a few houses to Ashton Court and beyond, paving stones and railings in the foreground, boat with one funnel and two masts on the river. Size 9" x 11", on thin card, traces on verso of having been once stuck down. c1860? £16.00

Clifton, Manor of ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Miss Russ and Mr Adams to a Lot of Ground near the Victoria Rooms in the Parish of Clifton and County of Bristol. 33p., folio, tied at corner, folded. Basic sketch plan on verso of one page.The land was 'one third of the Manor of Clifton'. There is a brief schedule mentioning Welsh Leazes, South Ground, The Deans. 1850. £35.00
¶ Details of title from 1668. Refers to an Act of Parliament of 1828 which enabled the Committee of the Estates of Elizabeth Russ to sell lands in Clifton as she was declared a lunatic.

Cowlin (William) & Son PROPERTY REGISTER Clifton and Neighbourhood. 68pp, adverts, original wraps. Spring Issue, 1908. £24.00
¶ Lists properties, with descriptions, street by street, in Clifton, Leigh Woods, Stoke Bishop, Redland, including 'Sundon House', The Promenade, detached house on the corner of Tyndall's Park Road and Woodland Road, previously occupied by William Sturge, large house with 'covered promenade on roof 51ft. long' in Leigh Woods, etc.

Dolphin Society PRESIDENTS' NAMES numbers of Persons who dined, amount of Collection.... from its first institution in 1749.... to 1909. Folio sheet, printed in blue with decorative border, folds, some small repaired edge tears. 1910. £10.00

Donne (B) A PLAN OF BRISTOL, CLIFTON, THE HOTWELLS 1826. A facsimile by Messrs. Waterlow and Sons Ltd., 1952. Size 20" x 27", on thick paper. 1952. £14.00

Election Petition SUPPLEMENT TO THE BRISTOL MERCURY Saturday, March 31, 1838. 4pp., broadsheet, containing full report of the Proceedings before the Committee of the House of Commons on the Petition against Francis Henry Berkeley for corrupt election practices. 1838. £14.00

Fox (Francis) LETTER to Mr. Fry asking him to accept a copy of his book on the Merchant Taylors. He would like to see the society 'taken up & revived by the Liberal party in our city'. 2 sides sm. 8vo, headed notepaper, small waterstain top corner. Clifton, 22nd Dec. 1880. £14.00
¶ Fox's book on the Merchant Taylors was published in a Limited Edition of 50 copies in 1880.

Frenchay SIX POSTCARDS OF TEA GARDENS Frenchay. Four coloured cards, three of Ham and one of Cleeve Tea Gardens, including a fine view of the house (by Geo. E. Bullock) with large greenhouse, gardener watering border on right, tables on left, all postally used, 1905-8, plus two black and white cards, unused, c1910, one by Bullock of similar view, another of people on a path in the woods, Cleeve Tea Gardens ...together with... A small folding 'Letter Card' with five views of Cleeve Tea Gardens around a blank space for message. 1905-10. £28.00

Gardiner & Sons, Ironmongers and Merchants LETTER to Rev. Sanford at Combe Florey, quoting prices for Grates, marble and slate baths etc. 2 pages, decorative printed heading. Traces of vertical fold... together with another letter giving prices for 'articles seen by you on Wednesday...', listed under rooms, including 'rouge fleuri and black marble chimney piece', plus another letter with receipt. 1888. £8.00

Gardiner, Sons & Co. CATALOGUE OF WOODWORKING TOOLS by Tools & Housecraft Ltd. 256pp., tall 8vo, boards. Numerous illustrations. With prices. n.d. c1950. £8.00

Gardiner, Sons & Co. SPECIMENS OF FIREPLACE SUITES From the Showrooms of Gardiner, Sons & Co., Ltd. 8pp., 4to, wraps, coloured illustrations on each page. c1935. £10.00

George's Sons, Bristol THREE BOOKSELLERS CATALOGUES Topography & Genealogy. 1905. 56pp. Slight browning; The 21st Collection of Old & Curious Literature. Books and Manuscripts. Catalogue 141. 26pp., n.d. c1890; Book List 343. Military Catalogue. 40pp. n.d. 1920.... together with... George Gregory. Botany and Natural History. 72pp, c1910. 4 items. 1905-1920. £18.00

Hellier (Elizabeth) QUITCLAIM whereby Elizabeth Hellier of Bristol, Spinster (one of the Legatees named in the will of Elizabeth Symonds) releases to Sarah Dring all her interest in the estate of Elizabeth Symonds. 1p, sm. folio, manuscript, signed by E. Hellier and 2 witnesses, with small wax seal. Blank conjoint leaf with docket title... together with.... 1p document signed by her and the same witnesses, with wax seal, authorising Edward James one of the Proctors of the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of Bristol to appear for her in the said court. 2 items. 1727. £30.00

Horner (Joshua), lith. VIEW OF THE ROCKS FROM CLIFTON DOWN Lithograph from a drawing by S. Jackson, showing a view up the gorge from a view-point near the Observatory, three figures in foreground, Cook's Folly in the distance. Size 7«" x 9", in green card mount. Published by G. Davey, Bristol. Lithographed by Day & Haghe. c1840. £60.00

Hudd (Alfred), Bristol author LETTER to Lewis Way from Alfred E. Hudd, thanking him for returning a missing deed he had borrowed from All Saints Church, which must have been 'packed up with the Ashton Court MSS while I was making a sketch of the Smythe merchant mark'. He encourages Mr. Way 'to compile a book on the subject of 'the Smyths of Long Ashton'. 3« sides on headed notepaper, sm. 8vo. Dec. 19th, 1908. £14.00

Ingram (John) LETTER to Charles Wills, thanking him for a photograph of Chatterton's "supposed birthroom. I will keep it in my private collection of Chattertoniana." He encloses order forms "in case any of your friends care to buy the book." 1 side of a folded 4to sheet. London, July 25th, 1910. £14.00
¶ Ingram's 'The True Chatterton' was published in 1910.

King Street WILL of John Potter, formerly of Kidderminster now of the City of Bristol. 2p, folio, plus blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Extracted copy. Folds, a few small edge tears. 1802. £18.00
¶ Leaves his messuage in King Street to his friend Mary Bowen.

Lysaght (John), Limited. AGRICULTURAL FEEDING APPLIANCES Manufactured by John Lysaght, Limited, Galvanized Iron Works, Bristol. Catalogue printed in blue on yellow paper, on both sides of sheet 15" x 17", folded to form brochure 5" x 8". Each item attractively illustrated, with prices for different sizes. September 1902. £35.00
¶ Includes wheelbarrows, water-carriers, garden tables and chairs, hay-racks, troughs.

MANUSCRIPT CHRONOLOGY

Manuscript Annals BRISTOL ANNALS comprising two sets of chronology of Bristol in a folio notebook, presumably copied from earlier manuscripts in the first years of the eighteenth century, as follows:- (i) "Catalogue of all the Mayors Propositors Bayliffs and Sherriffs Wch have been in the citty of Bristol: The First whereof began in the First Year of King Henry the Third in anno 1216." 1216 - 1702. On 24p, in 2 ruled columns per page. In the early centuries the lists of names are interspersed with few references to local events, but for the 17th century there are quite long accounts, for example of storms, royal visits, executions, an earthquake, fire, ship wreck, fairs, and local trivia, such as the witch or spirit at Mr Hart's the Glover which "did throw about the bowls pothooks and diverse things and.... it pulled the maid out of the bed and it several times threw water on people.... ". Some of the events parallel those in Adam's Chronicle of Bristol, e.g. "1633. This year the Crane on the back was taken down and new built and it cost above 100l." This is recounted in more detail in Adams. (ii) An untitled chronology, 1217 - 1702, 15p, in the same hand, but not so neatly written. Refers to national and local events. This does not correspond to the first chronology, mentioning quite different events, often in great detail, e.g. "1701. This year goody Pugsley was buried in a ground beyond the 9 trees in St. James with a fiddle playing before her thousands of people beheld her.... when they came to the High Cross they threwed sweethearts among the people there was great Rudeness at her burying.... " At the rear of the book is "An Account of Severall persons that have given guifts to the City of Bristoll for good & charitable uses". 1292 - 1670. There are also 10p, listing benefactors, amount given and to whom, preceded by transcript of 2 wills, Edward Cox, Merchant, 1627, and George White, Merchant, 1634. On 6p. In all 55 pages of manuscript, 12 blank leaves, folio, full contemporary calf, very rubbed, most of spine missing, boards detached. Inscription 'Joseph Whittuck' on front paste-down and 'John Drew' on rear end paper, modern indelible ownership stamp inside front board. Wormhole in bottom corner affecting all leaves, but with loss of only a few letters throughout. Hand writing and watermark suggests the manuscript was written in the first decade of the eighteenth century. c170- £350.00
¶ In the preface to his 'Memoirs of Bristol' 1822-25, Seyer speaks of "A number of MS Calendars or Chronicles.... evidently derived from more ancient copies, transcribed by various hands, having generally a great similarity, but many particular differences.... many have been destroyed, but probably 40 or 50 still remain, chiefly in families of long continuance in Bristol, of which about 20 have passed under my inspection...."

BRISTOL Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc. For a further selection and to receive my latest catalogue please email :- lesley@localhistory.co.uk

Norrington Hingston & Co. ACCOUNT BOOK Manuscript account book giving yearly Balance Sheets, 23rd July 1866 - 20th July 1892. Approx. 300 pages, neatly written. Full green calf with broken metal clasp, size approx. 10" x 6«". 1866-92. £60.00
¶ Gives list of stock, including Peru Guano, Bone, dried blood, and machinery etc., for each year. Norrington Hingston were at the Chemical Manure Works, Crew's Hole, St. George.

Oxford University Press Printer THE FORM AND ORDER OF SERVICE for the Hallowing over the work of the restoration of St. Mary Redcliffe. 25pp., 8vo, printed in red and black. 3rd Nov. 1933. £10.00

Reed (Walter), Printer THE WESTERN DAILY PRESS August 11th, 1902. Broadsheet newspaper, 10pp., size 27" x 25". Folds. Coronation of Edward VII edition. Numerous detailed reports, line drawings. 1902. £15.00

Rose and Crown PHOTOGRAPH showing the Rose and Crown public house, the name 'Townley' on the sign board, with all its windows on the three stories broken, a group of men, one of whom is carrying a jug, lounging in the doorway. Size 8" x 6", mounted on card, with name of W.H. Moore, Artist and Photographer, Merchant Street. Photo slightly faded. c1880? £18.00
¶ The pub is on a cobbled hill, possibly Kingsdown area.

Royal West of England Academy REG GAMMON R.W.A., R.O.I. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, 1994. 24pp., 4to, stiff wraps with coloured illustration, numerous colour and black and white illustrations. Bristol, 1994. £7.00
¶ Held to mark Reg Gammon's 100th birthday. He is best known as the illustrator of 'Westward Ho! From Cumbria to Cornwall'.

Sickness Club RECORD BOOK listing payment made to women for 'sickness' and 'old age', 1839-48. Cash book, 4to, full reversed calf, blind-stamped decoration, raised bands. The first section comprises 9 pages, one per year, each listing 23 women (only 2 with addresses) and columns to show payment made every month that year, the second part is a cash account, 37 double-page spreads with debit and credit, showing money received from members, sale of consols etc., and money paid out to named women for sickness, old age, and for funerals, and for collector's salary. Many blank pages. 1839-48. £70.00
¶ There is no clue as to the name of the society. The final note states 'Balance in hand on 16th Feb. 1848 when the Club was agreed to be dissolved. G.C.' It was no doubt a Bristol society as the addresses given are Brandon Street and Hotwell Road.

St. Augustine PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Perpetual Annual Rent.... reserved by certain Letters Patent of King Henry VIII.... made unto the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity of Bristol, and issuing out of the site of the late Manastery of St. Augustine, and Manors of Erlingham.... 3pp., folio, folded with docket title. 1909. £10.00

St. Augustines Parish CONVEYANCE of the reversion in fee of nos. 7 and 8 Pipe Lane, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners to H. Willmott, of Cotham. 3 large vellum skins, small coloured sketch map on verso of one skin, papered seal of Commissioners. 1872. £15.00

St. James BOND of Samuel Varlow, Hairdresser, and George Gwinnett, of Bristol, to James Hingston Cabinet Maker, for £400. 2p., tall folio, 2 wax seals. 1802. £26.00
¶ Refers to purchase of a piece of land in North Street, St. James. Two deeds of 1724 and 1743 referring to a fee farm rent on the property had been lost, and Hingston wanted to indemnify himself against any future charges. The early owner was Michael Sidwell Free Mason and Stone Cutter.

Sturge & Co. TOBACCO WAREHOUSE Surveyor's report signed by Y. & J.P. Sturge (on the instructions of the Surveyor of City Lands) on the suitability of a Tobacco Warehouse in Back Street for conversion to a `Mart for the sale of Leather'. One and a quarter sides of foolscap, in a clear hand. Oct. 25th l830. £17.00

Temple Street MEMORANDUM OF AN AGREEMENT made this 24th day of Septm. 1723 that Samuel Wilkins shall have a Lease of a tenemt. in Temple Street late in the tenure of Saml. Tuder.... twenty five pounds fine and two Guinieas to be spent at Sealing.... 1p., sm. folio, signed Wilkins and 5 others. 1723. £15.00

Totterdown, Arno's Vale, Temple ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Gloucestershire Sheet LXXVI.1/Somerset Sheet VI.3,4, 7 & 8 (parts). Scale 25.344" to 1 mile. 27" x 38". Folds, some very light discoloration at one fold. Surveyed 1881, re-zincographed and printed in 1890. £28.00
¶ Covers Arno's Vale Cemetery, Great Western Works, Avonbank Brick and Tile Works, Avonside Mills, St. Vincent's Works, Albert Pottery, etc.

Wine Merchant's LETTER BOOK of James Evens, of the firm Evens & Sons, Bridge Street, 1880 - 1920, and E.D. Evens, 1928. 280 pages of copies on flimsy paper, mainly handwritten, a few typed, plus many pages of blanks. The letters mainly concern the division of capital between the family, and ensuing arguments: James Evens writes of his older brother "his advice was to decline the offer and go out to Cognac and lay everything before Mr Martell". Some letters refer to accounts of "The Valley Water Mills Colour Co." 4to, rubbed boards and worn morocco spine, a few sheets cut out, some copies rather feint. Indelible ownership stamp inside front board, a few ballpoint notes re. the company on first page. 1880-1928. £50.00