Lesley Aitchison - Lincolnshire Manuscripts, Maps, Photographs, Ephemera etc.

Allington WILL of William Marriott of Allington, farmer, 1769. 2p., small folio. Copy of Probate Copy. Paper watermarked 1801. £14.00
¶ Bequeathes his properties in Allington.
Brigg, Messingham etc. FIVE AUCTION SALE PARTICULARS for Lincolnshire farms, 1949 - 1970. All with printed wraps, 8vo and 4to., all with basic folding plans. 5 items. Brigg brochure has photo on wrap. 1949 - 1970. £18.00
¶ Comprises Oxford Grange Farm, Barrow; Moor Farm, Linwood; Land at Morton and Walkerith; Nicolgate, Brigg; Black Bank Farm, Messingham.
Deeping Fen MINUTES OF THE DEEPING FEN WASHES DRAINAGE BOARD 1873-1914. 220 manuscript pages, 4to. Full calf boards, rubbed, with gilt title on front board, lacks spine. Written in a hand that is not easily legible. The actual resolutions are fairly limited, for example 'It was Resolved that it is not expedient to erect a steam engine for the Drainage o the Wash Lands until after the annual Meeting', and much of the text is taken up with nominating and seconding members. 1873-1914. £30.00
Fleet, Gedney, St. James Lutton, and Sutton St. Mary A MAP OF PART OF THE PARISHES OF FLEET, GEDNEY, ST JAMES LUTTON, & SUTTON ST. MARY. in South Holland Drainage Lincolnshire. Manuscript plan, water features, droves hand-coloured, with a large compass rose, fine large pictorial watercolour cartouche in grey wash, with trees, cattle, watermeadows etc. Size 58Ť" x 26", plus margins, paper mounted on linen attached to rollers, silk edged, with some of the silk edging frayed or missing. Hundreds of plots are numbered, names in pencil to a few plots. There are also a few pencil sums with plot numbers against figures. Linen rather dusty on verso. J. and W. Newton, Chancery Lane, (London) c.1850. £280.00
¶ J. and W. Newton, were renowned cartographers and makers of globes.
Grantham area PLANS Mr. Benjamin Simons. 1913. Book of manuscript plans, size 14Ť" x 14", so titled on front board. Comprises four sheets of schedules giving no. on Ordnance Map, no. of Plan, Description, Culture, Acreage: 'Particulars of the Grange Farm in Willoughby, and in Hogsthorpe, (Pyewipe Hall Estate), Bilsby Farm, Hutton Bank Farm, (3 sheets), Particulars of Lands in Willoughby, Sloothby & Sutton on Sea, Toynton St. Peter. Each page of Schedules with decorative border, and decorative large headings. There follows 10 plans, one of which is double-page, in ink and colour wash, by W.J. Kemp, Surveyor. Each plan full page, with tissue guards, with very decorative border, attractive title, compass rose. Scale 8 Chains to an inch. Shows roads, fields, paths, streams, buildings, adjoining owners. Two show 'German Ocean', and 'North Sea.' Each field numbered, with acreage, shaded in different colours. Plans drawn on stiff paper and backed with linen, green silk edging ribbon, frayed in parts. Bound in half morocco, very worn and rubbed, cloth missing from boards at corners, lacks spine, binding shaky. Boards stained and faded. Loosely inserted is a copy of a newspaper article with an obituary of Benjamin Simons. 1913. £75.00
Holbeach PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of an Estate at Holbeach to be sold at the White Horse in Holbeach. 3 printed pages, with manuscript inserts. Estate described in ink. Completed Memorandum on page 3. Docket title on verso. 1825. £35.00
¶ Comprised arable land in Holbeach New inclosed Common, next to New Dog Drove, copyhold of the Manor of Holbeach.
Leeson family of Sedgebrook COPY WILL 1775. Attested Copy of the Probate of the Will and Codicil of William Leeson of Harlaxton, Grazier. Attested Copy 1797... together with... Attested Copy of the Probate Copy of the Will of Edward Leeson of Sedgebrook, Grazier. 1797. Each 2 large folio pages, folded with docket title. Copies made 1797. £15.00
¶ Refers to property in Harlaxton, East Allington, Wigtoft. Sums of £500 are left to their children.

LINCOLNSHIRE Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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Moulton A COPY OF THE MOULTON INCLOSURE AWARD. 222 pages numbered in manuscript, and 64 unnumbered pages, folio, full calf, titled in MS on top board, front hinge and part of spine crudely repaired with cloth tape, marbled endpapers, front inner hinge pulled. This is a 19th century copy of the 1793 Award. The first 20 pages concern the responsibilities of the 2 Commissioners, followed by 7 pages on Public Roads, Public Bridle Roads, Private Carriage Roads and Drift Ways, and Drains. Followed by the Award with details entered in the following columns:- 'Names of Proprietors', 'No on Plan', 'Quantity A. R. P.', 'Freehold A.R.P.', 'Copyhold of the several Manors', 'Situations Buttals and Boundaries', 'Fences, Ditches... stiles'. The final 22 pages is an Index of names, and the page or pages they appear on in the Award. There are hundreds of people listed, with details of their acreage as well as very detailed notes on the buttals and boundaries, including notes of owners, or occupiers of adjacent lands... together with... MAP OF LANDS OF THE PARISH OF MOULTON IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN A.D. 1803. Re-copied 1865. At the bottom is written 'Reduced Plan of the Parish of Moulton, referred to by an Award dated 9th November 1803, signed by Messrs. Maxwell, Ewen, Hare (whose names appear as being 'sworn in' at the beginning of the manuscript). Charles From Surveyor. Size 100" x 23", scale 12 miles to an inch. In ink with blue for water features, buff for roads. Each plot numbered, starting with 1 at the top, ending at bottom with 1621. Shows Moulton River, Sea Bank, Red Cow Drain, Washway Road, turnpike road, Engine Bank, Eau Gate, New South Holland Drain. Some of the plots near 'Garnar Dike' are very thin narrow strips. 2 items. Drafted in 1793, copy made c.1880, map re-copied 1865. £260.00
¶ Moulton was a very long narrow parish, 16 miles long.
Newton (Wm. and John), Chancery Lane A PLAN OF HOLBEACH AND WHAPLODE COMMONS As Allotted and Divided under an Act of Parliament passed in the Year 1812, for inclosing Lands in the Parishes of Holbeach and Whaplode in the County of Lincoln. Manuscript map on thick paper backed with linen, finely drawn in ink and a small amount of outline colour. Size 26" x 20", bottom edge mounted on a wooden roller, stretcher missing from top edge, with some pin holes in paper where once attached. Decorative title in cartouche imitating a curled scroll pinned with 'nails' at the top, Large compass rose. Scale bar, approx 9 chains to and inch. Under the title is a table 'particulars of such Numbers in Whaplode as are too small for them, to be inserted on the Plan (giving number, name and acreage - 14 plots), with similar table bottom right for Holbeach - 23 names. 231 plots numbered, with name of occupier and acreage. Houses shown with little black squares. Streets named, including Whitseds Drove, Whale Drove, Baileys Hill Drove, College Drain, New Whaplode Drove, New Dog Drove. Top bounded by Dowsdale Road, bounded on the right by Fleet Land Meer, on left by Dovedale Road, with the river and Leatherlands Drove along the bottom. Some slight dustmarking in top margin. Silk edging tape frayed in a few places. 1812. £210.00
Oldknow (J) A MAP OF THE FIELDS AND PART OF THE MEADOWS AND ANTIENT INCLOSURES in the Parish of Bourn in the County of Lincolnshire, by J. Oldknow. Manuscript map in ink on vellum, size 28" x 23", areas outlined in yellow or green. Scale bar (5" = approx. 50 chains), and small compass rose. Area is bounded by Molton Lordship, Thurlby Lordship, South Fen and Edenham Lordship. Wood Road and Mill Road run across the centre, and the road from Peterborough north to south. The church is shown with a tiny drawing, and some windmills are indicated. Various areas outlined include Dog Hill Field, Moor Field, Dike Meadow, South Field etc., and they are divided into many portions, with the name of proprietor and acreage, for example North Field is divided into seven, with owners The Vicar, John Pell, etc. The ink is very faded, and the information written in the very small plots, of which there are many in the town area, is in a small hand and indecipherable. The top of the map is dusty, and the verso is partly dusty. There are many small creases in the vellum, which is rolled. n.d. c1770? £45.00
Pinchbeck PLAN OF AN ESTATE the Property of the late Edward Browne Esq., lying in the Parish of Pinchbeck in the County of Lincoln. Manuscript plan in ink and some outline colour, on thick paper, size 22" x 24". Shows Six House Drove at bottom with house, gate, South Forty Foot Drain at left. 7 fields outlined in blue, with acreage, adjoining owners. Title in 'Gothic' lettering, compass rose, scale bar (3 chains to an inch), Reference Table with acreage and quality. Right-hand edge ragged along top, two repaired tears 3" from top edge and 6" from bottom edge. Thos. Upton, Surveyor, Spalding. n.d. c1845. £60.00
River Welland Spalding PLAN OF THE RIVER WELLAND TOGETHER WITH HIGH STREET HOLBEACH ROAD, Double Street, Albion Street and Marsh Rails Road from the High Bridge to the Pigeon lying in the Parish of Spalding in the County of Lincoln. Hand-drawn coloured plan, size 28" x 49Ť" plus margins, mounted on linen, scale of 1 chain and a half to 1", silk edged, with some of the silk edging frayed or missing, short tear to one edge`, not affecting drawing, neatly repaired to verso. The plan shows a compass rose, the course of the river, droves, drains, buildings and outlines of all of the plots, on both sides of the river. Shows Fleet Land Meer, New Fear Drove, South Holland Drain etc. All of the 204 properties are numbered and listed on tables, naming owners and occupiers, with a brief description of each property. Surveyed by Henry Upton, 1845. £300.00
¶ Eden's Dictionary of Land Surveyors lists Henry Upton as 'of Pinchbeck', and as active from 1843-56.
Rogerson (W.A), County Surveyor PROPOSED NEW FERRO-CONCRETE BRIDGE over the South Holland Main Drain. Lamings Bridge. Drawing on very thick paper, size 30" x 39", outline and lettering and figures in some form of reproduction, but watercolour in pink, red, blue and brown added by hand. Shows Elevation to Existing Bridge, Proposed New Elevation (8' to 1"), Longitudinal Section, Plan, Key Plan showing adjacent roads etc., three cross sections. Dusty down right hand edge. Repaired tear 12" in from left edge, running into the elevation of the old bridge. 1928. £45.00
¶ The old bridge was replaced in the 1930's.
Sedgebrook COPY WILL of John Hollingworth of Sedgebrook, grazier. 1771. Copy on two and a half pages folio, probably made slightly later. Split at fold in last page... together with... Attested copy of the same will, made 1830, docket titled 'Office Copy Will of John Hollingworth'. 1830. £14.00
¶ Leaves his house in Allington to his nephew, and other lands to various people, including a cottage to his servant Sarah Linsdale.
Sturton STURTON UNION MILL April 1875. Scale of Charges for Grinding Corn.... Manuscript on three pages, sm. 8vo, plain wraps. On front wrap is note of a Mill Committee meeting at the Red Lion Inn. 1875. £14.00

THREE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
Surfleet SURFLEET BOARD SCHOOL Drawing No. 1. Drawing No. 2, Drawing No. 3. Measured architect's plans, scale 4ft. = 1in. Each size 25" x 36", in ink and full colour wash. Drawing no. 1 shows ground plan with classroom, infants room, large long schoolroom, girls' yard, W.C.'s, coal store etc., and to the right is teacher's accommodation with parlour, kitchen etc., with first floor plan showing bedrooms. Two tears, one from right and one from left edge, each 5" long, repaired, in blank area. Drawing no. 2 shows two very fine attractive elevations in full watercolour, running almost the whole width of the paper. The building has stone facing round the windows, tall chimneys, and a turret with a weather cock. The third drawing shows 'Longitudinal Section' along the whole of the top half of the paper, with below 'Cross Section through School', 'West Elevation', 'East Elevation'. Stamped 'Education Approved' and signed by Ch. Bealby, Chairman, and in ink at bottom left 'Arthur Young Archt. 10 Craig's Court, Charing Cross, W.C'. Paper watermarked Whatman 1876. £220.00
Tydd Saint Mary PARTICULARS, PLAN, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE, OF A VERY VALUABLE FREEHOLD FARM.... Comprising a house, Barn and Buildings and 119a. 1r. 26p.... Which be will offered for Sale by Public Auction.... at the "Hare and Hounds" Inn, Wisbech.... on Thursday, the 28th of January, 1869.... Folio, hand-coloured plan, 6pp, docket title, folded, few contemporary pencil notes in pencil to one page, short split to one fold adjacent to docket title, docket title dusty. 1869. £20.00
Walker (James), Civil Engineer REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE OUTFALL OF THE RIVER WELLAND., On the Improvement Thereof. 12pp., engraved folding plan titled 'River Welland. Plan Showing the Proposed Improvements...' and another entitled 'Plan Showing the Proposed Improvements between Fosdike Bridge and Clay Hole'. Original plain paper wraps, few minor marks to wraps... together with... REPORT ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY TO THE COMMISSIONERS for the Loan of Exchequer Bills, on the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Welland. 16pp, original plain paper wraps. Folding plan, the same as the second plan above, but the part completed is hand-coloured. 2 items. 1835 and 1839. £70.00
¶ There are no copies of the first report on Copac.

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