Ackland (J), Printer RULES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE "ELTON" CHARITY IN THE PARISH OF NEMPNETT. October, 1862. Single sheet listing seven rules concerning eligibility, distribution, etc., size approx. 11" x 8«". Traces of vertical fold. J. Ackland, Printer and Bookbinder, Dolphin Street, Bristol: 1862. £15.00
Ashill and Isle Abbots, Manor of Wood COUNTERPART LEASE of a tenement in Aishill and Abbots Ile, Sir Henry Northcote of Corfe in Devon, to Richard Parsons of Aishill. Vellum, 15" x 22", wax seal, slightly faded overall, some minor browning, and two lines of text very faded so as to affect legibility. 1725. £20.00
¶ The rent was eleven shillings.
Ashill, Near Ilminster POSTER. Windmill Hill, Ashill, Near Ilminster.... Desirable Freehold Property For sale, Mr H.M. Hext Is instructed to Sell by Auction at the "Ashill Inn," Ashill, on Thursday, Novr. 7th, 1889.... Printed on one side only, size approx. 22" x 17«". Chapple, Printer, Ilminster, Dated Ilminster, October 22nd, 1889.... With.... Printed Particulars and Conditions of sale. Folio, completed in manuscript, and signed by one of the purchasers.... With.... Solicitor's Bill. Single sheet, handwritten. 3 items all folded. 1889. £20.00
Ashton ASHTON PRIORY, NEAR BRISTOL Pencil drawing so titled, on 'Bristol' paper, size 10" x 13". A fine detailed drawing in soft pencil showing figures on a lane outside a large house with walled garden, Gothic windows on first floor, tall tree in foreground framing view, larger building just seen through trees behind house. Signed 'MS' March 23, 1826. £45.00
¶ Shows in detail the architecture of the house, with 'Gothic' windows, porch, decorative details on roof etc.
Axbridge CHARLES HEAL & SONS CARNIVAL AND FUNFAIR Poster. Full colour poster, size 30" x 19", large heading, with clown's face, view of big top, helter skelter, dodgems etc. Written in ink in large letters in blank space at bottom is 'Axbridge: Fair Mar.28, 29, 30'. Edge of paper at top left rather ragged, affecting margin only. n.d. 1960's. £22.00
Banwell, Manor of LEASE of little Forty Acres, Cottage and Garden, in Churchill, the Bishop of Bath and Wells to Charles Knowles, Carpenter. Large vellum sheet, fine pendant papered seal on Bishop on bright pink paper. 1841. £18.00
Bath and Norton St. Philip SALE OF FREEHOLD AND OTHER PROPERTIES In the City of Bath and Norton St. Philip.... Messrs. Powell & Powell are favoured with Instructions To Sell by Auction at the Full Moon Hotel, Old Bridge, Bath, On Thursday, the 17th January, 1878... No 2, New King Street, Bath.... No 11, Caroline Buildings.... 30 Kingsmead Street.... 13 Monmouth Street.... Freehold Cottage and Garden at Norton St. Philip.... 5pp, folio, docket title, folded. Wilkinson Brothers, Bath: 1878. £20.00
Bath Auction "BEWDLEY," PRIOR PARK ROAD, BATH. CATALOGUE Of the Excellent Household Furniture And Effects.... Which Powell & Powell, Ltd. Are instructed by the Exectors of the late Mr E.C. Peacock's Will, To Sell by Auction upon the Premises On Tuesday, 12th, May, 1914. Pamphlet, 8vo, original printed wrappers, 16pp. 1914. £12.00
Bath Auction CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE COLLECTION of Antique China, Enamels, Clocks.... to be Sold by Auction by Powell & Powell At the Mart, on Tuesday, April 24, 1900, & Following Day.... 8vo, 16pp. 1900. £12.00
Bath Auction PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Desirable.... Properties known as 30, The Paragon, 5,6 & 7 Newbridge Road, and 4 Ashley Avenue, Lower Weston.... Which will be offered for Sale By Auction By Powell & Powell at the City Auction Mart, on Tuesday, 15th Day of March, 1904. Folio, 4pp, folded. 1904. £12.00
Bath CATALOGUE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and Effects, late the Property of Louis King, Rivers House, Russell Street, comprising several Handsome Piece of Richly Carved Old Oak... Three Hundred Volumes of Books... Auction sale catalogue, 16pp. 1898. £8.00
Bath CATALOGUE of Household Furniture... Two Grand Pianofortes, Mahogany Dining-Room Furniture... Upwards of 20 Cases of Stuffed Birds... which will be Sold by Auction... March 8, 1900. 15pp, 8vo. 1900. £9.00
¶ Note in ink 'The estate of the late J. Stone'. Birds include Northern Diver, Sandpipers, Kingfishers, Godwit, Oyster-Catchers.
Bath INSURANCE CERTIFICATE for the house, stone-built and tiled, situate on Anthony Hill in the Parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe, the property of John Bailey, Earthenwareman. Size 20" x 14", attractive vignette at head, size 4" x 5", showing a sailor with a sinking ship behind him, and a man carrying a sack out of a burning building. Details filled in in manuscript. Papered seal of Royal Exchange Assurance. 1824. £24.00
Bath PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Business Premises.... 24 Union St., 2 Union Passage.... for Sale by Auction 4th September 1917. 3pp., folio, folded. 1917. £8.00
Bath Pictorial & Bath Chronicle HISTORIC MAP OF BATH Prepared by T. Sturge Cotterell. Folding map printed in three colours, size 17" x 12", plus wide margins, linen-backed and folding into 8vo boards with gilt title and coat of arms. With detailed key to 96 famous people associated with the city, and where they lived, and information on the main buildings. Pin holes and rust marks at bottom corners. Revised to December 1898. £34.00
Bath PROBATE of the Will and Codicil of John Morris, of Bennett Street, Bath. 2 large vellum sheets with probate certificate attached, cracked papered seal. Lightly browned throughout. 1816. £8.00
Bath SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS BOOK For the Society for Preserving to the Public the Right of Ancient Footpaths. R. Hare, E. Saunders, Secretaries. Manuscript recording names and amounts for subscribers 1843-1870. 38p., sm. 8vo, parchment boards, worn, chipped morocco label with gilt title. There are also two minutes of meetings noting change of collector, signed R. Wilbraham Falconer (the author of works on the Bath Mineral Waters). 1843-70. £130.00
¶ Pasted inside front board is a printed letter stating the Society would like a subscription from each household 'the health and pleasure of the Inhabitants of Bath being so dependent upon the Footways that afford accommodation to pedestrians in reaching the various delightful situations around the City.' Among the subscribers are: R. Tite, C. Milsom, Rev. Bartram, T. Jolly, S. Rutter, J. Pulteney, Lady Hargood, Holloway & Son.
Bath WARRANT OF ATTORNEY to Confess a Judgement, to William Dyms and Richard Messiter, Attorneys, to appear for John Cattermoule of Bath, Yeoman, in an action of Debt on Bond for the sum of £198, at the suit of Martin Moger. 1p., sm. folio, printed with manuscript inserts. Fine wax seal with bust. Folds, blank conjoint leaf with docket title on verso. 1793. £30.00
Bathampton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XIV.2. Printed surface approx. 25" x 38". Scale 1/2500. Small repaired tear at right margin. Slightly dusty at right hand side. Zincographed 1888. £20.00
¶ Covers Lambridge, Bailbrook House, Holcombe Lodge, Larkhall.
Bishops Hull CONVEYANCE of the equity of redemption of and in the Royal Crown Inn and land opposite in the New Road, Bishops Hull, Abraham Waygood, Innkeeper, to William Hewett, Brewer. Large vellum sheet, two wax seals. 1880. £12.00
Bishops Hull MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT on the marriage of William Ludlow of Bishops Hull, Gentleman and Elizabeth Chave of Uplowman, Devon. Vellum, size 26" x 30", large decorative heading. Signed by 4 parties with small wax seals. Small water-stain about 3" long, not affecting legibility. 1818. £26.00
Bishops Hull OBLIGATION BOND of William Ludlow of Bishops Hull Gentleman to William Walters of Tiverton and John Chave of Bristol for four hundred pounds. 1p., sm. folio, printed with ms inserts. Signed Ludlow with a wax seal. Blank conjoint leaf. Folded. 1818. £17.00
Bridgwater Bay ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XX. Size approx. 24" x 35", linen-backed. Two small greyish spots in sea area. Three neatly repaired edge tears. Cancelled red 'Boundary Copy' stamp in margin. O.S blindstamp 1887. £30.00
¶ Covers Porlock, North Petherton, Weston-super-Mare, part of S. Wales coast.
Bridgwater Bay ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XX. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size approx. 24" x 35", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo marbled endpapers. Border at top and right only. A strong dark impression. Pub. 11th Oct., 1809, later, c1810-20. £45.00
¶ Covers Porlock, North Petherton, Weston-super-Mare. Corresponds to Margary State 2.
Bridgwater COPY WILL and Testament of John Dunning of Bridgwater in the County of Somerset Doctor of Physick. With a Codicil. 1821. 2p. folio. Attested copy. Paper watermarked 1820. £17.00
¶ Leaves property in Dorset to his wife Susanna, legacy to his sisters, his clothes to his man servant etc.
Bridgwater LEASE of West Pitts, Northfields, Mathews Field, part of the Salt Lands, in Bridgwater, Peter King of Shaston, Dorset, Mercer, and Jerome Barnes of Gillingham. 35 lines, very neatly written, on vellum, size 12" x 22". Lacks wax seal from tag. 1682. £38.00
¶ Refers to intended marriage of Peter King and Elizabeth Barnes.
734 PRIVATE MEN Bridgwater Local Militia PAY-LIST AND RETURN for the Period of Training at Bridgwater from 31 May 1813 to 15 June 1813. South Britain. Total Amount of Pay £1190.11.5d. Small folio, plain wraps with printed label as docket title, folded. 28pp., printed with manuscript inserts, in sections for Officers, Serjeants, Drummers, Private Men, with columns for marching allowance, no. of days, allowance for men in quarters etc. Names of 734 private men listed.... together with... Local Militia. South Britain, Training Estimate for 14 Days, 31 May to 13 June 1813. Folio sheet printed with Tables for sums required for Pay for Officers expected to assemble, allowances paid to Inkeepers, Surgeon etc., table of names of officers. Signed by Quarter Master. Instructions to Q.M. on verso. Folded with docket title... together with... Estimate of Sum on account of Neccessaries. Oblong folio, table with estimated number of soldiers and allowances, signed by Commandant... together with... Bridgwater Local Militia. Non Training Estimate. Three documenets covering 1813 in four-monthly periods, printed with Ms inserts, signed by Commandant and Quarter Master, folio, folded. Estimates amounts required for different ranks. Signed by Quarter Master and Commandant... together with... Mess Account s, 1809-10, 4p., and 1813 1p., sm. folio, all in manuscript, listing officers' names and amounts spent on dinners etc., and 'Statement of Accoutrements' 1809 ('4 drummers sets... £2.18s.' etc.), and 'Account of Arms and Accoutrements... sent to the Depot in Bristol 1816', 1p., sm. folio, in manuscript, listing muskets, bayonets, breast plates etc., and similar 'Account of clothing' 1p., sm. folio. 10 documents in all. 1809-1813. £270.00
Bristol and North Somerset Railway at Evercreech PARLIAMENTARY NOTICE of lands required for railway prior to the Act for making a Railway between the Bristol and North Somerset Railway and the Somerset and Dorset Railway near Evercreech, with Branches to Shepton Mallet, etc. Made out to Henry Jenkins, for fields, stream etc. 1p., folio, printed, opening to double-page schedule of land, with owner, description of section of line etc. in tabular form, manuscript inserts. Folded with docket title. 1st Dec. 1865. £16.00
Brockley COUNTERPART LEASE of land in Brockley, Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte of Goathurst to John Durban, of Brockley. Paper, size 19" x 27", good wax seal with bust of bearded man. 3 small splits at folds. Outside rather browned. 1754. £18.00
Broomfield LEASE of lands in Broomfield, Sir William Portman of Orchard to William Wynter of Clapton. 11" x 16", tag, no trace of any wax seal. 1638. £40.00
¶ Includes land called Castle Acre, Biddle, Kingsland.
Bruton PLAN, SECTION AND BOOK OF REFERENCE of so Much of the Wilts. Somerset & Weymouth Railway (Amendment No. 1) Bruton Deviation, As Relates to the Parish of Bruton, 1846. Printed wraps, size 21" x 15", sewn at edge. Comprises:- Private Bills, Standing Orders of the House of Lords, 2pp., small folio; 4p. of Schedules, Folio, written on one side only, giving number on Plan, Description of Property, Owner, Lessee, Occupier (includes Sheephouse Farm Extra Parochial); 2 lithographed plans showing the area of land required shaded pink, Bruton Deviation No. 1, size 17" x10", Bruton Deviation No. 2, size 17" x 26". Repaired 6" tear in blank area of Plan 2. Shows Gants Mill, Church and Vicarage, Sheephouse Farm, Quarry etc. Properties marked with numbers referring to Schedules; 2 folding sheets of sections, each 9" x 27". Plans engraved on stiff paper. 1846. £110.00
¶ The Engineer for the line was I.K. Brunel.
Buchanan & Co. CHARD SCHOOL 12 photographic views in card folder. c1910. £12.00
Buckland St Mary SALE BY AUCTION In the Parish of St. Mary. An Excellent Freehold Dairy and Stock Farm known as "Moorsick Farm".... embracing 148a 0r. 28p. Messrs. W.R.J. Greenslade & Co. will Sell by Auction at the George Hotel, Ilminster on Wednesday, the 12th day of March, 1924. With coloured folding plan, 3pp, folded, totals and names in manuscript on last leaf. Young and Son, Chard: 1924. £15.00
[Bulleid, (J)] MANUSCRIPT LISTING PLACE NAMES written on the blank versos of leaflets advertising the 'Accidental Death Insurance Company.... Agent for Glastonbury Mr. J.G.L. Bulleid, Solicitor', sewn into worn and chipped card wraps from an old exercise book, 4to. 40 pages, about ten names on each page, with entry quoting origin etc., and sources. Many names have no entry. Names seem to be field, house names etc., from the Glastonbury area, examples include 'Culver Close: There is a Culver Croft near the Grange farm being the enclosure where the priory pigeon house stood, from Culver a pigeon. White's Selborne p. 202'; 'Halfpenny Mead: '"20 acres a.". Cambell's Survey 1698'. Loosely inserted is a letter to Bulleid from Frank Reynolds translating a Latin inscription, and an envelope addressed to him with a stamp, the back of which he has used for pencilled notes. c1895. £75.00
Chappell (Henry) THE DAY Poem published at the beginning of the First World War. 6 verses, with intoduction about the author, 8vo, border in red and blue, folds, small area rubbed with loss of three letters. Reprinted from the 'Daily Express' (22nd August 1914). £10.00
¶ Known as the 'Bath Railway Poet' Chappell worked as a porter on Bath station. This poem was published in his book 'The Day and Other Poems' in 1918.
Chard OBLIGATION BOND Thomas Lawrence and Elizabeth Lane of Chard to Charles Edwards for £263. 1p., sm. folio, preamble printed with ms inserts, the main paragraph in manuscript. Signed by Thomas Lawrence and by Elizabeth Lane with her mark, two small wax seals. Blank conjoint leaf. Folds. 1809. £16.00
Cheddar COX'S STALACTITE CAVERN CHEDDAR Album of 12 commercial black and white photographs. Size 5«" x 6", red boards with large gilt title. Photos titled in white in plate. 9 of the photographs are of the inside of the cave, the others are of the Lion Rock, Gorge, and Waterfall. c1910. £26.00
Cheddar PHOTOGRAPH size 4«" x 6«", titled in white in plate 'Tea Gardens, Cheddar', showing a small tent in the garden with ladies with parasol, rocks in distance. Numbered W5614. c1910. £5.00
Chelvey LETTER to Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte from Edmund Jeans (his attorney), at Binfords, near Bridgwater, 15th Sept. 1744. 1p, 4to, addressed on verso, folds. Paper creased. Remains of seal. 1744. £16.00
¶ 'I've sent William to Acquaint yr Honour's coachman how the Road is over the Fields and so down Starve Acre...' Refers to Parson's tenement at Chelvey 'which Yr. Honor went to see with Farmer Cottell in yr. way from his House to Col. Codrington and if you remember there were a great many Stones Risen, both paveing and Tileing which was your property...' Refers to making a claim for the stones.
Chew Baber (Manor of) AT A COURT BARON OF EDWARD BABER George Prichard, Steward... Surrender of a messuage by Richard Wade and Johanna his wife to William Sams. Vellum, size 8" x 16", folds. In Latin. Piece cut away at bottom right corner, with tear through one word, possibly where a seal cut away. 1705. £18.00
Chew LEASE of lands in Chew including Marsh Wood furlong, Blackenhedge, Broad Mead, John Oliver of Chew, yeoman, to Thomas Athall of Norton Malreward and Toby King of Chew. Vellum, 34 lines, in English, size 12" x 17", signed by King, about half of wax seal remaining on tag. Large calligraphic initial letter. 1597. £56.00
¶ Oliver had purchased the land from Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of the Pleas.
Chew Magna TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION By S. Oliver, at the Pelican Inn, Chew-Magna... 11th day of August 1814... the Following Freehold Lands, in the Parish of Chew-Magna... Also, To be Sold by Private Contract, The Great Tythes of the Several Valuable Farms & Lands, within the Hamlet of Norton Hawkfield... Handbill, size 13" x 8", printed in a variety of type-faces, traces of folds, prices neatly added in ink. A few light brownish marks in one section (off-setting of letters where once folded. Brown, Printer, Bristol Mirror Office. 1814. £40.00
Churchill ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Emily Newton to several Closes of land at Churchill. 5p., folio. 1853. £14.00
¶ Details title from 1812. Includes Langford Field, Worthy Plot.
Churchill CONVEYANCE of several Closes in Churchill called Parkwall, Parkwall Paddock, and Biss's Acre, John Fisher of Langford, to Emily Newton, Spinster. Single large vellum sheet. 1824. £16.00
Churchill, Bishoprick Estate CONVEYANCE of interest in fee simple of and in a Messuage or Dwellinghouse and hereditaments situate in Churchill, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England to Revd. F. Arnold and others. Large vellum sheet, inset sketch plan of land, good papered seal of Commissioners, brief Schedule. 1874. £18.00
Churchill, Manor of Banwell LEASE of 'one messuage and on yard land of old auster' in Churchill, and a field called Rushey Field. The Bishop of Bath and Wells to John Fisher of Langford. 4p. large folio. Attested copy. 1812. £18.00
Compton Pauncefoot TIMBER SALE at the timber yard of Mr Samuel Foot. Lists 28 lots, plantation, type of tree ('maiden oak' etc.), buyer and price. Sm 8vo notebook, manuscript in ink, 18pp. January 23rd 1854. £14.00
Congresbury Station LETTER on Great Western Railway notepaper to C. Poultney, Congresbury Parish Council, replying to his request for trains to stop at Congresbury on Sundays. 1p., typewritten. 1916. £6.00
Cotterell (H.F) drawn by MAP OF THE CITY OF BATH. Folding lithographed map, size 11" x 12", folding onto sm. 8vo printed board. With key to Public Buildings and Churches. c1874. £25.00
¶ Covers Richmond Place, Bloomfield Terrace, Twerton Suspension Bridge.
Dale (R.W) PEAT IN CENTRAL SOMERSET A Planning Study. 36pp., card wraps, small folio. Maps, line drawings and photographs. Somerset County Council. 1967. £18.00
Day & Son, Lith. WEST CHARLTON PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, SOMERSET C.E. Giles, Archt. Built by James S. Rhymer, in Memory of His Brother, the Late Venerable W.T.P. Rhymer, Archdeacon of Bath and Rector of West Charlton. Tinted lithograph, engraved surface 7«" x 10«", plus margins. Some light, very small foxing spots in margin, and some in sky area. c1840. £32.00
¶ Rare. Shows mother and child near the gate, school framed in trees. An attractive Gothic style building with ornately tiled roof, belltower, etc.
Ditcheat, Timsbury PARTICULARS of A Valuable and Highly Improvable Freehold Property extending to Two Hundred & Six Acres... at Sutton, in the Parish of Ditcheat, Forming the outlying portions of 'Sutton Farm'... Two parcels of Freehold Land, Situate in the Parish of Timsbury, In the Midst of the Somerset Coal Field, For Sale by Auction... 17th October, 1862... 3pp., folio, folded with docket title, plus large hand-coloured folding plan. Descripton includes occupier, culture, quantity. 'Valuable beds of Coal are said to exist' under the fields in Timsbury. 1862. £38.00
Dolby Drawn by WELLS CATHEDRAL, SOUTH WEST VIEW. Tinted lithograph, size approx. 8«" x 10«", plus margins, some spotting mainly to margins. Published by G. Backhouse, Wells: c184-. £45.00
¶ Shows some people in the fore-ground.
Dolby (E.T), del. et lith. WELLS CATHEDRAL North West View. Tinted lithograph on thick paper, with good view of carvings on front, groups of people on the green etc. Size 9" x 11", plus margins. Crease at one corner of margin, a few very small foxing spots in margins. Day & Son, Lithrs., c1840. £40.00
Dulverton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXVII.3. size approx. 25" x 38". Scale 25" to 1 mile. Second edition, 1904. £17.00
¶ Covers the whole of Dulverton, River Barle as far as Sweetoak Cottages, helebridge, Hollam.
Durley FINAL AGREEMENT in the Court of the Common Bench, between Hugh Halswell and David Seier and others acknowledging Halswell's right to one messuage one cottage on garden in Durley. In English, vellum, size 5" x 15", folds. 1658. £24.00
Evercreech PARTICULARS of the Freehold Estates known as the Evercreech Park Farm, Bagbury Farm, & Durns.... to be Sold By Auction.... 8th of August, 1862. 3 pages, size 17" x 11". Folded. With detailed schedules of each farm, listing fields with cultivation, tenant, acreage. etc. 1862. £18.00
Frome ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. 281. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 13" x 19" plus wide margins. O.S. blindstamp 1909. £17.00
Frome, Bath, Evercreech THREE BILLS with printed headings. Comprising James Udell, Furniture Remover, Frome 1912 (vignette of vans etc.), stab hole; Cox & Son, Builder, Evercreech (vignette of lavatory, range); Gibbons, Corn & Seed Grower, Turley Farm Bath. 1885-1918. £12.00
Gatcombe SURRENDER of lands including pasture called the Slade, closes called Langlands, Acastle, Broomlyne, and other closes, and two tenements called Gatcombe, Johana Boult of Broomfield, Widow to Sir Nicholas Halswell. Vellum, in English, size 8" x 11", lacks wax seal from tag. Affixed is 'A Schedule containing the Division of the Dwelling House of the two tenements called Gatcombe... of all houses and offices to the same belonging and of the Barton Court... the Ground called Hill... to be used and occupied by Nicholas Halswell. Lists 6 stipulations 'they shall hav ethe moytie of the Bakehouse... the moiety of the court before the back door of the dwelling house... liberty to make fire in the hall chimney and to use the Table in the same....' Vellum, 12" x 8". Lacks wax seal from tag. 1562. £70.00
Glastonbury PEN AND INK DRAWING of the George Hotel. On Bristol board, size 15" x 12", drawing taking up the whole of the area. Shows the entrance with signboard, and part of three-storey frontage, small boy on pavement outside. Good architectural detail... together with... ink drawing on paper, 11" x 14", probably by the same hand, ivy-covered ruins at Glastonbury Abbey. Neither drawing titled or signed. c1920. £16.00
Goathurst ASSIGNMENT of a tenement in the city of Bridgwater, Nicholas(?) Halswell of Goathust and Gerard Brympton of Hampshire to Richard Tynte of Wemdon, husbandman, and giving power of attorney to two persons named Gibb and Brympton. In Latin on vellum, size 8" x 15", a few brownish spots, remains of 2 wax seals on tags. 2.EdVI £55.00
Godfrey (D) THE BEAUFORT MARCH Dedicated by Permission To His Grace The Duke of Beaufort &c, Composed for, and presented to The Ladies Committee & to Jonathan Gray Esq. as Honr. Director of The Fancy Fair, Held at Bath June 7th, 8th & 9th in aid of the Funds for the Soldiers Wives & Children, by D. Godrey. Sheet music, 4 pages, plus wraps. Small folio, very fine chromolithographed cover with picture of flags, drums, cannon balls etc. in gold and bright colours, taking up most of the front wrap. Johnson & Bessant, Chromo Lith., 2 Tudor Place, Tottm. Ct. R. n.d. c1860. £18.00
Great Western Railway CHEAP TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED TO WELLS Athletic Sports, Cycle Gymkana, and Bal Masque in the Combe... Whit-Monday, June 1st... Handbill with time-table of trains from Weston-super-Mare, Burrington, Wrington, Shepton Mallet etc., with prices. Printed on pale green paper, size 13" x 9", traces of folds with some foxing down folds, small stab holes at left edge, presumably where once sewn into album, small nick at left margin. Paddington, May, 1903. £28.00
Great Western Railway BRIDGWATER DOCKS Notice. States vessels 180ft. in length or 31ft beam will not be allowed to enter the Docks, and stating measurements of boats which will only be allowed by Special Arrangement. In heavy lettering, size 19" x 12", folds, wear at one fold with small splits in paper, small piece torn from top left corner in blank area. Sept. 1907. £16.00
Hawkins (Thomas M.). Publisher GRAND PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW ALBUM OF TAUNTON Sixteen plates on glossy paper. Size 7" x 9", boards with gilt title. Boards stained and faded (not affecting contents.) c1890. £14.00
¶ Most plates are whole-page views, but some are two to a page. Views include County Cricket Ground, The Barracks, Independent College, Hospital and Nursing Institute.
Hawkridge AUCTION HANDBILL advertising sale of Overland Tenements comprising fee simple of pasture land called West Shercombe, 2 acres of wood on Hawkridge Common, and 40 acres known as Shercombe Allotment. Sm. folio, folded, off-setting. 2p. manuscript conditions of sale attached. 1835. £24.00
Hayward (S) and Son, Princes' Buildings, Publishers A REPRODUCTION IN WOODBURY-TYPE OF GILMORE'S MAP OF BATH, 1694 With Historical Description. Dedicated to John Stone, Town Clerk of the City of Bath. Map size 30" x 40", dissected and mounted on linen, inserted in 4to slipcase with printed label, rubbed at edges. c1880. £60.00
Henstridge ASSIGNMENT of a Cottage and smith's shop at Henstridge, Nathaniel Cox and others to Henry Whitmarsh Vellum, size 24" x 31", wax seals. 1830. £15.00
¶ The premises were originally owned by the Marquis of Anglesey, Lord of the Manor of Henstridge.
Henstridge ASSIGNMENT of a Cottage Smith's Shop and Garden at Henstridge, Henry Whitmarsh to The Revd. Nathaniel Bridges. On paper, 2 small repaired tears at one fold. 1838. £12.00
Hillfarrance ASSIGNMENT of tenement at Redbridge in Hillfarrance, James Jarman, Thatcher, to Daniel Nitherton, husbandman. Vellum, 20" x 30", 3 wax seals. Ink faded but legible. 1717. £26.00
Hillfarrance ASSIGNMENT of a dwelling house and pasture ground at Redbridge, James Jarman, thatcher, Hannah Wood, of Bishops Lydiard, his sister, and others, to Daniel Litherton. Vellum, size 19" x 28", wax seals. Signatures faded. Ink of text slightly faded but legible. 1717. £18.00
Hunstrete Estate TIMBER SALE 700 Timber Trees to be Offered for Sale by Tender, Situate on the Hunstrete Estate.... comprising some Very Fine Ash, Oak & Elm Beech, S. Chestnut, Alder, Aspen and Walnut.... Sale leaflet, 3pp., 8vo, listing 4 Lots, with details of situation. December 1890. £9.00
Ilminster BOND for £652, John Slee, Sergemaker, to Bridget Slee. Printed on sm. folio sheet, blank adjoining leaf, details in MS., small wax seal. 1766. £22.00
Ilminster CERTIFICATE OF THE CONTRACT For the Redemption of Land Tax, referring to 'Browns' Silver St., and five cottages in East St. known as 'Porters'. Folio, folded, printed with coat of arms, signed by Commissioners, details in MS. Sewn to corner are 2 smaller forms, with schedule listing occupiers, etc. Two small holes where folds meet. 1837. £16.00
Ilminster COPY CONVEYANCE of 'The Bell Inn' in Ilminster, R. Allen and Revd. J. Coles to George Richards. 7pp folio, folded. Tear in margin of first leaf. 1871. £10.00
Ilminster LEASE FOR A YEAR of messuage comprising one shop, one other shop that was formerly a Hall, one salting room, one kitchen called Grammar's kitchen one brewhouse, two stables... in Ditton Street, Thomas Culliford, Linen Draper, Richard Pearson, Silk Manufacturer, to Samuel Palmer of Colyton. Vellum, 16" x 23", signed by six parties with 6 wax seals, some foxing along central fold. 1784. £26.00
Ilminster MORTGAGE for £600, of dwelling house near Hasselwell Stock, and lands known as Odd Mead and Pusk in the parish of Ilminster, William Patten of Martock to Amos Pittard. Vellum, size 21" x 29", wax seal, printed heading with coat of arms. 1781. £16.00
Ilminster PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE, of the Dwelling-Houses, Lands & Cottages, Situate in the Parish of Ilminster.... Which will be Offered for Sale by Auction by Mr. Morris, at the "George Inn," in Ilminster, On Friday, the 30th day of June, 1871. Folio, folded, 3pp. 1871. £15.00
Kip (J) THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF BATH Fine copper engraving showing the Abbey from the west side, many groups of figures strolling around, children playing ball, etc. Size 18" x 22", (including title below view) plus margins. The abbey takes up most of the frame. c1720. £125.00
¶ From 'Theatre de la Grande Bretagne'.
(Lansdown, Henry Venn) CHARLECOMBE CHURCH, NEAR BATH Monochrome watercolour, unsigned, size 10" x 13" (painted right to the edge of paper), on card mount, overall size of mount 17" x 23". Shows chapel with figures in front, cows sheltering under tree. c1850. £125.00
¶ Henry Venn Lansdown was the author of 'Recollections of the late William Beckford'. Meehan used similar watercolours by Lansdown from his own collection to illustrate 'Famous Houses of Bath and District'.
Levi & Son Publisher ROYAL CABINET ALBUM OF BATH 12 photolitho views on extending strip, folding into decorative gilt boards, oblong small 8vo. c1880. £14.00
Lewis Bros., Photographers POSTCARDS OF BATH HISTORICAL PAGEANT Three real photographic cards, titled in white in the plate showing scenes from the pageant with Romans, etc. Unused. One card with vertical crease. 1901. £12.00
Longleat House ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LI. 5,6 etc. (parts of), printed surface approx. 25" x 38". Scale 25" to 1 mile. Folded. Second Edition 1904. £16.00
¶ Shows Longleat House at the bottom of the map, Oxstalls Farm, Park Hill Farm.
Lower Failand ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. V.3. size approx. 25" x 38". Scale 25" to 1 mile. Water features and buildings hand-coloured. Small tear with a little loss of paper in blank area. Linen backed. First edition. 1884. £30.00
¶ Shows Jubb's Court, Failand Hill House, Higher Farm, Quarries, Deer Park.
Lower Weston, Twerton, Bath ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XIII.8. Printed surface approx. 25" x 38". Scale 1/2500. 1932. £17.00
¶ Covers area from Locksbrook Cemetery to Clays End, including Flight Works, Weston Mills, Maltings etc.
Lyncombe Hill, Bath AUCTION POSTER. Desirable Freehold Investment. Messrs Powell & Powell will sell by Auction on the premises on Wednesday, 8th Day of July, 1874.... all that substantially-built and commodious residence. No 5, Augustus Place, otherwise Augusta House, Lyncombe Hill.... Size approx. 40" x 25", folded, some wear to folds, couple of splits affecting a few letters. J. Keene, Printer, Bath. 1874. £18.00
Mark Moor POSTER Mr Francis Duckett will offer for Sale by Auction, At the Pack Horse Hotel, Mark, On Friday, the 4th Sept., 1908.... Freehold Pasture Land.... Size approx. 22" x 17«", folded. Slight off-setting. Oliver & Son Machine Printers, Axbridge. 1908. £12.00
Martock CONVEYANCE of Martock East Field, the Trustees of W.R. Warry to Samuel Darby. 2 large vellum sheets, signed by 9 parties with 9 wax seals. 1874. £12.00
¶ With Schedule of deeds from 1837-73.
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Moss Flower (T.J) PORTISHEAD SEWERAGE SCHEME Contract No. 1. Outfall details. Engineering drawing in ink and full colour on Whatman paper backed with linen, size 24" x 43". Scale 1" to 1 foot. Delicately coloured in shades of blue and brown, with great detail of each bolt etc. Shows large side elevation with piles, and four other sections and plans. Some creasing of paper at centre. Signed by J. Moss Flower. 18th June 1897. £65.00
¶ A beautifully executed and coloured engineering drawing.
Nempnett, Winford, Blagdon MEMORANDUM OF AN AGREEMENT between Thomas Mullins of Goathurst in the County of Somerset Gentleman, on behalf of Charles Kemeys Tynte.... and James Light of Regilbury Park, Somerset, Yeoman, the intended Tenant... Printed document, setting out husbandry methods to be followed etc., 3p., folio, with manuscript insertions, the third page comprises a Schedule with printed columns and manuscript listing of house, fields etc., with acreage and use, in the above parishes. 1826. £22.00
¶ Signed by James Stone, Clerk to Charles Mullins.
Nether Stowey OAK TIMBER TO BE SOLD at the Globe, in Nether Stowey, on Wednesday the 19th, Day of April Instant, by Four O'Clock, Forty Large Oak Trees... The Trees are in Holford Wood, near Stowey, 3 miles from Coombwich; 6 from Watchet.... John Webber of Holford aforesaid, will shew the Timber.... Handbill, size 8" x 6", printed in large type, decorative border above imprint, little hand pointing to John Webber's name. Paper slightly frayed at top corner, traces of vertical fold. Pile, Printer, Norton, 12th April, 1815. £36.00
Nether Stowey, Withycombe, Carhampton etc. A SCHEDULE OF WRITINGS belonging to the late Mr John Rock's Lands in Somerset (all of which delivered to William Buck persuant to the said Mr Rock's Will). Vellum sheet size 17" x 14", listing 37 documents, the first of which is from 'the 20th year after the Conquest', written on both sides, receipted by William Buck as having received the deeds of William Grange and Sarah Cockhill 'with power of leasing during my minority'. 1757. £60.00
¶ Refers to lands at 'Quarrampton', Stowey, Cutcombe, Winsford, a house at Dunkery, Stowey Mill.
Ninehead GRANT OF ADMINISTRATION to Elizabeth Ludlow Widow of William Ludlow of Ninehead. Vellum certificate, printed with ms inserts, good papered seal of Archdeaconry of Taunton on tag. On verso is endorsement concerning Wiveliscombe Turnpike. 1853. £14.00
Nynehead COUNTERPART LEASE of Blockhouse Farm, E. Ayshford Sanford to Elizabeth and William Ludlow. Printed, 1p, folio, with manuscript inserts, and inside a manuscript Schedule over 2 pages, giving names of fields, cultivation and acreage. Unsigned. 1861. £14.00
Nynehead ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of W. de C. Prideaux's article for 'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society' article (Vol LVIII), on 'An early portion of the Churchwarden's Accounts of All Saints, Nynehead (1668-1684).' 49 foolscap sheets, written in ink on one side only, held at corners with metal clips, folded horizontally. 1913. £30.00
Oldford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXX.11. Printed surface approx. 25" x 38". Scale 1/2500. Second edition 1904. £14.00
¶ Covers Staplemead Woollen Mills, Oldford, Whitechapel Farm.
Pitminster AN INVENTORY TAKEN AT LOWTON in the parish of Pitminster the 26th day of May 1830 by William Buncombe and John Colman on the Live Stock, Corn, Implements of Husbandry, Cider, Casks, &c, the Property of the Late Thomas Southwood. 2p., folio, in a clear hand, with prices in neat column.... together with... Amount of Rents Due to Thomas Southwood from his Tenants.... May 12th 1830. lists 29 tenants, with sums due. 1p., folio. 1830. £36.00
Pitminster PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICES Eleven notices for Assessment Year 1842, printed in black and red, with manuscript inserts, for different landowners at Pitminster, with duty payable. Signed by Assessor. Oblong 4to, traces of fold. 1843. £12.00
¶ Does not mention the actual properties.
Puriton and Bawdrip TO BE SOLD by Auction, Body and Son, at the Shoulder of Mutton Inn, Friday 26th May... Messuage, Lands and Premises... Mr. Giles Roe, of Puriton, will shew the Premises... Poster, printed in a variety of large type-faces, size 30" x 20", folded. Describes 8 Lots. The occupiers were Giles Roe and Thomas Meaker. May 2nd, 1843. £25.00
Rowe (G) THE KITCHEN Glastonbury Abbey. Lithograph, size 8" x 8", plus margins, on India paper, small fault in paper in blank area near title. c1830. £20.00
¶ Attractive view showing building covered in ivy, old man and boy in front near window.
Rowe (G), Exeter, Drawn and Published by THE GEORGE INN (The Abbey Prison), Glastonbury. Lithograph, size 7«" x 6", plus wide margins. Some minor creasing at two corners. c1835. £26.00
¶ A busy scene showing organ grinder with monkey, children on cart etc.
Rowe (George), Printer and Publisher LITHOGRAPHED VIEWS OF SOMERSET. 11 tinted lithographs. Tissue guards, size of each view approx. 8«" x 11«", overall size of book 11" x 15", early unlettered half calf, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional foxing. Cheltenham: George Rowe, c1848. £320.00
¶ The views are:- West Front, Wells Cathedral (this view is not by Rowe, but published by T. Green, Wells); St. Cuthberts, Wells; The Bishops Palace, Wells; The Chapel and Ruins of Great Hall, Bishops Palace, Wells; Doorway, Glastonbury Abbey; St. Joseph's Chapel, Glastonbury Abbey; St. Mary and St. Josephs Chapel, Glastonbury Abbey; Cheddar Church; The Cheddar Cliffs (3 views);
Shepton Mallett NOTICE to Owners, Lessees and Occupiers for acquisition of lands at Shepton Mallet from the Trustees of Mr & Mrs Jelly. Somerset and Dorset Railway (Extension to the Midland Railway at Bath). Letter on 1p., folio, double-page schedule of lands inside, completed in manuscript.... together with... a letter from Land Agents at Bath relative to the case, printed heading 'Somerset and Dorset Extension to the Midland Railway at Bath'. 1p, 4to. July 22nd, 1872. £18.00
¶ Lands at Shepton included house, garden, conduit, pond etc.
Smith (B), Printer, Wellington THE DRUNKARD'S TREE The Sin of Drunkenness Expels Reason, Drowns Memory, Distempers the Body... Broadside printed on green paper, size 10" x 9", being a homily attacking drink, in the shape of a tree and its roots, each line printed in a different type face, wavy border. A few very small marginal tears at left edge. Traces of folds. n.d. c1850. £45.00
Somerton A CATALOGUE of the Equipment of the Residence 'The Grange', to be Sold by Auction... July 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 1909. 42pp., 8vo, wraps. 1909. £8.00
South Cadbury GLEBE EXCHANGE A Survey and Valuation of Lands in the Parish of South Cadbury the subject of a Proposed Exchange between Revd. Henry Bennett as Rector and James Bennett. Manuscript on 8p folio, sewn, with two double page schedules of lands, with field names, cultivation, declaration of surveyor etc. Folded. 1846. £16.00
¶ Refers to a plan, not present.
Staple Fitzpaine LEASE of a messuage and tenement containing 18 acres, Henry Portman of Brayanstone, Dorset, to Jane Redford of Staple Fitzpaine, widow. Vellum, size 18" x 25", wax seal. Signed Portman. Ink slightly faded. 1770. £16.00
Stoke under Hamden, Thorne Coffin SETTLEMENT OF REAL ESTATE in contemplation of the marriage to Miss Eleanor Wyllie with John Francis of Stoke under Hamden. 1838. 9p. folio, tied at corner with tape, folded. Attested copy 1842. £18.00
¶ Properties include cottage, house and a dovecote, numerous areas of meadow, pasture, arable etc., described in detail over two pages.
Stoke under Hamdon DEMISE of a plot of ground, part of a garden, on Ham Hill, Samuel Haynes, Labourer, to John Tavender, Labourer. On paper, size 20" x 28", signed with his mark by Haynes, wax seal with a bust. Two very small splits in folds. 1827. £18.00
Stothert & Pitt, Bath REPORT AND BALANCE SHEET Year ended 30th June, 1915. 2p.., folio, folded. 1915. £12.00
Sweeting (Miss) THE OLD MANOR HOUSE AND CHURCH East Quantocks Head. The Seat of J.F. Luttrell Esq. Tinted lithograph, engraved surface 8" x 11", plus margins. A couple of foxing spots in one margin, two minor water-stains at extreme edge of paper. Lithographed by A. Pocock, c1840. £38.00
¶ An attractive view showing the house on a wooded rise with boats on the Channel in the background.
Syer (J), drawn by & Hawkins (G) lith. BATH, FROM BEACON HILL Tinted lithograph. Size approx. 11" x 17", plus margins (which are narrow at sides), on thick paper. Some small light foxing spots in sky area and below title. Small tear less than 1" long in bottom margin, in surface of paper only, small crease at bottom left corner, not affecting engraving. Pub. Everitt, Pulteney Bridge (1850) £70.00
¶ A fine view across the whole city. Shows two figures seated in foregraound, the river, terraces of house, Abbey in distance, train on railway at left. This lithograph was published separately and offered by Everitt at 4s each, 7s 6d coloured.
Taunton and Minehead ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 129. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. Name and address in small letters in ink on front wrap. 1937. £6.00
Taunton and Minehead ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 129. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1938. £9.50
Taunton Area THE WEEKLY AVERAGE PRICE OF WHEAT for 1826, 1827 & 1828. An Abstract of the Weekly returns sent to the Board of Trade. Manuscript on folio sheet ruled in columns for Date, Average, Remarks. At the bottom is the name 'Wm. Court. inspector of Corn Returns for the District of Taunton and its Vicinity'. Folded, docket title, small piece of sealing wax dropped on verso making small hole, with loss of one digit. Paper watermarked 1827. £18.00
Taunton CONVEYANCE of houses and premises in Middle Street, Trustees of the Will of Thomas Norman Snr. to Thomas Norman. 2p., folio, folded, red margins. 1903. £8.00
Taunton Eye Infirmary THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT March 1st 1847 - March 1st 1848. 2p., blank adjoining leaf with address panel (addressed to Robert Mattock at Pitminster). First page comprises engraving of hospital, with List of Subscribers, overleaf is list of donations, total of patients admitted, details of proposed New Eye Infirmary etc. Marriott, Pr., Taunton, 1848. £24.00
Taunton GRANTS Six grants 'out of Lockage', made at the Court Baron of William Kinglake Lord of the Manor of Taunton Late Priory. 5p., small folio. Refers to 6 areas of land including property in Middle Street. 30th October. 1826. Copy made c1877. £18.00
Taunton Property FOR SALE, BY PRIVATE TREATY In Two Lots, The Unique Residential Property known as "Wheatleigh" with tastefully laid out grounds, lawns and gardens, stables.... A pair of Attractive Gothic Cottages with Grass Land at Haines Hill, containing together 15¬ Acres. Messrs C.R. Morris Sons & Peard, Estate Agents, North Curry, Taunton. 4to, original wraps, 7pp and 4 pages of plates, large coloured folding plan in pocket at rear. c1920. £25.00
Taunton St. James RELEASE of a tenement called the Barr House, on the south side of Blackpoole, four acres of land called Grassegrove, two closes divided by a Rhine, etc. James Musgreave of Kingston to John Hall of Taunton St. James. Vellum, 15" x 18", wax seal on tag, calligraphic title, vellum browned in lower half, vellum worn on verso. 1708. £28.00
Taunton STATUTE MEASURE OF HOLWAY FARM belonging to Messrs Jeffery and Evered in the Parish of Taunton St. Mary Magdalen. 1p. folio, manuscript, listing fields, orchards etc., with quality, and acreage of each. Blank conjoint leaf torn. Folds. Paper watermarked 1832. £10.00
Temple Combe & Henstridge PARTICULARS AND PLAN OF A COMPACT FREEHOLD PROPERTY KNOWN AS "MOOR MILL ESTATE" consisting of Homestead and several parcels of Meadow and Orchard Land. To be sold by Auction at Worthy's Royal Hotel Temple Combe, On Thursday, the 15th of July, 1875. Folio, folded, 4pp, large coloured folding plan. 1875. £17.00
Temple Combe REPORT of J.P. Sturge & Son as to the Line of the Yeovil & Wilton and Bleadon and Blandford Railways through the Estate of Samuel Worthy in the Parish of Temple Coombe. 1«p, folio, in manuscript. Some short splits at folds, blank conjoint leaf with splits repaired at folds. 1847. £18.00
¶ Gives valuation of land to be taken.
Thorn Coffin CONVEYANCE in fee of an Orchard called Church Orchard, James Shorland and Revd. C. Boutflower to Revd. Wyndham Helyar. 3 large vellum sheets, 2 wax seals. 1877. £12.00
¶ The first part of the document refers to agreements with the Somerset and Dorset Railway Company.
PARISH SURVEY Tucker (J.M), Surveyor SURVEY OF THE PARISH OF WEARE IN SOMERSET 1815 4to, full calf, lacks calf on spine, calf on boards very worn and torn. 55 double-page spreads, with columns for no. on map, Proprietors, Premises, Cultivation, Measure, Value per Acre, Annual Value, Rate, followed by 75 pages giving Proprietors in Alphabetical Order, with premises, cultivation. 1815. £320.00
¶ 807 Proprietors listed.
Ubley ABSTRACT OF TITLE to a piece of pasture land called Binhams in the Parish of Ubley. 16p. folio, in manuscript, held at corner with tape. 1869. £20.00
¶ Details title from 1818.
Ubley CONVEYANCE of close of land called 'Binhams', John Griffin to Susan Knowles. 2 large vellum sheets, wax seals. Affixed is completed document for taking acknowledgement of deeds by married women. 1869 £12.00
¶ With Schedule of deeds from 1818.
Victoria Art Gallery Exhibition A PLAN FOR BATH Exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Feb. 1 - March 3, 1945. 9pp., 8vo, illusts. Red and black wraps. 1945. £10.00
Walcot MORTGAGE of a close of land part of 2 acres of land known as Curls in Lyncombe and Widcombe, adjoining the Bath to Frome turnpike road and the 12ft. wide way to the intended buildings to be known as Devonshire Buildings, William Austin to Thomas King and William Hughes. 2 large vellum sheets, 2 wax seals. Some spotting on outside where titled. 1790. £20.00
Walcot, Bath PROBATE of the Will of Mrs Ann Hayward, widow, of Walcot. Two large vellum sheet, printed certificate with ms inserts attached, large papered seal. Some ink blots and dustmarking on verso. 1829. £18.00
¶ Leaves her house in Lansdown Road to her friend Thomas Batchelor, Draper
Walton in Gordano ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. IV.4. size approx. 25" x 38". Scale 25" to 1 mile. Water features and buildings hand-coloured. Linen backed. First edition. 1885. £30.00
¶ Shows Walton in Gordano Village, Conygar, Court Hill.
Washford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XLVII.4. size approx. 25" x 38". Scale 25" to 1 mile. Second edition 1903. £15.00
¶ Covers Washford, Lower Washford, St. Mary's Abbey, Bilbrook. Some repaired tears in bottom margin.
Watchet CONVEYANCE of cottages in Swine Street, Watchet, John Drake Jarman and George Knight of Bridgwater to Walter Copp of Watchet, Draper. Vellum, size 22" x 29", 3 wax seals. 1880. £12.00
Weatherly (F.E) CHRISTMAS CARD with four-line verse by F.E. Weatherly. Glossy card, finely printed with colour picture of clay pipe, tobacco and matches, with poem about the joys of pipe-smoking by Weatherly. Size 3«" x 4«". Hildsheimer and Faulkner. c1910. £8.00
¶ Weatherly was a barrister and song-writer who was born in Portishead. He died in 1929.
Wedmore and Heathouse POSTER Messrs, Bennett & Millard Will Sell by Auction, At the "George" Hotel, Wedmore.... February 18, 1892.... Dwelling Houses and Premises.... Size approx. 22«" x 17«", folded, a few small ink stains, repaired split at fold. Oliver & Son, Stationers and Machine Printers, Axbridge. 1892. £14.00
Wellington BILL of Egerton Burnetts Royal Serges, for a suit. 4to, fine printed heading showing coats of arms of patrons, cherub, garlands etc, size 2«" x 7«". Details of order typed. Folds. 1909. £7.00
¶ 'Holders of Twenty Four Royal and Imperial Appointments'.
Wellington BOND of Robert Mattock of Lowton House near Wellington, to Elizabeth Langton of Brixton, Surrey, for £1000. 1p., sm. folio, printed with manuscript inserts. Three receipts for payments on verso. Folded, with docket title... together with... BILL of John Bartlett, to Robert Mattock, for plumbing work, 1850-53. 3p., size 15" x 6". 1879. £10.00
Wellington MORTGAGE by Demise of Broomclose Meads, Four Acres, Little Plot, 6 acres bounded by the watercourse that runs to Wellington on the East, a 4 acre close called Cutlers, John Musgrave of Wellington to Richard Wyatt of Nynehead. Vellum,. size 15" x 26", large calligraphic initial letter T with very ornamental strapwork decoration (size 5" x 3"), heavy seal on tag. 1680. £50.00
¶ A fine attractive document.
Wellow PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable Freehold Properties In the Parish of Wellow... All that Attractive and Pleasantly-situate Dwelling-House, Garden, known as Mount Pleasant House.... Messrs Fry and Asprey will offer for Sale.... 20th day of March, 1897. Folio, 4pp, folded. 1897. £14.00
Wells MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BOUNDARIES. Plan of Town by R.K. Dawson. Coloured in outline. Scale 4" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound, with a leaf of text explaining `not visited by commissioners.' 1837. £22.00
Wells TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION for the Lives of three healthy Persons; At the Bull's-Head Inn, in the City of Wells... 26th day of January Instant... The Under-Mentioned Messuage Lands and Premises; Situate in the Tithing of Coxley and near to the said City... Handbill, size 15" x 10", some light creasing. Some prices and purchasers' names added in ink. Lists 10 Lots, with name of field, acreages, occupier. Printed by J.E. Lewis, of whom may be had Stamps for Bills.... 9th January 1815. £45.00
¶ Includes land called South Croft at Polsham, Folly-Ground, Dwelling House at Coxley.
West Harptree TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION At the Crown Inn.... 16th day of March... For Lives to be Named by the Purchasers, The Following Lands and Tenements.... Poster, size 16" x 13", printed in bold type, giving details of 11 Lots for sale, plus 2 Lots which were to be let. Folds, some minor offsetting, small piece torn from top right corner. Baker, General Printing-Office, Wellington. Dated 22nd February 1819. £48.00
¶ Includes tenements called Gains, Fairash, Budds, Holbrooks, Crown Inn, Flowers, Snooks.
Western Division Election TO THE ELECTORS OF THE WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Gentlemen, As the Dissolution of Parliament is at hand, I ask you again to place me in the proud position which I have held for the last six years as one of the Representatives of the Western Division of the County of Somerset.... Your faithful Servant, W. Gore Langton, Hatch Beauchamp, 17th March, 1857. Poster, size 20" x 11¬", some slight off-setting, one short tear. W. Wood, Printer, Williton, 1857. £35.00
Weston super Mare ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. IX.16. Scale 1: 2500, size 27" x 38", folded, corner torn away above Sheet No.., a few small tears at top margin. Surveyed 1883, revised 1936. £14.00
¶ Covers area from Alma St., to Milton Halt, Ashcombe Wood to Bridge Road.
Weston super Mare CONVEYANCE in fee of a dwellinghouse no 7 Orchard Place, Messrs. Stock, Jones and Harvey to Charles Greenslade. Large vellum sheet, wax seals. 1862. £12.00
Wheatley (William Walter) OLD CLEEVE CHURCH Watercolour illustrating a medieval memorial of a man in long robes lying with his head resting on a pillow, in a decorative niche. In brown tones, size 10" x 14". Initialled. Mounted in ivory card mount, 4" margins. On verso is ink inscription (presumably copied when mounted) 'Old Cleeve Church, Somerset sketched 1844. Unknown! perfectly right! If Collinson does not mention it he is (as he very often was) inaccurate! I remember it perfectly...' 1844. £36.00
¶ It is not known who this monument represents. William Walter Wheatley (c1811-1885) was employed over a period of ten years by Francis Weare Braikenridge, the Bristol antiquarian, to record old houses, churches, monuments and antiquities in Somerset. It was hoped they might be used to illustrate a new edition of Collinson's Somerset. Wheatley is thought to have been born in Bristol, lived for a time at Rode in Somerset, and died in Bath.
Whitchurch BOND of James Colston of Whitchurch, Gentleman, to Charles Hall of Englishcombe for one thousand pounds. 1«p, folio, folded. Small wax seal. 1779. £16.00
¶ Concerns the marriage portion of his daughter Ann, about to be married to Charles Hall.
Wilton ORDER of the Justices of the Peace for Somerset to the Overseers of Wilton, to pay money collected for the Relief of the Poor to William Pinchard, Clerk to the Magistration.... for the performance of duties specified hereunder..... Printed 4to sheet, MS inserts. Signed, with 2 small blue seals. Address panel on verso with blue two penny stamp, address of Overseers at Wilton, blue Taunton postmark. 1849. £12.00
Wilts. Somerset and Weymouth Railway TRACING OF PROPOSED RAILWAY FROM PITCOMBE TO BRUTON with names of Owners through the proposed lands to be taken. Recd. from Mr. Peniston 21 March 1848. Finely drawn plan in ink and three colours on tracing paper, size 17" x 33", folded with docket title, signed 'J. Peters Yeovil, 18.3.48' bottom right. Scale 4 chains to an inch... together with a small plan size 7" x 11" on tracing paper, scale 4 chains to an inch, showing two areas of land bordering the line at Pitcombe. 1848. £60.00
¶ Shows the line in pink, with roads, river, buildings, wooded areas, names of owners.
Withypool LEASE FOR A YEAR of tenement of Halsgrove, Samuel and George Cary to Francis Bastone. Vellum, 17" x 24", 2 wax seals. 1821. £14.00
Withypool RELEASE IF FEE of the Equity of Redemption in tenement called Halsgrove, in Withypool, and Assignment of Shares in the West of England Insurance Office, Cecilia Bastone and Francis Bastone of Minehead to William Cockburn and George Webb. 3 vellum sheets, 21" x 28", 3 wax seals. Some slight browning, ink slightly faded. 1835. £14.00
Wookey (Manor of) LEASE of five and a half acres of arable or pasture land called Calve's Close formerly parcel of Marley Grounds in Wookey, part of the Manor of Wookey, Denys Rolle of Shapwick to Joseph Middleham of Wells, yeoman. Vellum, size 23" x 29", large engraved heading with coat of arms, good wax seal with coat of arms. Signed on behalf of Rolle by John Walter. 1765. £30.00
¶ Stipulates that no land which had been pasture for twenty years was to be ploughed, rights of Plough Bote, Gate Bote and Style Bote, tenant's attendance at Manor Courts etc.
Woolverton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Somerset Sheet No. XXX.3/ Wilts. XXXVIII.13. Printed surface approx. 25" x 38". Scale 1/2500. Reprint of Second edition c1940. £14.00
¶ Covers Woolverton, Shawford House, Merfield House, etc.
Worle and Kewstoke PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF FREEHOLD MESSUAGES, OUTBUILDINGS, Closes of pasture, Arable and Orchard Lands, situate in the parishes of Worle and Kewstoke.... Containing in the whole about Fifty Acres, which will be Sold by Auction by Mr Samuel Norton, In Thirteen Lots at Rogers Hotel, Weston-super-mare, on Tuesday, September 16, 1862. Folio, 7pp, folded, short splts where folded. 1862. £16.00
Yatton A TERRIER as well of all the Glebe lands Tenements, Orchards & Gardens belonging to the Rectory or Parsonage of Yatton and Kenne, As also of all the Glebe lands Orchards Gardens obligations profits emoluments & portions of Tythes belonging to the Vicarage thereof made by us whose names are hereunto subscribed the Third day of March Anno Domini 1635. 12 folio pages, folded, sewn at corner, listing tenants, acreage of lands held and location, with details of tithes paid for orchards, lambs, cows, 'hay silver' 'Cheate wheat' etc., e.g. 'Item the tythe of the Mills in Yatton and Kenn and also of Fishing fowling and other personall tythes do belong to the Vicar. Item due to the vicar for Pidgeon houses or dove houses four pence. For every house for Churching of Women four pence....' Copy made circa 1825, probably in connection with a dispute over tithes, with rough notes of lawyers' opinion etc. on verso of several pages. Some underlining in text. Copied c1825. £60.00
Yatton CONVEYANCE of an acre of land known as Quarry Ground in Yatton, Edward Gregory and others to Elizabeth and Frances Wickham. Two large vellum sheets. Signed by 4 parties. with wax seals. 1823. £18.00
¶ One of the parties is John Heale, schoolmaster of Yatton.
Yatton TITHE MAP Tracing of tithe map on 8 sheets of waxed cotton, size 19" x 26", mounted on paper, with key plan, and bound in cloth boards. MS label with solicitor's name on front board. c1910. £50.00