Janus: Chesterton, Cambridgeshire: manorial papers

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.20	Samuel Knight: Collections for a life of Simon Patrick, bishop of Ely
MS Add.21	Samuel Knight: Notes on Cambridgeshire churches
MS Add.22	Henry Smyth: papers
MS Add.23	Henry Smyth: letters and memoranda
MS Add.24	John Watson: Commonplace book
MS Add.25	John Patrick: Tabulae Horariae Britannicae
MS Add.2583	A catalogue of the earlier papers in the 1st vol. of Dr. W. Webb's Cambridge Collection
MS Add.2584	Catalogue of severall prints [of H. Goltzius] contained in this booke, with their lowest pryses
MS Add.2585.1	Charles of Orleans: verses
MS Add.2585.10	Richard Gough: notes on Peter Collinson
MS Add.2585.2	Three sorrowful tidings
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Chesterton, Cambridgeshire: manorial papers

Title	Chesterton, Cambridgeshire: manorial papers
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2607
Covering Dates	1577–1693
Extent and Medium	1 volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Copy of indenture between Richard Brakyn, lord of the manor of Chesterton, and Thomas Brakyn his son and heir, and the copyhold tenants of part of the manor, 13 Nov. 1577, with index and modern copy; Chesterton rental, 1585; John Benstead, ferryman: list of persons paying acknowledgement to lord of manor for ferry passage, 1693.

fo. 1: 'For Mr Francis Carter Written by Ri. Meade g[ent] in the yeare 1693', 'Thos H. Naylor MA 1881', 'in the year 1715 Abd. Halls His Book', 'Jonathan Johnson 1743'.

The parchment wrapper preserves part of a lease for 40 years by Edward Marshall of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, to Edward Dockwray of 'Putteridge', Hertfordshire, of an unidentified rectory, temp. Elizabeth.

Formerly belonged to Francis Carter, Abd. Halls, Jonathan Johnson, and presented by Thomas H. Naylor to the Library in 1881.

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Chesterton, Cambridgeshire

Manorial Papers

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