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London Metropolitan Archives

WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/223

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Date(s): 1823-1837

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Feoffment was an early form of conveyance involving a simple transfer of freehold land by deed followed by in a ceremony called livery of seisin.

A marriage settlement was a legal agreement drawn up before a marriage by the two parties, setting out terms with respect to rights of property and succession.

Probate (also called proving a will) is the process of establishing the validity of a will, which was recorded in the grant of probate.

Source: British Records Association Guidelines 3: How to interpret deeds (available online).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents donated by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, including draft marriage settlement between Henry Roberts and Betsy Martyn; draft feoffment between the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Insurance Office and Frances Gardner and probate copy of will of William Rayson.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Three items in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gifted to the Archive in 1966.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Feoffment | Property transfer | Property
Marriage settlements (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Probate copies | Wills | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources

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Places