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Senate House Library, University of London

Assignment of land in Yorkshire


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 585

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Assignment of land in Yorkshire

Date(s): 1761

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 10 membranes

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Indenture quadripartite of 11 Feb 1761 by which George Lane, of Bramham Park, Yorkshire (West Riding), with the consent of Ralph Bourchier, 'doctor in physick', of Great Ormond Street in the parish of St.George the Martyr, London, and his daughter and heir Margaret Bourchier, assigned to the Hon William Chetwynd, of Dover Street, London, the manors or lordships of Benningborough [Beningbrough], Overton [Ovington], Barforth and Newton-upon-Ouse, all in the North Riding of Yorkshire, formerly the estate of John Bourchier, deceased, for the remainder of a term of 500 years. Signed and sealed by the four parties. Ralph Bourchier inherited the estates on the death of his great-niece Mildred, wife of the Hon Robert Lane, in 1760.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

24½" x 29". Parchment.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from Spelman in 1963.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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: Oct 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Land tenure | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Legal documents | Law
Legal systems | Law
Documents

Personal names
Bourchier | Margaret | fl 1761 | daughter of Ralph Bourchier
Bourchier | Ralph | fl 1761 | physician
Chetwynd | William | fl 1761 | Honorable
Lane | George | Fox- | d 1772 | 1st Baron Bingley x Fox-Lane | George x Bingley | 1st Baron

Corporate names

Places
Barforth | Forcett | North Riding | Yorkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Beningbrough | Newton upon Ouse | Yorkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Ovington | Forcett | North Riding | Yorkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe