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Senate House Library, University of London

Documents relating to Westmorland


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 1108

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Documents relating to Westmorland

Date(s): 1574-1904

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

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No further information available.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscripts and documents relating to Westmorland, including: Book containing transcript by John Gibson of the Customs, Services and Royalties belonging to the Mannors, Lordships and Townshipps in the Richmond lands within the Barony of Kendal, 1574 (230pp) (1689); Transcriptions of documents relating to Westmorland between 1639 and 1720, possibly the Reverend James Wilson, with enclosed note (January 1904); Illustration and text concerning the Heppe or, Shap Monastery, Westmorland (c1773); Two deeds relating to the land of Lady Fford in Westmorland between Thomas Shepherd of Kirkland, Robert Shepherd of Maitland and Thomas Rowlandson of Kirby, Kendall (first deed), and Charles Benson of Kirkby, Kendall and Thomas Shepherd (second deed) (18 May 1693 and 3 July 1711); Printed test of a 17th century farmhold deed for Maggs How, Kentmere between John Ayrey, Hughe Ayrey and Robert Gilpin (26 November 1623); Deed relating to land in Westmorland between John Price of Dublin, Sir John Lowther and Robert Durkett of Kirekby, Kendall (26 June 1685); Two court summons for John Burn, Battalion Clerk and Clerk of meetings of the militia for neglecting to return a militia for his township (October 1791); Plan of the proposed navigable canal from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Eccleston in the County of Lancaster to Kendal in Westmorland, surveyed by Robert Whitworth (1772); Two Endowed Charities returns for the County of Westmorland (15 July 1868 and 5 September 1895).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

No further arrangement required.

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

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Institute for Historical Research by 'WK', provenance unknown, 14 July 1981.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Description by Stefan Dickers for 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: March 2005


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Canals | Transport infrastructure
Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Plans | Visual materials
Reserve armed forces | Armed forces | State security
Military organizations
Waterways

Personal names
Whitworth | Robert | fl 1772 | surveyor
Wilson | James | fl 1904

Corporate names
Heppe Monastery

Places
Eccleston | Cheshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kendal | Westmorland | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe