WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 O/223
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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.

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

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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.