HEREFORDSHIRE - HAMPTON COURTVolume containing collection of c.70 seventeenth and eighteenth century manuscript documents pertaining to the history of Hampton Court and the Earls of Coningsby, beginning with "Mr Blount's Account of Hampton, transcribed from ye original in his own hand", and including copies of extracts from manorial rolls ("...This is part of the manor of Hampton Rishards, now called Hampton Court, the seat of present Earl of Coningsby..."), the Doomsday Book and Monastium Anglicanum, abstracts from and copies of charters and registers ("The Charter of Richard Bishop of Hereford... Church of Leomynster..."), "The Fifteenth Part of Patent Rolls of the First Year of the Reign of Queen Mary", a pedigree of the Nevills, receipt from George Holmes dated 1720 for exemplifying a charter (including 02.08.0 for the Great Seal and 00.05.0 for the "Baggbearer"), papers on "Lady Coningesby's Case", accounts signed by John Kyrle and John Scudamore, 1640, a schedule of letters belonging to Thomas Coningsby that "remaine in my custody at Hampton Court... November 1614", and much else; written in several hands, in English and Latin, with occasional notes ("The Kings that follow are very ancient yet I could not avoid taking notice of them as they came in my way... There is a Roll of 4 membranes or skins of parchment written on the back thereof..."), duty stamps and dockets, bound in one volume with later index written in ink on blue paper tipped into front, several pages excised at end, titled 'Herefordshire Collections' in gilt on spine, 739 numbered pages, dust-staining, creasing and marks, edges frayed, half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, corners bumped, hinges cracked, ink stain to spine, folio (various sizes 300 x 175mm. to c.320 x 200mm.), [seventeenth/eighteenth century]; and 2 others including a manuscript "Survey and Valuation of the Estate belonging to the Right Hon.ble Lord Viscount Malden in the Counties of Hereford, Worcester and Radnor", 226pp., contemporary reversed calf, red and black leather spine labels ("Hampton Court Estate.. vol. 1"), 4to, [c.1780s] (3)Footnotes'THIS VILLAGE, LYING IN THE PARISH OR CHAPELRY OF HOPE UNDER DINMORE, WAS HERETOFORE CALLED HAMPTON MAPPENORE AND HAMPTON RICHARD TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM OTHER HAMPTONS IN THIS COUNTY': A miscellaneous collection of documents pertaining to the property and history of the Coningsby family in Herefordshire seemingly gathered by Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (1656-1729) and bound together in the nineteenth century. Amongst the copies of deeds and registers there are a handful of autograph letters to the Earl. One, signed "James Hill" and undated, encloses copies of deeds concerning Bodenham, Marden and surrounding villages, and confirms "This day I brought a Painter to look upon the picture of Sir Thomas Conyngesby, he admired it. And say it would take time to draw an accurate copy... he will come to Hampton & copy it exactly". This may refer to the portrait now attributed to George Gower of his ancestor, also Thomas (1550-1625), senior knight of the shire for Herefordshire, intimate of Sir Philip Sidney and author of an account of the siege of Rouen in 1591. Another autograph letter on the militia dated May 1694 and signed "J Scudamore", warns him to "...be careful in keeping out all those that are not very well satisfied with the government...", naming Sir John Hoskyns as such a person ("...it was against his conscience to take the Oaths Obedience to Government...").
HEREFORDSHIRE - HAMPTON COURTVolume containing collection of c.70 seventeenth and eighteenth century manuscript documents pertaining to the history of Hampton Court and the Earls of Coningsby, beginning with "Mr Blount's Account of Hampton, transcribed from ye original in his own hand", and including copies of extracts from manorial rolls ("...This is part of the manor of Hampton Rishards, now called Hampton Court, the seat of present Earl of Coningsby..."), the Doomsday Book and Monastium Anglicanum, abstracts from and copies of charters and registers ("The Charter of Richard Bishop of Hereford... Church of Leomynster..."), "The Fifteenth Part of Patent Rolls of the First Year of the Reign of Queen Mary", a pedigree of the Nevills, receipt from George Holmes dated 1720 for exemplifying a charter (including 02.08.0 for the Great Seal and 00.05.0 for the "Baggbearer"), papers on "Lady Coningesby's Case", accounts signed by John Kyrle and John Scudamore, 1640, a schedule of letters belonging to Thomas Coningsby that "remaine in my custody at Hampton Court... November 1614", and much else; written in several hands, in English and Latin, with occasional notes ("The Kings that follow are very ancient yet I could not avoid taking notice of them as they came in my way... There is a Roll of 4 membranes or skins of parchment written on the back thereof..."), duty stamps and dockets, bound in one volume with later index written in ink on blue paper tipped into front, several pages excised at end, titled 'Herefordshire Collections' in gilt on spine, 739 numbered pages, dust-staining, creasing and marks, edges frayed, half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, corners bumped, hinges cracked, ink stain to spine, folio (various sizes 300 x 175mm. to c.320 x 200mm.), [seventeenth/eighteenth century]; and 2 others including a manuscript "Survey and Valuation of the Estate belonging to the Right Hon.ble Lord Viscount Malden in the Counties of Hereford, Worcester and Radnor", 226pp., contemporary reversed calf, red and black leather spine labels ("Hampton Court Estate.. vol. 1"), 4to, [c.1780s] (3)Footnotes'THIS VILLAGE, LYING IN THE PARISH OR CHAPELRY OF HOPE UNDER DINMORE, WAS HERETOFORE CALLED HAMPTON MAPPENORE AND HAMPTON RICHARD TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM OTHER HAMPTONS IN THIS COUNTY': A miscellaneous collection of documents pertaining to the property and history of the Coningsby family in Herefordshire seemingly gathered by Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (1656-1729) and bound together in the nineteenth century. Amongst the copies of deeds and registers there are a handful of autograph letters to the Earl. One, signed "James Hill" and undated, encloses copies of deeds concerning Bodenham, Marden and surrounding villages, and confirms "This day I brought a Painter to look upon the picture of Sir Thomas Conyngesby, he admired it. And say it would take time to draw an accurate copy... he will come to Hampton & copy it exactly". This may refer to the portrait now attributed to George Gower of his ancestor, also Thomas (1550-1625), senior knight of the shire for Herefordshire, intimate of Sir Philip Sidney and author of an account of the siege of Rouen in 1591. Another autograph letter on the militia dated May 1694 and signed "J Scudamore", warns him to "...be careful in keeping out all those that are not very well satisfied with the government...", naming Sir John Hoskyns as such a person ("...it was against his conscience to take the Oaths Obedience to Government...").
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