Malmesbury-Purton

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Scope and Content

Malmesbury-Purton (ff.115). Includes:- Malmesbury: rental of manor, 1658, fol.9; bond by Nicholas Archarde, clothier, 1602, fol.29; letter relating to his portrait from Thomas Hobbes, 15 Oct.1675, to John Aubrey, and reply from Aubrey, 23 Oct.1675, fol.25; The Parliamentary Intelligencer (11 May-4 June 1660), fol.27; Norton: poor law removal case, 1800, fol.48; deed of manor and rectory, 1589, fol.51; deed of house, 1695, fol.52; particulars of manor and two letters conc. a sale offer of Norton manor to Lord Weymouth, 'found at Longleat', 1706-7, fol.53; correspondence of the Jacob family of Norton, 1720-42, and papers relating to their estate, 1737, fol.59v, and 1744, fol.61; sketches by Jackson of Norton church, 1846, vicarage cottage, and plan of old pews, 1866, fols.63v, 67v,72v; writ in suit of Nash v. Wansbrough relating to lands in Potterne, 1661, fol.63v.

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