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The Powys-Lybbe Calendar has been prepared by the Oxford Record Office

The Oxford Record Office now holds all the original Powys-Lybbe deeds. They were placed there firstly by Lady Rose probably after the death of her husband - he had bought Hardwick - and then joined by various deposits principally by my father and lastly a few by myself.

My father's deposits had been kept in enormous box, where, it seemed, our forebears had merely thrown anything they thought relevant.

No effort had been made over the centuries to catalogue, group or even read these documents. I am enormously grateful to the Oxford Record Office for their skill in transcribing them; while I was not convinced that a dusty store was quite the best place for these precious old documents when my father first placed them there, I am now convinced that he could not have done better. And it is for this reason that I added to it the last few documents that had come into my hands; there are not in the current edition of this cartulary, but they will be soon.

One word must be added: while the Oxford Record Office refers to this as the Powys-Lybbe collection, it is really the Lybbe collection. The Lybbes and their descendants centred their estates on Hardwick in Oxfordshire from the early sixteenth to the start of the twentieth century. The Lybbes died out in the 18th century and Philip Powys brought a handsome dowry to the rescue of the cash-starved estate by marrying the young Lybbe heiress. Philip was a youngest son so he held nothing of the Powys family charters, almost all sadly destroyed in a fire at Lilford in the third or fourth decade of this century.

There are also some deeds in the Southgate record office, from the Broomfield, Middlesex property of the Tash and then Michell family, inherited by Henry Philip Powys from his mother Louisa Michell in the first half of the nineteenth century. These are not in this cartulary.

Now for the cartulary itself, as prepared by the Oxford Record Office, with their reference numbers. I have not used the page numbers of their printed version, as I have introduced a limited HTML cross reference.

CONTENTS PAGE

     POWYS-LYBBE ADMIMISTRATION DETAILS

1    Manor Court Rolls and other Manorial documents.
     ELVENDON - COURT ROLLS        E1/M1/CR/1-35  
     ELVENDON - QUITRENTALS        E1/M1/E/1-4    
     GORING - COURT ROLLS          E1/M2/CR/1-15  
     GORING - RENTALS              E1/M2/E/1-5    
     WHITCHURCH - TERRIERS         E1/M3/E/1-2    
     HARDWICK - TERRIERS AND RENTALS
                                   E1/M4/E/1-5
     NORTHSTOKE - TERRIER          E1/M5/E/1      
     PURLEY - COURT ROLLS          E1/M6/CR/1-18  
     PURLEY - TERRIERS, SURVEYS    E1/M6/E/1

     TITLE DEEDS
2    MANOR OF HARDWICK AND HARDWICK ESTATE
                                   E1/1/1D/1-93
3    MANOR OF ELVENDON             E1/2/1D/1-34  
4    MANOR OF GORING               E1/3/1D/1-22  
5    MANOR OF GOLDERS              E1/4/1D/1-10  
6    MANOR OF LITTLE PURLEY        E1/5/1D/1-16  
7    MANOR OF PURLEY MAGNA         E1/6/1D/1-11  
8    MANOR OF BENSHEAVES           E1/7/1D/1-2    
9    HAWE PLACE ESTATE             E1/8/1D/1-16
10   GORING ESTATES                E1/9/1D-15D
     a)   LITTLE AND GREAT APE CROFT
                                   E1/9/1D/1-12  
     b)   BEECH FARM               E1/9/2D/1-10  
     c)   BREDY’S BARN             E1/9/3D/1      
     d)   BLACKBIRD COTTAGE        E1/9/4D/1      
     e)   CLIFTONS                 E1/9/5D/1-4    
     f)   FOX COVER FARM           E1/9/6D/1      
     g)   GORING HEATH - BRICK KILN LANDS
                                   E1/9/7D/1-15
     h)   LADY GROVE FARM AND COTTAGE
                                   E1/9/8D/1-2
     i)   NOVETTS LAND             E1/9/9D/1-7    
     k)   NUNNERY                  E1/9/10D/1    
     l)   PARK FARM AND BOTTOM FARM
                                   E1/9/11D/1-16
     m)   PUSCROFT CLOSE           E1/9/12D/1-4  
     n)   QUERNES FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGES
                                   E1/9/13D/1-4
     o)   STAPMILLS                E1/9/14D/1    
     p)   COPPICES AND CLOSES IN GORING AND WHITCHURCH
                                   E1/9/15D/1-11  
     Q)   GENERAL UNSPECIFIED PROPERTY AND CLOSES IN COMMON FIELDS OF GORING
                                   E1/9/16D/1-53
11    WHITCHURCH ESTATES           E1/10/1D-15D
     a)   BEARDS                   E1/10/1D/1-3  
     b)   BEECHES                  E1/10/2D/1-4  
     c)   BOSDEN FIELD - BLACKMORE FIELD
                                   E1/10/3D/1-10
     d)   CADING EYOTT BUTT        E1/10/4D/1-4  
     e)   CRABTREE ACRE            E1/10/5D/1    
     f)   HARDWICK FARM            E1/10/6D/1    
     g)   HEYHOUSE CLOSE OR CARTHOUSE
                                   E1/10/7D/1-3
     h)   KESSELL’S FARM           E1/10/8D/1-2  
     i)   KEEP HILL                E1/10/9D/1    
     j)   LICHFIELD’S ESTATE       E1/10/10D/1-16
     k)   LIVINGSCROFTE- PARKFIELD
                                   E1/10/11D/1-2
     l)   MESNE LANDS              E1/10/12D/1-3  
     m)   MOORE AND EAST FURLONG   E1/10/13D/1    
     n)   MORE END FIELD           E1/10/14D/1-5  
     o)   OVERCLOSE                E1/10/15D/1    
     p)   PATHILL                  E1/10/16D/1-37
     q)   SMITHERS                 E1/10/17D/1-2  
     r)   SPARHAWKES-SOUTHILLS     E1/10/18D/1-15
     s)   LITTLE WOODACRE          E1/10/19D/1-4  
     t)   LAND, CLOSES AND COPPICES NAMED
                                   E1/10/20D/1    
     u)   WHITCHURCH - GENERAL UNSPECIFIED
                                   E1/10/21D/1-25  
12   ESTATE AT NEW & OLD WINDSOR, EASTHAMPSTEAD, BERKS
                                   E1/11/1D/1-7  
13   PROPERTY IN OTHER PLACES IN OXFORDSHIRE BENSON - GOULD’S FARM
                                   E1/12/1D/1-3  
14   CHECKENDON - MANOR AND OTHER PROPERTY
                                   E1/13/1D/1-11
15   KIDLINGTON AND YARNTON        E1/14/1D/1-2  
16   MAPLEDURHAM                   E1/15/1D/1-2  
17   MANOR OF RAWLINS ALIAS WOODCOTE
                                   E1/16/1D/1
18   NORTH STOKE                   E1/17/1D/1-2
19   a) SOUTH STOKE - HOUNDCRAFTE   E1/18/1D/1
     b) SOUTH STOKE - NORTHGROVE   E1/18/2D/1-2
     c) SOUTH STOKE - CLOSES       E1/18/3D/1-4  
     d) SOUTH STOKE - UNSPECIFIED  E1/18/4D/1-2  
20   MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS RELATING TO OXON PARISHES
                                   E1/X/1-41    

     TITLE DEEDS OF OTHER COUNTIES
21     BERKSHIRE                   E1/19/1D-14D
     a)   ALDERMASTON              E1/19/1D/1-2  
     b)   APPLEFORD                E1/19/2D/1-2  
     c)   BRADFIELD                E1/19/3D/1-2  
     d)   BUCKLEBURY               E1/19/4D/1    
     e)   MANOR OF BULMERSH        E1/19/5D/1    
     f)   BURGHFIELD               E1/19/6D/1    
     g)   CHOLSEY                  E1/19/7D/1    
     h)   HURLEY                   E1/19/8D/1    
     i)   TILEHURST                E1/19/9D/1-2  
     j)   PURLEY                   E1/19/10D/1-4
     k)   READING                  E1/19/11D/1-4
     l)   MANOR OF LITTLE SHEFFORD E1/19/12D/1-2
     m)   SULHAM                   E1/19/13D/1  
     n)   WALLINGFORD              E1/19/14D/1-2
22   DEVON AND SOMERSET            E1/20/1D/1-2  
23   DORSET                        E1/21/1D/1    
24   ESSEX                         E1/22/1D/1    
25   HAMPSHIRE                     E1/23/1D/1    
26   KENT                          E1/24/1D/1-2  
27   LEICESTER                     E1/25/1D/1    
28   LONDON                        E1/26/1D/1-7  
29   MIDDLESEX                     E1/27/1D/1    
30   SURREY AND HERTFORDSHIRE      E1/28/1D/1-5  
31   WILTSHIRE                     E1/29/1D/1    
32   YORKSHIRE                     E1/30/1D/1-3  
33   ENCLOSURES OF GORING, WHITCHURCH AND TILEHURST
                                   E1/H/1-12
34   TITHE PAPERS OF VARIOUS PLACES
                                   E1/T/1-21
35   PAPERS OF RICHARD THOMAS POWYS, DEAN OF CANTERBURY
                                   E1/F/1-21
36   PROBATE                       E1/W/1-34    

POWYS-LYBBE ADMIMISTRATION DETAILS


The Powys-Lybbe family held extensive estates in Oxfordshire, principally in the south of the county, in such places as Whitchurch and Goring. In addition they also held property in other counties namely Berkshire where they held a great deal of property. There are also deeds relating to their interest in properties in the Midlands and the south of England. The collection mainly consists of title deeds of places as detailed in the contents page. In addition there are loose papers at the end of the collection relating to enclosures and tithes of various places and finally there are probate items which mainly consist of wills of various members of the Powys-Lybbe family. The collection as a whole dates from the 14th-20th centuries.

The material has been deposited with us at various stages in the last sixty years; the first deposit being in 1935, which was assigned the accession number 8. There was a further deposit in 1983, accession number 2122 and a final small deposit in 1991, accession number 3301. The first deposit in 1935 was catalogued under an old system. In this catalogue I have combined the three deposits and have introduced a completely new cataloguing scheme. The contents page at the front gives details of the order the documents are arranged in and the overall reference that covers that particular category of records and there is a page reference.


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