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Volume of sketch plans and elevations of St Anselms School, Park Lane, Croydon

Volume containing 3 terriers of the lands of the Archbishops of Canterbury as Lords of the Manor of Croydon, 1492/3; 1516/17; 1543; with related material and annotations.

There is some question about the date of the second terrier ('Warhams). The date is entered as 'ao Henr octavi viii; but there may have been an attempt to alter the 'viii to a 'iii. Both Quaritchs cataloguer and CG Paget believed this, and therefore dated the terrier to 1511-12; but it seems more likely that no alteration was intended, and the terrier is therefore dated here to 1516-17. The 1492-3 terrier (including the c1490 rental) and the 1516-17 terrier are on paper bearing the same watermark, and were presumably entered in the same original book, although they are in two different hands. The 1543 terrier has been bound in with them later, and the various indexes and the series of extracts from court rolls also appear to have been bound in at this later date.

The three terriers are surveys of the lands of the Archbishops of Canterbury in the parish of Croydon. None of the terriers include the town of Croydon, Croydon Park, or Croydon and Norwood Commons; and only that of 1543 includes the manor of Waddon. The name of the tenant, and the acreage, are given for each landholding. In 1492-3 the quit rent payable (a sum of money, in lieu of manorial services) is also given: quit rents are mainly of the order of two or three pence per acre. The arrangement of the 1492-3 terrier follows a rough perambulation around the parish. The 1516-17 terrier is arranged by 'Burrowes (borghs, or tithings), and brings together the holdings of each tenant within each borgh. The 1543 terrier closely follows that of 1492-3, but attempts to bring it up to date (not always successfully).

Contents:

f1 Terrier 1492 - 3

f26 An elder rental (arranged by tenants names) c.1490

f29 Index to field names in 1492-3 terrier

f30 Index to tenants names in c.1490 rental (2 copies)

f32 Extracts from court rolls, deeds etc (C13; 1467 - 1549)

f36 Terrier (Warhams) 1516-1517

f61 Terrier (Cranmers) 01 Jan 1543

f81 Single folio from later survey (1558 - 1590)

f88 Index o tennants names in 1543 terrier

f90 Summary of acreages held by Nicholas Heron/Herne

The text contains numerous annotationsin later sixteenth century hands, some dated to 1566.

Pages have been numbered in a ?sixteenth century hand, but inconsistently (perhaps on account of rebindings). Folios have been numbered in pencil in a twentieth century hand, and these are the numbers followed here.

Logarithmic graph comparing hours of sunshine and attendances at public baths in Croydon, 1866-1963 (compiled early 1960s); plans of Sydenham School, Westbury Road, n.d.

Papers of A L Whealler, relating to 1st Volunteer Battalion, Queens Regt, 1887-1911, and (mainly) Croydon Parish Church and Whitgift Foundation

Messages of congratulation from football clubs, players and organisations, reproduced in CSFAs centenary brochure

Deeds to 49 and 50 Upland Road

Deeds to Chumsden, Hurstwood and Highfield, Lismore Road, Croydon

Marriage settlement of Miss Ellen Elizabeth Fanny Fraser of Addiscombe House

Deed to piece of land on Norwood Common

Croydon Quarter Sessions case notebook

Minutes of the Braithwaite Memorial Committee, with some loose items of Committee correspondence

Compiled by RG Watts, of attendance at the Sixth Boy Scout World International Jamboree, held at Moisson, Northern France, 9-18 Aug 1947. The log book comprises a handwritten diary, with photographs, printed ephemera and other memorabilia, press cuttings etc, stuck in. Robert G Watts was Scout Master of 27 Croydon Group. He attended the Jamboree as Assistant Scout Master of Troop 93 (comprising scouts from Croydon (except NW); Mitcham; and Morden and St Helier), part of the Surrey Contingent.

A number of the photographs and other items originally stuck in to the volume (including all the scout badges obtained as 'swaps) are now missing.

1 volume of Literature Committee Minutes from the Croydon branch of the Primrose League Grantham Dames

Deeds to 19 and 21 Enmore Road, Norwood, and land in St. Augustines Avenue

Scrapbook of notes, newspaper clippings and photographs relating to Addington and its residents, compiled by Tedd Hubbard

Volume of instructions on preparation of engineering production drawings, 1950-59; notes on the operation of electro-mechanical punched-card machines produced 1955-62 by a Senior Development Engineer employed by Powers-Samas Accounting Machines. These notes formed the basis of ten 1-hour lectures on computers which formed part of an Msc Course on Computing at the University of Surrey.

Ground, first and second floor plans by T.G. Daniels, Croydon Borough Valuer. Ink on paper. House was demolished to make way for St. Andrews School.

Correspondence, claim forms and estimates relating to war damage at 44 Croydon Road, Waddon

Deed poll (change of surname) of Herbert John Grierson Ward, of 39 South Norwood Hill, 1912; account book of Mrs Grant Wilson of Red Roofs for purchases made at C H Powell, grocers, Beulah Hill; counterpart lease of Grange Lodge, Beulah Spa, 1886

Consists of two copies of a document giving a brief history of the company from its formation in February 1941 onwards, including details of land patrolled and other anecdotes. Other documents give detail of training, rules on parade and how to use certain weapons. Also includes two photographs members of the company, including the winning first aid team.

Second World War call up papers and letters written home whilst on active service. Papers include an estimate for his sisters wedding reception at the Cafe Royal, North End, 1938.

Deeds to nos. 9, 11, 27 and 31 Penge Road

Home Guard Duty Book and photographs of Harry Guy Simmons (1909-1964).

Volume containing civil and military engineering drawings made by Addiscombe cadets, with prints and sketches of Addiscombe House, of cadets, and of individuals associated with the House and the East India Company; printed ephemera and manuscript letters; etc.

The principal feature of this volume is the series of about 40 sets of civil and military engineering drawings made by Addiscombe cadets, 1837 - 1843, mainly signed by Captain Hector Smith, assistant to the Professor of Fortifications. They include a plan of the Seminary grounds dated 1838, by Cadet Charles Jackson (p.5); and several other drawings showing details of the grounds. These are followed by miscellaneous prints (from various sources) and sketches of Addiscombe House/Military Seminary, of cadets, portraits of individuals associated with the House and with the East India Company, views of St James Church and other local scenes; and some printed ephemera, manuscript letters, newspaper cuttings etc (including a MS account of the death of the Earl of Liverpool in 1808, on p.89).

The leather binding may also date from the mid-nineteenth century. The volume appears to have been compiled in its present form in the early twentieth century, when the supplementary prints and other papers were added. 2 of these supplementary pieces (bound in as pp122-125 and 127-130) are in fact strays from the collection of miscellaneous Seminary records held at AR65.