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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.

2 items:
Croydon, Theatre
Two playbills for a short season arranged and managed by Mr Mears, each headed
Theatre, Croydon
Langford, Printer, Croydon, March 6 and March 27 1839.
a) March 6 1839. Under the Immediate Patronage of The Professional Gentlemen of Croydon and its vicinity.
Love in a Village; Tom Noddys Secret
The list of players quotes which London theatres the actors come from, and includes Mr Mears of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Size 45x18cms; fine apart from a tear in lower part which would disappear if laid down.

b) March 27 1839 Last Night. For the Benefit of Mr Mears. First and Only Appearance of Miss Mears. Double page playbill, the first page listing the many distinguished singers and actors who appear to support Mr Mears .their powerful aid during his short season.. The second page lists the plays and entertainments: Dream at Sea; Petticoat Colonel, Or Venus in Arms; Blue Jackets or Her Majestys Service. Dances and songs interspersed. Size 37 x 37cms., some very faint dust-soiling, otherwise in remarkably good condition.

Minutes 1946-67 (2 vols); list of courses held at Croydon 1881-1967; posters; lists of lectures; lists of candidates who received certificates; correspondence; Croydon Education Committee A Plan for Leisure booklets.

Miscellaneous records, unsorted.

Minutes Oct 1914 - Oct 1918

Summary Report 1914-1919

Annual Accounts and Report, as at 31 March 1917

Record of Advertisements Nov 1914-1916

Minutes, newsletters, photographs, cuttings and other records of Croydon Writers Circle

Miscellaneous leases (1960-1975) and sales particulars (1963) of land at old Croydon Airport

Staff Absence Record for Croydon and Purley UDC Public Libraries Department

Croydon, Merstham, and Godstone Iron Railway, receipted notice to sharesholder

Various programmes, leaflets and booklets; account of the Battle of Arnhem, 1944; report of the Chairman of the Croydon Organising Committee on Croydon-Arnhem Week, September 1947; albums of photographs of visit to Croydon, July 1946; bomb damage in Arnhem, 1946; visit to Arnhem by the Arnhem-Croydon Sport Committee; loose photographs.

Four loose pages, damaged by fire, from the salaries book of Crystal Palace Football Club, covering (with some parts missing) the weeks 20 Feb - 20 Mar 1953. Includes details of weekly salaries paid to management, players and other staff.

Cuttings books of newspaper cuttings, letters, flyers etc from formation of troop in 1911 - early 1913.

Box 1:

Log Books (2): 1974 - 1990, 1990 - 1997

Box 2:

Admission Registers (4): 1933 - 1948; 1945 - 1948 (under 5s); 1960 - 1977; 1977 - 1997

Photograph albums (5)

Register of corporal punishment 1933 - 1978

DVD: Rocky Horror Show (2006)

Box 3:

1 box of photo albums: Isle of Wight 1991 - 6

Photograph albums (5)

1 folder: letters of thanks 2001 - 7

1 box Gold Star Awards, 1997 - 9

1 framed music certificate

1 folder of nativity photos, n.d.

1 book Memories of Cypress School, 1995 (by ex pupils)

1 folder of wartime cuttings (not Croydon specific)

1 collection of papers, letters etc relating to war time.

1 loose photograph, two glazed.

Box 4:

1 (photocopier paper) box of loose photographs: staff, activities, journeys etc

Blueprints of main and mezzanine balcony girders

Deed of covenant between Croydon Land and Investment Co Ltd and James Stevens

Agreement re erection of fences and the observance of building lines. Includes land around New Lane, Dingwall Road, Lansdown Road, Middle Heath Lane, Bedford Place, St James Road, Brighton and South Coast Railway line. With plan.

1 item:
Copy draft deed of co-partnership between Messrs Carpenter, Whitling and Lanchester. A company of doctors based at 53 High Street (1880 Directory).

Deed includes a plan showing the property south of the junction between Whitehorse Road and Strathmore Road

Deed to a parcel of land north of Haling Farm