Manuscripts

Manors of Battle and Barnhorn: draft court baron courtbooks and stewards' papers, with other documents concerning the Battle and Essex estates

Description: Phillipps number: 9922 volume 5
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1620-1766
Call number: mssBA
Creator: Battle Abbey(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from the estate of Sir Thomas Phillipps, through the agency of A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1923. In 1835 Sir Geoffrey Webster, 5th Bart., offered the monastic records in his possession, together with some family estate papers, to the bookseller Thomas Thorpe, from whom they were in turn purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Associated people: Webster (Family); Browne (Family)
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