Manuscripts

Dutch Reformed Church records, copies

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Description: Handwritten nineteenth century copies of Dutch Reformed Church baptism, marriage, and other records in five volumes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1630-1880.
Call number: mssHM 636
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of October 1937.
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A compilation of records concerning the island of Guernsey and other Channel Islands from the reign of Elizabeth I through that of Charles II

Manuscripts

An early modern compilation, in several hands on varying lots of paper, of contemporary copies of records pertaining to the history of the island of Guernsey and (to a lesser extent) of the other Channel Islands. Includes copies of a series of petitions of Guernsey inhabitants sent to James I's commissioners Sir Robert Gardner and James Hussey in 1607 complaining against Governor Sir Thomas Leighton, and against the bailiffs and jurats, about various economic, social, legal, and religious issues. Also included is a later (late 17th century?) series of copies of earlier legal, administrative, and personal records concerning the various Channel Islands from Elizabeth I's reign through the Restoration, various lists of officials from the 13th century on, extracts from laws and regulations, etc.

mssHM 72020

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Mexican Records Collection

Manuscripts

The chronologically-arranged documents demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, ecclesiastical, military, and genealogical records initiated by government representatives, lawyers, litigants, clerics, and laypersons from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the records are legal and contractual, including wills, testimonies, inheritance cases, power of attorney contracts, and financial agreements between individuals and/or institutions. Administrative and ecclesiastical records mostly include appointments to secular and religious offices as well as some Inquisition and genealogical documents. Military records document pensions, compensations, and other payments made by the Royal Treasury to former military officers. Prominent persons and places of colonial and national Mexico and Guatemala are represented in the collection, such as: The Franciscan Province of San Diego de Mexico, the religious community that was the subject of Baltazar de Medina's 1682 Chronica de la Santa Provincia de San Diego. Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, first count of Revillagigedo and viceroy of New Spain from 1746–1755. Juan Nazario Peimbert, lawyer who proposed the formation of an Indian army in the event of a French invasion in 1809; founder of the "Mexican Seat of News Important to the Public" in 1803; and later member of the Guadalupes. Seventeenth-century Regina Coeli, San Lorenzo, Santa Clara de Jesús of Queretaro, and Santa Isabel Convents, which functioned as banking institutions, evident in the depositos and censos contained in this collection. Juan Antonio de Vizarrón, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain from 1734- 1740. An alphabetical listing of names ("Name Index") is also included in this finding aid to assist researchers in finding specific persons. Note: Originally part of the Mexican Inquisition Papers, this collection contains documents that are highly mutilated, fragmented, and incomplete. When possible, dates, participants, and contents were derived based upon available information and placed in brackets.

mssHM 71065-71156

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Church of San Vicente, Seville, volume of documents

Manuscripts

This volume contains documents, depositions, and legal transcripts, all apparently relating to litigation over the usufruct of a chaplaincy and its revenues in the church of San Vicente in Seville, Spain. The manuscript covers the period 1530-1630s, with contemporary notarial copies and some marginalia by a later (18th century?) hand. There are a couple of signatures by a Spanish bishop, some paper seals, and printed forms. The volume also includes some interesting data on the sources and amounts of revenue supporting the chaplaincy. Attached is a small printed book in Latin consisting of commentaries on Aristotle.

mssHM 80970

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St. Stephen's Church, Hackington (2 copies)

Manuscripts

This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.

mssEsdaile

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The History & Records of Ightham Church by Sir Edward R. Harrison

Manuscripts

mssEsdaile

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The Fraijos of Rancho Azusa: ancestral research

Manuscripts

Five volumes of genealogical research and supplementary material tracing the history of the Fraijo (sometimes spelled Freyo) family in Southern California. The material focuses on the descendants of Gregorio Fraijo (1811-1899) and his wife Maria Francisca Mendez Fraijo (1830-1893), including extensive genealogy, prose accounts of the Fraijos' history in California, and copies of photographs, manuscripts, and other records.

mssHM 80521-80525

Dutch Reformed Church records, copies

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