MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY THE EVELYN FAMILY 78644-78677. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCLXXVII-DX. Manuscripts (with a few other objects) which accrued to the Evelyn archive or library and have remained with the archive, but which cannot be certainly associated with the collections of Sir Richard Browne (see Add. MSS 78235-78254) or John Evelyn the diarist (see Add MSS 78414-78429); 15th cent.-18th centt. For Evelyn’s essay on collecting manuscripts, see Evelyn, Memoirs, ed. Bray (1818), II, p...
SUCCESSORS OF SIR FREDERICK EVELYN 78554-78576. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXXVII-CCCCIX. Papers of the successors of Sir Frederick Evelyn; 1761-1907. Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart., had no children, and the heirs to the baronetcy, John Evelyn, 4th Bart., and Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bart., the sons of his cousin Charles (younger son of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.), were both of unsound mind. Sir Frederick left his estates to his widow, with the provision that they should pass at her death to hi...
WILLIAM BRAY AND WILLIAM UPCOTT 78577-78584. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCX- CCCCXVII. Manuscripts deriving from the association of William Bray (1736-1832) and William Upcott (1779-1845) with the Evelyn family; 1814-1846. William Bray of Shere became the Evelyn family solicitor in the lifetime of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., and obtained his place in the Greencloth by the patronage of the 2nd Bart. In his memoir of the Evelyn family (Add. MS 78582 A below) he describes how he recommended Wi...
ESTATE PAPERS: SURREY 78585-78610. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXVIII- CCCCXLIII. Estate papers relating to the Surrey estates owned by the Evelyn family; 1486-1863. The main sequence of manorial records and deeds relating to these estates is on deposit at Surrey History Centre, Woking (Deposit no. 6330). The material described here consists of miscellaneous paper documents, account-books, etc., relating to the estates, which, probably because of their format, were retained with the persona...