Stowe MS 880

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers relating to Needwood Chase, co. Staff.; interspersed with which are sundry papers relating to other parts of the county. Among them are:-

1. Assessment of the county for a tenth and fifteenth; 29 Hen. VI. [1450-1]. f. 1.

2. Rental of Alrewas; Mich. 15 Edw. III. [1342]. f. 28;-and of Yoxall, Tutbury and Hoarcross; 14 Hen. VII. [1498-9]. ff. 46, 49 b, 58.

3. Taxation of the estates of the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and of several religious houses, within the archdeaconry of Stafford; late 15th cent. f. 39.

4. Notes concerning the family of Wells, and their property in co. Staff.; 15th-16th centt. ff. 54-70 b passim.

5. Assize of bread, ale, etc.; late 15th cent. ff. 65, 71.

6. Relation of proceedings of the Lord Protector and Council with regard to Needwood Chase, beginning 20 Oct. 1654; with the petition presented 5 Feb. 165⁴/₅ (see Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 62). By Zachary Babington (f. 78), Carborough, 19 Feb. 1654[5]. f. 74.

7. Orders and penalties niade at a wood-mote, 1558, and by Sir Tho. Parry, Knt., Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in 1610 and 1611. ff. 88, 94, 95 b.

8. Two copies of a charter of King Edward the Confessor (see Kemble, Chartæ Anglo-Saxonicæ, vol. iv. p. 201, no. 842): copied "from the original in Westminster Abbey." f. 109. A large portion of the volume is filled with notes of records in the Augmentation and Duchy of Lancaster offices, many of them in the handwriting of T. Astle, to whom the volume belonged. Paper; ff. 114. XVth (artt. 1-5)-XVIIIth centt. Quarto.

Needwood Chase, Staffordshire: Collections relating to: 15th-18th centt.

Duchy of Lancaster: Notes of deeds in the Duchy Office: 18th cent.

County of Stafford: Collections relating to: 15th-18th centt.

includes:

• f. 1 Revenue: Assessment of Staffordshire for a tenth and fifteenth: 1450-1.
• f. 28 Alrewas, Staffordshire: Rental of: 1342.
• ff. 28-69 passim Accompts: Rentals of various estates in co. Staff.: 14th-16th centt.
• f. 39 See of Coventry and Lichfield: Taxation of the estates of, in Stafford archdeaconry: late 15th cent.
• f. 39 Archdeaconry of Stafford: Valuation of ecclesiastical estates in: late 15th cent.
• f. 44 Newborough, Staffordshire: Accompt of an aid in: 1488-9.
• f. 44 Revenue: Accompt of an aid to the king, in Newborough and Hoarcross: 1488-9.
• f. 44 b Hoarcross, Staffordshire: Accompt of an aid in: 1488-9.
• f. 46 Yoxall, Staffordshire: Rental: 1498-9.
• f. 49 b Tutbury, Staffordshire: Rental of: 1498-9.
• ff. 54, 70b, passim Wells family; of Staffordshire: Notes concerning: 15th-16th centt.
• f. 58 Hoarcross, Staffordshire: Rental of: 1498-9.
• f. 65 b Meat: Assisa carnis: late 15th cent.
• f. 65b Wine: Assisa vini: late 15th cent.
• ff. 65, 65 b, 73 Ale: Assize of: late 15th cent.
• ff. 65, 71 Bread: Assize of bread: late 15th cent.
• f. 66 Weights and Measures: Corn measure: late 15th cent.
• f. 66 Coinage: Compositio monetæ regis: late 15th cent.
• f. 66 b Longdon, Staffordshire: Rental of: early 16th cent.
• ff. 67, 68 b Lichfield, Staffordshire: Rentals in: early 16th cent.
• f. 74 Zachary Babington: Relation of proceedings conc. Needwood Chase: 1655.
• f. 94 Sir Thomas Parry: Orders, when Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for Needwood Chase: 1610-11.
• f. 109 Edward the Confessor of England: Charters to Westminster Abbey: 1065, n.d.: Lat.: Copies.
• f. 109 London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: Grant to the Abbey, from Edward the Confessor, n.d.: 18th cent.: Copy.