Add MS 78516

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLIX. Notes, mostly by Sir John Evelyn, concerning family history, drawn from the present archive, as well as from parish registers, monumental inscriptions and manorial records; early 18^th cent.-1753, n.d., with a few later additions. Mostly autograph. See also Add. MS 24120, ff. 311-312. Formerly Evelyn MSS 225, 260, 279, 478 and unnumbered.

The contents include:

1. Note of `Portraits at Wotton’; 1745. Of Richard Evelyn, father of the diarist, and his daughter Elizabeth.

2. `Particulars of my Grandfather John Evelyn', with further notes concerning his life, taken from the diary and other documents in the archive.

3. `Extract of old papers & letters', largely concerning George Evelyn; 1753.

4. `Memoirs of the life of my father John Evelyn Esqr taken from his own letters'.

5. `Short account of Sir John Evelyn No.1', chronological notes up to 1759; aft. 1759.

6. Notes headed `Wotton', including notes of other manors owned by Sir John Evelyn.

7. List of successive rectors of Wotton, 1550s-1752.

8. Lists of Evelyn christenings and burials, 1603-1749, chiefly at Wotton.

9. Copies, mostly by Sir John Evelyn, of Evelyn monumental inscriptions in Wotton, Godstone, West Deane, Long Ditton and Burnham churches, 1579-1738.

10. Notes from the court rolls of the manor of Harrow on the Hill relating to the Evelyn family; 15th-17th cent.

11. Notebook in which extracts from the preceding manorial rolls have been entered, followed by notes and monumental inscriptions, relating to the Evelyns of Long Ditton, Godstone, West Deane and Wotton, chiefly by Sir John Evelyn, but with an early 19^th cent addition.

12. Two Evelyn pedigrees in an unidentified hand, the first up to the marriage of Sir John Evelyn, 1^st Bart.; the second of several branches of the family on successive folio sheets, with the note, `This Descent is truly taken and entred att the request of me Charles Evelyn’, and an addition concerning Robert Evelyn in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1^st Bart.