Add MS 78588

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXI.

1. The manor of Milton; 1574-1762. Including copies and extracts by Richard Evelyn from the court rolls, substantial notes of manorial court proceedings, temp. Sir John Evelyn, 1^st Bart., and a sketch plan in pen and ink endorsed `Mr Tyers’s Plan of the ground near his Temple belonging to Milton Court Farm’, 1762. For the history of the manor, see VCH, Surrey, III, p. 147: having belonged to the Priory of Kilburn, it was held after the Reformation on lease from the crown by Richard Thomas and his widow Katherine, who married Saunders Wright. At the latter's death in 1574 it reverted to the crown, was granted briefly to Ralph Lathom in 1599 and purchased by George Evelyn in 1600.

2. The manor of Westland; 1705-circa early 19^th cent. Consisting of four miscellaneous documents: a list of freehold tenants, a warrant to seize herriots, and testimony about boundaries. For the history of the manor, which was held as a sub-manor of Wotton, see VCH, Surrey, III, p. 158: from the 16th century it was owned successively by the Bray family, Thomas Godman, and John and Henry Aleyn, by whom it was conveyed in 1601 to George Evelyn.

County of Surrey: Estate papers and account books rel. to the Evelyn estates: 1486-1882, n.d.