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Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: Indenture of bargain and sale

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3402
Scope and Contents

Sale by Henry Car[e]y esq, of Buckingham, to John Battysford, gent, of Chesterton, for £100, of the manor of Fen Drayton, with all his messuages, lands, fishings etc. there. Signed by 'Henry Carey'. Tag, seal wanting.

Dates: 1548
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Manor of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: Court Orders

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3850
Scope and Contents 'Orders made by the jury and the with consent of the lady of the manor aforesaid at a court leet and court baron holden for the manor aforesaid on Wednesday the 16th day of October 1734, before Jacob Butler Esq. steward thereof.' Fos 1 and 10 were originally paper covers. On fo. 1 is the printed title page of 'A Perpetual calendar', and several times ons fos 1 and 10: 'Robert Daintree His Book February the 15 1769.' Verses: 'The Bird in the Air', and further scribbles by Daintree at fo. 1v....
Dates: 16 Oct. 1734
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).