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Documents relating to the manor of Paris Garden, Southwark

Reference code
MSS/0229
Title
Documents relating to the manor of Paris Garden, Southwark
Date
late 18th-early 19th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
ff. ii + 99.
Folio.
Half leather binding, red.
Scope and content
Attested copies of two abstracts of title and five deeds relating to an estate formerly part of the demesne lands of the manor of Paris Garden. As follows:-

(1) Title of John Burrow (d. 1789) 'to an Estate called Parris Garden in the Parish of Christ Church Surry'. An abstract of deeds from the marriage settlement of Thomas Burrow and Jane Lethieullier, 26, 27 Feb. 1684/5 to 16, 17 June 1767. fols. 1-6v;-

(2) Title (watermark 1807) of Richard Ellison and Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Bt., to a 'Freehold Estate in the parish of Christ Church', with a pedigree of the Burrow family. An abstract of deeds from 26, 27 Feb. 1684/5 to 13, 14 Feb. 1801. fols. 7-54v;-

(3) Five deeds (watermark 1797), 1742-82, including two by Smart Lethieullier, FSA (1701-60). fols. 55-99v.

For the earlier history of the manor of Paris Garden see W. J. Meymott, An Historical Account of the Parish of Christ Church Surrey (1881); The Survey of London, 22 (Bankside) (1950), 94-100. See also Notes & Queries, 10th ser., 8 (1907), 346-7, for the Burrow/Lethieullier marriage settlement. A printed abstract of title (1805) is Southwark Archives, Deed 208.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/229