Deeds: Brocket and Dysart families and miscellaneous
Reference code
MSS/0652
Title
Deeds: Brocket and Dysart families and miscellaneous
Date
1584-1782
Level of description
sub-fonds
Extent and format
11 bundles and 1 folder
Scope and content
A collection of title deeds and related documents, principally relating to London. Most of the London properties came into the hands of the Brocket/Brockett family, lawyers of The Middle Temple, London, many through the marriage of William Brocket and Jane Dring in 1711. Other members of the Dring family, particularly Thomas and Dorothy, are mentioned in Bundles 1-3. Bundle 10 comprises miscellaneous deeds relating to properties in London, Berkshire, Essex, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. Bundle 11 comprises deeds relating to the estate of Lionel, 3rd Earl of Dysart.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/652/A, B
Archival history
The collection, formerly known as 'London Deeds', was donated by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, VPSA (d. 1926).
System of arrangement
Arranged in bundles by donor, principally by property.
Language
English and Latin
Contents
- MSS/0652/01 - Deeds relating to property in Crown Court, Chancery Lane, London
- MSS/0652/02 - Deeds relating to The George and other properties in Fleet Street, London
- MSS/0652/03 - Deeds relating to properties in Chancery Lane and Bell Yard, London and Westminster
- MSS/0652/04 - Deeds relating to The Civet Cat in St Clement Danes, Westminster, and to other miscellenous properties
- MSS/0652/05 - Deeds relating to messuages in Shire Lane, St Dunstan in the West, Westminster
- MSS/0652/06 - Deeds relating to a messuage on the north side of The Strand near Charing Cross, Westminster
- MSS/0652/07 - Deeds relating to a messuage and pasture in Kilburn Lane, Hampstead, Middlesex
- MSS/0652/08 - Brocket family certificates and deeds relating to property near Queenhithe, London
- MSS/0652/09 - Wills and probate documents
- MSS/0652/10 - Deeds relating to properties in London, Berkshire, Essex, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
- MSS/0652/11 - Deeds relating to the estate of Lionel, 3rd Earl of Dysart
- MSS/0652/12 - Calendar of deeds