Somerset

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Somerset

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  • UF Somersetshire

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1398 Archival description results for Somerset

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Lease for one year of land and premises at Beckery Mill, Glastonbury and at Street, Somerset

One vellum sheet measuring approximately 61 cm x 81 cm comprising a lease for one year signed and sealed by George Phippen Reeves ("heretofore called George Reeves only"), formerly a miller in Glastonbury, now a baker at Chilton, Somerset, to John Collings and John Fry Reeves. The property leased at Beckery Mill includes the bakehouse, furnace, dough troughs and tables as well as the mill house and two water grist mills (plus equipment) "containing and working two pair of stones under the same roof together with one malt kiln and two boulting mills for dressing flour", as well as the Mill Drove, the pastureland next to the mill known as Bridges or Brides and also a meadow known as Marshall Wall, much of which having been recently planted as orchards.

Lease for one year of land and premises at Beckery Mill, Glastonbury and at Street, Somerset

One vellum sheet measuring approximately 56 cm x 52 cm comprising a lease for one year signed by John and Mary May of various property and land at Glastonbury and Street to James Patten and John Dampier. The property leased at Beckery Mill includes the bakehouse, furnace, dough troughs and tables as well as the mill house and two water grist mills (plus equipment) "containing and working two pair of stones under the same roof together with one malt kiln and two boulting mills for dressing flour", as well as the Mill Drove, the pastureland next to the mill known as Bridges or Brides and also a meadow known as Marshall Wall, much of which having been recently planted as orchards.

Later copy of Martha Phippen's last will and testament which references Beckery Mill, Glastonbury

5 paper pages (watermarked 1812) measuring 42 cm x 33 cm comprising a copy of Martha Phippen's last will and testament (made 10 February 1799). Under the will, Martha Phippen makes various bequests, chief of which is the bequest to her grandson, George Reeve, of Beckary Mill a "water grist mill" which she had "lately" contracted to purchase from Mr John May and "six acres of pasture ground at Brides near Beckary Mill aforesaid which I lately purchased in fee of Mr John Ivie...."

Obligation bond for repayment of debt owed by John May to Carey Hunt, Glastonbury

Paper obligation bond measuring 32 cm x 38 cm (folded lengthwise) binding John May to pay Carey Hunt £800 and cross referencing the indenture of mortgage for £400 between them of the same date. The bond is signed and sealed by John May and features numerous signed receipts for interest due under the bond. For example "Oct 6th 1791 Received of May Three Score pounds for three years Interest Due 2nd of Oct Last". The last receipt is dated 19 October 1812.

Mortgage of Beccary Mills, Glastonbury

One sheet of vellum measuring approx. 51 cm x 69 cm comprising the grant of a mortgage by John May, baker, of Butleigh, Somerset over "Beccary Mills" in exchange for the payment of £400 by Carey Hunt of St John's Parish, Glastonbury. Beccary Mills is described as, "situate lying and being in the Parish of Saint Benedict in Glastonbury aforesaid containing two water Grist Mills and one Malt Mill under one roof together with one Boulting Mill"... and also the parcel of land leading to the mill known as the Mill Drove "and that close of pasture next adjoining to the said mill called Brides...".

Indenture relating to a grist mill at Northpetherton

1 sheet of vellum measuring 77cm x 38cm, signed and sealed by Henry Gatchell and Robert Woodhouse and concerning a grist mill and meadows at Northpetherton (being known as Spall House, woods or grounds). The reverse features numerous notes in different handwriting, relating to the receipt of payments due under "this mortgage", the last one being made in 1712.

Deed of Confirmation and Release relating to a mill and land at Charlton, Shepton Mallett

Two vellum sheets (approx 62 x 79 cm and 60 x 76 cm). Indenture in which John Masters and John Fry Reeves (owners of all the fulling mills, tucking mills and other properties originally belonging to Matthew Davy) confirm the sale to Joseph Giles of a mill and premises in Charlton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, which were mortgaged by Matthew Davy to John Holman Evans, and sold by him to Joseph Giles. Other names mentioned: Thomas Smith, William Melliar, John Marshall, Paul Cooper, Edward Quickett. Original document available for reference.

Scrapbook of mill cuttings, postcards and photographs

Scrapbook of magazine and newspaper cuttings on windmills and watermills in the UK including some pages from issues of Country Life. Postcards and photographs of UK and foreign mills, including a 1920s photograph of an Egyptian noria wheel. Many of the items have lost their adhesive to the pages. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 49.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

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