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Catalogue
Manuscripts from Lady Reading
Red portfolio marked Genealogical. Owners de Warenne, Caryll, Sackville, De la Warr. Associations. King Alfred. Includes ms. list by D. Cox and ts. list. 1/1
Buff folder marked; 1. Rental 30th Sept. 1618 to 2lst Sept. 1619, 2. Rental 163? - 1658, 3. Extracts from Manorial Records, Sackville Manuscripts, in Kent Record Office. 1/2
Buff portfolio containing four folders as follows; a. The manor lands, b. People. Including a page for every surname mentioned in Court Rolls 1578-83 (at Chichester), c. Land. Including every place name mentioned in Court Rolls 1578-33 (Chichester), d. Land tax assessment 1780-1829. 1/3
Blue portfolio labelled Swanborough Hundred. Court Rolls. 1/4
Green portfolio marked Genealogical Parish Registers 1/5
Buff portfolio labelled Swanborough Dr. Kerling's notes on Minister's Accounts 2/6
Dark green ring binder labelled - Notes largely de Warenne. 2/7
Brown and yellow portfolio marked Notes on Swanborough Manor from 11th century and owners - 1951 and notes on titles. 2/8
Grey portfolio labelled Swanborough local families. 2/9
Blue folder marked Sussex Record Society. 2/10
Green exercise book Labelled Courts, Newhaven etc. 3/11
Buff folder labelled Swanborough. Parish Registers Caryll etc. 3/12
Red portfolio marked Genealogical. Census. Poll books. Directories, Apprentices. 3/13
Pink portfolio marked Genealogical. Miscellaneous sources. 3/14
Red portfolio not marked or labelled. [Notes on Courts.] 3/15
Pink folder marked Queen Edith. Miscellaneous. 3/16
Red folder not marked or labelled. [Contains miscellaneous notes.] 3/17
Alphabetical index of family names. On sheets tied together. 3/18
Buff folder marked Kingston and Iford Inclosure Award. 1830. 3/19
Buff folder marked Tithe maps [etc.] 3/20
Six sheets clipped together and marked Manor of Swanborough. Courts. 4/21
Bundle of notes labelled Octavo notes. Anglo-Saxon and Norman Conquest [etc.] 4/22
Buff portfolio labelled Notes for Chapter II. Queen Edith and key to Anglo-Saxon Place Names. [Contains a draft headed Chapter II.] 4/23
Grey folder not marked or labelled. [Contains notes an Edith, Edward the Confessor, Domesday Book, etc.] 4/24
Buff folder labelled Illustrations and tracings. Key to Saxon Place-names. 4/25
A copy of F.C. Clark, Did the builder of Bodiam Castle also construct Dalyngrigge's Bay. 1955. 4/26
Black ring binder containing miscellaneous notes (preceded by an index). [Contains list of Chapters for proposed book,. The story of Swanborough Manor] 4/27
Grey folder not marked or labelled containing miscellaneous notes. 5/28
Black ring binder labelled Sussex Families. 5/29
Grey folder labelled Notes on early chapters. Swanborough. 5/30
Red folder labelled Mainly de Warenne. [but actually containing notes mainly on King Alfred.] 5/31
Grey ring binder labelled Swanborough. The house described with historical notes. 5/32
Red folder marked Cluniac order. Lewes Priory. 5/33
Blue folder labelled Manor of Swanborough. The manor lands. 6/34
Grey folder. Swanborough Refs. to Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections. [with other notes.] 6/35
A copy of Westminster Abbey. Eighteen photographs...[etc.] 6/36
A copy of The Beaumont Collection of Lordships of manors in the counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk .... to be sold by auction .... 3rd November, 1954. 6/37
Buff folder marked Court books. 6/38
Blue folder labelled Notes and Extracts from the Court Books for the Manor of Iford (1689-1898), Kingston (1779-1902), and Newick (1719-1890). 6/39
Green and white stationery box containing autograph drafts of the first two chapters of the projected history of Swanborough. 6/40
Green exercise book marked The Priory of St. Pancras, Lewes. 7/41
Black ring binder not marked or labelled. Contains notes on the chronology of Swanborough Manor. 7/42
A copy of W.H. Godfrey, The priory of St. Pancras, Lewes, 1927. 7/43
A copy of two leaflets about Waltham Abbey. 7/44
A folded sheet labelled Swanborough. Genealogical tables of families. (de Warenne etc.) 7/45
Two sheets of cardboard containing (mainly) photographic copies of documents relating to Swanborough. 7/46
List of court books. On eleven ledger sheets. 7/47
Addendum
Salmon portfolio labelled: Swanborough Manor. General. 8/48
Notes: Chronology, Burrell Collection: Lamberts, Grimm. etc.
Illustrations. Maps, etc.
Blue portfolio labelled: Press marks, References etc. 8/49
Studio photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt by Douglas Glass, Sunday Times.
8/50
B.&W. 28cm x 21½cm.
Inscribed: To Stella with love and admiration Eleanor Roosevelt
Studio photograph of Rufus Isaacs, first Marquess of Reading, by Adams.
8/51
B.&W. 30cm x 23cm.
Inscribed: Yours ever Reading
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