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BGM - Spencer Family of Attercliffe and Bramley Grange, Braithwell, West Riding of Yorkshire (Bramley Grange Muniments)
1 - Notes on the title to Bramley Grange which was granted by Edward VI to Edward, Lord Olmton and Say
2 - Pre-nuptial settlement
3 - Conveyance re Darnall and Attercliffe
4 - Deed to lead the uses of a fine (Darnall, Attercliffe and Tinsley)
5 - Settlement (lease and release)
6 - Elizabeth Spencer of Bramley Grange, widow of Thomas Spencer, deceased, and William Spencer, esquire, their son, to John Mirfin of Slade Hooton, gentleman, and John Battie of Sheffield, gentleman. Bramley Grange with named closes, Flaunderwell Yate with named closes, a close in Darnall called Darnall Hall Meadow or Hunt Meadow, and a close in Attercliffe called the Mountney Field
7 - Pre-nuptial settlement (counterpart)
8 - Mortgage of certain named closes in Bramley, a cottage in Bramley, Flanderwell Yate or Woodlathe Farm and closes and Bramley Grange with closes
9 - Assignment of mortgage and mortgage re property in Bramley
10 - Lease (release wanting)
11 - Articles of agreement
12 - Bargain and sale re Chapel Close in Bramley from the date of the death of William Midlam the elder
13 - Conveyance (lease and release) A messuage in Bramley, Chapel Close etc
14 - Conveyance (lease and release) re Chapel Close in Bramley and an adjoining croft
15-18 - Deeds re Chapel Close in Bramley and an adjoining croft
19 - Conveyance (lease and release)
20 - Conveyance (lease and memorial of release) re a cottage in Bramley
21 - Conveyance (lease wanting) re a cottage in Bramley
22 - Conveyance (lease wanting) re a parcel of ground in Bramley at the bottom of the Croft.
23 - Conveyance (lease and release)
24 - Mortgage of a messuage in Bramley with croft, bowling green etc., the Two Carrs, the Windmill Flatts and a piece of wood, and other closes
25-26 - Conveyance (lease missing) re The Common Piece, the Carr and the 4 fishponds called Kingsforth Ponds in Bramley
27 - Lease and release
28 - Grant of 3 messuages with an adjacent croft in Westgate in Rotherham between a messuage of the abbot of Rufford east and a messuage or lands of the service of St Katherine West
29 - Conveyance (lease only) of closes in Brightside Byerley called Mere Close, Hammer Close, Square Close, Long Holme and Short Holme
30 - Lease of 1/3 part of the tithes of Narr and Farr Dalton
31 - Final concord of 8 messuages, 4 cottages etc. 100 acres of land etc. in Royston, Rotherham and Barnsley
32 - Articles of agreement re use of a bridle way
33 - Leas of a messuage in Bramley with a croft and Bucke Furlong
34 - Lease relating to the capital messuage called Darnall Hall, a piece of meadow and 8 closes called the Hilfields with 2/3 of the tithes
35 - Lease relating to a close called The Carr near Bramley Grange
36 - Lease relating to Darnall Hall, pieces of meadow, the Hillfield (now divided into 8 named closes) and 2/3 of the tithes
37 - Lease relating to a messuage at Ardsley and named closes
38 - Lease relating to the tithes arising from John Roydes farm in Kexbrough except those allowed to the vicar of Darton
39 - Lease relating to Darnall Hall, pieces of meadow, closes formerly called the Hillfeilds and 2/3 of the tithes
40 - Lease relating to liberty to dig for copper, lead and other minerals on Conistone Fells (Above Beck Fell and Below Beck Fell)
41 - Lease relating to Flanderwell House and named closes near Bramley
42 - Lease relating to Attercliffe Hall, Cutts Cottage and an adjoining cottage, with several closes
43 - Lease relating to Moore Close, New Close, Naylor's Butts and Roe Ing in Monk Bretton and the tithes
44 - Lease relating to the farm in Bramley called Grange Fields with its lands
45 - Lease relating to a messuage at Whitecross and 12 closes (named)
46 - Lease relating to Darnall Hall, pieces of meadow, closes formerly called the Hillfields and 2/3 of the tithes
47 - Lease relating to Flanderwell House and closes, all lying near Bramley
48 - Lease of Jenkins Closes in Attercliffe
49 - Lease of a messuage in Bramley and closes called The Croft, Gervase Close, 2 Balk Lane Closes, Far Chappel Close etc.
50 - Lease of Sheepcoates and Rose Close in Darnall
51 - Lease of the farm called Whitecross with closes, and a barn and yard at Swaith
52 - Draft Lease of a messuage with a maltkiln, barn etc. at Swaith and named closes
53 - Lease of a messuage at Bramley occupied by John Wheatcroft with closes called The Croft, 2 Balk Lane Closes etc
54 - Lease of closes in Bramley called Far and Near Common Close, the Windmill Flatts and the Pingle
55 - Copy of lease of closes at Darnall called Sheepbridge Close, 5 Acres, 10 Acres, Hanging Bank etc
56 - Lease of a messuage with a maltkiln etc. and named closes at Swaith
57 - Lease of a messuage at Bramley with closes called The Croft, 2 Balk Lane Closes, etc.
58 - Lease of a messuage at Bramley with closes called the Croft, 2 Balk Lane Closes etc. and Bramley Grange
59 - Counterpart lease of the Barnsley Bed of Coal under lands in Darfield near Tyers Hill (plan)
60 - Lease of the Wath Wood or Melton Bed of Coal lying under lands in Worsbrough (plan)
61-64 - Copy of agreement for sale and purchase - W W Finch of Worsbrough Dale, colliery proprietor, and others to The Lewden Colliery Co. Ltd. of their plant, machinery, leases etc.
65-66 - Conveyance of the Barnsley Bed of Coal under pieces of land in Darfield (shown on plan) and agreement for sale
67 - Duplicate conveyance of Swaithe and Whitecross Farms in Worsbrough and Tyers Hill Farm in Darfield (plans attached)
68-70 - Notices to the Lewdin Colliery, the Barrow Haematite Steel Co., and the Mitchell Main Coal Co. Ltd. of sale by trustees of the Ollivant estate to C. H. Taylor of land above certain beds of coal (White Cross and Swaith Farms)
71 - Conveyance of all the property in Bramley, Rotherham, Conisburgh, Tinsley, Darfield, Attercliffe and Worsbrough devised by the will of Rev. William Pakenham Spencer to trustees upon certain trusts (recited)
72 - Probate copy of the will of Frances Spencer of Bramley Grange, widow
73 - Probate copy of the will of Margaret Spencer of Masbrough, spinster
74 - Probate copy of the will of Frances Spencer of Masbrough, spinster
75 - Probate copy of the will of Rev. William Pakenham Spencer, clerk
76 - Deed of appointment of John Lindsay Johnston as trustee under the will of Rev William Pakenham Spencer in place of Rev Charles Swann, deceased
77 - Copy of will of Gamaliel Milner of Burton Abbey [Staffordshire], gentleman
78 - Probate copy of the will of Thomas Spencer of Sheffield, gentleman
79-80 - Will of Francis Hall of Lewden, [?Lower Lewden, nr Barnsley], gentleman
81 - Draft will of Elizabeth Spencer, widow
82 - Will of Gamaliel Milner of Munck Bretton alias Burton Grange [Staffordshire], gentleman
83 - Probate copy of the will of Gamaliel Milner
84 - Will of Anna Elmsall of Thornhill
85 - Copy of the will of William Milner of Burton Grange, gentleman
86-87 - Copies of the will of John Fell of Attercliffe Forge, gentleman
88 - Copy of the will of Edward Strutt of Doncaster, gentleman
89 - Probate copy of the will of William Milner of Burton Grange, gentleman
90 - Certified copy of the will of Edward Wortley Montague living in Venice, Italy.
91 - Probate copy of the will of Anna Elmsall of Burton Grange, single woman
92 - Probate copy of the will of Frances Milner of Monkbretton Grange, widow
93 - Letters of administration to Frances Spencer of Bramley Grange, widow, for William Spencer, her deceased husband
94 - Letters of administration to Frances Spencer, widow, and Olive Marsden, widow, both of Bramley Grange for Gamaliel Milner, their deceased brother
95 - Probate copy of the will of Henry Spencer, lieutenant in the 43rd Regiment of Foot
96 - Probate copy of the will of Olive Marsden of Bramley Grange, widow
97 - A note by General Spencer of his testamentary dispositions
98 - Letters of administration to Rev. William Pakenham Spencer, clerk, for his deceased father, Lieutenant General Spencer
99 - Letters of administration to Rev. William Pakenham Spencer for his brother, Captain Edward Cerjat Spencer, of Starston, Norfolk
100 - Letters of administration to Alicia Olivia Ollivant, wife of the Bishop of Llandaff, [Alfred Ollivant , 1798–1882], for the still unadministered estate of her father, Lieutenant General Spencer, of Starston, Norfolk
101 - Copy of the will of Rev. Thomas Jack of Forncett (Norfolk), clerk
102 - Letters of administration to Charlotte Spencer, widow, for her deceased son, Captain Edward Cerjat Spencer
103 - Letters of administration in the Diocese of Canterbury to Alicia Olivia Ollivant, wife of the Bishop of Llandaff, [Alfred Ollivant , 1798–1882] for her mother, Charlotte Spencer, of Cambridge, widow
104 - Letters of administration in the Diocese of York to Alicia Olivia Ollivant, wife of the Bishop of Llandaff, [Alfred Ollivant , 1798–1882] for her mother, Charlotte Spencer, of Cambridge, widow
105 - Papers relating to William Spencer's title to his estates
106 - Miscellaneous papers relating to the Bramley Grange estate
107 - Papers relating to Darnall Colliery
108 - Papers relating to Mrs. Spencer's property
109 - Miscellaneous papers
110 - Copy of articles of agreement - the lessees of Long Sough or Cromford Moor Sough in Wirksworth [Derbyshire] to the proprietors of Meer Brook Sough in Wirksworth. The composition ore agreed to be paid and rendered in several recited indentures
111 - Papers relating to General Spencer's title to an estate at Attercliffe and Darnall
112 - Case and counsel's opinion relating to the right of the Spencer family for burial in part of the chancel of the old parish church of Sheffield
113 - Certificates of payment of legacy duty etc
114 - Various accounts relating to the death and funeral of Mrs Margaret Spencer
115 - Papers relating to the Ollivant Succession
116 - Receipted accounts for legacy duty etc
117 - Papers relating to the Swaithe and Whitecross estates of Alfred Ollivant and others
118 - Miscellaneous papers relating to the Ollivant estate
119-120 - Copies of two Orders in Council of 1582 and 1584 relating to a grammar school at Royston
121 - Account for carpentry and joinery work done at Swaithe House
122 - Notes on breeding tench in fishponds
123 - Plan of Cromford Moor Sough from Rogelim to the Forefield as now carrying on by William Spencer of Bramley Grange, esquire. Philip Hutchinson
124 - Map of the estate of Rev. Francis Hall at Swaith in the parish of Darfield
125 - Survey of the lordship of Bramley in the parish of Brewell (Braithwell) and also of Flaunderwell Farm in the parishes of Rotherham and Cunsber. Made for William Spencer by Joseph Colbeck
126 - Draft copy of an award for enclosing the commons at Bramley
127 - Extracts from the Bramley Enclosure Award
128 - Survey of Bramley Lordship
129 - Survey of Swaith and White Cross estates of Gamaliel Milner in the Parish of Worsbrough
130 - Map of an estate belonging to Gamaliel Milner at Swaith and White Cross
131 - Valuations of William Spencer's estates in Attercliffe and Darnall
132 - Plan of houses and lands at Attercliffe belonging to Mr Spencer
133 - Valuation of a farm at Bramley of Mrs Spencer
134 - Survey of General Spencer's estate at Worsbrough
135 - Conveyance of the manor of Melborne cum Storthwayte and Hardwick
136 - Order addressed to Colonel Spencer by the Committee for Plundered Ministers
137 - Grant of pardon by Letters Patent
1 - Charles II to William Spencer of Attercliffe, esquire
2 - Transcript
138 - Commission appointing Gamaliel Milner, esquire, a Captain in the 103rd Regiment of Foot
139 - Certificate that William Spencer, esquire, was admitted a burgess of the borough of Liverpool [Lancashire]
140 - Certificate that William Spencer, esquire, Captain of Dragoons, was admitted a burgess of Montrose [Forfarshire, Scotland]
141 - Commission appointing William Spencer a Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Light Dragoons
142 - Faculty admitting William Pakenham Spencer into Holy Orders as a deacon
143 - Certificate that William Pakenham Spencer, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge was admitted to the priesthood
144 - Commission appointing Edward Corjat Spencer a Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment of Foot
145-150 - Faculty admitting William Pakenham Spencer, clerk, to the rectory of the parish church of Sterston St. Margaret (Norfolk) with various certificates etc.
151 - Commission appointing Edward C. Spencer a captain in the 88th Regiment of Foot (the Connaught Rangers)
152 - Appointment of Rev. William Pakenham Spencer as Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Norfolk
153 - Certificate of leave of absence granted to Captain Spencer
154 - Appointment of Rev. William Pakenham Spencer as domestic chaplain to the Duke of Buccleuch
155 - Copy of commission appointing William Spencer as major in Colonel Hugh Bethell's Regiment raised in the county of York, 9 June, 1648
156 - Letter from Katherine Fairfax, widow to her daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Spencer
157 - Letter from Thomas Rokeby to his cousin, Thomas Spencer, about acting as security for a bond of the writer's
158 - Letter from William Quipp(?) to Mrs Fairfax at Scotton [Lincolnshire]
159 - Letter to Thomas Spencer from his brother, Tertius Spencer, written from Tetuan [Spain]
160 - Letter to Mrs Spencer at Bramley Grange from her brother or brother-in-law, Sextus Spencer, on board the Sussex in Gibraltar Roads
161 - Draft letter from Margaret Eyre of Bramley Hall
162 - Letter from S Hutchinson to her sister, Mrs Spencer
163 - Letter to Mrs Spencer from P Hickman
164 - Letter to William Spencer from his aunt, E Bosvile
165 - Letter to Mrs Spencer from Edmund Westby on behalf of his aunt
166 - Letter to Mrs Spencer from her aunt A Fairfax
167 - Letter to William Spencer from the Earl of Malton
168 - Letter to Mrs Foljambe from her husband, Thomas Foljambe
169-171 - Letters to Miss Margaret Spencer relating to business matters from E. Elmsall and Joseph Beckett.
172 - Letter to Mrs. Spencer at Bramley Grange from Mr Fairfax at Newton Kyme
173-176 - Letters from H. Elmsall of Emley to Mrs Spencer at Bramley Grange
177 - Pedigree howing the descent of the family of Spencer of Bramley Grange from a younger branch of the family of Spencer of Badby (Northamptonshire)
178 - Achievement of arms of William Spencer of Bramley Grange approved and attested by George Owen, York Herald
179 - Pedigree of the family of Fairfax of Walton, Denton and Steeton
180 - Pedigree of the Bolle family of Swineshead from the time of Henry III to 19th century
181 - Notes on the pedigrees of the Spencer, Milner and allied families
182 - Hand written account of the Bolle family (incomplete)
183 - Diary of William Elmsall of Thornhill, attorney
184 - Small watercolour portrait (head and shoulders) of a lady, perhaps one of the Spencer family
185 - Small pencilled drawing, perhaps a caricature of Major Milner
186 - Lease by the Ollivant trustees to Samuel Sharp of Darley Hall, Darfield.
187 - Lease by the trustees to Henry Croft, William Croft and William Batty, coalmasters.
188 - Declaration of trust as to a portion of the rents payable under certain coal leases
189 - Account book of the trustees in account with Messrs. Coutts & Co.
190 - Conveyance of land and minerals in Worsborough required by the company for the Chapeltown branch extension (plan and schedule on deed)
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