[Manuscript:] A Terrier and Survey of the Arable and Greensward-Ground, belonging to Monoux Cope Esq. in the open and common Fields of Horley:

(Oxfordshire.)

[Manuscript:] A Terrier and Survey of the Arable and Greensward-Ground, belonging to Monoux Cope Esq. in the open and common Fields of Horley:

Now occupied in two farms, by Samuel Green and Thomas Holloway. [Bound with:] A Terrier and Survey of the Estate at Drayton near Banbury in the County of Oxford, computed at one Yard Land and two Closes, Now in the Occupation of Henry Cross. 1749. [And:] A Terrier and Survey of one Yard Land in the Fields and Liberties of Nethrop [Neithrop], now in the Occupation of Thomas Yorick 1753.

Description: written in a neat hand in black ink with columns ruled in red, the first part written rectos only with 7 full-page hand-drawn maps, pp. 36 + Maps; 28; 6, 4to, contemporary full vellum, manuscript title to upper board, ink stain around title, a few other light marks, covers a little bowed, manuscript notes ('Measure of the Inclosure at Nethorpe') loosely inserted, good

Publication Details: [nr Banbury,] 1743- 1753

Notes: An interesting, neat record of land ownership around Banbury; largely in the property of the Cope family in the form of Sir Monoux Cope and Sir Jonathan Cope, cousins who had been successive Members of Parliament for Banbury in earlier decades. This manuscript is recorded, by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, as still being in the ownership of the family, in the collection of manuscripts belonging to Sir William Cope at Bramshill House in Hampshire, in the late nineteenth-century.

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Price: £1,500

Subject: Antiquarian

Published Date: 1753

Stock Number: 70887

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