Held at:	Badminton Muniments, Gloucestershire Archives; National Archives
Reference:	Private Collection
Source:	Guest Contribution
Title:	Poston Manor Manorial Documents - INDEX of a private collection of records, photographs and transcriptions
Place name:	Golden Valley
Date:	1652 - 1767

Description:

 

Introduction

This is an index of a private collection of documents photographed and/ or transcribed from various archives concerning the Manor of Poston in the Golden Valley. The documents include aspects of the ownership and settlements of the Manor by the Dukes of Beaufort, relevant issues relating to the management and dispositions of this part of the Beaufort estates, and sundry legal pleadings involving local people in the Court of Chancery and elsewhere.

The links below lead to details of the content of the various individual documents, and where photographs of original documents are available, high quality zoomable images are available for download from these individual records as PDF files [file sizes may be large].

We are indebted to David Lovelace for making this collection available to us.

 

Ewyas Lacy Study Group

 

 

MANOR OF POSTON SETTLEMENTS [Held at Badminton]

D2700/OF1/2  - date: 1661/2

Settlement of Poston Manor [and others] on the Marquess of Worcester by Henry, 1st Duke of Beaufort

 

D2700/OF2/2  - date: 1686

Charles, Marquess of Worcester

Revocation of the settlements, 1682, 1685, by the Duke of Beaufort on the Marquess of Worcester

 

D2700/OF5/3  - date: 1699

Revocation of the settlements made by the Duke of Beaufort on Lord Arthur Somerset, 1695, relating to Breconshire and Poston

 

D2700/OF5/7  - date: 1705

Assurance by the 2nd Duke to Lord Arthur Somerset and heirs male of the manors of Tretower (Brecon) and Poston bequeathed to him by the 1st Duke's will

 

D2700/OF5/8  - date: 1726

99 year lease by Lord Arthur Somerset of the Manor of Poston and the capital messuage called Poston

D2700/OI1/2/1  - date: 1742

Indenture relating to conveyance of the Manor of Poston to Charles Noel, 4th Duke of Beaufort by Lord Arthur Somerset

D2700/OI1/2/2  - date: 1745

Indenture relating to conveyance of the Manor of Poston to Charles Noel, 4th Duke of Beaufort

 

D2700/OI1/2/3  - date: 1740 -1743

Indenture relating to conveyance of the Manor of Poston to Charles Noel, 4th Duke of Beaufort

 

D2700/OI2/1/1  - date: 1767

Draft indenture relating to the settlement of the Manor of Poston on Shuckburgh Boughton.

 

D2700/OI2/1/2  - date: 1755 -1761

Will and codicils of Shuckburgh Boughton of Poston Court.

 

WILLS AND RELATED TRUSTS [held at Badminton]

D2700/P15/3  - date: 1750

Will of Charles Noel, 4th Duke of Beaufort

 

D2700/P15/3  - date: 1754

Two codicils to the Will of Charles Noel, 4th Duke of Beaufort

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE [held at Badminton]

T/B/1/3/5 – date 1749 – 1762

Various personal letters from the Boughton Family of Poston Court, giving insight into the lifestyle and social environment of landed gentry of the time.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS [held at National Archives]

 

C2/ELIZ/P2/56 - date: 1595

Pleadings in the Court of Chancery; James Parry of Poston v. Rowland Vaughan, to redeem tithes within the townships of Peterchurch [and elsewhere]

 

E 178/994 – date: 1589

Poston, Peterchurch; Depositions as to the possessions of James Parry, a Crown debtor.

 

C135/83 – date: 1348 – 1370

Inquisitions Post Mortem concerning property holdings, tenants and rents at Turneston [Turnastone]

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTIONS [original documents held at National Archives]

Poston

C2/ELIZ/P2/56 - date: 1595

Pleadings in the Court of Chancery; James Parry of Poston v. Rowland Vaughan, to redeem tithes within the townships of Peterchurch [and others]

E 178/994 date 1589

Poston, Peterchurch: Depositions as to the possessions of James Parry, a Crown debtor.  31 Elizabeth

 

D2700/QH/1-2  - date: 1699

Valuation of Poston farm

Turnastone

C 93/37/25 date 1676

Decree concerning a charity for the poor of Vowchurch and Turnastone

C2/JasI/P12/38 date 1604

Pleadings in the Court of Chancery regarding two farms in Vowchurch

C2/JasI/U3/42 date 1621

Pleadings in the Court of Chancery regarding rental of land in Peterchurch

C6/37/56 date 1666

Legal pleadings in connection with felling of timber and maintenance of woodland in Vowchurch and Turnastone

 

Observations:

Other papers relating to the Beaufort Estates, which may include references to the Manor of Poston and other properties in Herefordshire, can be found at the National Library of Wales.

Further documents relating to Poston and Turnastone are also held in various Public Archives; a selection of them have been identified but not reviewed or photographed in this collection, including:

 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES

Parliamentary Sequestration

D2700/QA5/1/12   - date: 1651/2

Conveyance by the Trustees for the sale of delinquents' lands including the Manor of Poston. All late part of the possessions of Edward, Earl of Worcester, forfeited (during his life) for treason, to Lord Herbert for the term of the life of Edward Earl of Worcester

 

D2700/QA5/1/13   - date: 1652

Conveyance of the Manor of Poston [and others]

 

D2700/QA5/1/15   - date: 1654

Conveyance of the Manor of Poston [and others]

 

D2700/QA5/2/6   - date: c.1655-1658

Relates to the title to the Poston estate and states that the deeds were 'lost in the wars'; it was purchased by Henry, Earl of Worcester, 1 October, 1635, from James and Mary Parry; was freed from further hidden incumbrances by the Earl and released to him in 1641 by Parry

D2700/QA4/8   - date: (1652)-1661

Agreement relating to a debt of £8,000 secured by mortgage on the manors of Kinnersley, Letton, Poston, Skenfrith, Grosmont.

 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Poston

C 143/28/8

Elias de Sutton to grant rent in Hayton to the prioress of Aconbury, retaining land in Sutton and Poston. Salop.  27 EDWARD I.

E 134/9Chas1/Mich69

John Parry, of Poston v. John Pearle and his wife Elizabeth.: Right and title to the mansion house of the late dissolved priory of Accornbury, and the lands belonging, lately in the possession of John Parry, of Accornbury, & c., & c.: Hereford  9 Chas 1

E 178/994

HEREFORDSHIRE: Poston, Peterchurch Depositions as to the possessions of James Parry, a Crown debtor.  31 Elizabeth

E 178/1013

HEREFORDSHIRE: Peterchurch, Snodhill (Snodell), Uris-hay, Poston, Luston Inquisition as to Crown rents in arrear.  30 Elizabeth

 

Turnastone

C 1/798/20

George ap Harry, grandson and heir of Thomas ap Harry and of Agnes, his wife. v. Anthony Deynton and Anne, his wife.: Detention of deeds relating to the manors of Poston (in Turnastone) and Turnastone.: Hereford.

SC 6/861/27

Turnastone: [Hereford] Description of Officer: Farmer and Collector 12 to 13 Hen IV

SC 11/266

Turnastone: Rental of possessions late of Philip Maunsel. [Edw. II.]

 

Legal Proceedings

E 321/2/99

Court of Augmentations and Court of General Surveyors: Legal Proceedings. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT OF AUGMENTATIONS: Bills and answers.

Held by:         The National Archives - Exchequer, Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations

Date:   Dates unknown

 

E 321/2/32

Court of Augmentations and Court of General Surveyors: Legal Proceedings. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT OF AUGMENTATIONS: Bills and answers.

Held by:         The National Archives - Exchequer, Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations

Date:   Dates unknown

Richard Thomas ap Richard v. Thomas Baskerfelde of Moorhampton (Morehampton), [in Abbey Dore, Heref]. Answer

 

E 321/42/30

Court of Augmentations and Court of General Surveyors: Legal Proceedings. Proceedings before the Court of Augmentations and Court of General Surveyors: mainly answers, replications... Richard Thomas ap Richard v. Thomas Baskerfelde of Moorhampton (Morehampton), [in Abbey Dore, Heref]. Answer: lands and goods late of Abbey Dore abbey, Heref.

Held by:         The National Archives - Exchequer, Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations

Date:   Dates unknown

Winforton (Possessions late of Roger de Mortuo Mari of Chirk): [Hereford] Clehonger

 

SC 6/1145/16

Special Collections: Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts. POSSESSIONS OF CONTRARIANTS, Bundles 1145-1148. Winforton (Possessions late of Roger de Mortuo Mari of Chirk): [Hereford] Clehonger

Date:   08 July 1321 - 07 July 1323

 

HEREFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES

Kentchurch Court Archive

AL40/1882   - date: 1607

Deeds and Papers for the Kentchurch Court Estate; including references to Rowland Vaughan of Whitehowse [Whitehouse], co. Hereford, esq.

 

Records of the Whitehouse Estate, Vowchurch

F37

Papers of the Howorth family of Vowchurch, Herefordshire and the Wood family of Vowchurch.

  [NOTE: Additional information on many of the Whitehouse Estate papers can be found by following this link to other documents from the F37 series which are included elsewhere in the ELSG database, including some photographs and transcriptions as well as summaries]

The history of the Whitehouse estate has been given by Mr. A. S. Wood in his pamphlet which is based on the records listed here. The property came to Epiphan Howorth, having formerly belonged to Rowland Vaughan of Newcourte, who is known for his work on the management of Flood-meadows, and thence descended in that family which acquired through marriage the manor of Burghill. Herbert Howorth became entangled in a series of mortgages and settlements. The complications of these were made the worse in that one of the mortgagees was the notorious Mansell Powell of Wellington who attempted here as elsewhere to defraud the rightful owners. The Howorth family died out in the direct male line, leaving the Whitehouse estate open to the claims of kin through marriage. After a series of lawsuits William Wood was able by 1791 to establish his claim, but was faced with further suits against William Downes who had acted for him but tried to take his own advantage. The papers in the long drawn-out case provide some of the most interesting material among these records, for they include a number of estate accounts, particularly for timber sales, as Downes was accused of wasting the assets of the property. Much timber was felled during this period of the Napoleonic wars.

 

F37/7   - date: 20 November, 5 James [1607]

Rowland Vaughan of Newcoute, esq.

Covenant to convey to Rowland Vaughan all those messuages etc., within the parishes of Turnaston and Vowchurch which descended to John Parry after the decease of any of his ancestors and are now or were formerly in the tenures of Humfrey Balle, David John David Howell, and of Howell John David Howell - and also the advowson of the parish church, rectory and parsonage of Turnaston with all tithes etc. appertaining.

Also those several pieces of arable land (6 acres) formerly in the tenure of one Thomas Farmor decd., in Poston in vouchurche in a close - field adjoining to the North side of a field of " arable" land parcel of the premises, now a late in the tenure of the said David John David Howell and stretching in length from certain pasture grounds in St. Margaretts called Tyre Whitewalle now in the tenure of Rowland Vaughan to lands upon Poston's hill within the parish of Vowchurch.

Reserved out of the intended conveyance all such arable lands and meadows as Humfreys Balle had occupied in the parish of Vowchurch such conveyance to be to the use Rowland Vaughan and of his heirs and assigns for ever and that John Parry and Mary his wife and their heirs and assigns shall during three years span make further assurances in law.

 

F37/8   - date: 1607

Terrier of the lands and possession of the Rectory of Turnstone.

 

F37/9   - date: 26 November, 5 Charles [1629]

Elisabeth Vaughan al. Damporte at Davenporte and Katherine Vaughan, daughters and heirs of Rowland Vaughan late of the Whitehouse, esq., decd.

 

F37/10   - date: 11 February, 5 Charles [1629]

All that manor of Jenkin ap Richard al. Newton and all lands etc. belonging in the parishes or townships of Newton St. Margaretts, Clodicke and Backton and all those parcels of land called Ramstalls in the parish of St. Margaretts, and those two farms, one called Thomas Vaughans Farme and the other called Tylere Farme some time in the occupation of one Humfrey Balle, and one other farm called David John David Howell Farme, and one other farm called Hurell John David Howell Farm: and all lands and tenements which Rowland Vaughan formerly purchased of John Parry of Poston esq., Thomas Philpotts gent, James Tayler and one widow Lloyde and lands appurtenant etc., in the parishes of Turnaston and Vouchurche. And all those messuages etc., advowsons and hereditaments in the villages, hamlets and parishes of St. Margaretts, Newton, Vowchurch, Poston, Turnastone. And all that parcel of meadow in Vouchurche adjoining on the south part the " ryver of Doyer" and the east part to the " raylex rayled there" set up by Rowland Vaughan on the highewayside from the bridge towards the teythiage Barne (1½ acres) " wch at any tyme heretofore where the Mannors, messuages, lands tenements or hereditaments of Rowland Vaughan esq., deceased father to John Vaughan and brother to Henry Vaughan and which were conveyed by Rowlande Vaughan and John Vaughan to William Pennymans esq., and Edwards Husbands, and their heirs, and to John Walcott and to Thomas Daveys esq., decd., and John Breynton esq.