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M:Acc0609 - Deeds, letters and other papers relating to St Marylebone

1 - Particulars of dilapidations of 51 Queen Ann Street, Cavendish Square, St Marylebone, on determination of a lease to Henry Gee Barnard by George Mercer, dated 17 Mar 1838. Compiled by Frederick William Bushill, architect of [3] Mortimer Street, St Marylebone

2 - Auction sale particulars of 31 Somerset Street, Portman Square, St Marylebone, a leasehold family residence with a coachhouse and four stall stable [household furniture and part of library also to be sold]

3 - Auction sale catalogue of a sideboard of 5,000 ounces of silver plate dinner and teas services, cutlery and other articles from 52 Wimpole Street, St Marylebone [the unexpired lease of the premises, late the property of Thomas Divett, MP for Lymington, deceased, also to be sold]

4 - Probate copy of the will, dated 6 Mar 1813 of John Collins of Harley Street, St Marylebone, unique butler to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn. With grant of probate at Prerogative Court of Canterbury

5 - Copy receipt for Westminster Fire Office Insurance poicy, 1867 and two deeds 1868, relating to 54 Harley Street, St Marylebone (estate of Charles Rowlls), handed to Bailey Shaw Smith and Bailey, solicitors, [5] Berners Street, St Marylebone, by Charles Lewis Babb, attorney

6 - Order for removal of Joseph Mason, Mary Ann Mason, his wife and their children from St Marylebone to St Anne, Soho. Endorsed with memorandum of family's delivery to the workhouse

7 - Certificate of appointment as attornet of the Queen's Bench of John Russell Rush of 1 Chichester Place, Westbourne Terrace, Paddington

8 - Copy of will dated 2 Feb 1835, of Thomas Heaphy (1775-1835), watercolour artist, 8 St John's Wood Road, St Marylebone, including reference to £1,250 secreted by his first wife, Mary, which is to be left to Harriet Jane, his second wife. With letters of administration to Harriet Jane Heaphy, widow

9 - Marriage settlement of Garratt Prenderghast, labourer and Margaret Byron, spinster, both of 86 Salisbury Street, St Marylebone, at the Lady Chapel [Grove Road, now Lisson Grove], St John's Wood, St Marylebone

10 - Warrant of attorney to John Anderson and William Holship, attorneys of the King's Bench, to appear for Francis Marsh, gentleman, Poland Street, St James, Piccadilly, defendant, in an action of debt (for £420) at the suit of Elizabeth Mills, spinster, Great Titchfield Street, St Marylebone

11 - Voucher from Edward Thornhill to Sir William Chambers (1726-1796), architect, [13] Berners Street, St Marylebone, ordering payment of £6.8s.0d to Miss Anne thomas on William Minell's account

12 - Copy of will dated 6 Jun 1789 of John Colborne, of the [Army] Pay Office, Whitehall and Chapel Street, Lisson Green, St Marylebone, with codicil dated 7 Jan 1802 and affidavit by Humphrey Simmons of the Pay Office and Samuel Franks, [24] Carey Street, St Clement Danes

13 - Licence to trade as carriage dealers at 24 Baker Street, St Marylebone, issued by Edward Berkeley, 1st Viscount Prtman, to Joseph Arnold and Richard Leonard Hawkins

14 - Licence to trade as carriage dealers at 24 Baker Street, St Marylebone, issued by Edward Berkeley, 1st Viscount Prtman, to John Thomas Peacock

15 - Copy memorail, registered at the Middlesex Land registry, of deed of appointment by Edward, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer and Henrietta Cavendish Holles, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, of Henry Howard Viscount Morpeth (1694-1758) son and heir of Charles [3rd] Earl of Carlisle, and John Verney Chief of Justice of Chester (1699-1741), Robert Harley, Lincoln's Inn and James West, Middle Temple, as trustees of the manor and rectory of St Marylebone, including tithes, advowsons, dated 2 Aug 1737

16 - Extract from enrollment, of lease for 99 years by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, Charles Arbuthnot (1767-1851) diplomatist and politician, William Dacres Adam and Henry Dawkins, to William Waterman, builder, [4] Winsley Street, St Marylebone, of a house on the corner of east side of Albany Street and north side of William Street (now William Road), abutting on the east on Albany Lane [Little Albany Lane] St Pancras

17 - Copy notice to the churchwardens and overseers of St Marylebone, to produce papers relating to the removal of Mary Anne McCarty from St Marylebone to St Mary, Magdalen, Taunton, Somerset, by order of H C Moreton Dyer and Edward Rudge JPs for Middlesex, dated 24 Dec 1806. Documents to be produced at the next Quarter Sessions for Middlesex in an appeal by the overseers of Taunton against the removal order

18 - Extract from the minutes of St Marylebone Committee of Management of resolution that Sir William Horne (1774-1860), MP for St Marylebone 1833-1834, be requested to procure three copies of the Poor Law Bill for the Vestry

19 - Proposals for reform of the Sewers Commission [Metropolitan Commission of Sewers] submitted to a meeting of delegates from the Metropolitan parishes, held at the Court House, St Marylebone

20 - Copy affidavit in Chancery Suit, of John Fraser, 16 Furnival's Inn, solicitor to Richard Clout, [4] Augusta Place, Clapham Road, Surrey, stating that his client bought a freehold property, 41 Devonshire Street, St Marylebone and describing complications in completion of the sale, resulting in financial loss to his client

21 - Letters from James Wilson, Town Clerk of St Marylebone, concerning the decorations in Oxford Street, for the procession of the King and Queen of Portugal (Carlos I and Amelie) to the City of London on 17 Nov 1904

22 - Agreement between Harry Wilson, , Manchester Street, St Marylebone, and John Anderson, [29] Golden Square, St James Piccadilly, attorney for Harry Wilson, in an action of usury against John Baber, assigning John Anderson one half of the penalties to be recovered in the suit in return for payment of a levy upon writ of Fieri Facias to the Sheriff of Middlesex

23 - Letter from Peter Bathurst of Harley Street, St Marylebone, to William Strong [solicitor], [5] Lincoln's Inn, inviting him to call the next morning

24 - Vouchers for money due from Dr John Wolcot (1738-1819), poet and satirist, under the title "Peter Pindar" to W and C Spilsbury [for printing]

25 - Warrant of attorney to John Fielder of [21 and 22] Duke Street, Grosvenor Square and William Wrangham, attorneys of the King's Bench, to appear for William Fermor the younger, of [58] George Street, Portman Square, defendant in an action of debt [for £1260] at the suit of Edward Harris of [56] Harley Street, St Marylebone

26 - Draft will of Mrs Isabella Garnett, widow, of High Street Terrace, [53-55] St Marylebone High Street, bequeathing property in Bucklersbury Walbrook, City of London, to Charles Temple her brother in law and Richard Bowner in trust to sell it and distribute various bequests, the residue of the estate to go to the family of Catherine Sample, deceased, sister of the testator and wife of Charles Sample. Also two letters and a note relating to the engrossing of the will

27 - Inventory made by J Slingsby and William Lodder for Mrs Cowell, with valuation of furniture in rooms of 20 Wigmore Street, St Marylebone, the property of Francis Fauquier and comprised in lease

28 - Agreement that John Stacie of The Bedford Arms public house, Covent Garden, vintner, assign to Joseph Hidder of Upper Marylebone Street, stablekeeper, a lease [of property in Park Lane] dated 28 Feb 1777 and a bill of exchange dated 30 Oct [1792] acquired by John Stacie from John Wood, deceased, late of Park Lane, and also the household goods and effects of John Wood

29 - Papers relating to the estate of William Mason

30 - Particulars of demands and notice requiring immediate payment by Benjamin Morelle, upholsterer of 15 Berners Street, St Marylebone, for goods supplied by Henry Newberry, fringe manufacturer of 19 Percy Street, Bedford Square [St Pancras] between Dec 1852 and Jul 1853

31 - Notice of determination of lease of 3 Hanover Terrace [Cumberland Terrace] Regent's Park, from Francis Nalder to Sir Charles Rowley (1770-1845), Farm Lodge, Windsor

32 - Letter from Bell Broderick and Bell, solicitors, of 9 New Church yard, to Sir Charles Rowley, enclosing notice of determination from Francis Nalder

33 - Memorandum of agreement that James Wilton Hulme Powell, milliner of Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, sublet (for sixteen and a half years) shop premises at 55 Rathbone Place, to William Laycock, surgeon of Old Compton Street, Soho, with the condition that Laycock should not practise as a milliner nor Powell sublet 56 Rathbone Place to a surgeon, chemist or druggist

34 - Certified copies from registers off the baptism of Eliza Lucy Byng (Mrs Lynn) daughter of Hon John Byng and Bridget, on 23 Jul 1769 at St Marylebone and Sophia Ann Fraser [who married William Steir and later Sir Charles William Doyle], daughter of William and Mary Fraser, on 27 Jun 1771 at St James Piccadilly. Copies sent to Messrs Bedford and Vincent, attorneys, 5 Trafalgar Square

35 - Notice of delivery of four tons of coal to Mr Willson [John Wilson, linendraper], 159 New Bond Street, St George Hanover Square, by Samuel, Richard and John Buckingham Pope, coal merchants of York and Augusta Wharves, Regent's Park Basin

36 - Notice of determination of lease of 22 Bryanston Street, St Marylebone [21 years from Sep 1826] on 29 Sep 1840 from Louisa Sarah Townshend, widow of Thryburgh, near Doncaster, administratrix of Maria Milner lessee, to Edmund Treherne, executor of Thomas Miles and John Hurley, his agent

37 - Indenture of apprenticeship of Henry John Wood, son of Henry Wood of Moore Street, St Marylebone, coachman, apprenticed to Joseph Deer and John Cook of 20 Bryanston Street, St Marylebone, coach wheelwrights, to be trained as a wheelwright

38 - Invitation from J Smith to Miss Linwood [Mary Linwood, 1775-1843, artist in needlework], Leicester Fields, to attend a private exhibition at the Diorama, Regent's Park on 22 Mar, prior to its re-opening on 24 Mar 1828

39 - Receipts from the Stamp Office for duty paid on legacies on the estate of Martha Hinton East, widow, formerly of St Andrew, Jamaica and later of Upper Montagu Street, Montagu Square (who died 9 Sep 1816) of cutlery, linen and furniture to Mrs Elizabeth Drake and £100 in shares to Joanne Harris. Anna Fitzgerald, widow of Bath, Somerset, is named as executrix

40 - Deed of transfer of two shares in the Grand Junction Water works from John Deacon of Bishopsgate Street, London, to William Hinves of [22] Upper George Street, Portman Square, St Marylebone

41 - Agreement that Mrs Maria Nollekens lease to Richard Sutton (for fourteen years) 50 Margaret Street, St Marylebone

42 - Fire insurance policy of the Alliance Life and Fire Assurance Company for an eating house and dwelling house at the rear of 45 Repert Street, Haymarket, issued to John Gosden of The Blenheim Arms, Blenheim Terrace, St John's Wood, John Lucas, Thomas Bywaters and Robert Francis Showler

43 - Receipt for two quarters assessed taxes (for male servant, carriage, two horses and armorial bearings) due Michelmas 1850, paid by Mr Fenton of 3 Lower Seymour Street (now part of Wigmore Street) to George Ensor Tarner, collector of taxes, 16 High Street, St Marylebone

44 - Demand note from G E Tarner to Mr Fenton for four quarters assessed taxes due at Lady Day 1853

45 - Summons to Percy Henry Bowley [bootmaker] of 4 Merrow Street, Walworth, to appear at Marylebone Police Court on 31 May 1906 to answer a charge made under the Motor Car Act 1903, of exceeding the speed limit of twelve miles per hour in Maida Vale, contrary to regulations laid down by the Local Government Board

46 - First part of schedule of fixtures of a house belonging to Mr Dodd(s) on the corner of Norfolk Street (Cleveland Street) and Tottenham Street, St Pancras, describing fittings in the shop and three storey house with attics and basement, [c1804]

47 - Letter from Rev Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838-19010, author and preacher, 16 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, St Marylebone, submitting a novel "by a new novelist though not a new writer who desires to remain anonymous at present" to be considered for publication

48 - Letter from John L[evincourt] Anderton (1792-1874), angler, 14 Upper Harley Street, St Marylebone, to Mr [Herring, bookseller], ordering four books and giving instructions on bindings

49 - Letter from Joseph Angus (1816-1902), biblical scholar and president of the Baptist College, Regent's Park, 1859-1893, to Dr T H Huxley (1825-1895) sendinh him a volume of summaries, written by Angus, for an edition of Joseph Butler's (1692-1752) Analogy of Religion and Sermons on Human Nature

50 - Letter from (Sir) Victor Horsley (1857-1916), surgeon, 80 Park Street, Grosvenor Square, to Stephen [Paget], introducing Doctor Garland, investigating a cure for rabies (letter written from 33 Seymour Street, Portman Square, residence of Henry Lumley)

Collapse 51 - Brief notes, extracts and cuttings on places and people associated with St Marylebone, compiled by William Francis Prideaux (1840-1914), Colonel in the Indian army and officer of the Indian Civil Service

51 - Brief notes, extracts and cuttings on places and people associated with St Marylebone, compiled by William Francis Prideaux (1840-1914), Colonel in the Indian army and officer of the Indian Civil Service

1 - Cavendish Square, extract from J T Smith's "A Book for a Rainy Day" on its enclosure and George Whitefield, Calvinistic methodist, preaching there

2 - Cavendish Square, extract from Horace Walpole's "Notes to Pennant" on houses and residents

3 - Sussex (Annesley) Lodge, Regent's Park, cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette on its sale

4 - Grove House, Regent's Park, note of sale in 1907 and biography of G B Greenough (1778-1855), first president of the Geological Society and owner of Grove House, from the Times Literary Supplement

5 - Oxford House, note on Tilbury Store Warehouse on the site

6 - Rev John Harley, Rector of St Marylebone, brief historical sketch

7 - Manor of St Marylebone note from "Manuscripts of the Duke of Portland" 1711, of purchase of the manor by the Duke of Newcastle

8 - Manor of St Marylebone, genealogical notes on Forsett family, who held the manor, 1563-1673 and Sir John Austen, successor to the property who sold it to the Duke of Newcastle

9 - Edward Forsett, notes on marriage to Ann Nelson [1650] from Foster's edition of "Visitation of Middlesex, 1663"

10 - Draft article by Prideaux [for the Athanaeum] disputing a statement made by a reviewer in the Athanaeum, of a bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Dr Loius Haney [1903], that Robert Southeby's "Omniana" was first published by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown and supporting the theory of Richard Herne Shepherd (1842-1895) bibliographer, put forward in another bibliograpohy of Coleridge (left unfinished at his death and completed by Prideaux) that Gale and Curtis, of Paternoster Row, were the first publishers of "Omniana"

52 - Letter from E[dward] B[osworth] Harris, 5 Sussex Place, St Marylebone, discussing material on early auction sales of books and their catalogues and concluding that the first sale of this kind was Dr Seaman's sale in 1676

53 - Note to Mr Andrews, Bond Street, requesting that a box at the Olympic Theatre, Strand, be reserved for Marchioness Cornwallis [Louisa, wife of 2nd Marquis], [12] Park Crescent, St Marylebone, for a performance of "He Would Be An Actor", [1825-1850]

54 - Note sent by B Hopland to Miss James [dressmaker] explaining that both she and her colleague had to attend sick friends and relatives and therefore tickets on petticoats had not been "marked"

55 - Letter from Jessy [Sarah] Goldsmid [widow of Henry Edward Goldsmid, 1812-1855, Indian civil servant], 32 Nottingham Place, Regent's Park, to Mr Hendricks, thanking him for his efforts in obtaining a post for her son Bertie in the tea business but expressing reservations about her son travelling to the Far East in the near future

56 - Letter from Joseph Hume (1777-1855), politician and MP for Middlesex, 1830-1837, [6] Bryanston Square, St Marylebone, to George Fisk, declining an offer to purchase more land

57 - Letter from Joseph Hume (1777-1855), politician and MP for Middlesex, 1830-1837, [6] Bryanston Square, St Marylebone, to Dr Thompson, Hyde Street [Bloomsbury], introducing the bearer to his course "Materesa Medica" and requesting an interview himself tio discuss matters connected with the University [of London]

58 - Letter from Edward Protheroe, [MP for Bristol, 1813-1820], [39] Harley Street, St Marylebone, to Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary, forwarding a letter from a Bristol constituent containing details of a scheme for the prevention of forgery. Endorsed "Transmit to Sir Joseph Banks"

59 - Letter from George [Grenville] (1758-1833), Second Marquess of Stafford [and Duke of Sutherland], Stafford House, to Lady Stuart [wife of Lord Stuart de Rothsay, British Ambassador to France, 1829-1831], introducing [Robert] Sutherland, H.M Consul at Maracaibo, Veneseula, on a visit to Paris and describing his former expolits in the army in Haiti and Spain. Also reference to the Royal Family returning from a review of troops attended by the King of Wirtenberg

60 - Letter from Lord G[eorge] Bentinck (1802-1848), son of 4th Duke of Portland and racing enthusiast, Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, St Marylebone, to James Ewing

61 - Letter from George Grenville, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, discussing the housing of a painting offered by the correspondent for Stafford House, suggesting that it should be offered first to the Queen's collections either at London or Windsor

62 - Last page of a letter signed by J [William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, Marquess of Titchfield and 5th Duke of Portland], Cavendish Square, concerning forged sets of prints being offered for sale

63 - Letter from Charles Stevenson, builder, 14 Osnaburgh Street, St Marylebone, to Henry Robert Abraham (1773-1850), architect, 1 Torrington Street, Torrington Square, to George Bloomsbury, discussing an estimate and tender for construction of [St Andrew's] Church in Wells Street, St Marylebone

64 - Letter (in pencil) from S P C Moon, bookseller, 17 Norfolk Square, Paddington, to the Chief Librarian at Marylebone Public Library, offering for sale documents relating to St Marylebone

65 - List (in pencil) of nineteen documents relating to St Marylebone, comprising deeds, auction, sale catalogues, wills etc, 1770-1909

66 - Lease (for 75 years) by George Palmer, glass merchant, St Martin's Lane, St Martin-in-the-Fields, to Hepburn Hastie and James Hastie, builders, [72] Great Portland Street, St Marylebone, of a house, 71 Great Portland Street. With a schedule of rooms and fittings

67 - Auction sale particulars of a public house, The Prince Regent, Seymour Place, St Marylebone (99 years lease from 1802) ordered to be sold in a Commission of Bankrupt against Joseph Appleyard. Printed description of proiperty and manuscript note of re-purchase

68 - Auction sale particulars of 21 Queen Anne Street and 55 Great Portland Street, St Marylebone (leasehold premises) with printed description of properties and manuscript notice of re-sale of 21 Queen Anne Street

69 - Auction sale particulars of the ground rent and lease (41 years) of 53 Portland Place, St Marylebone, a mansion with coachhouse and stable. Memorandum of purchase of ground rent by Edmd Sharp

70 - Copy of will of Mary Garton, widow, linen draper, [85] Great Titchfield Street, St Marylebone, listing bequests to her five children and distribution of estate including details of a fund to be lodged at the St Marylebone Savings Bank, in trust for her grandchild, Emma Ingham

71 - Copy of will of Charles Pitt Bartley, solicitor, 30 Somerset Street, Portman Square, St Marylebone and 54 Princes Square, Paddington, detailing bequests of personal property and distribution of land and leases of property in Paddington, St Marylebone and Caldecote, near Newport Pagnell, to his wife and ten children. Probate was granted on 22 Jun 1868

72 - Copy lease for 30 years from David Porter, builder, Park Place, St Marylebone, to Hon Harry Brand, Lieutenant-Colonel in H.M Coldstream Guards, Montagu Square, St Marylebone, of a house, 14 Montagu Square, with coachhouse, stables, and out-offices. Property leased (99 years from Lady Day 1803) to David Porter by Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823)

73 - Plan (detached from deed) of land bounded by Margaret Street and Cavendish Square (on the north), Oxford Street (on the south), Princes Street (on the east) and Holles Street (on the west), showing stable yards, passages ad numbered plots, with measurements of frontages, nd [1727-1731]

74 - Copy of will of Lady Jane Carleton, second daughter of Thomas, end Earl of Effingham and widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Carleton, Great Quebec Street, St Marylebone, dated 18 Sep 1796. Grant of probate to the sisters of the deceased, Lady Elizabeth Courtney, wife of Henry Reginald Courtney, Bishop of Exeter and Lady Maria Dorchester, wife of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester

75 - Memorial, recording the grant by Alice Lane, wife of John Lane of St Marylebone and Rev George Lewis Jones of Limpsfield, Surrey, of a rent charge on premises in St Marylebone (mortgaged to Samuel Blount) for £1,100 by a deed dated 16 Feb 1767

76 - Papers of Murray Sons and Rymer, solicitors, 59 Chancery Lane, Holborn, relating to land in Lisson Green

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