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Saunderson Archive (Hawnes Park)

The Collection and its arrangement These Haynes Park Muniments were deposited at the County Record Office by Miss Saunderson in 1943. They were sorted in 1947 and catalogued 1954-1955. Unfortunately the collection is not intact. The bulk of the records seem to be here but nearly three hundred documents remained at Haynes Park in the hands of the school until deposited with the record office in 1976.(X520) These documents and those deposited by Miss Saunderson are complementary the splitting of one collection into two was a matter of chance only and has no rational basis. Thus the Final Concord which should follow SA30 is X520/98, the Release which goes with SA49 is X520/114, and a terrier describing land in SA798 is in X520/141 and Appendix I. A detailed list of collations has not been attempted; a cross reference to the Hawnes School deeds has only been added to clarify or complete the transaction in a series of deeds in SA. In a few cases the earlier deeds of a property remained at Hawnes School, for example, Wilstead Rectory (SA117-144 cf. X520/145-151) and the earlier deeds of the Manor of Hawnes (X520/11-13 cf. SA11-13). The documents have been arranged by distinct properties but as it became clear that only the manor of Hawnes and St Macute were acquired by Sir George Carteret in the 17th century, much of the estate in Wilstead and Haynes in the 18th century by his great grandson John Earl Granville, and likewise that groups of properties bought in the 19th century fell into two well-defined chronological groups, these chronological divisions have been used for the most part to mark off the main sections. This means that the descent of the Manor of Hawnes is in section A and twice in section B (See Scheme of Catalogue) but these sub-sections relate to clearly defined periods of time. What the collection mainly shows The deeds in SA and X520 show how the manors of St Macute and Hawnes passed to the Luke family through the Winches to Sir George Carteret. The conveyance of the manor of Hawnes from Robert Newdigate to Sir Oliver Luke in 1622 is in neither collection.This with other "royal charters and important deeds" was reported stolen in 1937 (but cf.SA711) but SA1-8 and X520/1-10 show the passage of the manor of St Macute from John Ventris of Campton to Sir Samuel Luke and his son Oliver by 1657. SA11 and X520/11 and 12 show how Hawnes Manor was successively settled on Samuel Luke and his son Oliver between 1625 and 1652. The conveyance of both manors in 1665 to William Montagu and Sir Thomas Crew (X520/14) was to make the Post-Nuptial Settlement after Sir George Carteret had married his cousin Elizabeth and when his son, the ill fated Sir Philip Carteret had married Jemima daughter of Edward Earl of Sandwich (X520/17 and 18). SA13-15 show that Humfreyes Wood and other lands acquired for replacing Dame Elizabeth Luke's original jointure charged on property in Cople formed part of the conveyance to Sir George Carteret (see SA18, and cf. X520/14 and SA20) The money for the purchase of Hawnes and St Macute seems to have been arranged by mortgage through that arch-scrivener Robert Clayton (X520/15 and SA20 *X520/19 shows that as late as 1681 Sir George Carteret's grandson had not paid off this mortgage. *For Sir Robert Clayton see also SA22-23 and SA25. For an account of him see D C Coleman: London Scriveners and the estate market in the later 17th century, in Economic History Review 2nd series IV no.2 (1951) SA73-99, deeds relating to the manor of Wilstead clear up some of the confusion in the account of the descent of this manor in Bedfordshire Victoria County History (iii, 326). They show how it came into the hands of the family by John Lord Carteret's purchase in 1724. The Victoria County History has nothing to say of William Crawley of Harlington who was Lord of the Manor by 1627 (see X520/153) and remained Lord of the Manor until he sold out to Thomas Beech in 1663.(SA73, cf. also SA103, cf. Victoria County History) Beech settled it by fine on William Bedell who left it to his daughter Rebecca who sold it to Lord Carteret X520/145-152 and SA 117-144 show the descent of Wilstead rectory and tithes from 1596 to 1757 when two thirds of the rectory and great tithes went to Richard Lane of Hambledon, Buckinghamshire as the result of the assignment of a mortgage of 1755 (SA137). How the rectory passed to Lord Carteret in 1795 (Victoria County History iii, 328) is not clear, though SA201 shows Henry Frederick Lord Carteret in possession of Wilstead Rectory by 1800 and the copies of deeds relating to the site and demesnes of Elstow Abbey (SA696-705) made for Lord Carteret are perhaps explicable by the fact that until 1539 Wilstead Rectory was the property of Elstow Abbey. Robert Earl Granville's encumbrances on the estate provide an interesting gloss on his character(for which see Complete Peerage, under Granville) and his will (SA195) provided for the sale of much of the estate in Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Essex, Lincolnshire, Surrey and Middlesex, also in North Carolina, North America and the West Indies - almost everything except Hawnes Park. Fortunately some £6,800 was received from the Government as compensation for the loss of part of Robert Earl Granville's estates in America (SA201 recital) and it was possible to save the Bedfordshire estate (see recitals to SA203) Sections D, E, and F show how the estate was enlarged between 1805 and 1864 by the purchase of further property in Haynes, Wilstead and Houghton Conquest, especially by a large purchase by Lord John Thynne in Houghton Conquest in 1852 and 1857 (see SA459 and 641), Duck End Farm in Wilstead in 1853 (SA562) and West End Farm, Haynes in 1864 (SA648) The "out-county" deeds are interesting especially SA758, a petition from Sir George Carteret to Charles II to plant oak, elm and beech trees in Cranborne Chase of which he held the office of Keeper of Two perambulations. The interest in this office with land in Ireland, the island of Alderney and the islands off the coast of Virginia which Charles II granted to Sir George Carteret on 11 February 1650 (Smith's islands renamed New Jersey in honour of Sir George's birthplace) were to be sold by the terms of his will (see recitals to SA760). In 1682 his widow sold New Jersey to William Penn. See X520/257 (cf.X520/271-2) for the sale of the perambulations. Other small points of interest are the appearance of Alderman William Cokayne of " Cokayne's project" (see Miss A Friis: Alderman Cockayne's Project) in SA41. Daniel Brevint who purchased Fee Farm Rents in Bedfordshire in 1671 (SA52) for Sir George Carteret (see X520/251) was a native of Jersey born in 1616 who became Dean of Lincoln and died 5 May 1695 (see Ralph Mollet: A Chronology of Jersey (Société Jersiaise 1949) p.37). On membrane 16 of SA147 John Bunyan's grandfather Thomas appears as a member of the jury and his wife was fined for breaking the Assize of Ale (1554). SA201 refers to an annuity to Eleanor Smart of Haynes, the mistress of Henry Frederick Thynne, Fifth Baron Carteret for nearly 40 years before they were married in 1810 when she was 68 (see Complete Peerage under Carteret and pedigree in this calendar).There are some interesting deeds relating to the Potter family and the Potter Macqueens (SA771-776 and SA432-477. See also X520/119-138) John Potter ?1674-1747 (Bishop of Oxford 1715-1737, Archbishop of Canterbury 1737-1747) Thomas Potter died 1759 Marianna = Malcolm Macqueen Anne Astley = Thomas Potter Macqueen John Potter Macqueen daughter of Sir Jacob Astley, baronet of Melton Constable The encumbrance made on the estate by Thomas Potter Macqueen between 1826 and 1845 led to the sale of the Houghton Conquest estate to Lord John Thynne (SA459). A Marriage Settlement of 1723 contains a detailed inventory of the furnishings and the cellar of a cottage in Clophill (SA500) SA621 and SA609 relate to Mark Rutherford's Father (see SA604-623 for the White family) SA706 relates to French Privateers at Lundy Island in the Severn in 1738 The Carteret and Thynne families The sketch pedigree shows how the male line of the Carterets came to an end with the death of Robert Earl Granville in 1776 and passed through the female line to the Thynnes. The title was revived again in 1784 and continued until 1849 on the death of the sixth baron without heirs. The property but not the title then passed to his nephew Lord John Thynne, third son of the second Marquess of Bath. The Carteret family came from Carteret in the modern Département of the Manche (arondissement Valogne, canton Barneville) just opposite the eastern side of Jersey. They can be traced back at least as far as the 12th. century. Then they were benefactors of the abbey of Mont St Michel with its priory of Le Valle in Guernsey. Many documents relating to them in the 12th and 13th centuries are printed in the Cartulaire de Jersey, Recueil de Documents... Conservèes aux Archives du Département de la Manche (Société Jersiaise, 6 fascicules, Jersey 1918-1924) and the pedigree of the family in the 12th and 13th centuries is taken from there.(p.56) Philip de Carteret in 1166 held a large fief of 13 or 14 knights' fees of William de Briouze's Honour of Barnstaple (see Loyd: origins of Some Anglo-Norman families, Harleian Society, Leeds 1951) In 1356 Reginald de Carteret recaptured Castle Cornet in Guernsey from the French and was knighted by Edward III and his successors were active in the government and defence of Jersey. Sir George Carteret's great-uncle Helier de Carteret in 1565 was granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth authorising him to colonise the Island of Sark (Mollet : Chronology of Jersey p.22) Captain or Colonel George Carteret's defence of Jersey for the King during the Civil Wars brought the family to greater national importance, and some of the papers of Sir Peter Osborne (not O but the papers printed in The Chronicles of Castle Cornet by F B Tupper (Guernsey 1851, 2nd edition) contain some letters of Colonel Carteret who was knighted in 1645. There are other references to him in the archives of the Société Jersiaise (see e.g. Archives Volume II no.13 - the Archives of Jersey by G R Balleine) It is interesting to note that the titular connection of the Carteret family with Jersey remained in the 18th and 19th centuries; John Lord Carteret, the famous statesman, Robert Earl Granville, and Henry Frederick Thynne were Bailiffs of Jersey, the actual functions of the office being carried out by Lieutenant-Bailiffs on the island between 1703 and 1826 (Mollet: opere citate, [in the work cited] 57)

Mr Herbert Percy Saunderson (1866-1939), engineer and tractor pioneer, bought Haynes Park on the 9th January 1918 (see Z1656/8/2). His daughter emigrated to British Columbia. In 1942 Miss Saunderson gave a quantity of deeds to the University Library of British Columbia. In 1943 another quantity of deeds was deposited in the record office and they form this SA collection. Other deeds remained at the park, which by then was Hawnes School. When the school closed in 1975/6 the deeds still at the school were deposited with the record office as X520. On Miss Saunderson's death a few other deeds in her possession were also deposited in the record office.

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