THE BATTEN FAMILY ARCHIVE: A very substantial archive of family papers amounting to several thousand individual items, the legacy of a prominent Yeovil family of solicitors, bankers and landowners. The majority of the collection dates from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but it also includes a considerable quantity of material dating back to the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with a smaller amount extending into the early 1900s. The papers fall into three main categories: (1) those amassed and carefully preserved over the years by a large and prosperous family; (2) legal documents and ancillary material retained in the way of business by several generations of lawyers; and (3) material collected by the historian John Batten the younger for his antiquarian and genealogical researches during the second half of the nineteenth century. Documents from all three categories and of all dates from the earliest to the latest include indentures, mortgages, tenancy agreements, wills, property valuations, releases, conveyances and other deeds on both vellum and paper. There are numerous maps and estate plans, an important group of parish surveys, grants of arms, certificates of various sorts, pedigrees, diaries, and a mass of correspondence both professional and private. Among correspondents are numerous aristocrats, politicians and other luminaries, amongst them the Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon, Lord Shaftesbury, the Marquess of Westminster, the antiquary Joseph Hunter and James Morrison of Fonthill, while signatories of legal documents include William Pitt the Elder; many more doubtless remain to be discovered. Individual documents of note include two early vellum account rolls and a sixteenth century deed incorporating a fine depiction of Queen Elizabeth. Many of the earlier pieces retain their original seals. Worthy of mention too are John Batten's notebooks; miscellaneous pamphlets and offprints; and a considerable quantity of printed ephemera, together with photographs and other family memorabilia.
THE BATTEN FAMILY ARCHIVE: A very substantial archive of family papers amounting to several thousand individual items, the legacy of a prominent Yeovil family of solicitors, bankers and landowners. The majority of the collection dates from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but it also includes a considerable quantity of material dating back to the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with a smaller amount extending into the early 1900s. The papers fall into three main categories: (1) those amassed and carefully preserved over the years by a large and prosperous family; (2) legal documents and ancillary material retained in the way of business by several generations of lawyers; and (3) material collected by the historian John Batten the younger for his antiquarian and genealogical researches during the second half of the nineteenth century. Documents from all three categories and of all dates from the earliest to the latest include indentures, mortgages, tenancy agreements, wills, property valuations, releases, conveyances and other deeds on both vellum and paper. There are numerous maps and estate plans, an important group of parish surveys, grants of arms, certificates of various sorts, pedigrees, diaries, and a mass of correspondence both professional and private. Among correspondents are numerous aristocrats, politicians and other luminaries, amongst them the Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon, Lord Shaftesbury, the Marquess of Westminster, the antiquary Joseph Hunter and James Morrison of Fonthill, while signatories of legal documents include William Pitt the Elder; many more doubtless remain to be discovered. Individual documents of note include two early vellum account rolls and a sixteenth century deed incorporating a fine depiction of Queen Elizabeth. Many of the earlier pieces retain their original seals. Worthy of mention too are John Batten's notebooks; miscellaneous pamphlets and offprints; and a considerable quantity of printed ephemera, together with photographs and other family memorabilia.
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