Appendix C

Bibliography and Documentary Sources

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Documentary Sources

The following is a list of documentary sources consulted by the writer arranged according to the record office in which they are held and then by class of document. A brief description of the nature of the information given in each document is provided, where appropriate, together with the record office accession number.

Bristol Record Office (BRO): Bristol Corporation Records Apprentice Enrolment Books (1532-1658 & from 1668) – gives date of apprenticeship, place of origin of apprentice, name and occupation of his father, name and trade of his master and any terms attached to the apprenticeship.
04352(1-6); 04353(1-7)

Apprentice Rough Entry Books (1664-1753) – these are rough drafts of apprenticeship details, containing additional apprenticeships and information which does not appear in the Enrolment Books.
04354; 04355(1-6)

Orders for Binding Apprentices (1708-1847) – after 1730, in addition to the usual apprenticeship details, the address of the master is given.

Burgess (Freedom) Books – gives the names of persons free to carry on their trade in Bristol, the type of trade, the date of the freedom and how freedom was obtained (apprenticeship, payment of fine, marriage to a freeman’s daughter).
04358; 04359(1-21)

Great Audit Books (1532-1785) – these are the annual accounts kept by the Chamberlain and include rents received from city lands (sometimes paid by potters) and payments for freedoms.
04026(1-155)

Common Council Proceedings (1598-1835) – they record the transactions of the Council, including petitions for freedom.
4264(1-25)

Bargain Books (1604-1847) – contain copies of leases of city lands and receipts for Burgess money.
04335(5-16); 04338(1-14)

Proposal Books (1739-1800) – contain particulars of leases of land owned by the Corporation.
0444(2); 04344(4)

Mayor’s Orders (1660 -)
04417(1-3)

Surveys of City Lands (1700, 1739)
04238; 04240(1)

Corporation Plan Book A.

City Taxation/Rate Records:
Tax raised by Act 1.William & Mary, c.3 (1689) – gives householder and parish
Tax raised by Act 9. William III, c.10 (1698) – gives householder and parish
Assessment for St. Mary Redcliffe parish (1668) – gives householder and type of property
Window Tax (Temple parish) (1702-1750) – gives householder and number of windows in property.
Lamp and Scavenger Rate (Temple parish) (1703-1730) – gives householder.
Poor Rate (Temple parish) (1703-1722) – gives householder.
Lamp and Scavenger Rate (St. Augustine’s parish) – gives householder
Land Tax (St. Augustine’s parish) – gives householder and type of property
Poor Rate (St. Augustine’s parish) – gives householder
Lamp and Scavenger Rate (St. Mary Redcliffe parish) – gives householder
Land Tax (St. Mary Redcliffe parish) – gives householder and type of property
Poor Rate (St. Mary Redcliffe parish) – gives householder

Court Records

Tolzey Court Records (1476-1800) – court of record for actions of debt, trespass and other minor civil matters.
04417(1-2); 04434(1-3); 04435(1-5); 04436(1-2); 05056; 05057.

Court of Conscience or Requests (1692-1756) – court used for the recovery of small debts. Before 1742 the address, occupation and, sometimes, the name of the employer of the defendant are given.
04413; 04753; 04754; 04414

Alehouse Keepers’ Licences (1654-1800) – these are licence applications by people wishing to keep alehouses. The name, parish of residence and occupation of those standing surety for the alehouse keeper are given.
05062(1-11)

Jury Book (1732-1738) – gives name, occupation and address.
04455

Parish Records

St. Luke’s, Brislington:
Parish Registers – baptisms, marriages and burials
St. LB/PR.
Surveyor of Highways (1691-1741) – rate books giving details of householders and sometimes refer to ‘the pothouse’.
St. LB/S/1
Churchwardens’ Accounts (1681-1730) – account books giving details of householders and type of property.
St. LB/Chw/1
Overseers of the Poor (1693-1736) – rate books giving details of property owners and type of property.
St. LB/OP/1 & 2

Temple (alias Holy Cross), Bristol:
Bishop’s Transcripts (1671- ) – copies of baptism, marriage and burial registers destroyed during the blitz.
EP/V/4/47
Churchwarden’s Accounts (1689-1707) – account books giving details of householders and type of property.
T/Chw

St. John’s, Bedminster:
Baptism Register 1750-1812
(originally kept at St. Mary Redcliffe church, recently transferred to BRO)

Bristol Cathedral:
Marriage Register 1690

Quaker Records
Registers of Births, Marriages and Burials
QR SF/R1/2.
QR SF/A7/1.

Digest of Births
Burial Index

Company of Merchant Taylors

Survey Book (1695-1707)
4954(6)
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Plan and survey of land in Brislington (1745/6) 00568(16).

Probate Records

Will of Sarah Crofts (1687)
Will of Elizabeth Wastfield (1693)
Will of Edward Bye, Barton Regis (1704)
Inventory of the estate of Edward Bye, Barton Regis (1704): Inv. 1704/8.

Land Transactions

Sale/Lease of land:
Lease to Edward Crofts, Redcliff parish (1668 & 1670): DC/E/40/44/1, DC/E/40/37/52068, DC/E/40/37/52083.
Lease of property in East Tucker Street, Temple Solomon Huntington to Robert Collins (1663): Temple Ab 196(3).
Purchase of land by Robert Collins, Brislington (1667): 6608(8).
Sale by Tobias Provisse to Robert Collins, Brislington (1669): 3583(2).

Sale by Robert Collins to John Hoskins of Brislington (1673): 3583(3).
Surrender Thomas Dickson (1718): Temple Ag 3(1).
Lease of land on Brandon Hill to Henry Hobbs (1693): 04335(7)
Lease of land adjoining Hobbs pothouse (1707): 04335(8)
Lease of Lower Pothouse, Limekiln Lane to the Society of Merchants (1755): 04344(2) & 01036(1)

Others

Marriage Licence Bonds (1637-1750) – licence granted for marriage without proclamation of banns. Gives the name, parishand occupation of the bridegroom, and the bondsmen standing surety for him.

Bristol Reference Library:

Poll Books
Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal
The Bristol Oracle
The Bristol Gazette

Bristol Presentment Books (Exports) 1775

Somerset Record Office (SRO):

Land Transactions

Sale/Lease of land:
Lease from Anne Bissicke to Alice Bennett, Brislington (1661): DD/BR/tb 7.
Assignment from John Bissicke to Robert Bennett I, Brislington (1656): DD/BR/tb 7.
Sale by Rowland Lacey to Robert Bennett I, Brislington (1657): DD/BR/tb 7 & GL 18 & 5.
Transfer of land from John Bennett to Edward Ward, Brislington (1702): DD/BR/tb 7.
Robert Bennett II mentioned as a tenant at Brislington (1667): DD/GL 18a.
Lease George Combe to Robert Bennett II, Brislington (1670): DD/BR/U 7.
Sale Elizabeth Shelton to Robert Bennett II (1671): DD/BR/tb 7.
Assignment of lease Thomas Jones to John Bissicke, Brislington (1652): DD/BR/tb 7.
Assignment of lease John Bissicke to Robert Bennett, Brislington (1652): DD/BR/tb 7.
Sale Rowland Lacey to John Bissicke, Brislington (1656): DD/BR/tb 7 & DD/GL 18.
Sale Aaron Ithell to John Bissicke, Brislington (1657): DD/BR/tb 7.
Sale Henry Kaines to John Bissicke, Brislington (1659): DD/BR/tb 7.
Lease John Bissicke to George Huntington, Brislington (1659): DD/BR/tb 7.
Lease Anne Bissicke to Alice Bennett, Brislington (1661): DD/BR/tb 7.
Indenture Rowland Lacey to Ricard Crabb (mentions Collins family), Brislington (1657): DD/GL 18.
Sale Rowland Lacey to Robert Collins, Brislington (1661): DD/GL 18 & BRO 4488(3).
Transfer of lands Thomas Dickson to John Bennett, Brislington (1694): DD/BR/tb 7.

Quaker Records

Society of Friends Letter Books
Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting records (Bristol papers):
DD/SFR 1/1 – Minutes, 1668-1684
DD/SFR 8/2 – Record of Sufferings, 1659-95.
DD/SFR 10/2 – Epistles to the Quaker Meeting, 1662-1698.

Court Records

QS/I/126/2(9), (11), (16) & (17) – Quarter Sessions papers, 1670

Others

Gore-Langton Papers including plan and survey of the Langton Court Estate, Brislington (1791): DD/Gld 4 & 5.

Brislington Tithe Map and Apportionment (1844)

Deposition Books, Bishop of Bath and Wells: D/D/Cd/93, 1670.

Wiltshire Record Office (WRO):

Quaker Records

Minute Books of North Somerset Division Meetings:
1699/19, 1667 – 1674.

Public Record Office, Kew (PRO) :

Probate Records

Will of Ann Bissicke, Brislington (1666): Prob. 11/323.
Will of Robert Bennett, Brislington (1658): Prob. 11/296.
Will of Alice Huntington, Brislington (1668): Prob. 11/328.
Will of Robert Bennett II, Brislington (1671): Prob. 11/336.
Will of John Bissicke, Brislington (1659): Prob. 11/297.
Will of Anne Bissicke, Brislington (1666): Prob. 11/323.
Will of Robert Wastfield, Brislington (1677): Prob. 11/355.
Will of Sarah Wastfield, Brislington (1678): Prob. 11/359.

Bristol Port Books

Exchequer Series E190

The Scottish Pottery Society:

The Court of Session Process for The Delftfield Pottery Case: Bird v Dinwiddie and Others. 1 November 1750.
SPS 81/76