NAPPER OR NAPIER OF TINTINHULL

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Repository	Somerset Heritage Centre
Reference number	A/ADZ
Description	Papers of the Napper or Napier family of Tintinhull. This collection consists mainly of deed material relating to the Manor of Tintinhull which was purchased by Thomas Napper from Sir Francis Petre and Edward Herrys in 1669. The Napper family already possessed rectorial lands of Tintinhull, purchased as early as 1559. In 1621 the rectory formed part of the marriage settlement of Thomas Napper and Honor Saunders, and in 1658 Honor, in return for an annuity of £100 pa, passed it to her son Thomas as a post-marriage settlement in 1684. The family also owned the advowson of Thorne Coffin from 1673 until its sale by John Napper to his cousin, who later took the name Berkeley Napier.
Date	1544-2004
Extent	169 documents
Access status	Open
Level	Collection

Bargain and Sale, Manor of Tintinhull. Agreements relating to manors of Tintinhull and Charlton Deeds Declaration of trust Assignment of Mortgage, Manors of Tintinhull and Charlton. Deeds Agreement to reconvey Manor of Tintinhull and Charlton and other property in Somerset and Essex on payment of £2266. Lease and release Quitclaim of all suits and actions following the sale of the Manor of Tintinhull. Receipt by Francis Petre, Thomas Hodgson and George Bradshaw of purchase money for Manor of Tintinhull from Thomas Napper of Frome Selwood. Lease for year Manor of Tintinhull, capital messuage called Parsonage House and lands [named] in Tintinhull and Ilchester. Bargain and Sale. Parsonage of Tintinhull, all glebe lands. Agreement to suffer a common recovery to divide property between Thomas and James Napper. Miscellaneous agreements Surrender in return for annuity of £100. Bargain and sale with proviso to suffer common recovery. Post marriage settlement of Thomas Napper and Rebecca in consideration of £2,000 paid by Solomon Andrew. Lease and release Mortgage. Parsonage and rectory impropriate of Thorne Coffin, glebe lands and tithes. Bargain and Sale. Release of Manor of Pykes Ash in Martock and annual chief rent from Manor of Witcombe and Coat, to better ensure payment of £1000 mortgage, 1729. (Part only) Not used Not used Common Recovery. Deeds Deeds Lease for a year Release. Bargain and sale. Release. Release. Lease for a year. Lease for a year. Bargain and Sale. Leases Bargain and Sale. Bargain and Sale. Lease for 21 years. 99 years lease. Leases Deeds Lease for 60 years or lives. Recites lease of 1597 to Richard, Katherine and Henry Martyn (brother of Katherine). 99 year lease Deeds 99 year lease, cottage and garden sometime in the tenure of Robert Smith. Deeds Release, close of barton land divided into two closes in Welham called the overclose of Tipps leaze, 11a. 99 year lease in reversion. Leases 99 year lease. Deeds Further mortgage. 99 year lease. Deeds Leases Exchange Cottage and garden 99 year lease. 14 year lease. Release. Deeds Leases Lease for 6 years. Lease for 9 years. Leases Covenant to pay heirs of Abigail Goodden of Higher Crompton, Dorset, £2,000. Deeds Lease for 2 years. 99 years lease. Bargain and Sale. Survey of Manors of Tintinhull and Charlton. Survey of the Manor of Tintinhull Survey of the Manor of Tintinhull (incomplete) Lease Pre marriage settlement. Deeds Copy will of Charles Hawker of Thorn Prior, Esq. (Uncle of Edward Clarke of Chipley). Copy will of Mary Edwards of Lyme Regis, widow. Will of Anna Catherine Napper (née Tregonwell), widow, of Wimbourne Minster, Dorset. Letters of Administration to Andrew Napper, uncle of Edward, Anna, Catherine, Thomas Tregonwell and John Napper. Account book divided into three sections. Account book. Declaration in trust re £400. Annuities John Napper's commission as captain in Militia. Exemplification of special verdict between John Pryddle and Thomas Napper for the tithe corn of his ground in Gylberts Hyll alias Peryns Hyll. Exemplification of a judgement between Richard Browne and Thomas Napper for the tithe cord of his ground in Peryns Hyll, alias Gylberts Hyll. An order in favour of Thomas Napper, farmer of the Rectors of Tintinhull, against Francis Roule of Norton sub Hamdon for £10 41s 2d. Bond of John Wilkins and Thomas Napper both of Tintinhull to John Lye to pay £62 8s 0d. Andrew Napper's bill to Thomas (legal). Account of Andrew Napper with brother John re money spent on purchase of estate from Gregory Syndercombe, Anna and Sarah Hawkins. Miscellaneous Papers Miscellaneous legal documents Hundred of Wells Forum three weeken court. Plea of debt of 11/- owed to Henry Trevillian by John Young for beer, ale, cider, brandy, rum, pipes and tobacco. Assignment of bond for £82 due to Speke from Elizabeth Dampier of Tintinhull. General release. Bill for shoes bought by Mr Stone from A Fiander. Mortgage Further mortgage Assignment of lease of 1662, close of arable called Nethermeare, 3½a in Montacute. 99 year lease, house with garden and orchard in Ash, Martock. Agreement to levy a fine. Assignment of lease of 1a of arable in Eastoke in Stoke sub Hamdon. Permission to add one or two lives in reversion at Manor of West Stoke. Presentation of Edward Napper, clerk, by Thomas Napper of Yeovil to the Rectory and Parish Church of Thorne Coffin. Assignment of mortgage. Lease of 7 years, messuage and tenement on the bridge of Avon in parish of St Nicholas, Bristol. Release, Manor or reputed manor of Lyme Abbotts, alias Shyborn Holme in the Borough of Lyme Regis, (formerly part of the possessions of Sherborne Abbey then of Thomas Godwyne, John Hassard, Robert Hassard, John Drake of Ash, Devon) [TRANSFERRED TO DORSET HISTORY CENTRE]. 99 year lease, two houses adjoining on the north west side of Shirurne Lane, Lyme Regis, Dorset [TRANSFERRED TO DORSET HISTORY CENTRE]. 99 year lease [TRANSFERRED TO DORSET HISTORY CENTRE]. Lease for lives, dwelling house and garden adj. in occupation of Henry Guppy on south side of West Street of Lyme Regis [TRANSFERRED TO DORSET HISTORY CENTRE]. Release, messuage, burgages, cottages, etc. in Lyme Regis to the use of John Collard until a common recovery shall be executed for the benefit of Benjamin Donne. Assignment of lease [TRANSFERRED TO DORSET HISTORY CENTRE]. Mortgage, orchard containing ¼a in Charmouth [TRANSFERRED TO DORSET HISTORY CENTRE]. 14 years lease, messuage and tenement called Yandover in Charmouth containing 16a. Lease for a year, two messuages or houses at Gitshayne in Colyton [TRANSFERRED TO DEVON HERITAGE CENTRE]. Lease for 21 years. Lease for messuage called Coate (1½a) in Tintinhull Moore, ½a meadow in common mead of Tintinhull. Lease for 50 years in consideration of a tenement called Brooke Marshe and £13. Messuage, tenement and place and 22a called Brook Marshe, 27 July 1649. Assignment of lease of lands in the Manor of Tintinhull and Charlton, 20 July 1655. Deed to lead uses of a fine of lands in the Manors of Tintinhull and Charlton, 30 June, 1660. Lease for 2 messuages in Tintinhull now in occup. of Mary Bampton, widow, 1 close of pasture (9a) commonly called Genhulls Contey, 29 Nov 1665. Lease of 2 closes of barton land called the South Thurlocks (12a), 3 closes of barton land called Thurlockes (12a) in Tintinhull, 30 May 1666. Lease for life of close called Calfe Hay (13a), Tintinhull, 10 Nov 1674. Leases between Robert Johnson and Christopher Hayme of Stoke sub Hamdon Lease of cottage and garden called Scranges in Tintinhull, 23 Aug 1716. Bond of John and William Hardwish of Westbury, yeomen and Philip Collier the younger to pay £100. Letters of administration of Robert Smith of Crewkerne. Lease of lands in Chilthorne Domer. Lease for lives of land in Tintinhull. Bargain and sale of lands in Thorne Coffin and Thorne Prior. Bargain and sale of the manors of Preston and [Kingston]. Release of the manors of Tintinhll and Charleston. Lease of the manors of Tintinhull and Charleston Lease of lands in Tintinhull. Lease of lands in Montague. Grant of land in Preston Plucknett, Yeovil and Pitney. Bargain and sale of lands in Tintinhull. Bargain and sale of lands in Tintinhull. Bargain and sale of lands in Tintinhull. Bargain and sale of lands in Chilthorne Domer. Bargain and sale of the manors of Tintinhull and Charlton Adam. Lease of the manor of Charleton Adam. Lease of lands in Montacute. Lease of lands in Chilthorne Domer. Royal prohibition of lands in Tintinhull. Declarations from the hundred court of Wells Forum. Will of Stephen Kidgell of Bridgwater, gent. Notice of disposal of goods to Edward Beaton. Account of church rates in the parish of Tintinhull. Lease of lands in Tintinhull. Release of property in Chard. Copy court roll for the manor of Fresfo? Deed reciting an enrolled case concerning property at Ilchester. Deed reciting an enrolled case concerning property at Ilchester. Lease for lives of lands in Freshford. Assignment of lease of the manors of Leyton? and Lenoys Court. Mortgage of lands in Tintinhull. Bargain and sale of lands in Tintinhull. Release of lands in Tintinhull. Copy court roll for the Manor of Stoke sub Hamdon. Conveyance of lands in Tintinhull. Bond of obligation. Bond of obligation. Plea in the case of Watts versus Sansome in the court of the hundred of Wells Forum. Account of monies owed by Jarom While of Tintinhull to Thomas Napper. Parts and sections of miscellaneous deeds. Catalogue of Napier family papers held at the Dorset and Devon Record Offices.