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The Museum County Record Office THE MUSEUM Important excavations were carried out at exhibition was the most important which has Missenden Abbey in advance of proposed ever been held in the Museum, namely 'Rodin extensions, on a Roman site on the line of the and his Contemporaries', borrowed at very Amersham by-pass, medieval kilns in Brill and short notice from the Peter Stuyvesant Foun- medieval kilns in the Alderbourne Valley near dation. 3,116 adults and 929 children visited Denham found during a watching brief on the the exhibition over a period of just over three line of the M25. These are, or will be, more weeks. The Bucks County Beekeepers Associ- fully recorded elsewhere in the Records. ation also commemorated its centenary by a fascinating exhibition of old methods of bee- Two further craft demonstration days were keeping combined with modern techniques arranged and proved even more popular than including an observation bee hive. the year before as 950 adults and 768 children attended. On this occasion a number of pro- The Museum mounted two exhibitions in fessional craft people demonstrated glass Milton Keynes. One comprised the collection engraving, ceramic painting, tapestry weaving, of studio pottery and was shown at the Great machine knitting, bobbin making, jewellery, Linford Art Centre from the 10th February to pottery and basket making. the 13th March and attracted much favourable comment. The other consisted of the drawings In October a new Temporary Exhibition of Stowe by John Claude Nattes taken in 1805, Gallery in Church House, which was bought a 1807 and 1809 which were bought two years few years ago, was opened and forms a major ago. This exhibition was opened by the Chair- addition to the amenities of the Museum. It man of the County Council. The Museum in has not hitherto been possible to have any but conjunction with Stowe School published a the very smallest exhibitions and nothing catalogue of the Stowe drawings and this involving a great weight, as the exhibition formed a commemoration of the 60th anni- gallery had previously been on the first floor. versary of Stowe School. It would have been The first exhibition was a most interesting one quite impossible for the Museum to have organised by the County Record Office: 'The produced this catalogue on its own and we are Hartwell Comet, a Bicentenary Commemora- grateful to Stowe for the opportunity of col- tion of John Lee of Hartwell House', which laborating on this project. was opened by Patrick Moore. The second COUNTY RECORD OFFICE Although there was no let-up in public Records were received from twenty-nine demand, the pressure on staff was less acute ecclesiastical parishes, of which six had not than in some previous years owing to the previously deposited. The records of Great and appointment of a part-time search room super- Little Brickhill contain fine series of parish visor last year. registers dating from the mid-sixteenth century. The Weston Turville parish records The total of separate accessions was 133. A are unusually rich in correspondence, dating detailed list is given at the end of the County from the late eighteenth century, much of it Archivist's Report, available from the Record relating to the management of the glebe. Wen- Office. dover has a mixed bag of records including 180 some interesting tithe accounts. Prestwood's book for the Dropmore estate, 1833-4; a stray records, with earlier deposits, establish it as minute book of the Board of Guardians of one of the best documented parishes of nine- Beaconsfield Union; and a reconstruction of teenth century creation. Unexpected or the missing North Marston parish inclosure unusual finds among parish records include map of 1779 painstakingly compiled by Mr. letters of marque for a privateer, 1695 (Princes M. Finnemore combining documentary Risborough); detailed enumerations for the research with local knowledge to impressive 1821 and 1831 national censuses in Princes effect. Risborough; lists of books in Mentmore parish library; and a valuation and rental of the A new Zeiss microfilm reader was pur- Duncombe estate in Great Brickhill, c. 1687- chased as a replacement for the existing Kodak 1701. reader which is obsolescent. A replacement Ricoh photocopier, with enlargement facility, Records of voluntary organisations re- was also acquired. ceived this year included minute books and other documents relating to a village friendly In addition to listing of current accessions, society, a property protection society, a local the Lowndes MSS, a large and complex estate agricultural association and a Darby and Joan archive relating to the Chesham area, was club. finally catalogued, though the catalogue has yet to be typed. The size of the accumulated Mr. R. White of Chinnor deposited a backlog of cataloguing remains a cause for group of court rolls and other documents concern however. It cannot be drastically relating to the small manor of Corhams in reduced at the present level of staffing. Bledlow, dating from the mid-seventeenth century. Unfortunately, they had suffered The assistance of a volunteer enabled a greatly from exposure to the elements. They survey to be effected of the large deposit of were given emergency conservation treatment Howe estate deeds received in 1980 (AR94/80) and many of the rolls have since been repaired and a summary bundle-list to be made of the with comparatively little loss of legibility. Ashridge estate records. Professor Chibnall presented three very An index was compiled to the personal attractive and informative volumes, dated 1772 names in the catalogue of the Spencer-Bernard and 1837, containing map-surveys of farms on papers. Several other small lists were similarly two estates in north Bucks. He also presented indexed and an existing card-index to the some facsimiles of documents acquired in the parties mentioned in the Ashridge deeds was course of his researches and two studies in the typed. Without such indexing much of the history of the Chibnall family. information in the catalogues remains relative- ly inaccessible. The correspondence of the late George Eland (1880-1971), the well-known Bucking- A start was made in compiling a brief hamshire historian, was presented by his summary guide to the Office's holdings. executor. The largest group of letters is a series of several hundred from his friend and fellow The number of personal visits to the Office antiquary, Frederick Gurney. Like all Gur- was 2455 (2412 in 1982). A total of 560 postal ney's letters they are interesting, amusing and enquiries was dealt with. Statistics of tele- full of valuable information and comment on phoned enquiries were not kept consistently Bucks history and on a host of other subjects. owing to the large volume of calls connected with searchroom reservations, but were well in Other miscellaneous accessions included excess of 200. Last year postal and tele- eighteenth-century maps for estates in the phoned enquiries combined amounted to 828. Chalfonts and High Wycombe; an account The number of document request slips pre- 181 sented was 6028 (6541). A total of 9121 have been higher by 356 reels if sufficient (10112) items was produced, of which 1168 viewers had been available. (811) consisted of reels of microfilms used, for the most part, in place of originals actually As usual family history was the most held in the Office. popular subject. Local history and house history were also well represented. The total of microfilms produced would REVIEWS The People of Chesham. Their Births, Mar- park had been continually developed and riages and Deaths 1637-1730. Chess Valley altered; by 1800 it was complete, its trees Archaeological and Historical Society, pp. 424. mature, the temples, obelisks and other park Barracuda Books, 1984. buildings all built and the main house complete as we see it today. So Nattes' drawings give us The Chess Valley Archaeological Society are a complete record of this great ensemble at its to be congratulated on the production of this peak. Apart from their importance they have transcription of their town's Church Registers. charm and evoke nostalgia for this magical That some hero has faced the daunting task of man-made landscape. And it is fair to say that preparing an index enormously multiplies its despite the addition of so many school build- usefulness. It has been meticulously edited and ings and the loss of many of the original is obviously the fruit of much dedicated hard monuments, a great deal of the magic can still work. In fact it admirably provides the long be experienced in a walk round the grounds hoped-for sequel to the first volume of the today. Register by J. W. Garrett-Pegge published in 1904. It will, I am sure, prove to be an essen- The purchase of the drawings, which cost tial reference for students of Buckinghamshire £40,000, was a co-operative effort. The family history and an important contribution Museum dug deep into its slender resources, to the history of Chesham itself. substantial grants came from the Victoria & L.M.H. Albert Museum and the National Heritage Fund, and these together with generous Drawings of Stowe by John Claude Nattes. donations from Old Stoics were sufficient to Buckinghamshire County Council & Stowe acquire this notable addition for the county School, 1983. where it properly belongs. E.V. This handsome oblong paperback, 60 x 85, with fifty-one full-page plates, a complete Buckinghamshire Contributions for Ireland, catalogue and an introduction, has been com- 1642 and Richard Grenville's Military Ac- piled by George Clarke, Second Master at counts, 1642-1645. Ed. John Wilson with an Stowe School and its historian, and Christo- Introduction by Dr. John Morrill, pp. 171. pher Gowing, Curator of the County Museum.
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