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A Catalogue of the Ancient Charters
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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Ancient Charters: Belonging to the Twelve Capital Burgesses Common of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, Usually Known as the Church Burgesses, With Abstracts of All Sheffield Wills Proved at York Prior to 1554
Little is known of Sheffield and its inhabitants, prior to the middle of the sixteenth century, and with a view to throwing some light on that early period of our history, I have examined and catalogued, in the following pages, such records as I have found available, relating to Sheffield prior to 1554. From that time forward, much information can be obtained from the Parish Church Register, which begins in 1560, "The History of the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire", 1564, The Records of the Burgery of Sheffield, 1566, and the Harrison "Survey of the Manor of Sheffield, " 1637 , also Hunter's Hallamshire, " Addy's "Waltheof, " Leader's Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century, " and Gatty's "Sheffield Past and Present", but not one of these local histories tells us much of the people who lived in Sheffield other than the occupants of the Castle - from the time of Edward I to Elizabeth. In the "Report" made to the Charity Commissioners, printed by order of the House of Commons, 11th February, 1897, following an Inquiry held at Sheffield, June, 1895, into Endowments subject to the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Acts, it is stated, at page 103, that "The Church Burgesses have also in their possession some 80 deeds of dates prior to 1554, in addition to many others of a more recent date. They have been arranged at some former period by some hand, probably Mr. Hunter's, and extracts from a few of them appear in that antiquary's work on 'Hallamshire.' The majority of those prior to 1554 belong to the 14th and 15th centuries, the earliest being dated in 1304. Time has not allowed of a prolonged inspection of them, but with a few exceptions they appear to consist of grants of land and houses, without trusts, in some cases to private individuals, in others to a person described as 'Chaplain of Sheffield, ' and in others to the chaplain of Sheffield and three or four others, who were probably the Churchwardens."
No doubt Mr. Hunter looked through these early charters of the Twelve Capital Burgesses, but at that time he was writing the chapter on "Ecclesiastical Affairs, " for "Hallamshire", and his object in examining these charters was rather to supplement the ecclesiastical history of Sheffield, than to extract from them general information for the use of the topographer and genealogist.
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