Helmdon Manor – Records Held By Quality Court

HELMDON MANOR – RECORDS HELMDON BY QUALITY COURT

The Manorial Documents Register

The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) at the Royal Commission on Historic Manuscripts at Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1HP does not have a register of the location of records, it is not in itself a repository.

The MDR does not include references to surviving manors in Helmdon. However it notes the following information concerning records for the manor of Helmdon.

Helmdon Manor

1.Court rolls 1415, 1485-59, 1503-04 (ref.SC 2/194/39, DL 30/105/1494-5, rentals 1537-38, temp Henry VIII (ref: SC 12/3/28, SC 12/13/49) in the public Record Office, Kew.

2. Court roll and file 1716(ref.1962/98) in Northamptonshire Record Office.

The indexes to the MDR and the Public Record Office suggest that Helmdon manor was connected with Canons Ashby Priory. The National Register of Archives (NRA) notes a (13 schedule of six charters relating to Canons Ashby Priory are held by the Public Record Office.