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Correspondence and miscellaneous documents relating to the honour of Pickering, being parcel of the duchy of Lancaster in the county of York. The miscellaneous items include a report, 21 April 1696, by S[ ] Travers, supervisor gen[eral], on the value of the honour of Pickering, the manors of Pickering and Scaulby, the site of the old ruined castle, Blansby Park, and other demesne lands belonging to the said honour and manors (copy); a royal warrant, 23 April 1697, authorising the grant of a lease of the honour and manors of Pickering, the manor of Scalby, etc., to Abell Tassin D'Allonne (copy); 'A Coppy of the particulars of ye L[or]ds[hi]p of Pickering, Scalby & Blunsby Park . . .' [18th cent.]; particulars relating to a lease of the castle and manor of Pickering, the park of Blandesby, the manor or lordship of Scalby, etc., granted by the king, under the seal of the duchy of Lancaster, 18 May 1697, to Abel Tassin D'Allonne; questions in a case relating to the aforementioned lease; and an affidavit sworn by William Stockdale at Scarborough, 27 April 1710, concerning the refusal of George Watson of Old Malton, co. York, and John Watson [his son], steward and bailiff respectively of the honour of Pickering, to surrender the said offices to Lovell Lazenby of Scarbrough and to him the said William Stockdale, acting on behalf of John Edwards of Chelsea, co. Midlesex (copy). The correspondence includes letters from [Abell Tassin] D'Allonne from Hague, to Edw[ar]d Lloyd at his house in Kensington near London, 1706 (negotiations for the assignment of a grant), Lovell Lazenby from Scarbrough, to Edward Lloyd at the Stamp Office, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1709-1711 (9) (the title to the offices of steward and bailiff of the honour of Pickering, an offer to the writer to receive a deputation of the said offices, and opposition from Geo[rge] Watson and his son John who claimed the offices for themselves), Edw[ard] Lloyd to [Lovell Lazenby], 1709 (the deputation mentioned in the previous letters and means of combating possible opposition from Mr. Watson) (copy), Will[iam] Tailer to [Mr. D'Allonne], 1696 (2) (the value of the rents of the honour of Pickering and of the castle, demesnes, and Blansby Park belonging to the said honour) (copies), and [ ] to Lovell Lazenby at Scarborough, 1709- 1710 and undated (5) (questions relating to the offices of steward and bailiff of the honour of Pickering) (draft copies).

Forty-seven volumes of 'notae' or abstracts and extracts, principally of Monmouthshire interest, compiled from original records in both public and private possession. With the exception of letters and some insets they are all in the autograph of Bradney. Among the many private collections of title-deeds and documents from which the majority of these notes have been taken, in addition to those of Bradney himself, are those in the possession or custody of Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle; Garnet Edwin Bevan, Grosmont; S. C. Bosanquet, Dingestow Court; Alfred Bowen, Usk; Burleigh Cecil, Oaklands Park, Weybridge (Surrey); Mrs Morgan Clifford, Llantilio Crossenny; William Cooke, Hereford; the Reverend Henry Charles Davies, St Hilary, Cowbridge (Glamorgan); J. H. Davies, Cwrtmawr (Cardiganshire); Arthur Davies-Berrington, Pantygoitre, Llanfair Kilgeddin; the Reverend Edward Napleton Dew, Welsh Newton and Llanrothall (Herefordshire); Mrs Earnshaw, Court St Lawrence, Llangoven; Miss Charlotte Mary Evans, Nantyderi, Goytrey; Richard Feetham, Penrhos; G. C. Francis, solicitor, Chepstow; Frederick Gardner, solicitor, Newport; Illtyd Gardner, solicitor, Abergavenny; Mrs Gazzard, The Goitre, Grosmont; Isaac George, Llanfihangel-iuxta-Usk; Walter Gustard, Newport; G. E. Halliday, Cardiff; surveyor to the archdeaconry of Llandaff; Dom. J. Cuthbert Hedley, Roman Catholic bishop of Newport; Reginald Herbert, Clytha; John Harvey Hooper, Tutnall, near Worcester; Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Bart, Llantilio Crossenny; Mrs Newton Jackson, Blackbrook, Skenfrith; Gwilym Cristor James, Merthyr (Glamorgan); the Reverend Lemuel James, Ystradmynach (Glamorgan); Alfred Jones, Osbaston; Edmund Jones, Fforest Legionis, Pont-neath-Vaughan (Glamorgan); William Lewis, Tyhir, Pontypridd (Glamorgan); Sir John Lloyd, Dinas (Brecknockshire); --- Nesbitt, solicitor, Abergavenny; Illtyd Nicholl, The Ham, Llantwit Major (Glamorgan); the Reverend Andrew Pope, Upper Bishop, Ross (Herefordshire); Simon B. Preece, Llangattock Lingoed; James Gilbert Price, Abergavenny; the Misses Prothero, Moynes Court, Mathern; John Allan Rolls, 1st baron Llangattock, The Hendre, Llangattock Vibon Avel; Glen Taylor, Neath (Glamorgan); John Tyler, Maesderwen, Pontypool; Mrs Vinter, Moor, Clifford (Herefordshire); D. T. Newton Wade, solicitor, Newport; J. Maitland Watkins, solicitor, Usk; Thomas Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; T. P. Holmes Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; Messrs Watts, Watts and Co., colliery proprietors, Cardiff (Glamorgan); William Welch, Monmouth; Mrs Florence White-Spunner, Llanvapley Court; William Henry Smith Whitney, Grosmont; Messrs Williams and Tweedy, solicitors, Monmouth; T. B. R. Wilson, registrar of the diocese of Monmouth; and others. Additional sources include the papers of Thomas Wakeman, The Graig, Llantilio Crossenny, largely in the custody of the Society of Antiquaries, and transcripts of public and other records by William Dean, Ealing, London; Francis Green, St Davids; John Hobson Matthews, Cardiff; and others. This volume contains decrees of the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster relating to the manors of Monmouth, Skenfrith, Grosmont and Whitecastle, 1600-1631; deeds and documents relating to properties in Abergavenny, Glasgoed, Grosmont, Hardwick, Langston, Llanarth, Llanbadoc, Llanellen, Llanfihangel Crucorney, Llanfoist, Llangeview, Llansantffraed, Llanvoer, Llanvapley and Llanvetherine, and to the manors of Trewyn otherwise Winston and Newton otherwise Foxebrooke, and properties in Herefordshire, 1497-1831; extracts relating to the family of Philpott from the parish registers of Monmouth, 1599-1837, and Dixton, 1664-1730, and from monumental inscriptions at Monmouth, 1776-1849; estreats of the manor of Ewyas Lacy, 1733-1755; etc.

A note book bearing on the outside upper cover the inscription 'Fees as Secretary to Chancelor of ye D[u]chy of Lancast[er]'. The contents include an account of fees received, 1706-1712, ?in connection with the office mentioned in the inscription, quotations from Seneca's two tragedies Medea and Hippolytus or Phaedra, and quotations from Juvenal's Satires, Nos. 1, 6, 8, 10 and 13.