This collection comes from the L.Tom Perry Special Collections at BYU. An eclectic mix of deeds, probates, and marriage settlements, it covers England between the late fifteenth century and the middle of the nineteenth century. There was virtually no centralized registration of deeds and property transfers in England until the twentieth century, and there were multiple jurisdictions that governed property. Therefore, documents about land transfers are scattered across various archives. BYU students enrolled in History 350 (English Paleography) have been systematically transcribing and analyzing these documents since 2012.
![]() Land Indenture Cambridge, England 1638
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![]() Land Indenture Derbyshire, England 1751
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![]() Land Indenture England 1749/50
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![]() Land Indenture Derbyshire, England 1751
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![]() Land Indenture Suffolk, England 1635
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![]() Land Indenture London, England 1647
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![]() Land Indenture Gloucestershire, England 1637/8
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![]() Land Indenture Devonshire, England 1660
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![]() Land Indenture Hampshire, England 1719
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![]() Land Indenture England 1710
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![]() Land Indenture Hampshire, England 1708
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![]() Land Indenture Buckinghamshire, England 1660
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![]() Land Indenture Middlesex, England 1671
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![]() Land Indenture Buckinghamshire, England 1661
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![]() Land Indenture Southampton, England 1666
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![]() Land Indenture England 1757
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![]() Land Indenture Cumberland, England 1707
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![]() Land Indenture Derbyshire, England 1636
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![]() Land Indenture England 1638
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Images reproduced with the kind permission of L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.