Does anyone know whether a detailed list or abstract of the Badminton muniments at the Gloucestershire Record Office exists somewhere, such as the Portman Papers that exists on Robert Millard's website? The record of the collection at Access to Archives (www.a2a.org.uk) shows a lot of Hawkesbury documents. I'm particularly interested in determining whether there might be anything that would document Silvester, wife of Henry Neale, of Little Badminton/Hawkesbury (born perhaps about 1565, died 1657 at Sherston). William Boteler, Esq., of Great Badminton (Lord of the manors of Hawkesbury, Great and Little Badminton), married Silvester Gyes (who was probably born about 1515) and, according to the Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623, their daughter Dorothy married ---- Hancock. John and Dorothy Hancock appear on the survey of Upton in the Portman Papers list. I haven't found a will for John Hancock (and I've looked at all the wills for the various John Hancocks in Gloucestershire for this period), so I think he died intestate. It would make sense that John and Dorothy Hancock may have held some of Boteler's land. If he died intestate, it would have been split among his children. One of these could be Richard Hancock (d. 1649, if I have the date right), of Upton. Another could be Silvester, wife of Henry Neale, some of whose land bordered Hancock land. Silvester Neale had a daughter Dorothy, born about 1590, who married Richard Francklyn, of Sherston Magna. The will of William Boteler, Esq., (d. 1586), son of the above William Boteler, gives bequests to various brothers, but unfortunately not to the Hancocks. Dorothy Boteler would probably have been born around 1540. The survey in the Portman Papers shows that their heir was Henry Hancock, but he must have died young, as I haven't found any further record. Silvester, wife of Henry Neale, would have been the right age to be Dorothy's daughter. Conceivably Richard Hancock, born say about 1580, could have been Dorothy's child as well. The other question I would like to know something about is whether the manorial custom in or around Hawkesbury was for daughters to receive land upon marriage. Paul Gifford