Steele Papers 01 [1-11]

The Steele Papers can be found at the Angus Library of  Regents Park College in Oxford. Items include

1. Broughton church book

Church meetings, accounts, memoranda of baptisms, including Steele family. 2 loose pages at back of volume record baptisms 1708-1730 and deaths 1778-1786. Includes ordination of Henry Steele, 22 September 1699. Please consult the photocopy.

2. Sermons of Henry Steele (?)

Manuscript notebook (16 pp.), containing sermon notes on the nature of God, honour, and [other end of notebook, reversed] the wisdom of God.

3. Bond

Bond in £40 by Robert Hatchatt, yeoman, to William Steele, carpenter, 15 November 1699, to perform covenants specified in a Bargain and Sale of the same date. Endorsed with Assignment of bond by William Steele to James Hayter, 9 March 1699/70. [NB The conveyance by Bargain and Sale to which this bond relates, and which would note the nature of the transaction, is not in this collection].

4.  Broughton Endowments

Memorandum of endowments to Broughton and Wallop churches (lists legacies from Henry Steele, William Steele senior, William Steele junior, Mrs Dunscombe, Mr John Collins, Miss Martha Steele, Mr John Browning, Mr Head, totalling £1300.

5. Charity Commission scheme for the Broughton charities

Charity Commission scheme for the Broughton charities consisting of chapel, manse, site of old manse, and Browning, Collins, Dunscombe, Head, Leach, Steele and Tomkins endowments (including notices to be affixed to the chapel door)

6. Broughton Charities

Photocopies of Charity Commission dividend accounts on the sale of the Old Manse, and on the Parsonscombe, Steele and Russell Trusts.

7. Steele Family’s Devotional Books and Associated Correspondence

8. Anne Steele’s Bible

Formerly Anne Dutton’s. Edition printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, printers to the King, 1698. Includes printed preface by John Canne. Tipped in to the volume before the title-page is a manuscript transcript [in William Steele’s hand?] of Canne's petition to Parliament extracted from the Amsterdam duodecimo edition of his Bible 1647. The fly-leaf of this volume carries the autographs of Anne Dutton [died 1765] and Anne Steele [died 1778], and the bookplate of Broughton Baptist Library (book no. 1122); the front end-paper carries the bookplate of John Collins, Devizes [died 1817]. Pencilled shorthand on front and back endpapers.
9. Memorandum containing brief notes on Anne Steele
10. Photographs of Mrs E. Davis
Laser-copy photographs of Mrs Ethel Davis and Mr Hugh Steele-Smith at Broughton, May 1984; and of Mrs Davis in fancy dress at Broughton Fair, May 1986.
11. Commonplace Book
Commonplace book, possibly Thomas or Joseph Harbottle’s, written in a commercial (Skelton of Southampton) notebook. Contains extracts and verses written by Stennett, Rippon, Steele, and another copy of the hymn for soldiers, sailors, and landsmen, here called “The Bethel Hymn”. At the end of the book, reversed, is an essay on the Depravity of Man.