Group Publications

The following booklets are available for purchase by members of the John & Frances West Family Group.

If you are a member and wish to purchase any of the following booklets, please apply in writing to:

Aileen Harwood
Elan, Elcot Lane
Marlborough
Wiltshire
SN8 2BA

Please enclose a cheque payable to "John & Frances West Family Group"

Prices shown are for UK members and include postage. A discount is available at the Gatherings. Current prices inc. P&P in UK. Overseas members will be subject to a small additional charge to cover extra postage.

Members and their outline pedigrees.

(Updated annually)

Cost £3.25, to members only.

"Oliver Cromwell tree" (Cox tree).

Cost £5.50, to members only.

Volume 1 - The will of John West, (1721).

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2002)

Cost £3.50, to members only.

Volume 2 - The will of Frances West, (1723 and 1724).

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2002)

Cost £3.50, to members only.

Volume 3 - Miscellaneous wills associated with the families of John and Franes West.

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001)

All clearly transcribed with indices of names and details of the odd terms used in old wills.

Thomas Stare 1551
John Stare the Elder 1602
Thomas Stare (with inventory) 1624
Jane Randall nee Stare 1626
John Stare 1635
Gabriel Cox the Elder 1639
Bridget Cox 1643
Robert Mickell 1665 (Frances West's first husband)
Jasper Randall 1673
Eleanor West 1680
John Stare 1689
George Stare 1689
William Fay 1723

Cost £3.50, to members only.

Volume 4 - Arts Improvement or short and swift writing by Simon West.

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2000)

Written by John West's father and published by Jo. Langley in 1647. This booklet has been transcribed and electronically processed to give a clear copy of the original book, which is now over 350 years old.

Cost £5.00, to members only.

Volume 5 - Act of regulation of the John & Frances West's charities 1806.

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001)

It took an act of Parliament to alter the charities as originally laid down by John & Franes West. By 1806 the estates and other properties, which had been left by John & Frances, had become in a very poor state of maintenance and could no longer support the charities as detailed by John & Frances in their original wills. Part of this decline was due to the short term leases required by the original wills. This term was extended to 61 years by this act of Parliament making them more profitable.

Cost £3.50, to members only.

Volume 6 - Report of the Charity Commissioners 1823.

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2002)

The Charity Commissioners inquiring into the charity of John & Frances West, showing:

how the pensioners and children were supported.
index of persons involved
index of churches
index of inns, taverns and public houses
property locations by street and town

Cost £3.50, to members only.

Volume 7 - Extracts from the parish books and registers.

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001/2)

Includes the parish record of the burial of Robert Mickell, John West and Frances West.

St. Christopher's-le-Stocks
St. Margaret-Lothbury
St. Bartholomew's-by-the-Exchange

Cost £5.00, to members only.

Volume 8 - The first 100 years.

(Edited and reprinted by G.Kimber 2001)

An alphabetical listing of the West Charity pensioners and apprentices receiving benefit from the charity.

Cost £3.50, to members only.

Volume 9 - A report on the West's charities

(Edited and reprinted by D.Baker 2001/2)

A small book of the report of the charities and their association with the town of Reading.

Cost £3.00, to members only.

Volume 10 - Transcript of Documents relating to West held at New College, Oxford

Cost £3.50, to members only.

Volume 11 - Of Kings & Taxation

(By Jean Fothergill 2004)

Cost £3.50, to members only.