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Notes on the Wills proved at Consistory Courts of Lewes and Chichester, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1850 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 3, article, pp.108-116) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2088] & The Keep [LIB/500222] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Observations on the Buckle: the Badge of the Family of Pelham, and its application to various Ecclesiastical Buildings in Sussex; and on the Badge of the Family of De la Warr, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1850 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 3, article, pp.211-231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2088] & The Keep [LIB/500222] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Property of the Pelhams in Sussex, by Frederic Ouvry, published 1858 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 10, notes & queries, pp.211-213) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2095] & The Keep [LIB/500229] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Pelhams, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.40-45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

The Norman Origin of the Family of Pelham, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1872 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 24, article, pp.183-188) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2109] & The Keep [LIB/500242] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Historical and Genealogical Notices of the Pelham Family, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1873 (58 pp., published by the author) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Early Heraldry of Pelham, by L. F. Salzman, F.S.A., published 1928 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 69, article, pp.53-70) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2154] & The Keep [LIB/500287] & S.A.S. library

The Early Days of the Sussex Pelhams, by G. E. Collins, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 6, article, pp.266-268) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Sussex and the U.S.A. 4 - Herbert Pelham, First Treasurer of Harvard College, by David McLean, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 5, article, pp.357-369) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

The Pelham Vault, by L. B. Smith, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 5, article, pp.370-372) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

John Pelham, Bt.: Whig in Five Parliaments, by Rev. G. P. Crawfurd, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 7, article, pp.449-450) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Sussex and the U.S.A., 2nd series. 7 - Sussex and the Pelhams of Boston, Massachusetts, by David McLean, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 10, article, pp.674-679) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Some Earl Pelhams, by Hon. Mrs Arthur Pelham and David McLean, published 1932 (Hove: Combridges)

The Crest of Sir John Pelham , by L. F. Salzman, published February 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 5, article, p.92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

The establishment of the Pelham regime, by J. B. Owen, 1953 at Oxford University (D. Phil. Thesis)

The Estates of the Pelham Family in East Sussex, by Marie Clough, 1957 at Cambridge University (Ph.D thesis)

Henry Pelham, A Sussex Worthy, published June 1982 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 1, article, p.4) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8893] & The Keep [LIB/501190] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet (1587-1654), by Ronald Tibble, published September 1982 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 2, article, pp.65-69) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8893] & The Keep [LIB/501190] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Sir John Pelham (1624-1702), 3rd Bart, by Ronald Tibble, published September 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 2, article, pp.63-69) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Stanmer & the Pelham Family, by June Goodfield and Peter Robinson, published 2007 (112 pp., BNI Publishing, ISBN-10: 1905933061 & ISBN-13: 9781905933068) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The story of these Whig-Liberal oligarchs and their estate is briskly narrated, and richly illustrated, in this ably designed book. Perhaps most haunting is the sight of a Saxon skeleton hanging upright in the roots of a fallen beech tree.

Tenants of Laughton Manor, by Jane Biggs, published June 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 2, article, p.93) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508969] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

On 10 June 1543, Nicholas PELHAM, Lord of the Manor of Laughton signed an agreement between himself and Sir John GAGE, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the tenants of the Manor, regarding their Right and Title to Column of Pasture in the Vertwood alias Old Broyle.
Common of Pasture gave the tenants the right to graze their animals on the Common, to gather firewood from the woods (they were not allowed to chop the trees down or cut branches off, but could take any dead wood they could gather "by hook or by crook"), and to let their pigs into the wood in the Autumn to eat the fallen acorns, on payment of fees known as Pannage.
Part of the Vertwood had been enclosed by Sir William PELHAM, father of Nicholas, causing riots. (See my article 'At the Court of Star Chamber in Sussex Family Historian, June 2005). He had made a verbal agreement wills the tenants which was now formalised by a written agreement.