Manuscripts

Howe Papers

Description: These consist of Deeds, etc., relating to the manor of Kempley, co. Gloucester. This appears to have been in mortgage to the second Earl of Bridgewater.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1150-1803.
Call number: EL 11334-11343
Creator: Egerton (Family)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased with the Bridgewater library from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917.
Rights: Facsimile material: Researchers must apply for permission to publish or quote these materials from the owners of the originals. Please contatct: Estate Administrator. Mertoun Estate. St. Boswell's, Melrose, Roxburghshire. SCOTLAND TD6 0EA.

Miscellaneous Papers relating to Lands

Manuscripts

Chiefly deeds (many medieval), with other estate and manorial papers, legal and financial documents, and a few letters and accounts, concerning lands or interest in lands held by the Egerton and other families in Cheshire, Staffordshire (principally Dilhorne and Fossbrook), Warwickshire (principally the lead mines at Hilton and Murton), Wales (principally the manor of Ridley in Denbighshire), and elsewhere. Also legal notes, briefs, and other papers, chiefly from the time of Lord Chancellor Egerton, relevant to legal cases involving lands (principally in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire). Includes returns of concealed lands in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Devon, Flint, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire, 1584-85 (EL 11628-11633); copies of the inquisitions post mortem of Hugh de Redich, 1448 (EL 11263), Sir John Bromley, 1486 (EL 11276), and Agnes Pignot, n.d. (EL 11274); copies of the wills of John Boydell, n.d. (16th century?) (EL 11287) and Thomas Blewitt, 1702 (EL 11350); and an 18th-century poll book for Seisdon Hundreds, Staffs (EL 11548).

EL 11147-11633

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Westmoreland Papers

Manuscripts

These consist of copies of letters relating to the manors of Hilton and Murton and their boundaries, and a few leases and draft leases of lead mines. (The Dukes of Bridgewater had an interest in a lease of lead mines in these Manors).

EL 11312-11333

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A paper on the meanings of can, will and may

Manuscripts

Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803. Approximately 13,000 pieces.

EL 8390

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EL 7971-8007a

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The Bolton Papers

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EL 8951-9014

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EL 11550-11609

Howe Papers

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