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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1150-1803.
Call number: EL 2629-2651

Book containing some pages of accounts by Charles Morgan, and then particulars of fees, offices, oaths and duties of all the officials of the Exchequer

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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 9895 (35/B/46)

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Notes on Casual Fines in Chancery. "The Pretended casuall fines vpon writts of Debt, Trespasse and such like haue beene receaved and enjoyed by the Chancellors of England, and keepers of the Great Seale, and by the Masters of the Rolles and Cursitors of the High Court of Chancery, time without all memory of man for many ages togeather". They had been questioned in the times of several of the Chancellors - "twice in the time of that graue and wise Counsellor the late L. Ellesmere" - but the matter had been fully answered: with a note of observations by Sir Nicholas Bacon

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EL 1167-EL 1168

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List of stopping places and distances for His Majesty's (Charles I) Journey to Yorke

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EL 6895

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[FACSIMILE] Receipt for £100 part of moneys due from Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to Dame Mary Egerton

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EL 1176

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Grant from the King to the Abbot and Monks of Bildwas of a fishing boat to fish in the water at Dublin [Ireland] called Auenlif

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EL 1159b

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The Atchievement of Sir John Presbyter; a description of the coat of arms of Calvinism, with his Matches with the howses of Geneva, Scotland, Amsterdam and the Cuntry of New England

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EL 6865

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Book containing some pages of accounts by Charles Morgan, and then particulars of fees, offices, oaths and duties of all the officials of the Exchequer

List of stopping places and distances for His Majesty's (Charles I) Journey to Yorke

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Grant from the King to the Abbot and Monks of Bildwas of a fishing boat to fish in the water at Dublin [Ireland] called Auenlif

The Atchievement of Sir John Presbyter; a description of the coat of arms of Calvinism, with his Matches with the howses of Geneva, Scotland, Amsterdam and the Cuntry of New England