Manuscripts

"The Hoble Lorde & Lady of Huntingdon's Entertainment of theire right Noble Mother Alice Countesse Dowager of Darby the firste nighte of her honors arrivall att the house of Ashly" by John Marston, with a signed dedication to the Countess of Derby

[FACSIMILE] "A Maske Represented before the right Hoble the Earle of Bridgewater Lord President of Wales and the hoble the Countesse of Bridgewater At Ludlow Castle the 29th of September 1634. The chiefe persons in the reprsentacon were - The Lord Brackley, The Lady Alice Egerton, Mr Thomas Egerton, Author Jo: Milton" [a copy of the masque "Comus" by John Milton]

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 34/B/14

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