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Part VII: Miscellany
Miscellaneous Papers relating to Lands

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous Papers relating to Lands

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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).

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Production date

approximately 1150-1803.

Call number

EL 11147-11633

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.

Associated people

Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, (1540?-1617.)

Bridgewater, John Egerton, (-1649.)

Bridgewater, John Egerton, (1623-1686.)

Bridgewater, John Egerton, (1646-1701.)

Bridgewater, John Scrope Egerton, (1681-1745.)

Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, (1736-1803.)

Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, (approximately 1559-1594.)

Stanley (Family)

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England and Wales.

England and Wales.

England and Wales.

Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Maryland.

Virginia.

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