Manuscripts

A volume containing: -- The names of those promoted to the dignity of "equitum auratorum" for serving under the Earl of Essex in France. Notes as to the creation &c. of the different ranks of the English nobility and gentry. Genealogical tables of the House of Saxony. Pedigree of Charles, Lord Montjoy

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
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1150-1803.
Call number: EL 1045 (35/B/65)
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: 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)
Associated organizations: England and Wales.; England and Wales.; England and Wales.; Great Britain.; Great Britain.; Maryland.; Virginia.
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