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

"Placing of the Estates." "The Coppie of a Book written by Mr. Ttescemos that lived Ano Dni 1587." An account of th different orders of nobility, rules for apparell, &c

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 1118 (35/C/58)

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