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Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon letterbook

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Description: Copies of official correspondence concerning the military defense of the North, written in Earl's official capacities as Lord President of the North and Lord Lieutenant of the northern countries
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1580-1590.
Call number: mssHM 30881
Creator: Huntingdon, Henry Hastings (1535-1595)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: In library.
Associated organizations: England and Wales.; Durham (England : County).; Yorkshire (England).

Letter from Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon to Abraham Darcie. Dunnington

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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 3/G/30g

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Receipt book of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon

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Signed receipts from tradesmen, laborers, etc. for personal and estate expenditures by or on behalf of the 7th Earl.

mssHM 48045

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Letterbook of correspondence with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, Sir Henry Griffith and other Yorkshire officials regarding military affairs in wapentakes of Buckrose and Dickering

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Letterbook of correspondence between Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, then Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, the Privy Council, and various sheriff, bailiffs, and Justices of the Peace, mainly Sir Henry Griffith, and other Yorkshire officials. The correspondence deals with military affairs in wapentakes of Buckrose and Dickering; also, with muster lists, assessments, papers regarding poor relief, etc., copies of letters from Sir Thomas Postumus Hobby, Matthew Hutton and others. The letter book is in two volumes: Vol. I - 131 pages, 33 x 23 cm., sewn into a fragment of a 15th century manuscript on vellum; Vol. II - 44 pages, 30 x 21 cm., both volumes with damaged pages and loss of text.

mssHM 50657

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Henry Hastings Sibley Letter to G. Rand

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In this letter, Sibley gives a short summary of his career in politics and the US Army including his appointment by "President Lincoln." It is written on letterhead for the "Larkin House" in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.

mssHM 79167

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Genealogy of the Hastings family

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EL 3/G/30d

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Hastings family, Bourchier family, and Wriothesley family genealogies

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EL 3/G/30a

Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon letterbook

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