Manuscripts

Miscellaneous legal pieces, D.S. (2 p.)

Description: Note: includes signature of James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, 1674-1744, (1711) and signature of Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, 1660-1744, (Mar. 2, 1722).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1711-1722.
Call number: LB 619
Creator: Chandos, Lydia Catherine Van Hattem Davall Brydges (-1750)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Major Paul Payne, through Bernard Quartich, September 19, 2002.
Restrictions: Box 41 is RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval.
Associated people: Chandos, Henry Brydges, (1708-1771,); Chandos, James Brydges, (1674-1744,)

Berkshire, Shaw. Valuation, D. (2 p.)

Manuscripts

With autograph annotations by Lydia Catherine…, Duchess of Chandos.

LB 636

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Middlesex, Cannons. Abstract of Estimates of builder's work to be done on and within Cannons, A.D. (1 p.)

Manuscripts

In the hand of Lydia Catherine…Duchess of Chandos. Damaged.

LB 669

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[Chandos, Henry Brydges, Duke of, 1708-1771]. 1 letter to [Mr.] ----- Philpot, A.L. (1 p.)

Manuscripts

Note: copy; written as Lord Carnarvon, one of the two executors of Chandos, the other being Lydia, Duchess of Chandos. See Baker, Abstract of Will, p. 465.

LB 552

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Berkshire, Shaw and Speen. Particular of an Estate near Newbury…, D. (1 p.)

Manuscripts

Very fragile -- handle carefully. On verso: A.N. by Lydia Catherine…Duchess of Chandos.

LB 642

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Davall, Thomas. Will, D.S. (2 mb.)

Manuscripts

The collection, which spans from 1538-2002 (bulk 1548-1780), contains 927 items pertaining chiefly to Duchess Lydia's business and financial activities in the intervening six years between her husband's death and her own, as well as the activities of her extended family. In addition, there is correspondence with her family, lawyers, and estate officials, information about the Cannons auctions and the sale of other Brydges properties, and some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century records pertaining to her own family and the Mayne and Goodall families who once lived at the Van Hattem seat at Dinton Hall in Buckinghamshire. There are also a large number of papers and deeds concerning various properties held by the family, including Cannons, Shaw and Speen.

LB 901

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Essex, Fobbing. [Indenture], D.S. (2 mb.)

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LB 869

Miscellaneous legal pieces, D.S. (2 p.)

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Berkshire, Shaw. Valuation, D. (2 p.)

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