Dr Kate Thompson writes: The Panshanger archive is the most important family archive in the Hertfordshire Record Office and ranks in the premier league of such collections in the country a
Warwick Castle was granted to Fulke Greville in 1604; there are many court rolls of the manor and borough of Warwick; in 1642 the management of the familys considerable estates nationwide were amal
These papers document the activities of one of Englands most notable families.
Lambeth Palace Library acquired 17 volumes of the Talbot Papers in 1696, with this purchase from the College of Arms it was possible to reunite the other portion of the collection, some 15 volumes
A substantial collection of manorial documents of 16th and 17th centuries, 2,000 medieval deeds, and a large quantity of family papers, including the delinquency papers of the Second Earl during Co
Some 6,500 documents comprising deeds, estate papers and manorial records, plus papers of outstanding interest for the Civil War period when Sir Richard Vyvyan was responsible for the construction
The collection is rich in election material, lieutenancy and militia papers and extensive genealogical papers.
Contains a quantity of religious and other verse, some in cypher, copies of letters sent to friends, family and lawyers and many pages of autobiographical information.
Remarkably detailed account, each charge for material being itemised with separate costs for making. The suits are described in great detail as are clothes for Mandeville's servants.
Early prototype Book of Hours, excessively rare.
Laura Cotton, Glamorgan Archivist, writes: This book of reference relates to surveys undertaken in 1776 by Edward Thomas of Margam, Land Surveyor. Thomas is w
Includes the files for the counties of Oxfordshire to Yorkshire, in between are writs for Berks, Bucks, Beds, Northants, Rutland, Salop, Warwicks, Leics, Notts, Derbys, Lincoln and the City of York