Miscellaneous collection of Manuscript papers and letters of the Kingsmill family of Symonton Court

Item date: 15th - 19th centuries
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,800
Item date acquired: 1987
Item institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Family and estate papers concerning financial settlements, genealogy, appointments and honours. The letters staret in the 16th century and include one from Lord Burghley about religious disorders in Winchester in 1564. Amongst later one are those to Sir Robert Kingsmill from Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Castlereagh, Melville and Liverpool

Item Provenance
Sothebys December 1986, Lot 236