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4 - Account of the personal estate of the Hon. Lady Harriot Fitzwilliam at her death

5 - Correspondence, extracts from wills, copies of wills concerning the depositions of the Pigott family wills

7 - Letters, accounts and receipts concerning the administration of the will of Countess Charlotte Fitzwilliam (1747 - 1822), née Ponsonby, wife of the 4th Earl

10 - Various trusts to the Ladies Frances and Dorothy Fitzwilliam and the will of the late Mrs Charlotte Wharton

12 - Copy of the will of Lady Dorothy Fitzwilliam

13 - Will of Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745 - 1810) of Parlington, Yorkshire, baronet

14 - Copy of the will and codicils of Thomas, Lord Dundas

15 - Draft deeds and other papers concerning Lady Frances Fitzwilliam's share of Lord Dundas' money

16 - Correspondence concerning the death of Thomas, Lord Dundas

17 - Correspondence from Viscountess Milton to Earl Fitzwilliam, following the death of Countess Fitzwilliam [Charlotte Fitzwilliam (1747 - 1822)]

19 - Papers relating to the estate of Lady Frances Fitzwilliam mostly concerned with legacies and including a copy of her will

20 - Draft conveyances and lawyers letters concerning the Wahrton trust established in land at Gilling, near Richmond, North Yorkshire

21 - McKenzie trust - letters and accounts, mostly from or to the lawyers of interested parties

22 - Copies of various family wills

23 - Assignment (draft) on the marriage of William Charles (1812 - 1835), Viscount Milton and Lady Selina Charlotte Jenkinson (1812-1883)

24 - to check! not on TNA discovery

25 - Abstract of title of the trustees under the settlement made on the marriage of the Hon. and Rev. William Wodehouse to certain funds vested in Earl Fitzwilliam

27 - Copy of articles by Earl Fitzwilliam for the settlement of the real estate on the marriage of the Hon. Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam (1826-1894), to Miss Anne Dundas (died 1925)

28 - Mr Simpson's observations on the draft final deed and the scheme of apportionment regarding Mr Swithinbank's schedule of liabilities charged on the Wentworth and Milton estates, by the deed of arrangement of November 1856

29 - Deed of appointment for the Wentworth and Milton estates

30 - Observations by Mr C.T.Simpson, of 9, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn [London] concerning the Fitzwilliam arrangement

31 - Mortgage (copy) of the barony of Ballinecor als. Ballynacor, co. Wicklow [Ireland], with all appurtenances, and all towns in Wicklow (listed in full); the rectory impropriated of the Church of Newcastle, co. Wicklow, and all tythes from the rectory of Newcastle, and all lands within the parish of Newcastle.

32 - Writ of entry to Sir George Armytage, baronet, Charles Bowns, esquire, and others, to the barony of Ballinacor, the half barony of Shelalowe, and other named territories in Wicklow, Ireland, to be attornies for Charles William, Viscount Milton

33 - Schedule of leases with rough notes, made out for the Irish estates

34 - Registration of a deed (draft) Settlement of the Irish estates

35 - Memorial of a settlement executed by William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam and Viscount Milton, his son, of estates in Ireland, including the Barony of Ballinacor, the half barony of Shelelowe als. Shelelagh, and the manors of Wicklow, Newcastle, Fairwood Park and Carnew on 22nd and 23rd April 1810

36 - Deed of arrangement for the Wentworth and Milton estates in Cos. Wicklow, Wexford and Kildare [Ireland]

37 - Memorial of a deed (redemption of a mortgage)

38 - Copy of a certificate of registration of a deed, issued at Rotherham - Charles Marquis of Rockingham assigns to his mother Mary, Dowager Marchioness of Rockingham, the Hon William Murray, His Majesty's Solicitor General, and John Hill, of Thornton, Yorkshire, esq., named premises in Wicklow, including the barony of Balencor and the manor of Wicklow [Ireland]

39 - Lease of messuages with a brewhouse, lofts, stableyards and other appurtenances in Old Street, parish of St Gyles within Cripplegate, Middlesex

40 - Draft of the abstract of title (1719 - 1726) of the Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam to houses and premises in Clerkenwell Close, parish of St James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex

42 - Lease (draft) of a parcel of ground on which a messuage lately stood, with a garden and appurtenances in Clerkenwell Close, near Clerkenwell Church, parish of St James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, and 2 messuages with gardens and appurtenaces abutting on Clerkenwell Close (location given)

43 - Assignment of a term of years, in trust to attend the inheritance

44 - Assignment (draft) of capital messuage in Grosvenor Square, parish of St George, Hanover Square, with the stables, coach houses or outbuildings and appurtenances, together with all books, furnishings and fittings belonging to the capital messuage

45 - Assignment (draft) of capital messuage in Grosvenor Square, parish of St George Hanover Square, with stables, coach-houses and other outbuildings, with all household goods, furniture, etc., belonging to the capital messuage

46 - Lease of a messuage in Upper Dorset Street, Bryanstone Square, parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex, number 3 in the street

47 - Deed to lead the uses of a common recovery - all parties agree to suffer a common recovery in the manors of Milton, Marham, Woodcroft, Etton, Castor, Helpstone and Norborough, Northamptonshire, (land specified in full): manors of Sechey, Northruncton cum Hardwick, Kenwick, Wormegay, Westwinch, South Lynn, Thorpeland, Middleton, Wattlington, Tottenhill, Gaywood, Tilney, Clenchwharton, and Eastwinch, Norfolk.

48 - Exemplification of a common recovery, with single voucher

49 - Release and settlement

50 - Deed to lead the uses of a common recovery

51 - Release and settlement of Manor of Newhall, with the manor house, barns, stables, yards, gardens and orchards; arable land, pastures and marsh ground in Tilney and Islington (c. 90 acres), in Norfolk; messuage and lands, (186 acres 2 rods) in Tilney and Ishington; messuage and lands, (126 acres) in Clenchwharton, Norfolk

52 - Release (draft copy) of lands in Peterborough, Boroughbury and Stanground, Northamtonshire (listed in full)

53 - Release (draft) of All manors and lands at Thorpe als. Longthorpe, near Peterborough, Northamptonshire (listed in full)

54 - Copy of a bill for Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire reciting that the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough Cathedral claim to be the sole lords of the manor of Irthlingborough, but that Earl Fitzwilliam is patron of the rectory of All Saints and the vicarage of St Peter, both within Irthlingborough

55 - Lease and release (copy) of manors or lordships of Milton, Marham als. Marholm, Etton, Woodcroft, Castor, Helpstone, Norborough als. Northborough, Maxey and Upton, Northamptomptonshire: mansion house in Milton, Northamptonshire., occupied by Earl Fitzwilliam, with Milton Park adjoining: all messuages and lands in Milton, and in the parish of Castor, containing in all 722 acres; all tolls or other customary payments arising out of the navigation of the River Nene, Northamptosnhire, and those due at Gunnwade Ferry or Gunnwade Ferrybridge; all lands within the parish of Marham, 1302 acres, and all other lands (fully listed)

57 - Articles of agreement concerning the purchase of the lordship of Great Harrowden, Northamptonshire., with all appurtenances: the advowson of the vicarage of Great and Little Harrowden; the rectory and parsonage impropriated of the parish church of St Peter in Irthingborough als Arthingborow, Northamptonshire; advowson of the vicarage of Arthingborow; parke or enclosed ground, called Withmale Parke, together with the walke land in Orlingbury, Northamptonshire., and all messuages and lands in the above mentioned places

58 - Final concord - various property, alnd and rights in Yorkshire and other places

59 - Common recovery with single voucher releating to all the lands mentioned in WWM/Misc/58

60 - Conveyance to secure an annuity - messuages and land in Hooton Roberts, Yorks., including some recently enclosed common land

61 - Final Concord

62 - Agreement (draft) - William, Earl Fitzwilliam and Charlotte, Countess Fitzwilliam, direct Charles, Marquis of Rockingham, and the Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk, only son and heir apparent of the Rt. Hon. Vere, Lord Vere, to dispose of all tithes arising within the townships of Womersley, Stubbs Walden and Little Smeaton, Yorkshire

63 - Settlement concerning the manors of Wentworth, Wentworth Woodhouse, Tankersley, Tinsley, Newall, Newall Grange, Thornhill Hall, Greasebrooke, Barbott Hall, and Hooton Roberts. Lands and messuages in the parishes of Wentworth, Wentworth Woodhouse, Tankersley, Wath, Street, Rhodes, Brampton, Brampton Byerly, Melton, West Melton, Newall, Newall Grange, Thornhill Hall, Tinsley, Catcliffe, Hayfield, Whitehill, Orgrave, Brinsforth etc., all in Yorkshire.

64 - Final Concord in the manors of Badsworth, Billingley and Ecclesall

65 - Conveyance by Revocation, new Appointment and Grant (rough draft)

68 - Lawyers letters and accounts concerning the settlement of the Hoyland estate

69 - Letters and papers concerning a mortgage on the manor of Hoyland

70 - Lease and release (copy) of a parcel of ground in Tinsley, being the west end of an ancient enclosure called Sough Banks, measuring 2,660 square yards, bounded on the east by another part of the said ancient enclosure, on the west, by premises belonging to J. M. Coupland, on the north by the road to the Canal and to Tinsley Wharf, and on the south by the public highway from Rotherham to Sheffield

71 - Release (draft) of the rectory of Lyth, Yorkshire, together with all houses and buildings etc., belonging to the rectory, and all lands and money in lieu of tithes

72 - Assignment of a bond from Thomas Life esquire, to Miss M. St Aubyn, for £4,000 charged on the Wentworth and Milton estates, in Yorkhire, Northamptosnhire, etc.

73 - Assignment of a mortgage

74 - Copies of schedules for Tinsley, Rawmarsh, Greasbrough and Kimberworth

75 - Grant of land in the parish of Wath upon Dearne, known as Gams Greave, Common Plough, Hay Shough, Stone Query and Skiers Spring allotment

76 - Agreement (draft) concerning the transport and sale of coal from the Barnsley soft coal seam

77 - Lease and Release (part of a rough draft only) concerning tolls to be charged to the people of Malton, for the use of the wharf at Malton, locks on the river etc

78 - Particular of estates in the manor of Tinsley, with Catcliffe and Orgrave [Orgreave], in the townships of Tinsley and Brinsworth, proposed to be mortgaged to William Baldwin esquire

79 - Abstract of title (1722 - 1728) of the Rt. Hon. William, Earl Fitzwilliam to estates at Fosdyke, in the parishes of Sutterton and Alderkirke, Lincolnshire

80 - Accounts, bills, lists and copies of conveyances concerning the North Kyme and other estates in Lincolnshire

81 - Miscellaneous bundle, mostly of very rough abstracts of deeds

82 - Assignment (draft) of the advowson of the parish church of Fletton alias Flettens, Huntingdonshire, and all the remainder of the term of 499 years

83a-b - Conveyance of the advowson of the parish of Fletton alias Flettens, Huntingdonshire

84 - Draft lawyers letters concerning the sale of the advowson of Fletton, Huntingdonshire

85 - Correspondence and other papers concerning the mortgage of the Duke of Devonshire's Derbyshire estates

86 - Draft deeds to property known as 'The Hut' at Bird in hand lane, Bickley, Kent and belonging to Mrs L. M. Power

88 - Bond - George Westbie of Gilthwaite, in the parish of Whitstone, Yorkshire, gentleman, to King James I

89 - Bond - Roger Beldon of Brookflathouse, Handsworth, Yorkshire, cutler, is bound to John Bright of Badsworth, in £14, to abide by the conditions of a lease and release of even date

90 - Bond - Joshua Stocke of Bentihaigh, Sheffield, taylor [sic], is bound to John Bright, of Badsworth, Yorkshire, in £40 to abide by the terms of a lease of even date

91 - Assignment - Jonathan Acklam of Furnivall Inn, London, gentleman, to Mark Lune, of St Paul's, Shadwell, Middlesex, brewer

92 - Bond - Elizabeth Taylor of New Malton, Yorkshire, widow, is bound to the Hon. Thomas, Lord Malton, of Wentworth, Yorkshire, in £40, to repay £20

93 - Bond - Charles, Marquis of Rockingham, is bound to George Quarme, of Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, esquire, in £5,000, to pay Quarme an annuity of £500

94 - Declaration of trusts

95 - Bond (copy) - Charles, Marquis of Rockingham, is bound to Samuel Tooker of Moorgate, Rotherham, Yorkshire, esquire, and Samuel Buck, of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex, in £28,000, to repay £14,000 plus interest

97 - Bond - Rt. Hon. William, Earl Fitzwilliam, is bound to the Hon. George Fitzwilliam, esquire, his brother, in £6,000, to repay £3,000, plus interest, by a specified date

98 - Deed of covenants (copy) - all parties agree that, if necessary, they will lease the manors and lands held by the late Charles, Marquis of Rockingham, in Ireland

99 - Bond - Rt. Hon. William Wentworth, Earl Fitzwilliam, is bound to Joseph Allen of Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, St George, Bloomsbury, in £4,000, to abide by the agreement whereby the Earl purchased the coal seam under Allen's land in Hoyland, in exchange for an annuity of £350

100 - Bond - John Johnson of Micklegate, in the Ainsty of York, gentleman and Maria Jones of the same place, spinster are bound to the Rt. Hon. Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton in £600 to repay £300

101 - Bond

102 - Bond - James Ellis of Armley, Leeds, Yorkshire, stone merchant is bound to Rt. Hon. Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton in £800, to repay £400

103 - Abstract of mortgage security from the Rt. Hon. William Wentworth, Earl Fitzwilliam, and the Rt. Hon. Viscount Milton to William Baldwin, esquire for securing £30,000 plus interest

104 - Bond - St Andrew Warde of Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire, esquire, is bound to the Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam, of Milton, Northamptonshire, in £1,000, to repay £500

105 - Assignment of an annuity and securities for the same (draft)

106 - Declaration of trusts (draft) concerning the 2 legacies left to Charlotte and Mary Isabella Jenkins (infant daughters of Edward Jenkins), by the will of Charlotte, late Countess Fitzwilliam (30th July 1817)

107 - Release (draft) transferring and releasing £2,000 4% consolidated stocks into the joint names of Poynton Pigott and John Archer Houbton, by Earl Fitzwilliam

108 - Release (draft) - Charlotte Jenkins, having reached the age of 21, becomes absolutely entitled to the sum of £626 19s. 2d., 3% consolidated bank annuities which were being held in trust for her by Sir John Dean Paul and Edward Jenkins, whom she releases, in return for transfer of the sum

109 - Release (draft) - Charlotte Jenkins, having attained the age of 21, became absolutely entitled to £626 19s. 2d., 3% consolidated bank annuities standing in the names of Sir John Dean Paul and Edward Jenkins and Charlotte Jenkins, who invested the above sums, so that the total now stands at £720 16s. 7d. therefore, all parties agree to transfer the total to Charlotte Jenkins

110 - Statement of building leases, by Earl Fitzwilliam

111 - Rough conveyances and legal letters concerning an agreement to execute a mortgage by way of indemnity, between the Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, Earl Fitzwilliam, and Viscount Milton, and concerning property in Ireland

112 - Assignment in trust for creditors (draft) - the goods of J. W. Fowler are assigned to his creditors, to pay debts

113 - Attested copy of a release - G.W. Fitzwilliam releases Thomas Dundas, and Sir John Dean Paul from payment of £7,618 1s 3d 3% consolidated bank annuities, and all proceeds which have accumulated since the Deed poll of 1st July 1822

114 - Release (copy) - all parties release Earl Fitzwilliam from payment of all sums of money due them under the terms of 2 deeds poll, dated respectively 29th March 1805 and 17th April 1809

116 - Agreement - Elias Marsden agrees to sell half the hay, and all the straw, except 40 thrave, in his barn

117 - Declaration of trusts of the sum of £722 6s 9d, 4% consolidated bank annuities, part of the residuary estate of the Lady Dorothy Fitzwilliam

118 - Rider 'H' to an un-named deed

119 - Details of the leasing of the manor of Howden, Yorkshire

120 - Papers concerning the bankruptcy of Tyrce Birch, for whom Earl Fitzwilliam was a creditor

121 - Vouchers for Viscount Milton's account, settled to 1811

122 - Wentworth Savings Bank: Depositors Books

122a - Wentworth Savings Bank: ledger of depositors

123 - Wentworth Savings Bank: books no. 67-1094

124 - Wentworth Savings Bank, books no. 1103-1612

125 - Banking vouchers

126 - Banking vouchers and used cheques

127 - Cheque book stubs

128 - Used cheques, drawn on the London and Westminster bank

129 - Page from the account book of the 'special loan account' of Earl Fitzwilliam in the Temple Bar branch of the London and Westminster bank for 1871

130 - Vouchers for work done (place unspecified)

132 - Voucher from the Marquis of Rockingham to Henry Savory Hubert, for wood

133 - Vouchers and accounts for work done on a house in Stratton Street [London?]

134 - Vouchers and accounts for household goods, repairs done, etc., for Lady Godolphin

136 - Vouchers for taxes paid on the Grosvenor Square house [London]

137 - Vouchers concerning the Wentworth house, mostly doctor's bills for tenants

138 - Cash accounts giving details of payments to Earl Fitzwilliam, John Frith, Thomas Binks, and various other labourers

139 - Vouchers for building and repairs, property tax, purchases of estates, promiscuous payments etc

141 - Vouchers for taxes and outpayments from the estate; spring woods and plantations; property repairs

142 - Bottom half only of the schedule of debts of Thomas late Marquis of Rockingham

143 - Lawyers accounts for all business, estate and militia, done for the Marquis of Rockingham

144 - Notes of money received from the Marquis of Rockingham by M. Rockingham, Charlotte and Mary Wentworth

145 - Receipt for rent from Samuel Rush to the Marquis of Rockingham

147 - Bill of costs, from Charles Bowns, to Earl Fitzwilliam, for general business

148 - Accounts

149 - Vouchers from Viscount Milton to Mr Wheatley, for payments for the Rotherham to Swinton turnpike road

150 - Bill of costs to Earl Fitzwilliam, from Charles Cookney, for legal business

151 - Bill of costs from Charles Cookney to Earl Fitzwilliam until his death (1833), and thereafter to Viscount Milton

152 - Bill of costs (draft) from Charles Cookney to Earl Fitzwilliam in the matter of the advowson of Fletton, Huntingdonshire

153 - Account by Earl Fitzwilliam as trustee of a sum of £12,447 19s 3½d due on a bond from the late Sir Lawrence Dundas, baronet, and Thomas Dundas, esquire, afterwards Lord Dundas

154 - Vouchers for payment of taxes, annuities etc., by the Ladies Frances and Dorothy Fitzwilliam

156 - Notebook giving details of Lady Frances Fitzwilliam's account with Messrs. Snow, Paul and Paul

157 - Account for R. Waterhouse

158 - Account by the Most Noble Aubrey Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans of all money received by him on the sale of his estates in Billinghay, Kyme, and other towns in Lincolnshire, and Eaton, Ordsall, and other towns in Nottinghamshire

159 - Account of fees and expenses incurred by Messrs Benson on behalf of Mr Bowns

160 - Account of Mr Biram with Mr Newman

161 - Yorkshire Estates - Rough notes on rents, with an agreement to 'cutt and bind and river all the oats on Hoober'

162 - Yorkshire Estates - valuation of fallows

163 - Yorkshire Estates - rentals

164 - Rental of Harpole Rectory

165 - Yorkshire Estates - papers concerning the Milton estate, in North Yorkshire

166 - Yorkshire Estates - details of money gained from estates on rent days in 1822

167 - Yorkshire Estates - steward's account of receipts and payments on rent days at Wentworth

168 - Yorkshire Estates - copy of a valuation of tenants rights, stock, produce, and implements

169 - Yorkshire Estates - papers giving details of the revenues from the ironworkings at Tankersley

170 - Yorkshire Estates - papers concerning the Badsworth rentals

171 - Yorkshire Estates - Account of the valet of widow Hirst, endorsed 'Mr Heathcoate's lands'

172 - Northamptonshire Estates - survey of lands in Chelveston cum Caldecott, in the manor of Higham Ferrers, Northants., late the lands of the King

173 - Northamptonshire Estates - Papers on the estate of Higham Ferrers

174 - Northamptonshire Estates - papers concerning the lordship of Higham Ferrers

176 - Irish Estates - papers concerning the appointment of Robert Challoner as steward of the Irish estates, and granting him power of attorney

177 - Norfolk Estates - Mr Hampson's particulars of lands in Norfolk belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam and payable to the honour of Clare

178 - Notice of the verdict given in favour of his Highness, the Lord Protector and against the inhabitants of the parish of St Gyles, Cripplegate, London, who were indicted for not repairing the Common highway

179 - Memorandum - George Morsland declares that the fittings etc., of the house and gardens that he now stands tenant of owned by the Hon. Colonel Bright, are in good repair

180 - Handwritten extract from 'An Act for the better maintenance of curates, and for preventing any Ecclesiastical Persons from bying the next avoydance of any Church preferment'

181 - Warrant to Mr Francis Taylor, Mr Walkinson Sotheby and Mr Francis Langley, or any other attorney, to appear at the Court of Common Pleas, to hear Joseph Winskell of Caldwell, Yorkshire, yeoman, John Savile of Caldwell, Yorkshire, mason and Thomas Wilkinson of Kirkbridge, Yorkshire, on an action of debt for £100

182 - Bill of complaint - Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, baronet against Canston, in a dispute over a loan of £100

183 - Bill of complaint - Sir Hungerford Hoskins, of Hardwood, Hertfordshire, baronet, against Elias Haskett, moneylender, for defrauding him of a promised loan of £150, and taking out an action against him

184 - Notes about William Tate's proposal for his holdings in Newcastle and Ballivolan [Ballyvolan, both in Wicklow, Ireland]

185 - Petition to George Carter, master of a vessel called 'The Content' to Mark Braithwait esquire, commissioner of the Court of Admiralty, held at Cawood, for the River Ouse

186 - Declaration by Ann Young, Lawrence Bolton and Henry Coates to pay themselves £10 6s 8d p.a. for 21 years, or the duration of the life of John Sharp, son-in-law of Ann Young, payable from a certain holding (unspecified)

188 - Legal correspondence concerning the house in Upper Wimpole Street, the property of Lady Frances Fitzwilliam

189 - Affidavit sworn by the inhabitants of Cripplegate Ward without, and parish, London certifying to the integrity of Samuel Godfrey, inhabitant of the said parish, who had lately been deprived of his attorneyship, through a charge of libel (copy)

190 - Summons to appear at the Assize Court, York

191 - Correspondence and other papers on various legal matters mostly between lawyers Cookney and Newman

192 - Copy of 'An act for effecting the sale of part of the settled estates of the Hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson'

193 - Lawyers briefs, accounts, and correspondence, concerning the case brought against Earl Fitzwilliam, by George, Ann and Martha Platel for recovery of a debt

194 - Notebook containing rough notes on the evidence given in cases heard at Sheffield Sessions

196 - Business letters from Charles Cookney to Earl Fitzwilliam

197 - Legal correspondence, mostly to Earl Fitzwilliam

198 - Order from George IV to William, Earl Fitzwilliam, on his election as one of the Lords Temporal to represent Ireland

199 - Drafts of letters between Charles Cookney and Earl Fitzwilliam and the various interested parties about various annuities the Earl was paying

200 - Correspondence between Charles Cookney and Earl Fitzwilliam concerning Messrs. Gibbons & Co., and the transporting of Earl Fitzwilliam's coal

201 - Solicitors papers (Charles Cookney and Messrs. Frere and Foster)

202 - Correspondence between Lady Frances Fitzwilliam and Charles Cookney About her financial affairs.

203 - Licence to have a patent

204 - Memorandum of an agreement between John Day and Earl Fitzwilliam, in which Day agrees to let a stallion horse, called 'The Hero', to Earl Fitzwilliam, for 2 years, for 500 guineas.

205 - Papers concerning T.D. Simpson's bankrupt

206 - Copy of petition delivered to King George III at Kew, at Leonard Hamond

207 - Statement of Sir William Glynne's case in opposition to a bill intended for an Act of Parliament to restore the Earl of Derby to the Manor of Hawarden, Flintshire

208 - Heads of an Act 'for the more speedy and easy recovery of small debts within the jurisdiction of the manors of Sheffield and Ecclesall'

209 - Manuscript copy of 'A bill to enable the Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam, to make long leases of part of his estate in the County of Wicklow'

210 - Contemporary copy (?) of a letter from Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford, to Mr Frenche About the appearance of Nicholas Satterthwaite at Tickhill court

211 - Letters to Earl Fitzwilliam from Thomas Mander, concerning the Tidmington [Warwickshire] estate

212 - Copy of a letter from Frances, wife of George Bussy Villiers, fourth Earl of Jersey

213 - Letters to Earl Fitzwilliam from C. Pepys, of Lincoln's Inn, London, concerning a Mr Birch, a mortgagee of the Earl, who was requesting the Earl's support for his application for the stewardship of the Bethlem Hospital

214 - Letters to Earl Fitzwilliam from Rogers Parker of Munden, nr. Watford Offering an allotment of a piece of land in Peterborough Common

215 - Letters to Earl Fitzwilliam, from Lord Yarborough, at Brocklesby, near Brigg discussing Lord Pelham's election tactics

216 - Letters to Earl Fitzwilliam from James J. Cleaver, of Sowerby [Yorkshire] requesting the Earl's permission for his father to resign the living of Malton and for the curate R. Davies to be appointed in his stead, and a letter from R. Davies to Earl Fitzwilliam, asking for the appointment

217 - Letters and papers concerning inter alia the discovery of deeds of a transaction made in 1717

218 - Letter to Earl Fitzwilliam, to inform him that certain goods have arrived by ship

219 - Letter to Earl Fitzwilliam, from B. Corbett concerning a pair of black storks

220 - Letters and notes on Lady Hussey's trust

221 - Letter from W. Birks to Earl Fitzwilliam Concerning the account book of Silkstone colliery

222 - Letter unsigned, which explains the contents of boxes of salt sent to Earl Fitzwilliam

223 - 'A true account of my Lady's [Lady Bright?] clothes sent to London, October 19th by Mrs Rushworth'

224 - Various accounts of wine etc in the cellars at Grosvenor Square, London

225 - List of books in the book cases in the Gallery at Wentworth

226 - List of doe venison given by the Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam, to various people

227 - Buck Venison lists given to various people (listed)

228 - Account of sundries 'removed from the house in the wood to Wentworth House'

229 - Notebook giving details of all post sent from Wentworth

230 - Catalogue of pictures and statues at Wentworth House

231 - Volume entitled 'Quotations from the rain gauge fixed on Wentworth House'

232 - List, endorsed 'Ideas of Lord Rockingham for decorations at Wentworth'

233 - List of plate, endorsed 'weights of new plate'

234 - Inventory of plate

235 - Bundle of recipes and a menu

236 - Lists of the nobility created by King James I, King Charles I and King Charles II

237 - List of members of the House of Lords and Commons, who held official positions under the Crown, from December 1779 - September 1780

238 - Political poem, entitled Oczakow

239 - Enumeration of the upper division of Strafforth and Tickhill

240 - List of the numbers of houses in the Kingdom, paying hearth tax

241 - Blank form, parchment, Latin. Perhaps a nomination form for MPs

242 - Account of the sheep belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth and Tankersley

243 - List of hunters and hacks at Wentworth

244 - Draft pedigree showing Sir John Bright's matrimonial relationships, by his first two marriages

245 - Pedigree of Watson - Wentworth

246 - Pawnbrokers bill for the Marquis of Worcester

247 - A note concerning 'Mrs Vane's linen'

248 - Copy of one page of Wentworth constable's accounts

249 - Certificate granting the Most Hon. Charles, Marquis of Rockingham, freedom of the City of Bristol

250 - Letter from E. Wolley at York, to Thomas Marshall, at the Stamp Office, London offering assistance with a loan of money, and suggesting how to raise the remainder of the money required

251 - Bacon's Country Map and guide for Cumberland

252 - Pamphlet on the visit of the Prince of Wales to Sheffield

253 - Report of the Museum and Mappin Art Gallery

254 - Notebook on farming, annotated with Latin quotations, and headed 'property of William Payne'

255 - Notes on the Export trade to Ireland

256 - Notes on terms for the sale of wool

257 - Letter from Mr Goodman, concerning the consumption of tea in a farmer's family

258 - Philip's map of London

259 - Inventory of the house and farm of William Hall, at Tinsley, Yorkshire, taken by Charles Turner, sheriff

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