| Title | 1791-1823 Letters or drafts of letters of Sir Francis Willes [of Cockenhatch and Ippollitts, Herts. and Hampstead, Middx. and Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London].
18th-19thcent. Letters from Sir Frances Willes to Wm. Wilshere, senr. at Hitchin, Herts; to Isaac Hindley at Baldock re Biggleswade, Beds. stewardship. Note of estate enfranchised and consideration monies and quit rents - Manor of Biggleswade (1810); to Marquis of Titchfield re magistrates licensing of publicans; to Robert Clutterbuck re history of Cockenhatch estate; note re Ippollitts and arms of Chapman and Willes. Estate affairs
1781-1826 To Sir Francis Willes from Wm. Wilshere, re enclosures at Kings Walden, Pirton, Ippollitts and purchase of land at Barley Herts.; from Deputy Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex re inclusion of his name in Commission of Peace; from Thomas King re monument to be erected to Dr. Aubery and wife in Bath Abbey; from J.W. Hogarth about education of Mrs. Aubery's son; from Mr. Clark re farm at Preston, Herts.; from George Cooke about Mr. Aubery at Oriel College; from Thomas Probert of Saffron Walden, Essex; from John B. Burrows about enclosure of Barley, Herts.; from Bishop of Bath and Wells about repair of old Registry Office; from niece Charlotte Lovell; from Duke of Newcastle.
1801-1815 Other miscellaneous papers (accounts, memoranda, bills, receipts, particulars of lands, notices re enclosures). Places mentioned: Kings Walden, Cockenhatch, Hitchin and elsewhere in Herts.
1812 Letter to Lady Mary Willes (wife of Sir Francis) from John P. Burrows, Saffron Walden, Barley, Herts.
1800 Copy of will of Dame Mary Willes.
1784 Note for Gazette re Knighting of Sir Francis Willes of Hampstead.
1786 "Question to be put and delivered by Sir J. Dick to Sir F.W. when he took a note from Mr. Fraser to him to excuse his attendance". Notice re transfer of shares: shares in 'the Million Bank'.
1821 Agreement to rent house of Sir Francis Willes on Hampstead Heath.
1832 Statement of estate of the late Sir F. Willes.
1822 Printed leaflet: "A statement of facts which have occurred in the promised Introduction by Sir Francis Willes of Mr. Francis Locke, to the situation of a Decypherer in the Office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs". By Wad. Locke.
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